• Question: As a kid, what did you say when people asked you what you wanted to be when you grow up ?

    Asked by anon-195750 on 18 Jan 2019. This question was also asked by anon-195801, anon-195751.
    • Photo: Hannah Cornish

      Hannah Cornish answered on 18 Jan 2019:

      Palaeontologist, every time.

      I’m not really a palaeontologist now, more of a general zoologist but I do look after a lot of fossils along with all the other specimens in the Grant Museum. Sometimes I write blogs about fossil specimens so I can still pretend!

    • Photo: Laura Nolan

      Laura Nolan answered on 18 Jan 2019:

      When I was a kid (up til maybe 8 years old) I really wanted to go to the olympics as a gymnast! Looking back I wasn’t anywhere near as good as I thought I was, and I got way too tall for this to be a feasible goal…. I then liked art and music so went through phases of wanting to be a graphic designer, then an singer, and then around 15 years old I realised that I actually really like science and could do a job in that 🙂

    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 18 Jan 2019:

      Many things, at different times – a ballerina, a hairdresser, a vet, a surgeon – until I finally settled on biology researcher, and I stuck with that since! But you don’t have to have a good idea of what you want to do as a kid, so take the time to study and figure out what really interests you and pursue that!

    • Photo: Kevin Daly

      Kevin Daly answered on 18 Jan 2019:

      I had no idea. Didn’t realize how much I wanted to be a Scientist until university – some times these things don’t come quickly!

    • Photo: James Cole

      James Cole answered on 22 Jan 2019:

      I wanted to be a Doctor until I was 16, then it was unambiguously Archaeologist.

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