• Question: What influence did you get from the people around you? Were they supportive?

    Asked by KimberlyA on 23 Jun 2021.
    • Photo: Chloe James

      Chloe James answered on 23 Jun 2021:

      I went to an all girls’ school when I was younger, and was often told that I would struggle as an engineer, because I didn’t do too well in exams. This was a completely different environment at university, where I was told I would do well if I worked hard.

      I was very lucky that I had really supportive family, as otherwise I may have been tempted to give up when I was in school. They always told me that everything happens for a reason, and as long as I tried my best, I couldn’t do any more. This was really good advice that I still use today, as without the advice and support of my family, I wouldn’t be where I am today.

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      Tommy Shinton answered on 24 Jun 2021:

      My mum and dad are both teachers – so they didn’t really know what engineering was, although they were supportive. So it was up to me to work out what I wanted to do (I knew I didn’t want to be a teacher!) but when I’d decided they supported me.

      When I got to university the support was quite good too and it was good to be on a course with people with similar interests.

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      Caroline Roche answered on 26 Jun 2021:

      When I was growing up, the people around me had the mindset that you could do anything as long as you put the effort in. My mum was the most supportive as I changed my mind alot! She would just go “Ok, what subjects do you need to study that?” or if I didn’t have the right subjects we would sit down and work out how I was going to fix that.

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      Tom Kitching answered on 28 Jun 2021:

      I had no family or friends influencing me to do engineering at all. I chose it because of my love of maths and interest in physics (and a bit of chemistry). But my family were supportive of my decision to do engineering, because they knew that there were plenty of jobs that you could do after an engineering course (even if you decided not to do engineering).

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      Emma Crook answered on 12 Jul 2021:

      my family were always very supportive of my choice to go into engineering. i was never one of these people who got things right away, it took a lot of studying and hard work for me to be at the same level as my friends. but my family were always incredibly supportive and i was very lucky in that.

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