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Asked by 268anmh33 to Ines, Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Rupert on 6 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by 637anmh49, erictillo, Guti7713, 546anmh48, 667anmh36.
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Carrie Ijichi answered on 6 Mar 2017:
That’s hard because some bits are more fun that others. I love teaching 10/10 but don’t find marking so fun 3/10 (don’t tell my students I said that). For research, when I get to pick what I’m doing and how we’ll do it 10/10 absolutely
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Ines Goncalves answered on 6 Mar 2017:
To be very honest, it depends on what I’m doing on any particular day. I love planning and conducting experiments (10), and I love finding out what the results are (10), though the process to get there isn’t always very fun: processing sound files/videos, entering data into spreadsheets, running statistics, these get a 4/10. Overall, I rate my work a 9/10. I just wish I were still doing some field work.
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Rupert Marshall answered on 9 Mar 2017:
I think an 8 overall. Much of it is intersting and some bits are really amazing which makes up for other parts which aren’t. I’m not very keen on paperwork or marking but I love being out in the field doing reseearch and I love talking with my students
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Ellen Williams answered on 9 Mar 2017:
I think a 10! I am really lucky in that at the moment I am just doing my research project so everything i do is related to that, and i obviously like it very much because i chose it 🙂 some bits i enjoy a little less such as emails but as a brief summary – i get to watch elephants, write about elephants and talk about elephants – i eat/sleep/breathe elephants – what could i possibly not love about that 🙂
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Cedric Tan answered on 10 Mar 2017:
Definitely a 9 overall for me. 8 for the research because of the need to write papers and find money for the research and 10 for the teaching because I enjoy playing games with students and helping them understand difficult concepts.
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Ellen commented on :
I am really lucky because I am doing purely research – anything else I do (such as helping out other classes) is optional. So I love my work, even the more tedious bits, 10/10! There are days which are difficult, for instance, when setting up my project I lost an entire week of video recordings because i was using new equipment and I hadn’t programmed it properly. But I took that was a bad day, boxed it up and moved on. If I ever get over stressed by things i just take some time out and watch elephants for a while so I am pretty lucky 🙂