• Question: Are you ever bored at work or is there always something you enjoy doing?

    Asked by Sashascience7613 to Ben, Lizzie, Francis, Max, Sian on 6 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Ben Mulhearn

      Ben Mulhearn answered on 6 Mar 2018:

      Sometimes work can be repetitive – especially if doing a large experiment which involves pipetting up, and down, and up, and down, again and again! It is very normal to get bored at work, the key is not to be bored 100 % of the time. Luckily in science there are always very many different jobs to do so if you get bored doing one, you can always move on to the next.

    • Photo: Lizzie Wright

      Lizzie Wright answered on 6 Mar 2018:

      When I worked in a lab, sometimes we had experiments that lasted hours and I did get a bit bored. We had music in the lab and drank a lot of tea, or wrote up experiments. Now I’m in a desk job, i don’t get any spare time (but still drink a lot of tea).

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