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I always thought I was going to be a vet because I had such a great love and interest for animals. But throughout the process of not getting into vet school straightaway and doing some work experience, I decided I could just have animals for fun and not work with them. It was during that time in the late 1990s I actually read a magazine article in a doctor’s waiting room about a forensic scientist, and that inspired me to see that science could be used in a different way to help solve crimes, and answer questions about what happened and solve problems. At school, you didn’t get a lot of opportunities to hear about other jobs apart from mainstream ones. I’d never heard of a forensic scientist – and this was all before the TV show CSI was popular!
So, I got a science degree under my belt and then got into the masters programme of forensic science, which was very competitive!
This story is from the 14 May 2018 edition of New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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