Question: if you become a scientist what job can you apply for

Ceri Brenner answered on 13 Jun 2011:

nice question, i’ve always wondered that as well. an academic scientist tends to mean that you are working and researching on behalf of a university, so you might spend all your time carrying out experiments and doing research, or you might also spend some of your time teaching, giving lectures to students etc. you can also be a facility scientist, which means that you’re working for a national research facility (like the central laser facility at the rutherford appleton laboraory or CERN for example) and carrying out your research from within the facilty as well as helping to keep the facility running (management, looking after the machines etc). A lot of the time, university scientists and facility scientists are working together, especially if they are experimental scientists.
If you look outside of the scientific community, then scientists tend to be very well respected by employers of all different sectors because of many skills that you develop as a scientist (ability to plan and solve problems logically, work in a team, work hard for deadlines, work under pressure, be able to communicate difficult ideas in an understandable way) and because it shows that you are very intelligent, although as with most jobs in the world outside of science, you need to show relevant work experience and knowledge of that job sector.
so the world’s your oyster if you become a scientist basically.