• Question: If you had to pick a different science to do in school and have as a job, what would it be?

    Asked by anon-323162 on 22 Mar 2022.
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      Charlay Wood answered on 22 Mar 2022:

      I like this question! So I studied biology, maths and chemistry at school. And went on to do biochemistry. And I love it! But I’ve always been curious about physics, how gravity works, understanding force, electricity and quantum mechanics. When I read about it, it always sounds so complicated but really interesting! So if I couldn’t do biology or chemistry I would have chosen physics!

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      Amit Vernekar answered on 22 Mar 2022:

      Astronomy

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      Jasmine Almond answered on 23 Mar 2022:

      At A levels I studied psychology, chemistry and maths. If I didn’t go on to do chemistry at uni, I would have loved to learn more about psychology. I found it really interesting and enjoyed learning about the workings of the human mind. The thing I didn’t like about it was that the exams were essay style questions and I was never very good at those.

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      Veselina Georgieva answered on 24 Mar 2022:

      Biology, it was very interesting

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      Ian McKinley answered on 30 Mar 2022: last edited 30 Mar 2022 5:19 am

      I think maybe microbiology. In my work we often need to consider “extremophiles” – microbes that live under extreme conditions, like high temperature or high radiation. It would have been interesting to be able to study these directly.

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      TJ Preston answered on 30 Mar 2022:

      I would choose computer science and maths. I like doing computer simulations for my jobs and playing video games for fun. So my switch would be away from chemistry to do even more computational science.

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      Andrew Parrott answered on 31 Mar 2022:

      I also really enjoyed physics and maths at school so I could of chosen them. But your job is not chosen at that point. Science gives you all sorts of skills that are useful so you can take all sorts of career paths. Also there is much more overlap between subjects than it may seem at school. I do a lot of work that overlaps with physics and maths, so I could probably do my current job with a good qualification in either of those two (probably more the physics) instead of chemistry.

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