Question: whats the benefits of being a scientist??

Robert Lees answered on 14 Nov 2015:

For me the benefits are independence (directing your own experiments and using your own ideas), flexibility (you dont have to work from 9am to 5pm), exciting (new discoveries!), support (you have a supervisor and a team to help you), comfortable (no dress code or way to behave). But others might not see these as benefits 😀

Scientists can have completely different jobs, workplaces and workmates – so the benefits will change depending on what kind of scientist you are, where you work and who you work with!