• Question: What did you want to be growing up?

    Asked by anon-358862 on 15 Mar 2023.
    • Photo: Courtney Povey

      Courtney Povey answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      I wanted to be a vet but found out I was allergic to animal hair, then I decided to go into human biology rather than animals

    • Photo: Jyoti Mangal

      Jyoti Mangal answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      I wanted to be an astronaut. I quite enjoyed learning physics growing up, especially learning about the space and universe.

    • Photo: Laura Lockhart

      Laura Lockhart answered on 17 Mar 2023:

      I didn’t really know- I had quite a few ideas (vet, paramedic, teacher) but nothing really stood out to me as something I really really wanted to do. That lasted until I was about 23! Then I got my first proper job in science (Forensic DNA Analyst) and my career in science kicked off from there.

    • Photo: Kirstie Andrews

      Kirstie Andrews answered on 20 Mar 2023:

      I wanted to be a professional dancer until I was about 14. Then I found out about medical research and something just clicked- I loved the idea of finding out new things about the body and trying to answer questions no one else had. I continued dancing but swapped my career plans.

    • Photo: Benjamin Foster

      Benjamin Foster answered on 21 Mar 2023:

      I realised I wanted to do something practical, such as engineering or chemistry, at school and centred on biochemistry by applying chemistry to biological concepts.

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