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Asked by anon-354343 on 7 Mar 2023.
Question: When you were 11 did u know that you wanted to be a scientist
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Alice Martin answered on 7 Mar 2023:
When I was 11, I thought science was really cool, but I didn’t know for certain that I wanted to be a scientist. In fact, it was only during university that I really decided I wanted to be a scientist. Growing up, there can be a lot of pressure to work out what you want to do with your life. The best advice I can give is do something that you’re interested in doing, and something that allows you to be enthusiastic and creative.
For me, getting to work as a scientist is the best job possible; I get to do experiments everyday, use my brain trying to solve puzzles, and be creative to work around problems. I couldn’t recommend it more
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Emmett McKenna answered on 7 Mar 2023: last edited 7 Mar 2023 4:52 pm
Yes sort of, but I had no Idea what it would be like to work as a scientist as I knew none of them l.
Science was just the subject I was best at in school as it was what I was most interested in.
I had other jobs bricklayer, tree surgeon, retail, accountancy, sales, before I did my first proper job in Science and discovered that I truly enjoyed it and didn’t ever want to go back to a job I didn’t enjoy doing as there are alot of hours and years at work.
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Nathalie Oguntona answered on 7 Mar 2023:
I sort of already knew I wanted to work in science. Originally I wanted to work on finding cures for serious diseases and overtime my interest varied
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Sarah Lyons answered on 8 Mar 2023:
I’d not long started in high school so I’m pretty sure I didn’t know what I wanted to be. I probably knew I wanted to do science around Standard Grade/GCSE time. My career has developed though and I’ve gone from being a lab-based scientist to desk-based where my role isn’t always about science. For example, part of my role is looking at Continuous Improvement and Efficiencies, which is something I hadn’t even heard of until I was in my 20’s. For me then, my career path has developed along the way and just because I did science at university doesn’t mean I have to stay in science.
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Arno Kraft answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Yes, at the age of 11 my parents gave me a chemistry kit for Christmas. The first explosion soon followed and the living room was decorated with some smutches for the next few years. And I was hooked on a subject.
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Fabio Nudelman answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Yes I did, but I didn’t know yet what I was going to study at University. That became clearer later, only when I was 16 or 17. And I had no idea what area of research I would end doing as a scientist.
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Ai-Lan Lee answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Not yet. I enjoyed science but it was only later (16-17) when I started considering it as a career and chose science subjects at school.
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Graeme Dykes answered on 8 Mar 2023:
I didn’t do a lot of science at primary school stage so while I liked technology, I didn’t really know much about science at that age.
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Ilija Rasovic answered on 8 Mar 2023:
No! I loved studying science at school but really didn’t know what I wanted to be (or what I could be) when I was older.
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Rebecca Walker answered on 8 Mar 2023:
When I was 11 I was actually a huge fan of the TV show Casualty so I really wanted to be a medical Doctor. Science was fascinating to me, and I knew I’d need to take science subjects to do medicine, so it all started from there…
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Craig Johnston answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Not when I was 11. I think my main thoughts at that time were what’s for dinner? I think during my Highers (age around 15) was when I seriously started considering being a scientist
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Clara Zehe answered on 8 Mar 2023:
When I was 11, I did not know that I wanted to be a scientist. I thought science was really cool and found it fascinating, but I did not know at all what it would be like to work as a scientist. I was definitely passionate about science and took part in the German equivalent of the Young Scientist competition. But I always thought I would become an engineer because I had a better idea of what working as an engineer looked like. It was only in university when my passion for chemistry came through and I decided to be a scientist.
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Thomas Swift answered on 8 Mar 2023:
No. I knew it was one of my better subjects.
In fact I didn’t know at 18, I just sort of fell into a Chemistry degree.
It was when I got a job after university that I decided I wanted to go back, get a PhD and pursue this subject -
Maike Wilschnack answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Definitely not. My younger sister was considered the smart kid who got the chemistry kit for Christmas. They work in a theater now 😀 I only thought that science could be for me during my last two years of school.
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Rebecca Woods answered on 8 Mar 2023:
No, I’m pretty sure that aged 11 I still wanted to be a dancer (or something creative). It wasn’t until applying for university that I started to seriously consider being a scientist, it was going to be my back up when applying for veterinary medicine (you have to have 1 non-vet course), but during the application I became interested in doing research instead.
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Martin McCoustra answered on 8 Mar 2023:
I knew I was good a science and liked it even at primary school. That feeling was reinforced by going to secondary school where I learned more science and mathematics. Some people thought that I might become a medical doctor but I wasn’t really interested in biology. I wanted to know how the universe worked. But I lived close to a major petrochemical complex and saw how there was potential in that. So, I decided to do chemistry at university.
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Maryam Sani answered on 9 Mar 2023:
When I was 11, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be. I had lots of interests and hobbies, but I wasn’t too worried at that age. I was pretty good at all subjects so I asked lots of questions and went through several work experiences before deciding.
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Grace Roper answered on 9 Mar 2023:
I didn’t. I actually didn’t know any scientists or that it was a career option that was open to me during school.
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Graeme Barker answered on 13 Mar 2023:
Yes, but not what kind of scientist – I just loved finding out new facts, and the idea of doing that for a living greatly appealed!
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Jade Markham answered on 31 Mar 2023:
No. I didn’t know anything about university either. I was the first in my family to go.
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Joshua commented on :
No. I was too busy worrying about rock music, girls and learning to play bass guitar. I didn’t know I wanted to be a scientist until I was finishing my GCSE’s.
Martin commented on :
Yes… I was really interested in science at primary school and this was really when we were still landing men on the moon. I could see that science was exciting and wanted to follow that pathway. My primary school and high school teachers encouraged me to do so.