Katie started her engineering career at 18, turning down a university place to take an apprenticeship at Jacobs, a decision she had to make before she'd even sat her Highers.

Eleven years on, she's a Chartered Engineer who's worked on site at Grangemouth, spent nine months on assignment in Malaysia, and built her career the earning-and-learning way.

In this episode, recorded back at GCU where it all began, Katie talks through the apprenticeship route and why it suited her, the reality of balancing four days of work with a long day at uni, and the imposter syndrome that came with walking into an office at 18, including the two-minute trick she has used to managed imposter syndrome.

We get into life on site versus the engineering office, what it actually takes to achieve chartership, and why she's a believer in measuring your career against the UK-SPEC competences.

It's an honest conversation about backing yourself, asking the questions, and the long game of building a career one project at a time.