• Question: Did you now what you wannted to de when you left school?

    Asked by anon-304329 on 15 Nov 2021.
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      Alexander De Bruin answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      I knew I wanted to be a scientist, though I wasn’t quite sure what sort of scientist I would end up being

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      Tamsin Bell answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      No, all I had planned to do was study Chemistry at University but I didnt know that I would end up actually being a scientist!

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      Michael Short answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      I definitely did not. I was quite good at school, but not a very motivated student. I just went for something that I knew was difficult because I wanted to challenge myself. I ended up in chemical engineering only because it was something difficult and I knew that there were opportunities in many different areas with a chemical engineering degree (energy, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, management, coding, and mathematics, are all things that you can do with the degree). I always wanted to be a writer and to share and discuss ideas, so I ended up staying in academia!

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      Maike Wilschnack answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      Not at all, everyone always told me that I would be great teacher, so I studied teaching for a year. I didn’t enjoy it, and switched to Chemistry. But even then I didn’t know what exactly I want to do with that degree.

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      Alexander Munnoch answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      I knew I wanted to be a chemist when I left school but I didn’t make up my mind until late in high school. I almost went to art school!

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      Jayne Roberts answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      I knew that I wanted to be a scientist but I didn’t really know what kind – I kept changing my mind!

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      Karen Fung answered on 16 Nov 2021:

      I knew I wanted to be a biologist when I finished school but I didn’t know what area of biology I wanted to get into. It wasn’t until I finished university that I had a slightly better understanding of what area of biology I wanted to get into!

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      Cassandre Le Galliard answered on 16 Nov 2021:

      I wanted to be a veterinary, and then when I start university, I started to love physics, so I decided to a scientist.

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      Natasha Marchant answered on 26 Nov 2021:

      I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was at school! Maybe halfway through secondary school, I realised I probably wanted to continue with science but didn’t know if I would be a scientist or something else

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