• Question: Did you always want to be a scientist?

    Asked by itsugnee to Jack, Jon, Tom, Yalda on 8 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jon Marles-Wright

      Jon Marles-Wright answered on 8 Mar 2013:

      When I was really small I think I wanted to be Prime Minister, but then I switched to science by the time I got to school. My interests changed from physics, to genetics, to biochemistry and to bacteria over the years. My work seems to encompass all these fields now.

    • Photo: Tom Branson

      Tom Branson answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      No not at all, I didn’t really think about science seriously untill I started to do A-levels. Before that I kept changing my mind between a PE teacher or a painter. But I’m pretty happy doing science now.

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      I guess so. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was younger but changed my mind when I realised it wasn’t just about diving on pretty coral reefs in warm placed.

    • Photo: Jack Heal

      Jack Heal answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      No. My favourite subjects at school were maths and drama. I started reading lots of popular science books at university and then because of that I decided to take up science. My degree was in maths and so it was a bit of a switch. But it would have been a bigger switch if I’d studied drama at uni!

    • Photo: Yalda Javadi

      Yalda Javadi answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      No… I wanted to be all sorts of things growing up. After GCSE’s I liked science a lot, so I continued them for A-levels. I loved Chemistry in particular, so decided to study that at University. Even though I carried on and became a scientist, many of my friends have done very different things with their science degrees. They have become science writers, teachers, consultants and one had even become a science TV presenter!

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