• Question: did you ever think you would be were you are today as a kid

    Asked by anon-176145 to Stephen on 12 Jun 2018.
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      Stephen MacKenzie answered on 12 Jun 2018:

      Hi there, great question! No I definitely did not think I would be doing this as a kid. To be honest I spent half of my time thinking I would somehow magically be spotted for my sporting talent (which didn’t exist!) and have a sports career. I also didn’t think at all about the food I ate as a child apart from whether it was tasty or not! You are far too young even by the time you leave school for most people to know what they want to do. The trick is to work as hard as you can to make sure that you will have options later.

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    Ali commented on :

    Nope. I was all about being outdoors when I was a kid. I didn’t even know sports nutrition existed!

    When I left school I studied science because I loved it and I had a fantastic teacher who really brought science alive and made me want to know more – hopefully you also have a teacher like that who’ll make such a big impact on you.

    But I didn’t really know what I wanted to do after I finished University at that point. Some of the most interesting people I know still don’t know what they want to do! (pretty sure that’s from a Baz Lurhmann song, but it’s still true!)

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    Mark commented on :

    Actually, I kind of did!
    I knew I liked science, so I always thought I’d get here eventually.
    But plenty of people have no idea what they want to do, until they do it, so don’t stress too much!

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    Paul commented on :

    Certainly not at primary school. At that stage I was either going to be a medical doctor or play cricket for England! I didn’t think I was going to be a Soil Scientist. I probably didn’t even know that Soil Scientists existed!

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    anon-176407 commented on :

    Can you list lots of other science related jobs if possible?
    I know a few:
    Archeologist
    Marine Biologist
    Soil Scientist
    And pretty musch none others

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    Ali commented on :

    Hi TKZ Arcticzzzz, there are LOADS. This isn’t all of them, but off the top of my head:
    Sports nutritionist (like me – uses food to make people better at sports)
    Sports scientist (uses science of how the body works to make people better at sports)
    Astronomer (looks at space)
    Astronaut (goes to space)
    Ecologist (looks at plants and animals)
    Biomedical scientist (do the medical tests at hospitals etc)
    Zoologist (looks at animals)
    Botanist (looks at plants)
    Food scientist (looks at food)
    Forensic scientist (fingerprinting etc like C.S.I.)
    Meteorologist (makes weather forecasts)
    Oceanographer (looks at the seas and oceans)
    Paleontologist (does something to do with dinosaurs)
    Vet (helps treat ill animals)
    Brewer (makes beer – it’s a surprisingly scientific process!)