• Question: Do you like your job?

    Asked by yerk520putt on 20 Sep 2024. This question was also asked by Logan Everett, edge519ears, maun520paps, sent520paps, cast520paps, year520putt, desk520drub, away520drub, game520drub, take520emyd, grey520emyd, gave520hers, path519sops, tend520eked, just520eked, edge520prep.
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      Karen Adler answered on 20 Sep 2024:

      I do! There is a really good feeling about taking an experiment from a thought, to designing it and planning what to do, to getting the results and interpreting them, and then finding out no one ever did that before, and you’re the first!

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      Hannah Scholes answered on 23 Sep 2024:

      I do! There’s defienitly something really rewading about knowing you’re helping to save lives. Biomedical Scientists don’t get to see patient’s directly, but it’s great to watch people’s results improve and (hopefully!) see them go home from hospital happy and healthy.

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      Rebecca von Hellfeld answered on 23 Sep 2024:

      I love it. There are days that are really difficult, of course, or where I get stressed. But I think thats normal. I’ve never gone home thinking that I wasted my time with what I do, or that i needed to change my career.

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      Rachael Eggleston answered on 24 Sep 2024:

      I do, yes! I love being paid to learn and to find out things that nobody knows the answer to.

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      Camilla Cassidy answered on 25 Sep 2024:

      I do! I loved being a marine biologist, and I loved what it taught me – both the skills (how to run experiments, how to make graphs and solve problems) but also what it taught me about myself, my interests and what I could do if I put my mind to it! I liked how it let me follow what interested me.

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      Cathy Fernandes answered on 29 Sep 2024:

      I don’t like my job – I love it! My job is a mix of scientific research and teaching. It is so exciting to be able to design experiments to test a theory, run the study and then analyze the data. You don’t always find a positive result but it is still very rewarding to know you’ve robustly tested an idea and open up a new line of enquiry. Teaching also is extremely rewarding and where I make the most impact. I really enjoy supporting students and watching them learn and develop over their studies with us. I feel very privileged and grateful to have a job which is so interesting, varied, and impactful.

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      Martin McMahon answered on 4 Oct 2024:

      Yes (even though at times it’s hard work). I’ve had more than 10 different jobs, all working in science, technology and engineering, and most of them have been a whole lot of fun. I think if I had not done science at school I would not have had so many chances to explore the world either.

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      Michael Schubert answered on 4 Oct 2024:

      I love my job! I get to work the hours I want, study the things I want, learn all kinds of new things, and do something different every day. I meet cool people, go to cool places, and discover things nobody has ever discovered before. It’s amazing!

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      Tim Chapman answered on 18 Oct 2024:

      I love my job, working in Cyber, no two days are the same.
      I also get the chance to work with huge global organisations to improve their security posture and create a safe environment for their staff to work in.

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      Erin Pallott answered on 18 Oct 2024:

      Yes! I get to do a lot of things I really love. It is very challenging some days, and there are always some types of tasks I don’t love, but every day is different.

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      John Easton answered on 11 Nov 2024:

      Absolutely. I get to meet interesting people, work with cool new technologies and solve interesting problems in interesting places. Oh – and I get paid to do all these great things too 🙂

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      Luke Fountain answered on 21 Nov 2024:

      I do! Being a scientist is a really rewarding career, particularly if your research topic can help solve real-world problems, because it leaves you with the indescribable feeling that you are really doing some good in the world.

      My job gives me the best of both worlds – I have always dreamed of working for NASA and contributing to human space exploration, and that is exactly what I do now. But my research also has implications for how plants respond to climate change, so there are real-world applications of my research that also can help to solve problems on Earth.

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      Heather Thompson answered on 9 Jan 2025:

      I love my job. I get to meet and work with different people every day and have lots of opportunities to be creative. Also I can hear a lion roar when I leave the office. What’s not to like?!

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      Melissa U answered on 15 Jan 2025:

      Yes, I do like my job – once you have finished your university degree to gain your veterinary qualification you have lots of choices about what kind of work you want to do. I chose to work with horses (and a few donkeys and mules too) but I could have chosen to work with pets or with farm animals if I’d wanted to. After being a clinical vet for a few years (helping owners to manage the health and welfare of their horses) I realised that rather than fixing problems when they happened, I wanted to change my job to concentrate on being able to offer advice to owners on how to prevent problems from happening so I did additional training in epidemiology (health of populations of animals or humans) and since finishing that I have worked in animal welfare charities where I undertake veterinary-related research to improve animal welfare.

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