• Question: does your work come with major risks

    Asked by Optimal Foilz to Peter on 13 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Peter Boorman

      Peter Boorman answered on 13 Nov 2016:

      Hi Optimal Foliz,

      My work has very low health risks associated (luckily!), but the sort of risks I deal with are submitting work within tight deadlines. For example, when we want a satellite or telescope to ‘look’ at something in the sky, we have to write a ‘proposal’ – this is basically our best chance of selling our project idea to the telescope team. The telescope team then chooses the best proposal that has been given to them, and only the best ones get the time to look at the sky! In this sense, it can be risky to choose a particular project over another, as it may end up with not getting any time to use the telescope!

      Peter

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