Aggie Branczyk sits down with Ekaterina Babourina-Brooks, a former theoretical quantum information PhD student at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) who moved to the UK to become a high school teacher. Ekaterina combined her physics education with an apprenticeship-style teaching program designed to accelerate the transition of professionals into teaching roles. Now she's back in Australia where she teaches physics and math. In this episode, Ekaterina talks about her day-to-day as a teacher, including the joy of student interactions and the challenges of administrative duties. She shares her experience as a PhD student and gives some practical advice for current PhD students considering teaching. Aggie Branczyk on LinkedIn Ekaterina Babourina-Brooks on LinkedIn Podcast video on YouTube  Opening music by Alexey Ivanov from Pixabay. --- Aggie works at IBM as a Senior Research Scientist on the Quantum Computational Science team, and the opinions shared in this podcast are her own and are not in any way endorsed by IBM.