How did you end up getting into engineering?

Question: How did you end up getting into engineering?
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Asked by Hasan to Oliver, Lesley, Leah, Hannah, Graeme, Aleks on 7 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by 366eneq37, 429eneq45, 237eneq39.
- Aleks Sokol answered on 7 Mar 2019:
  
  In Year 10 I had a sudden realisation that I was actually pretty good at maths, if I put a bit more work in. That lead me to think that I could do something with maths involved and engineering seemed like a good choice!
- Graeme Burt answered on 7 Mar 2019:
  
  I have a lot of engineers in my family and remember going on building sites fixing electical equipment in primary school. My grandfather game me a logic gate kit as a kid and remember doing a project on it at primary school so I think I always wanted to do physics or engineering. My course at Uni was half physics, half electronics which was good, and my job now is engineering of physics experiments. I wasn’t sure which I was until my twenties, but now I’m sure I’m an engineer as my interests are really in the development of devices for real applications not in the laws of physics.
- Lesley Colquhoun answered on 7 Mar 2019:
  
  It happened accidentally! i never knew i wanted to be an engineer and wanted to move into product design as i enjoyed the design aspect of it.
  
  While looking through lots of courses for university i found that the engineering ones were actually more of what i wanted to do as it explained why things were the way they were and how they worked!
  
  I have never looked back and cannot imagine being anything else 🙂
- Hannah Griffin answered on 7 Mar 2019:
  
  I love making things and a teacher suggested a computing course and it turned out that a large proportion of this course was software engineering… so kind of by accident!
- Leah Morgan answered on 14 Mar 2019:
  
  Hey guys! So I’ve always been pretty good at maths but I never had any confidence in it until my maths teacher suggested I take further maths for A-level. I had a great time in my further maths class since there was only like 6 of us! But I decided a maths degree would be too theoretical and decided to do a physics degree – which I loved, I had a much better time than at school! While doing my degree I found out more about what I enjoyed doing and learnt all about fusion. After my degree I applied for an engineering graduate scheme at UKAEA so I could get involved! 😀

Question: How did you end up getting into engineering?

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