What if your good at both practical and theoretical science problems, you have an interest in it but you don’t seem to

Question: What if your good at both practical and theoretical science problems, you have an interest in it but you don't seem to do a lot about it in you daily life or free time as you see other people do?
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  interest,
  practical,
  spare time,
  theory
Asked by gate532bock75 on 6 Nov 2025.
- Nicole Barber answered on 6 Nov 2025:
  
  That isn’t a problem, everyone enjoys subjects in different way. Some people might work all day on science related problems and then enjoy going home and continuing to read about science. Others might decided after working all day to go home and switch off and have other hobbies. You don’t need to be consumed by science to mean that you should have a career in it, you just need a good enough understanding and interest in it that if you were to follow a career in it then it would make you happy. I always go home and do other things like art or reading fictional books.
- Martin McCoustra answered on 6 Nov 2025:
  
  You don’t have to focus on one or the other of experiment and theory. It is possible to combine the two. I consider myself an experimentalist and work closely with theoretical chemists to explore the experiments I do. However, I can also do the theory myself as in chemistry most of the theory is computationally based.

Question: What if your good at both practical and theoretical science problems, you have an interest in it but you don't seem to do a lot about it in you daily life or free time as you see other people do?