• Question: Did you want to be a scientist when you was at school; ? if not , what would you have chose to do instead ? ;)

    Asked by jessicarosasmith to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 15 Nov 2011. This question was also asked by jord123, inesfontes, calciumkate, emilypalmer, begua004.
    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      I did not have any life plan – for a while I thought it would be great to be an astronaut but that dream did not live past the age of 13. I just kind of did whatever I enjoyed and focused on that, just so happens that it was physics.

      I think if I did have the choice I would chose to be a scientist all over again, it doesn’t feel like a job.

    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to be when I was at school. I think my earliest ambition was to be a hairdresser (aged about 4, I liked the lady who cut my hair), then a children’s author (I liked writing stories), then a teacher (my mum was a teacher), then a nuclear physicist (it sounded good), then a science journalist (back to liking writing again). I didn’t really think very seriously about careers before I really had to, although I knew that doing science would give me pretty good prospects for getting a job.

    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      When I was at school I originally wanted to be an RAF pilot, then an engineer, But really decided to be a scientist when I was finishing my Degree at University.

Comments