what made you want to become a researcher or have you always wanted to become one?

Question: what made you want to become a researcher or have you always wanted to become one?
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  career,
  career path,
  job,
  research,
  work
Asked by anon-354970 to Birsu on 13 Mar 2023.
- Birsu Kandemirci answered on 13 Mar 2023:
  
  I don’t think I always wanted to become a researcher, mostly because I wasn’t confident that I could become one. It was after I finished my MSc in Developmental Psychology that I decided that I could (or more importantly, I wanted to) go further and do a PhD. By the time I put my PhD application together, I decided that this was the path I wanted to follow 🙂

Question: what made you want to become a researcher or have you always wanted to become one?