• Question: What is your least favourite part of the job?

    Asked by anon-354290 on 15 Mar 2023.
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      Edward Guy answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      In the NHS,there can be quite a lot of routine paperwork to do and commttee meetings I have to attend. I much prefer using my scientific skills to carry out research aimed at developing and improving diagnostic tests, and using those tests to help patients.

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      Iona Christie answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      I think my least favourite thing about my job is sometime haveing to do the same thing again and again on different days, and not feeling like I am using my brain.

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      Jyoti Mangal answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      My least favourite of the job is probably the inadequate compensation in terms of salary. As a PhD student, you invest a lot of ideas (development of new techniques), energy (it is a lot of hard work) and time (it can be quite long hours at times). So it sometimes feel unfair to not be paid well enough – and more, if you compare it to other corporate jobs

      HOWEVER, there are multiple rewards you reap from the job such as freedom to create (development of new techniques), flexibility of time (you choose your work hours) and wonderful people to work with!

      Overall, a trade-off needs to be considered depending on what feels important to you.

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      Hannah Tanner answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      I work in a hospital laboratory. If I think about it, I can sometimes feel sad for all the unwell people we are doing tests for. But that’s also what motivates me because I believe we can make a difference and help people get the right treatment by getting them the right tests.

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      Silvia Mazzotta answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      I honestly can’t find anything about my job that I don’t like. Sometimes I get to teach some subjects that I am not too keen on, but other than that, I love it all. If I really have to moan, sometimes it annoys me if students don’t meet deadlines I gave them.

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      Kirstie Andrews answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      Working as a lecturer you’re often working from deadline to deadline, so it can be hard to fit everything in and spend as much time as you’d like to on research. It takes hard work and a lot of careful planning of your time.

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      Ioannis Valasakis answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      That my research can be used by other researchers and psychiatrists to better understand how people with autism are different!

    • Photo: Laura Lockhart

      Laura Lockhart answered on 17 Mar 2023:

      Occasionally I have to work nights or at weekends to take samples from the manufacturing process or do experiments. I’m not a big fan of out of hours working so that’s definitely my least favourite part of the job!

    • Photo: Benjamin Foster

      Benjamin Foster answered on 21 Mar 2023:

      The least favourite part is probably the time and waiting required, particularly regarding admin and often tedious paperwork, and waiting for responses to questions in some cases.

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