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Asked by sidmon to Neil, Martin, Alan, Ciorsdaidh, Lauren, Leonie, Shuo on 6 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by Jemizle, Rosie, carriemilliganxcx.
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Martin McCoustra answered on 6 Mar 2018:
First of all, I was good the the sciences at school. Then, as a university student, I spent the summers working shifts in the oil refinery in Grangemouth as a laboratory technician. The work was interesting but not overly challenging (though it did make part of one of the practical courses I had to take very easy). I also found that I didn’t really like being told what to do. Becoming an academic scientist was a way of avoiding the latter
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Lauren Webster answered on 6 Mar 2018:
When I was younger medicine saved my life. Although the medicine made me feel better, it was a temporary fix as there was, and still is, no cure for what I got diagnosed with. I wanted to know why there was not a cure if the doctors knew what it was I suffered from. How difficult was it to find a medicine? Answer came many years later…very hard!!!
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Neil Keddie answered on 8 Mar 2018:
For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to have a job in science (mostly as a mad scientist when I was a kid). At school, sciences were my strongest subjects and the ones I enjoyed the most too. When I was looking for what to do at university, I liked the idea of becoming an Oceanographer or a Marine Biologist (i used to scuba dive a lot), but I was persuaded that it would be better to do a degree in pure science first (plus there were no marine biology jobs anywhere in the world at the time). So I studied chemistry at University, and found that organic chemistry (making molecules with carbon skeletons) was what I enjoyed best, so I kept going to do a PhD, and that let to the job I currently have.
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Alan McCue answered on 9 Mar 2018:
I wanted to understand why the world is the way it is so that got my into science. Now I want to share my enthusiasm for the subject with others – hence I teach
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