How Would You Describe Your Job to a 5 Year Old?

List Jan 24, 2018

Director of Editorial

I think we can all agree, research is a complicated business. It can be hard enough to describe what you do to your peers, let alone non-scientists. With that in mind, we wanted to take things a few steps further and asked you how you would describe your job to a 5-year-old. Here is a selection of our favourites.

@AmberOlsen

@Jesse Markovna Iwanowski

@Jonathan Horowitz

@Luis Eduardo Mejiaortega

@Ann Credible

@Marilyn McCune

@Neil McEwan

@Nilufer Orhan

@Paul D Guthrie

10.

@Paul Disdle

11.

@Tori Leigh Rhoades

And an honourable (non-science) mention goes to.......

@Chris Locke

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