• Question: how much has science made a big impact in your life

    Asked by david7 to Susana, Sam, Ed, Dave, Ben on 23 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 23 Jun 2013:

      It’s been my career for 10 years, and I studied science for 7 years before that, so in terms of my working life it has been a huge part of my life.

      I also think that, for me personally, it has shaped the way I think and how I approach all sorts of situations – as a scientist, I need evidence to back up the things that I tell other scientists – and I use the same sort of thinking my day to day life – when I listen to politicians, when I go to the doctors, all sorts of things.

    • Photo: Benjamin Hall

      Benjamin Hall answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      Well it’s my career and it’s defined a large part of who I am as a person.

    • Photo: Sam Horrell

      Sam Horrell answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      It has been huge. It has given me a career and, in my oppinion, the best way to view and understand the world around us. Science is the light shining into all our little corners of ignorance so we can find why, how, when and where everything ever happens.

    • Photo: Susana Teixeira

      Susana Teixeira answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      A lot. Here are examples….

      The type of work I do is not exactly a job magnet in my home country (not much of any type of jobs there these days, but it was already the case when I started University studies), so it made me move away from my family. This was bad in some ways, but it made me grow up as a person and treasure every moment with my family.

      The need for qualifications also meant that I studied for longer, and joined the work market later. By the way things are going, I’ll be 300 years old before I can retire…

      The long hours and random schedule mean that I need to have patient friends.
      The tendency for Science jobs to be on short work contracts means I meet lots of new people all the time, and say goodbye to a few others too. I value friendships a lot, and do not care about having fewer but better.

      I’ve learned foreign languages (french and english), and foreign cultures which made me a lot more open and understanding than I think I was 15 years ago.

      I discovered teaching, and how much we can learn with students like you. It is so flattering when I realise I helped someone learn, or that I inspired someone to chose a career.

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