• Question: How does being a scientist effect your life?

    Asked by Jelly bean to Ruth, Claire on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Ruth Elderfield

      Ruth Elderfield answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Quite a lot. You do tend to ask how and why quite a lot and not always believe easy answers. But we aren’t locked away in ivory towers, we live in the real world too, we go out with friends, laugh at silly films or TV, spend time with family and we still have to cook, clean, eat and sleep too.
      Though when you are working in science you do have to spend a lot of your time working or thinking about it, science is not a 9-5 job. Especially for the scientists who are studying to do their PhDs (become science doctors), they work all the time.

    • Photo: Claire Bryer

      Claire Bryer answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      The way its really affected me is that it has made me very particular about how things are done and it has also made me much more of a tidy freak!
      Being a scientist can also enable you to argue your cause more effectively in debates with others as you might have knowledge that they don’t have 🙂
      Additionally, scientists can be very questioning of the world and never take things at face value. This can be a negative or positive trait depending on how you look at it.

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