How did you get into geography? – I'm a Geographer 25/26

Question: How did you get into geography?
- Keywords:
  career,
  subject
Asked by john536yuga72 on 17 Feb 2026.
- Louise Thurston answered on 17 Feb 2026:
  
  I always enjoyed geography at school, particularly physical geography and the more I learnt the more interested I became, especially regarding the ways people are impacting the physical environment (pollution/climate change).
  
  From this, I studied it at A-level, then university ! I didn’t know what i wanted to do after university but chose geography purely because I was interested. From that I discovered different careers I could have and have been lucky enough to be working as a geographer since!
- Vanessa Pilley answered on 18 Feb 2026:
  
  Through school – its a great opportunity to see what you enjoy and what you don’t!
- Alan Jones answered on 19 Feb 2026:
  
  2 superb geography teachers who made the lessons exciting to be in and really interesting. Lots of maps and videos of places around the world. We learnt a lot about countries and their history and how history and geography are intertwined. Where I lived in Wales there was so much physical geography and landforms and that made the subject alive.

Question: How did you get into geography?