Question: when you were younger what did you want to be?

James Vokes answered on 13 Mar 2012:

I went through a lot of stages. I wanted to be a fireman, then a Pilot, then an astronaut but then I sort of stopped aiming at specific jobs and just started caring about which subjects I would use. I knew I enjoyed Science and I liked playing with computers so I would always tell careers advisers that I wanted to “do those” which wasn’t helpful. They would give me a list of jobs but I still didn’t have a job in mind. After university completing a degree in Computational Physics (Remember how I said I liked them!) I applied for any job that would take me where I could use the skills I learnt and that’s how I ended up here.