• Question: Is science your career or just a hobby?

    Asked by ilovejustinbeiber to Charlie, Eoin, Jemma, Julian, Steve on 16 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Eoin Lettice

      Eoin Lettice answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      I think it’s both. I’m lucky that my job is also something I like doing.
      Eoin.

    • Photo: Charlie Ryan

      Charlie Ryan answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      hello it is very much my career! I’ve just finished a PhD in aerospace engineering, and am now working as a Post Doctoral Researcher at a university. Thats paid research position, where i’m doing testing of a new type of spacecraft propulsion.
      Hopw that helps! Any further Q’s pls ask!

    • Photo: Stephen Moss

      Stephen Moss answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Hi there JB fan

      I have to say science is both. One of the best things about a science career, at least for someone who really enjoys science, is that you’re doing things you’d want to do anyway for a hobby, but you GET PAID to do them. I think it’s called having your cake and eating it.

    • Photo: Julian Rayner

      Julian Rayner answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Hi Ilovejustinwhatsisname (sorry, still can’t bring myself to write it). Can I say both? Technically speaking it’s my career, since I make a living doing it, but career sounds kind of dull and soulless. Hobby implies something you do for fun, which is definitely true, but also sounds like something you only do now and then. For me science is a job, but is also just an incredible amount of fun, so it seems like it has bits of both a career and hobby.

    • Photo: Jemma Ransom

      Jemma Ransom answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      I think It’s both! of course science is my job, and my career, but I enjoy it so much that it doesn’t really feel as if I’m ‘working’. I guess if you have a job you really enjoy, you’ll never work a day in your life!

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