• Question: How hard do you find your jobs?

    Asked by dear520joke on 14 Jun 2025.
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      EBRAHIM SALEHI answered on 14 Jun 2025:

      It’s not hard at all, it’s very easy with too many potential

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      Will Breeze answered on 16 Jun 2025:

      I know it’s a disappointing answer but: it varies.

      When you are working in a technical field your job will tend to encompass a wide range of activities, tasks, and goals. In my case sometimes these are easy, such as explaining how to do a step-by-step procedure. Sometimes its harder- writing detailed reports that can be understood by anyone. And sometimes its very hard- as in solving a tricky problem that involves lots of different inputs and there is limited data.

      Science and technology can be frustratingly difficult at times, but the overcoming of challenges is what attracts lots of people to the field.

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      Ioanna Bezirtzoglou answered on 16 Jun 2025:

      All jobs are relative to individual persons, and how hard they are!
      I find it is always a learning curve when you start your job as you are in a new group of people, company and field, so that it can be intimidating, but after a few months, you will feel very confident in your work, and it will feel easier!

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      Charlotte Slade answered on 1 Jul 2025:

      That’s a brilliant question. The simple answer is that my job has always been hard, but the kind of hard has completely changed over my career. I usually think of it like switching from one really tough video game to a completely different one.

      First, there was my life as a physicist. That was like playing a single-player puzzle game on the hardest possible difficulty setting. Imagine being handed a jigsaw puzzle with a million pieces that all look almost identical. That was my PhD. The difficulty was all about intense focus and wrestling with the data until it finally gave up its secrets. The rules were set by the laws of physics, so they were fair, but tough. It was a battle of wits between me and the universe, really.

      My job now is completely different. It’s like I’ve switched to a massive multiplayer game where I’m leading a team on an expedition. The challenge isn’t just solving the puzzle on my own anymore. My team is full of amazing experts (scientists, engineers, designers) but they all speak slightly different professional languages.

      My job is to be the translator. I have to turn the ‘science-speak’ into a story that everyone can understand and get excited about, so we all know which direction we’re headed. The most important, and hardest, part is making sure my team feels supported and happy, because the best discoveries always come from a team that trusts each other and is having fun solving a problem together.

      So which is harder? Definitely my job now! Physics is predictable, even when it’s tough. People are wonderfully unpredictable, and helping a team do something amazing is the hardest, and coolest, puzzle I’ve ever had to solve.

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    aureliabrzezowska commented on :

    It depends truly on who is doing it. I find my roles quite easy as I have studied them, done research, have experience and enjoy it. Others have found it very difficult as perhaps they excel at other things or came in with zero knowledge! Whatever the answer is, always keep going and learning as once you overcome a challenge you definitely want to stay.