• Question: is your work competitive?

    Asked by Ella abramson to Yasmin, Tadhg, Liz, Lee, Hilly on 18 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Lee Margetts

      Lee Margetts answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      Research and development in engineering is very competitive. Nobody remembers the second person to build a steam engine or the second person to make an electric light bulb. My team has to be number 1 in the world for what they do!

    • Photo: Yasmin Ali

      Yasmin Ali answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I don’t feel that my work place is particularly competitive. We are a team of people with different skills doing out best to complete our project, so it feels more collaborative than competitive. Also, everyone in the team is at a different stage in their career… so there isn’t any direct competition, at least not for me.

    • Photo: Tadhg O'Donovan

      Tadhg O'Donovan answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      Within my department, we all work as a team. If one person is successful we all share in their achievement! But outside of that, we compete! We write proposals (engineering ideas) and try to get industry to pay for them – there is a limited budget, so the best one wins

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