Question: Does it ever get boring doing the same thing everyday?

Lewis Wright answered on 6 Mar 2017:

This is a really good question, and the answer is yes and no.

Yes, it’s true, I go through the same process over and over again to make a solar cell; mix a solution, deposit, test, analyse, repeat. However, the beauty of science is that you are never doing exactly the same thing again and again. Every time you do an experiment, you change something to see how the change affects what you produce.

“But changing one little thing each time means you are still doing basically everything the same each time,” I hear you say – except my job isn’t about just doing making stuff, I then have to figure out why the change I made produced the result that it did.
I may spend an hour or two a day doing the same task(s) over and over again, except I need to be good at doing it repeatedly so that I know the difference is from the change that I made, and not from me being a bit rubbish. And then afterwards, which is most of the time, everything I think about afterwards is brand new information, which is really exciting to me.

When you think about it, isn’t every job just doing the same thing over and over again? May as well make the most of it!