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Asked by anon-318207 on 11 Mar 2022. This question was also asked by anon-321064.
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Amit Vernekar answered on 11 Mar 2022:
Yes. The scientist position that I am in today is driven by the passion and enthusiasm that I have for doing science.
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Veselina Georgieva answered on 11 Mar 2022:
Thank you for the very good question. To be honest, not really 🙂 I wanted to be a vet or a teacher. Becoming a scientist happen when I started working with it in university. I got caught in the world of science and I couldn’t let go and it is very close to my heart.
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Richa Sharma answered on 11 Mar 2022:
I wanted to be in science always. But in the very beginning I was interested in physiology and medicine. But when I entered research I realized this was my true calling – and now I can be involved in both chemistry and physiology!
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Graeme Barker answered on 11 Mar 2022:
No – I only really started to want a career in science after several years at university. Before that, I just knew that I wanted to study more rather than get a job, so I picked the subject which interested me most.
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Fiona Fotherby answered on 11 Mar 2022:
I was about 18 when I chose to study chemistry at Uni. When I was finishing my bachelors, I knew I wanted to do a PhD. I applied to a couple in the US and didn’t get in! I went to work in research for a few years but I wasn’t feeling challenged and the work didn’t feel very independent. I still wanted to be an independent researcher, but it almost felt like it wasn’t going to happen. About 5 years after my first degree, I started my PhD at the University of St Andrews. It has taken a while to get here but I can hardly believe it. I will have my PhD about 10 years after deciding I wanted one. I am very grateful and humbled for the opportunity to do what I love, work with the best people, and do something new, challenging and inspiring everyday. It is a lifelong pursuit and don’t feel discouraged if you choose or enter your life path at a different time than others.
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Stephen Doughty answered on 14 Mar 2022:
When I was doing my GCSEs I thought I might like to be either a lawyer or a scientist (which are quite different!). I got the same grades in all my subjects so I had to choose on what I enjoyed most, so I chose science. From that point on I knew that I wanted to do research and find new things out about science.
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Mahoulo Ahouansou answered on 14 Mar 2022:
Becoming a chemist was a lifelong dream, now the area I am working on is not my dream although it is very interesting and help me grow as a chemist and person.
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Andrew Parrott answered on 14 Mar 2022:
Similar answer to some others. I knew I wanted to do more studying when I left secondary school and that I enjoyed science the most – so I did chemistry as a degree. At 16-18 I did not really anticipate a career out of it, but I knew chemistry was interesting and would give me skills that could be useful for different types of employment so seemed a good choice at the time. It was only during the degree though that I realised that I wanted to do research and that I wanted to work in the Green Chemistry “part” of Chemistry.
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