• Question: What did you want to be when you were a child? Did you expect to be a scientist?

    Asked by SebastianMX to Ceri, Marikka, Matt, Rob, Sally on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Sally Cutler

      Sally Cutler answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Hi,
      As a child I loved aspects of biology. I can remember being sent to clean up horse droppings in a field and spending all my time looking at the insect life within the droppings. I also decided at the age of about eight to work out chicken language. I guess these all were early signs that I might become a scientist, and look what happened!

    • Photo: Ceri Dare

      Ceri Dare answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Lots of things! I thought I might be a firefighter, or an Antarctic explorer. I wanted to study quantum physics when I was eight, after reading a book from CERN. But then I had a really boring physics teacher, so I did biology and chemistry instead. I thought about being a doctor, but I was told I couldn’t because I was ill. So I went to study psychology at university. Then I worked for a bit, and was off work ill for a bit, and realised that most of people’s problems are caused by society not the things inside them. So I studied Public Health, then the first job I got happened to be in Microbiology, and here I am!

      Not many people do what they expected when they were children.

    • Photo: Robert Hampson

      Robert Hampson answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      I loved Science as a child so yes.

      I had a few wobbles along the way and changed my mind a few times, but I am currently a scientist. I don’t know if I will do science for my entire career.

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