• Question: Do you enjoy what you do? What do you love most about your job?

    Asked by anon-350898 on 7 Mar 2023.
    • Photo: Emmett McKenna

      Emmett McKenna answered on 7 Mar 2023:

      Absolutely I get paid a decent amount to do a job that fascinates me.

      I love solving challenging problems and so alot of my current job is fixing things after others have tried and failed.

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      Nathalie Oguntona answered on 7 Mar 2023:

      I enjoy what I do most of the times. Love finding solutions to problems

    • Photo: Sarah Lyons

      Sarah Lyons answered on 8 Mar 2023:

      I really enjoy the job that I do, but I’d say a lot of enjoyment I get day-to-day is due to the people I work with. You spend a lot of your life in work so to me it’s important to not only enjoy the job but also to get on well with the people you work with. It’s probably the people I work with that I like most about my job and working as a team to get to the best solution.

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      Graeme Dykes answered on 8 Mar 2023:

      It’s a rollercoaster! There are times where it seem repetitive and progress is slow. Suddenly there is a breakthrough and then all sorts of things happen. It is hugely exciting.

      There is tremendous satisfaction in applying the hard-earned skills and knowledge.

      It feels like you make a difference to patients and

    • Photo: Graeme Barker

      Graeme Barker answered on 8 Mar 2023:

      I love what I do – it’s very varied, so there’s never a boring day, and if I’m fed up with one aspect of the job and I just go away and do something else for a day or two! My favourite part is definitely when my research students bring me unexpected experimental results – that’s when the interesting discoveries happen.

    • Photo: Craig Johnston

      Craig Johnston answered on 8 Mar 2023:

      Yes, I do. Best advice I got from my father was chose a career you enjoy because you will spend a lot of time doing it! I enjoy many different aspects. I enjoy travelling and meeting other scientists. I enjoying teaching and interacting with students. I like hearing good news from my research group when reactions work as intended!

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      Jade Markham answered on 8 Mar 2023:

      The freedom to choose what I do everyday. Obviously I have tasks set by my manager but I can do them at my pace. I get to travel which is cool. I have good work colleagues who I can go to lunch with and have some cake at breaktime with.

      I get challenged. Everyday is different.

    • Photo: Rebecca Walker

      Rebecca Walker answered on 8 Mar 2023:

      Most of the time! I love that every day is different – I could have a day of teaching or laboratory demonstrating to students, or a day of writing a scientific paper, or a day in my research lab doing practical experiments… it’s never boring! (Unless it’s a day of back-to-back meetings :P)

    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 8 Mar 2023:

      Yes… I enjoy what I do. Long ago I said that if I stopped enjoying it then I’d give it up and go and do something else instead. What do I like most? That’s easy… it’s finding out new stuff that no-one else knows and then having the opportunity to travel and tell other people about it.

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