• Question: As a child what did you want to be when you grew up?

    Asked by elmo97 to Andrew, Emma, Marianne on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by cellman.
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      anon answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      My brother said that as a child he wanted to grow down and become a guinea pig but he’s become a stem-cell scientist so i guess that early promise has got away from him.

      I’ve wanted to be a doctor for a while and a scientist more recently.

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      Andrew Maynard answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Hi elmo97

      A nuclear physicist, believe it or not! I made the “physicist” bit – but not the “nuclear.”

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      Emma Pilgrim answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Ooh a range of things, Vet mainly, followed by a lawyer (there was a particularly good TV series at the time when the lawyer got that vital piece of evidence at the 11th hour), scientific explorer, marine biologist………..mainly the same theme though something to do with biology & nature

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      Marianne Baker answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I could never really make up my mind.
      Most of the people at my school wanted to be hairdressers or vets or footballers or something like that.
      For a while I fancied tennis umpiring (when I was watching Wimbledon probably) or marine biology (but not being able to swim made that one a bit difficult). Then at school I thought maybe particle physics (perhaps I’d be working at the LHC now!!) until I realised I wasn’t a big maths fan.

      I never really made up my mind – I think I still haven’t!
      That’s one of the good things about the present I think; we’re not forced into one career path at an early age, we can take a bit more time.

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