Do you ever wake up in the morning and not want to be a scientist… AND If you weren’t a scientist what would you

Question: Do you ever wake up in the morning and not want to be a scientist... AND If you weren't a scientist what would you be?
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Asked by manni87926 to Alan, Caspar, Diana, Murray, Sarah on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: Scientist. This question was also asked by yugisha, thesnorth, sarikaaaa, coombesy, laureniscool.
- Alan Winfield answered on 17 Mar 2011:
  
  Yes I do. Especially when a grant application that I spent months writing is rejected because the reviewers think it’s rubbish. Or when a paper (which is a kind of science essay) gets really bad reviews and I then have to re-write it completely. When those things happen I feel really fed up for a few days and wonder why I bother working so hard. But when I talk to my students, or spend time doing experiments in the lab, then I remember why I love doing what I do.
  
  I think if I were not a scientist/engineer I would probably try to become a writer. But then I’d probably still write about science anyway!
- Murray Collins answered on 21 Mar 2011:
  
  Not really. But I like loads of other stuff! I would love to do more photography, it’s really creative!
- Diana Drennan answered on 21 Mar 2011:
  
  There are certainly times I don’t really want to go to work. Especially on a beautiful spring day – sunny, birds chirping, blue sky….or on times when the kids have off from school but I have to work (they have way more holidays than I do). But no, I don’t wake up and not want to do science. I’m not sure what I’d do if I couldn’t be a scientist — that would make me really sad, and I hope I never have to find out !!
- Sarah Thomas answered on 21 Mar 2011:
  
  No, being a scientist is my dream job! But if I had to chose something else, I would be a stunt person or a musician (preferably violin!)
- Caspar Addyman answered on 23 Mar 2011:
  
  Back when i was a school I quite liked the idea of being a scientist or a mathematician but it all seemed far too difficult. At that time, I had no idea that there even was such a thing as developmental psychology (aka baby science) so i would never have thought I’d be doing something like this for a living.
  
  So straight after my first degree in math i went to work in banking and finance because I though I wanted to have lots of money. But i was soon getting bored with it so I went back to university at night school (at birkbeck in london) to study psychology. I started out just doing it for my own interest. But i started to find the mind and the brain so much more interesting than my day job that I quit banking and studied full time for my phd.
  
  I’ve been doing science full time for nearly six years and haven’t been bored once. Best decision I’ve ever made.
  
  Mind you, I still don’t like getting up in the mornings. 😉