• Question: What make you chose to do a career in science

    Asked by anon-204264 to Sally, Lucy, James, David, Dan on 13 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-204608, anon-204603.
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      Dan Taylor answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      This always comes back to my supervisor. She ran a module in second year on attraction and sexuality, looking at human sexual behaviour. She supervised my dissertation and mentored me through my degree and masters. Not only did we have such similar interests (in human sexuality) but we also got on really well on a personally level. She’s helped me through a lot since coming to uni (all 5 years of it) and she’s played a huge role in getting me to where I am today!

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      David Chadwick answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      I didn’t really. I simply chose to do science A levels in preference to arts A levels. Then I chose to do Chemistry for my degree as it was my favourite A level. Then I chose to do a PhD because it seemed to be more interesting than getting a job in Chemistry. But finally, when I wrote my first computer program I suddenly found what I wanted to do, because writing programs was fun.

      So my advice to you is this. For your career do something that you enjoy, because if you do not, then going to work everyday will be a real drudge and boring. And life will feel like a prison.

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      Sally Tilt answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      I thought that psychology looked like an interesting degree – but I’m not sure I knew too much about it. Interestingly, I’ve seen quite a few scientists across the zones say something similar – it’s kind of reassuring to me that you don’t need to be requesting a chemistry set every Christmas to then become a scientist (though obviously Chemistry sets can be pretty fun too!)

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      Lucy Maddox answered on 14 Mar 2019:

      I don’t think it was one thing… but I liked the way you could ask questions and try to design experiments to get an answer. And I like the way you can use theories to guide what you do in real life.

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