From rugby refereeing to film and television work, a poll reveals scientists’ first jobs and what they learnt from them. Nature Rosemary Green had many side jobs as a PhD student. Most of them bring back fond memories — but not all. She wouldn’t recommend taking part in a battle scene for the 2011 superhero film Thor, for example, because for her it involved “lying in mud for ten hours and getting really, really cold”. Green, who now researches diet
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Many scientists credit teenage jobs and university or summer side roles for imparting important transferable skills and valuable life experiences. Nature When Vijay Ravikumar was in secondary school, he would go on long evening walks with his best friend, exploring the city they lived in: Chicago, Illinois. One night in 2000, they passed a rundown shopfront. In the window, many puppets were on display, and a sign read: “Apprentice wanted”. Ravikumar, now a mathematician, had no particular affinity for puppets,
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