• Question: what did u all wanna be growing up

    Asked by anon-295204 on 25 May 2021.
    • Photo: Jennifer Graham

      Jennifer Graham answered on 25 May 2021:

      I wanted to be loads of things – mainly an artist when I was little, then a teacher or doctor. I decided on science quite late, the job chose me I think, rather than the other way around

    • Photo: Tina Gornall

      Tina Gornall answered on 26 May 2021:

      Hello…I really wanted to be a Doctor in a hospital….I didn’t manage to get the grades needed to study Medicine at university but I am really happy with the job I do instead – I have been a forensic scientist and now teach physics and forensic science at university 🙂

    • Photo: John Grasmeder

      John Grasmeder answered on 26 May 2021:

      I wanted to be an astronomer looking at the stars, planets and galaxies. But then I started doing chemistry in the lab at secondary school and I loved it, so I became a chemist

    • Photo: Emma Yhnell

      Emma Yhnell answered on 26 May 2021:

      I wanted to be a dancer. I didn’t really know a career in science existed! I kept learning and studying the subjects that I really enjoyed and I ended up becoming a scientist 🙂

    • Photo: Alexander Lorenz

      Alexander Lorenz answered on 27 May 2021:

      I wanted to be a scientist from an early age, as early as primary school (certainly didn’t know what this really entailed). Especially botany was a great passion of mine already in high school. I ended up studying botany (got a bit side-tracked by human biology/anthropology at one point). Towards the end of my undergraduate studies I got more interested in chromosomes and cell biology. For my PhD I started to work on yeast, and they are such a brilliant research model, that I haven’t left them since. I have worked with a range of different yeast species over the past 20 years.

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