• Question: is your job fun

    Asked by Legend69 to MarthaNari, Paul, Jonny, Hannah, Alison on 13 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by KAI, Hi.
    • Photo: Martha Havenith

      Martha Havenith answered on 13 Jun 2015:

      Yes, absolutely! Of course there are always more and less fun bits (filling out forms… I don’t like filling out forms…), but they are all in the service of something I’m really excited about. It’s also one of those jobs where you really get to know yourself – what makes you tick, what you’re good at, where you need help etc.. And I think that’s the best thing you can hope to get out of any career you choose!

    • Photo: Paul Brack

      Paul Brack answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Yes, most of the time! Sometimes my experiments don’t work, which is frustrating, but it’s fun to be able to play with chemicals and see what happens :-)!

    • Photo: Jonny Brooks-Bartlett

      Jonny Brooks-Bartlett answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Yes. Most of the time it is very fun. I get to decide exactly what I want to research so it means that I can make up what I do most days. I can choose to read maths and science to learn more, I can choose to write computer programs I can choose to go in the lab and make crystals of proteins.

      Sometimes there are things that have to be done that I find quite boring like filling out forms.

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