• Question: when you were younger did you always want to be a scientist?!

    Asked by cheekymonkey1 to Emma, James, Jayne, Kara, Sharon on 19 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sharon Sneddon

      Sharon Sneddon answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      I I’ve always been interested in science from an early age so I think it’s always been in me to be a scientist! I used to dig up worms from my grandparents garden and make them live under my bed and try and feed them different leaves to see what was their favourite. I wasn’t able to keep them very long tho mymum got REALLY angry when she found them 🙁

      Biology was my favourite subject at school. I knew I wanted to go to university so it made sense to study the thing I liked the best!
      What do you think you will do after school?

    • Photo: Jayne Charnock

      Jayne Charnock answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Hi CheekyMonkey

      No, not at all! I always liked nicking my brother’s science experiment kits and using up all the chemicals, but I never considered it as a career. Infact I wanted to be a doctor, but not having got the A-level results I needed I decided I’d go and do biology first and then medicine later. During my degree I went to work in a lab for a year in Germany and i LOVED it! I really did change my whole career/life path! When I got back to complete my final year I started applying for PhDs and 3 years later Im a fully-fledged scientist 🙂

      Do you fancy a career as a scientist?

    • Photo: James Chan

      James Chan answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      no! when I was younger, I had no idea what I wanted to do! I wanted to be a graphic designer, then I dreamt of playing basketball, but then I decided to go into medicine cos I thought science was pretty fun, but at the same time, I wanted to see how the science worked in people and enjoyed interacting with patients during work experience.

    • Photo: Emma King

      Emma King answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Yes, I always wanted to be involved with science or research of some kind. I wanted to be an engineer for a while and then a forensic scientist, which is why I ended up doing Genetics at University. As it turned out I didn’t do hands on research for very long, but I still love my job and I’m glad that I do it – and who knows I might go back to lab research one day!

    • Photo: Kara Cerveny

      Kara Cerveny answered on 19 Mar 2011:

      When I was younger, I was interested in science but thought that I would be an astronaut or a physician. Then as I continued to study (and not grow tall enough to be an astronaut), I found that I really loved learning about the natural world without always thinking about the practicality of the discovery — learning for the sake of understanding — and being scientist is one of the few jobs you can have that pays you to learn and discover new things.

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