 Re: what would you be doing?
I don't know what I would be doing, but I know what I would like to have done - worked on sub-nuclear physics and cosmology. Unfortunately, I never discovered I had any interest in science until long after I'd finished school - where I was always channelled into humanities courses. Maybe I wouldn't have made it - I was lousy at maths and physics, but then most of my teachers weren't at all inspiring. Who knows?
Other possibilities - a gardener or an ethnologist (someone who studies animal behaviour). That was my great ambition when I was about 13. But it meant studying biology - which I loved but dropped because in higher level courses it was obligatory to kill and dissect frogs and mice. Which for me was a non-option. It's a shame how school squashes your dreams .... |