• Question: what did you want to be when you were younger

    Asked by 299thaf27 to Sian, Dawn, David, Dan, Christie on 15 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by cod-fish, Pirate scientist, Amelia.
    • Photo: Dawn Lau

      Dawn Lau answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      I wanted to be a photojournalist and have my stories/images featured in the National Geographic magazine. I quickly realised that wasn’t the life for me when I came to actually applying for university degrees. I thought about being a doctor for some time, but decided I couldn’t handle the emotional side of it. I still wanted to help people, so I thought studying science was a good way of benefiting society.

    • Photo: Sian Thomas

      Sian Thomas answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      I wanted to be a ballerina. I wasn’t that good and so I am glad to have taken a decision at 15 to make sure that I worked hard in school so that I had lots of choice!

    • Photo: Christie Waddington

      Christie Waddington answered on 21 Jun 2016:

      I wanted to be a doctor, and then an interior designer, then back to doctor again! It was during GCSEs that I finally worked out I didn’t want to be a doctor as it didn’t seem interesting enough, but didn’t know what else I could do. I studied classics first because all my friends were going to Uni and it was a subject I was alright at. Science came later and I’ve not looked back since!

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