• Question: Was becoming a scientist always your dream job as a kid?

    Asked by jimmy to Alan, Ciorsdaidh, Lauren, Leonie, Martin, Neil, Shuo on 6 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 6 Mar 2018:

      I never really thought about it… However, it was pretty clear that I was likely to do science or maths at university. Getting to university, I found that I enjoyed chemistry and maths even more than I did at school and the progression to becoming a scientist was probably on the cards at that point.

    • Photo: Lauren Webster

      Lauren Webster answered on 6 Mar 2018:

      As a kid I wanted to be lots of things! I wanted to be a pilot once, then I wanted to be a marine biologist. And that was just up to when I was 12 years old.

    • Photo: Shuo Zhang

      Shuo Zhang answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      Actually I dreamed to be a painter when I was young. I got several years’ training about painting and quitted it just because of the heavy studing task during my senior high. I guess I once dreamed to be a fantastic scientist, but not always.

    • Photo: Neil Keddie

      Neil Keddie answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      It’s going to sound cheesy – but honestly as long as I can remember I always wanted to be some sort of mad scientist. In high school I was sold on the idea of being an Oceanographer or Marine Biologist, but was persuaded it would be better to do a pure science degree at University, so I went to study chemistry.

    • Photo: Alan McCue

      Alan McCue answered on 9 Mar 2018:

      Not always. Up until I was 14 I wanted to become an accountant or a lawyer. I’m glad I changed my mind though!

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