• Question: Have you always wanted to be what you are now or did you want to be something else?

    Asked by hopelouisex to Michael on 12 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Michael Wharmby

      Michael Wharmby answered on 12 Jun 2011:

      Nope, I haven’t always wanted to do a PhD. Partly it happened by accident!
      At school I started off wanting to be a vet. Then changed my mind to become a civil engineer. Then at the beginning of 6th form decided there was no way I was going to university. By the end of 6th form I’d decided that I ought to go. So I went to university and studied there for 5 years. At the end of that I realised I was enjoying what I was doing so I decided to carry on and to do that I had to do a PhD.
      I’m nearly at the end of my PhD and what I’ll do next, I don’t know. I have to decide by Christmas, but at the minute I think I will go to Germany for 9 months and continue studying, but perhaps something different to the PhD!

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