• Question: What made you change from designing toothbrushes and deodorant cans to design scientific instruments for astronomy?

    Asked by anon-256866 to Tom on 11 Jun 2020.
    • Photo: Tom Louth

      Tom Louth answered on 11 Jun 2020:


      I wanted to move to Edinburgh! I really enjoyed my old job but found the West Midlands a bit boring and far from the sea. Of the jobs I found in Scotland this was the most interesting (that someone would hire me to do).

      Also I was getting a bit tired of the consultancy style of working. I liked how fast moving it was, but wanted to spend longer than a few weeks or months on each project, and actually see something through from beginning to end.

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