• Question: Did you always want to be an engineer, if not what did you want to be ?

    Asked by setc1623 to Al, Emma, Ivanka, James, Omar on 15 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by hannahx, branflakes123.
    • Photo: Al Bartlett

      Al Bartlett answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Hello setc1623,

      I always wanted to be an RAF pilot but unfortunately it wasn’t to be – as im 6 feet and 4 inches tall, im slightly too big to fit in a fighter jet (where the training is done) so i chose the next best thing and learned to fix them!

      Hope this helps

    • Photo: James Vokes

      James Vokes answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was younger and I didn’t really care. What I did know is that I wanted to learn more about how things worked like machinery, computers, the universe! So that’s what I did, I tried to learn more. I did a degree in Physics to try learn more but then I ran out of money. That’s when I realised that by becoming an engineer I could use all these skills that I’d learnt (like researching, working out how things worked) and get paid to use them!

    • Photo: Omar Mustufvi

      Omar Mustufvi answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I have always been interested in science and technology, but there was a period when I was younger where all I wanted to do was travel around the world and go on adventures so I felt being a journalist would be a great job. I still love to travel and write, so who knows I might still end up being a reporter…

    • Photo: Emma Bould

      Emma Bould answered on 22 Mar 2012:

      I think being an engineer is the only thing I really seriously considered doing. I think if I could stop working and retrain to be anything I wanted, I would train to be a helicopter pilot.

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