• Question: What did you wnat to do when you were younger. Did you have the idea of being and engineer?

    Asked by Sapphire1 to Ray, Huw, Gosha, Steve, Stacey on 10 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by bentmurp.
    • Photo: Gosha Barzowska

      Gosha Barzowska answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Hey! I actually wanted to be a doctor (surgeon in particular) but I was not good at chemistry and that was one of the requirements to get into Medical College. However I was always good at Maths and Physics and it felt natural to go the Engineering route. Because Engineering is a real application of those two subjects! I was always passionate of how things work so it seemed a perfect match for me 🙂 and apprenticeship is actually allowing me to do both in the same time – learning abotu engineering at University and applying it at work 🙂

    • Photo: Huw Williams

      Huw Williams answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Hi Sapphire,

      I decided I wanted to be an Engineer when I was about 15 I loved machines of all kinds like planes, cars and bikes, but I also really liked doing Maths and Physics at school. I heard the boss of an F1 Team say that to work for them you needed a good Mechanical Engineering degree, so I said to myself that’s what I’m going to do.

      before that I had all kinds of strange ideas about being everything from a train driver to a bank manager, but I found my home in Engineering.

      Huw 🙂

    • Photo: Steve Cox

      Steve Cox answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Initially I dreamt of being a chef (this was in the days before celebrity chefs like we see on TV all the time now !). But by the age of 14 I’d decided that it was engineering that I really wanted to go into.

    • Photo: Stacey Cutten

      Stacey Cutten answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      From the age of about 12 I wanted to join the Royal Air Force, but had no real idea of what I actually wanted to do. I didn’t decide I wanted to do engineering until I was about 16. I always enjoyed making and designing things, finding out how things are made and seeing new things… but I never identified that I wanted to be an engineer until quite late 🙂

      Sorry about taking so long to reply!

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