If you want to understand how you can become a professional scientist, this is the book for you.

Would you like to pursue a career in science but don't know exactly what a scientist's job entails? Would you like someone to tell you how to run a research laboratory? Do you need to know what requirements and skills people who pursue a career in science must have? Have you heard that the life of a scientist is very demanding and vocational, but you don't know how much truth there is in that?

This book aims to explain what life is like for someone who works professionally in science, the life of a scientist. It is intended for young people finishing high school, those who have already begun a research career, and scientists with many years of experience behind them, who may smile when reading some passages and recognize themselves in some of the situations described.