• Question: Why are you a scientist ?

    Asked by lulu123 to James, Marcus, Martin, Rob, Suzanne on 10 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by brainbox123, adam94133, mould12.
    • Photo: Suzanne McEndoo

      Suzanne McEndoo answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I love maths, and I’ve always loved seeing how things work. Getting to be a scientist means I get to figure out stuff that nobody has figured out before.

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      Robert Thompson answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      Its interesting, its different and I get to look at things no one in the world has seen before. If I got paid a bit more it would the perfect job.

    • Photo: Martin Zaltz Austwick

      Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I get to do a job where I use my brain every day! I have done jobs in the past where that wasn’t really true and I got VERY bored. And I feel as if the things are do are quite personal to me, other people would do this job differently, but the things I do in my job really reflect who I am and what I’m interested in.

    • Photo: James Boone

      James Boone answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I chose to do my phD by influence of a really interesting final year undergraduate project. I basically continued the work I was doing from there.

    • Photo: Marcus Gallagher-Jones

      Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 10 Mar 2012:

      I guess I just love always learning new things. Taking on a PhD was a great way to do that and be paid at the same time. Honestly I have a terrible attention span and I think in a regular job where I was always doing the same thing I’d get fed up pretty easily.

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