• Question: Did you want to be a scientist your whole life?

    Asked by 423curm29 to Daniel, Fiona, Hazel, Jacque, K, Matthew on 12 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Fiona Macfarlane

      Fiona Macfarlane answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      No I did enjoy science at school, but didn’t really want to go into science. I wanted to be a teacher originally but then really enjoyed research at university, so decided to stay in science

    • Photo: K Sasitharan

      K Sasitharan answered on 13 Mar 2018:

      I did not want to be a scientist until after I came to University. I guess my research projects and looking at the other senior scientists and their contribution made me more interested to become a scientist myself.

    • Photo: Hazel Gibson

      Hazel Gibson answered on 14 Mar 2018:

      No. I have always liked science and been interested in it, but being ‘a scientist’ wasn’t really something I consciously decided to do. I really became a scientist because that was where the most exciting job opportunities were when I finished my degree; which I picked because I really liked geology and fieldtrips! Though I do think that you can be a scientist without -working- as a scientist.

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