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Asked by 737urak27 to Sajid, Katherine, Jayne, Duncan, anuantony on 3 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by Mithu12, 365urak46, 828urak46, 372urak46, 357urak29, 576urak29.
Question: How long did it take you to become a scientist?
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Jayne Ede answered on 3 Nov 2017:
That’s a great question. The short answer is that, for my particular field of work I needed a Bachelors degree. That means after college, a 3-year long degree. I chose to do a 4-year degree (a ‘Masters’). I graduated at age 22.
The slightly more abstract answer is that I’m learning about my job every day. For example, I’ve just started a piece of work using enzymes. I didn’t learn very much about enzymes in my degree at all, so I’m still improving my knowledge in different areas of science as time goes by.
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Duncan McNicholl answered on 4 Nov 2017:
I’m kind of still becoming a scientist. I’m doing a PhD, which is like a fancy-pants degree that you can only start doing if you have another degree already, so I’m actually a student at university. If you only count the things that I needed to do, I’ve spent about five years becoming a scientist, but I also became a science teacher, and I changed from being a chemist to being a physicist, so altogether I’ve been doing this for about twelve years, and I’m still not done.
One thing I can definitely say is that the becoming part is actually pretty fun by itself. -
Sajid Javed answered on 8 Nov 2017:
Well i believe anyone can be scientist when every you want. if you do experiment i would say you are one however to be a qualified and approved scientist you would have to study to become one. the minimum requirement for an approved scientist you would need to do a science related university degree/apprenticeship.
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