• Question: Before you wanted to be a scientist..if there was a time you didnt want to be one, what did you want to be?

    Asked by to Nat, Nate, Roberto, Sam, Sarah on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Nate Bastian answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      When I was little, I wanted to be a lawyer, mostly just because my father was one. But I realised I wanted to be a scientist by the time I was 15 or so.

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      Sarah Casewell answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      When I was growing up I wanted to be a lot of different things – a doctor, a vet, etc. Always science based though. When I was about 13 I realised that I really wanted to do physics and science though

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      Roberto Trotta answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      For a while I wanted to be a journalist, or a writer.

      But now as a scientist I’ve been able to do a bit of those other jobs, as well. I have written many articles for science magazines, and recently I have written a book about the universe. My book is a little different than any other book you might have read, though. It’s written using only the most common 1000 words in English! I chose to do it this way so that I was forced to use only simple words that everybody can understand to talk about complicated things about the Universe (oh, BTW, “Universe” is not one of the allowed words!).

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      Natasha Stephen answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      I think I’ve always wanted to be either a scientist or an astronaut Given that I am now a scientist working on planetary science, I am pretty close to both of those things and I’ve not yet given up on getting to be an astronaut!

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