• Question: How long have you been a scientist for?

    Asked by anon-304317 on 7 Dec 2021.
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      Alexander De Bruin answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      it depends how you define scientist! I’ve been interested in science since primary school, and picked GCSEs, A-levels, and degrees according to that interest. I’ve been working as a researcher on-and-off for ~12 years so far and plan to continue doing so for a long while yet!

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      Georgina Brogden answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      I’ve had a job in science for three and a half months, but I hope to be a scientist forever!

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      Tamsin Bell answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      I studied for ten years and since then I have been working in industry as a scientist for nearly 3 years

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      Michael Short answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      I started my research career during the final months of my undergraduate, so that was 2011. That makes it 10 years now! I have been an independent researcher (academic) for almost 2 years since I moved to the UK.

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      Alexander Munnoch answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      I’ve been curious since primary school but been actively studying science subjects since high school (I studied chemistry, biology and physics!). If I count from the start of high school = 21 years.

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      Jayne Roberts answered on 15 Nov 2021:

      I have been working as a scientist for 26 yrs now which is long time. Luckily I really enjoy it 🙂

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      Karen Fung answered on 16 Nov 2021:

      If we say being a scientist started at university then it would be 5 years! My degree was in biology and I am now a PhD student doing research in biology and doing more science

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      Ashleigh Kitchiner answered on 16 Nov 2021:

      7 years….and counting!

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      Dimitrios Tsaoulidis answered on 22 Nov 2021:

      I think we are all scientists since the day we were born. You cannot imagine how much science you put into action in your everyday life!

      It is just that some of us decide to do it as a profession too.

      In my case, this goes for 10 years now.

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      Natasha Marchant answered on 26 Nov 2021:

      It depends when you count from! I’ve been in my job for 3 years now but also spent 4 years before that doing my degree so I could be considered a scientist since then!

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