If you find you are frustrated by the state of the world, you might want to get into science because it gives you a chance to change things. Contribute to humanity by carrying out research into some of the most worrying issues such as cancer, AIDS/HIV or environmental concerns. But medicine isn’t the only ‘caring’ science profession! As an engineer you could build safer, earthquake resistant buildings, or provide fresh drinking water in drought prone areas. As an environmental scientist your work could help safeguard the planet for other life as well as its people. You should be prepared for a lot of hard work and sometimes it is easy to lose sight of the big picture while working on one particular type of rat cell in a lab! But many scientists feel strongly that their work is very important. Amanda Lynnes, a seabird ecologist says: "My job is particularly rewarding because I am contributing towards a long term goal (developing a management plan for fisheries in the Antarctic). A university lecturer told me once that I get too sentimental about my work but I think you have to have feeling or the animals you work with will just become tools or objects." http://www.planet-science.com/profiles/search.html

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