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Asked by anon-361944 on 24 Apr 2023. This question was also asked by anon-361943, anon-361930, anon-361941.
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Dmitry Dereshev answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I liked science and engineering topics from early childhood, but doing science as a career only came to me in the last year of university, when I decided to do a PhD.
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Jonathan Wright answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I am not sure really, I was always interested in building things when younger, I also liked cars and planes. It wasn’t until I was 18 I realised I could do it as a job.
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Catherine Holt answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I was a child and as an adult I still don’t have a big plan. I have just gone for things that I enjoyed and that has worked for me.
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Iona Christie answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I think I was around 20 when I realised I wanted to be a scientist. I had always liked science but with so many options in science it was hard to really decide what sort of scientist I wanted to be
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Lisa Hursell answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I had no idea what I wanted to do. I took a computer science degree because it was interesting, I’ve had a lot of different job titles throughout my career but it’s only been in the last 5 years it’s included the word scientist!
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Yumi Stow answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I always enjoyed maths at school. It wasn’t until I started studying for my GCSE’s that I liked chemistry so I would have been 16 when I decided by college subjects, and started my path to be a scientist.
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Camilla Cassidy answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I always loved science subjects – as school, Science and then later Physics were my favourite subjects! I liked how you got to come up with ideas then figure out if you’re right, and I liked learning how the world around me works. I was really inspired by the TV show Mythbusters, were they try and prove or disprove sometimes silly theories or ideas (like, ‘is the 5 second rule’ real, or ‘are banana peels slippy). It took me a long time to realise that you don’t have to pick just one thing to find interesting, like plants, or the ocean, or rocks. You can just be curious for a living!
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Paula McMahon answered on 24 Apr 2023:
Hi – don’t tell anyone but I’m actually an Engineer!! I always loved making things with Lego so when someone suggested it as a career I thought – absolutely. I was probably around age 13 or 14.
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Jarrod Hart answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I loved science from a young age, but hey, I also loved art and sport and architecture… in the end, I only decided when I was 17 and chose the degree that opened the most doors (chemical engineering), and it worked out perfectly for me!
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Jo Montgomery answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I’ve always been curious about the world and how things work. I like finding out new things, being creative and solving problems so science has always interested me! As a very young child, I searched for, collected and watched worms and snails and woodlice and tried to work out how they lived and what they ate. So, I suppose you could say I’ve always been a scientist. I’m also interested in lots of other things, like art and history and languages, so I could have become many different things. You can use lots of skills in different ways in your career, you don’t just have to stick to one thing!
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Loretta-Ann Jilks answered on 24 Apr 2023:
When I was much younger I wanted to be a primary school teacher, but then decided to do a Geography degree. During my second year of university I fell in love with studying past environments and decided a future in science was for me!
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Ling Lim answered on 24 Apr 2023:
I didn’t choose a career in science (I studied engineering!). It happened by accident! There was not enough staff at my workplace to work on climate science research, so I pitched in to help. As they say, the rest is history!
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Amanda Cruchley answered on 24 Apr 2023:
One of my teachers helped me decide what to study at university, but even then I wasn’t sure it was what I wanted to do forever. When I started my degree, I couldn’t believe it! It was so interesting and I loved how many different things I could learn about! After that (probably when I was 19) I’ve never looked back! The great thing about science is there are so many ways to get involved and it’s never to late to decide it’s something you want to do.
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Tom Bullock answered on 26 Apr 2023:
I started thinking about what type of career and type of job I wanted to have while in lower 6th form so about 16-17 year old. I came to a decision about what to study at university and what type of jobs I may want to do over about 18months and used a range of different things to help me; I spoke to my parents, talked to a careers advisor, did some work experience, research and read about options (in a library, haha, before we had the internet at home!) and did some ‘find you career’ type quizzes! There no right way and no rush…my wife is on her 3rd STEM job in different industries and I’ve had a number of science and engineering jobs!
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Rachel Edwards answered on 28 Apr 2023:
I’m not sure I ever decided! I chose mostly science subjects at a-level because I enjoyed them, chose physics at university because it was my favourite (and I loved the maths as a toolkit aspect of it), and then interesting jobs kept coming up at the right time.
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Santosh Mahabala answered on 9 May 2023:
My biology teacher during my schooling told us that the scientists need to invent medicines for the doctors to prescribe. This idea encouraged me to become a scientist.
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Áine Uí Ghiollagáin answered on 28 May 2023:
I’ve been doing this full-time for just over 5 years. Before that I’d been a teacher and worked in non-profits. In some ways, though, I’d been using science to help me understand the world. Karl Popper and Daniel Kahneman have been particularly influential.
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