• Question: How old were you when you wanted to do the job you have now?

    Asked by anon-191679 to Kathryn, Graeme, Chris, Anne, Agnes, Adam on 7 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-191640, anon-191726, anon-191695.
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      Anne Green answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      I decided I want to be an astrophysicist when I was about 14, from reading popular science books and watching TV programmes (but also because the film Top Gun featured a woman with a PhD in astrophysics…).

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      Kathryn answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      I wanted to be a scientist since I was very young. I wanted to be a geologist since I was 14. I wanted to be a planetary scientist since I was 22 and this PhD became available. I wanted to study impacts when I was 25 and my current job was advertised. Go with the flow.

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      Agnes Wojtusiak answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      I never really knew what I wanted! I wanted to do SO MANY things, and slowly over time this lead me to being a Physicist – it has links to all these different things 😀
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      So, to answer your question, I was 21 – that’s how old I am now – and I’m loving this job and I want to keep doing something like this forever!

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      Graeme Poole answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      It wasn’t until I was doing my A Levels at 16-17 that I realised I wanted to be a scientist

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      Adam McGuinness answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      I didn’t know I wanted to be a scientist until I was about 25, when I did some work in a lab and loved it!

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