• Question: @rhys did you ever imagine as a kid you would become an engineer

    Asked by Yas to Camilla, Dan, Katie, Mike, Rhys on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Katie Sparks

      Katie Sparks answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Hey Yas, I know you’ve directed this at Rhys, but maybe some different viewpoints would help.
      I never thought I would be an engineer. From an early age, I thought I might be a solicitor, but that rapidly changed to vet by the time I was 10. From there I was hooked on science: chemistry and biology mainly, maybe some kind of inventor, electronics perhaps? Then I had a great physics teacher, I was going to be a research scientist, working at CERN or on some groundbreaking fundamental physics. It turned out, I love physics and I love learning it; but actually, I didn’t enjoy working through all the data… Research science was not for me.
      So I finished university and didn’t have a clue what to do: 4 years later, I looked over all the jobs I had done and everything I was interested in and started looking for a job that would match all those things. So now I’m a spacecraft engineer.
      It’s important to try things and to do something you enjoy, and it doesn’t matter if you don’ get it right first time.

    • Photo: Rhys Archer

      Rhys Archer answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Not really, I wasn’t really aware of what engineers did when I was in school. Towards the end of my time at school I knew I wanted to go into Physics, but I didn’t realise that there were so many other engineering subjects that I could use Physics in!!

    • Photo: Camilla Weiss

      Camilla Weiss answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      I didn’t think I’d be engineer when I was younger. For a long time I wanted to be a singer in musical West End shows until I realised I couldn’t really sing! As I grew up I started to love both science and music and even when I was choosing university I wasn’t sure which one I would choose. Physics won but it wasn’t until I was at university that I realised I wanted to be an engineer and it was another 3 years after leaving university that I did a degree in engineering. Sometimes you don’t know what you want to do until you’ve tried lots of things you don’t want to do.

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