• Question: If you weren’t a scientist, what else would you do?

    Asked by oliveerrrrr to Charlie, Eoin, Jemma, Julian, Steve on 21 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Julian Rayner

      Julian Rayner answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Hi oliveerrrrrrrr.

      I really love what I do, so wouldn’t really want to anything other than a scientist. I have thought about being a teacher though – communicating what is cool and exciting about science is something I like about my current job (which is why I signed on for the craziness that is I’m a Scientist get me out of here). If I absolutely couldn’t do new research, I wouldn’t mind teaching new research to others.

    • Photo: Charlie Ryan

      Charlie Ryan answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      hi oliver i think i’d want to be a sports star. I’m pretty tall and sometimes feel that height is a little wasted doing science! I think maybe basketball, or tennis, although we are talking in a different life, as currently i’m rubbish at both!

    • Photo: Eoin Lettice

      Eoin Lettice answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      HI oliverrrr,
      A good question!
      I was pretty good at english at school and thought I might be a writer or journalist. But science was just to tempting and I became a scientists instead!

      Eoin

    • Photo: Stephen Moss

      Stephen Moss answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Hi Oliveerrr

      I have a lot of other interests, but one thing I’d love to do is write the musical scores for movies. I constantly have musical ideas, but never any time to write them down or record them.

    • Photo: Jemma Ransom

      Jemma Ransom answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      I’d love to be a writer. The good thing about being a scientist is that the work I do is so diverse, it’s not all labwork and experiments (although I find those the most interesting) there’s a lot of interacting with the public, doing demos in schools, presenting your work at conferences, and I do a lot of sciency writing for the University newspaper – so there’s really something for everyone.

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