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Yasmin Yu

    • About Me:

      📍 Bristol

      🌱 Environmental Consultant by day (Magnox Ltd)

      ⚡ Energy card game developer by night (Sustainable Energy with MegaWatt)

      ISFJ

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      I like reading, writing, drawing, watching TV, k-pop and baking

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      Ok but what do I actually do?

      Environmental consulting is mostly about compliance.

      Compliance = protecting the environment and people according to the law. This includes:

      • Making sure that anything we emit isn’t too radioactive
      • Making sure the impact we have on the environment isn’t too big
      • Making sure that we manage nuclear waste in the best way possible.

      We want to make sure that the land which has nuclear power plants on is clean an could be reused in the future – without worry!

    • My Typical Day:

      Hit snooze on my alarm

      Wake up and start work at around 8am

      Check e-mails, make a to-do list

      My to-do list will usually consist of things like:

      Report writing

      Data analysis in excel

      Attending meetings about projects

      I always try and go for a walk at lunch time, or eat lunch with my friends. My day usually finishes around 5pm.

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      My company lets me work flexibly, and that means that as long as I do the hours I am meant to  (37 hours a week), it doesn’t really matter when I do them.

    • What I'd do with the prize money:

      #MegaWatt4Schools

    My CV

    • Education:

      Royal Holloway, University of London – MSc Environmental Diagnosis and Management

      University of Southampton – BSc Geology

      Burnham Grammar School – GCSEs and A-Levels

    • Qualifications:

      A-Levels: Geography, Chemistry, Physics

      GCSEs: Business Studies, Geography, Triple Science, Maths, Statistics, English Literature, English Language, RS, ICT , Art and PE

    • Work History:

      Front of house at a chinese takeaway

      Waitress

      Librarian/bookworm

      Tourguide/people-herder

      Lab assistant/professional pipetter and spreadsheet wrangler

    • My Interview

      • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

        Aspiring science communicator

        What did you want to be after you left school?

        An oil & gas geologist

        Were you ever in trouble at school?

        I was in a year-wide detention for taking part in a co-ordinated skiving. It was the only after-school detention I ever got.

        Who is your favourite singer or band?

        Frank Ocean

        What's your favourite food?

        Ramen 🍜

        If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

        Be able to download knowledge straight to my brain, be able to cook anything I want instantly, and teleportation powers

        Tell us a joke.

        Countries that are shutting down nuclear power plants to build gas and coal plants instead lol

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