did you always want to do this job or did you have a different career plan in mind ?

Question: did you always want to do this job or did you have a different career plan in mind ?
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Asked by anon-241089 to Tom, Rebecca, Emily, Elspeth, Ben, Antoine on 20 Mar 2020.
- Ben Cropper answered on 20 Mar 2020:
  
  I always had vague ideas about wanting to be a scientist, but to get here I just kept going academically with science subjects because I liked them, until I had the choice – do you want to stay in and do science or not? And I went for the PhD 🙂
- Tom Dally answered on 20 Mar 2020:
  
  I always wanted to do something related to science, whether it was forensics or dinosaurs or chasing monkeys in the jungle. I ended up doing a biology degree, because it was my favourite science, and then I started learning about ecology, zoology, and conservation science, and then it just grew from there!

Question: did you always want to do this job or did you have a different career plan in mind ?