• Question: what would you do if you werent a scientist

    Asked by beaver1997 to Jo, Donna, Mark, Stuart, timcraggs on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by 666bekiibooblack666, chloelyk2, xmeggiexcullenx, clarkrm02.
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      Joanna Buckley answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I’d like to be a Formula One driver. Basically I like driving very VERY fast but you can’t do that on our roads so the track beckons.

      There have been a couple of woman F1 drivers but they’ve never been as good as the men so I’ve always fancied giving it a go. Do you like F1? What did you think to the race yesterday?

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      Mark Lancaster answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Good question – briefly I worked for a company writing software (Java, databases, Linux serves, MP4 streaming) and I’m also interested in promoting science to politicians and the media. So I’d probably work in one of those three areas – much of my work as a scientist is computer programming and I still get a buzz when I’ve written several thousand lines of code and it does what you want .. it’s quite a challenge often to take abstract ideas and code them into reality in a program abd even better when it actually does what you want.

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      Donna MacCallum answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      If I weren’t a scientist I think that i would attempt to go back and train to be a vet.

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      Tim Craggs answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I would be a violinist. I do a lot of violin playing with my string quartet (www.rusalkaquartet.com) and various orchestras.

      So I would be a musician.

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