• Question: can your work become boring or is it just full of surprises?

    Asked by anon-234170 to Mark on 10 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Mark Johnson

      Mark Johnson answered on 10 Nov 2019:

      Hi there! I think any job can be a bit boring sometimes, and this goes for cutting-edge physics experiments too. There are plenty of times when I’ve had to just sit patiently and repeat an experiment until we’ve collected all the data we needed. However, I’m very lucky that my job is usually really varied, and hardly ever gets boring like this. Sometimes I’ll be teaching students in the morning, and flying to another country to run an experiment by the afternoon!

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    Felix commented on :

    As an apprentice I get to do 3 month placements at the different departments across site ranging from the drawing office where I processed design schematics and diagrams using Computer Aided Design(CAD) software to make realistic 3D models of those designs.