Hi Ashley,

I do not have any relatives who are scientists. I am the first person that I know of in my family to work as a scientist. I also do not have a second paying job. I earn enough for my living expenses with my current job as a scientist. However, I do some non-paid volunteer activities in our community in addition to my paying job. I think this is pretty typical for a lot of people.

Kris

My niece and my son both got engineering degrees, so we have some scientists in the younger generation too.

As for second jobs, I do have a company that sells and installs portable planetariums. We got a Cooperative Agreement from NASA to create the technology, and now we market the domes around the world. We have over 100 installations in 25 countries and 25 states. I don't get a salary from it, though... I do it for the love of teaching people. My company websites are discoverydome.com and spaceupdate.com

greetings, in my case, I do come from a long line of at least technically minded people. My grandfather was an engineer, my father is an attorney who worked primarily at high-tech companies. my mother was a computer programmer back in the 1960s, then went back to school and became a toxicologist. My sister sort of escaped this trend, her expertise lies in history and public relations, but she is married to a physicist, too!