• Question: What is the hardest part of your job that you have had to do?

    Asked by livmasonpearson to Becky, Carrie, Kelly, Robin, Usaid on 13 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by banana, sophieburton.
    • Photo: Robin Stafford Allen

      Robin Stafford Allen answered on 10 Mar 2012:

      @livmasonpearson: The hardest parts are dealing with people in difficult circumstances, such as breaking the news that the company is having to sack several people to stop the company going broke. I have had to tell the people being sacked and it is dreadfuly difficult.
      However the most difficult technical part of the job has been to make a large superconducting magnet, which is difficult, but I had to make it under the observation of NASA as they were planning on launching it to the space station ion the shuttle as part of a scientific instrument. That made it doubly difficult! Regards Robin

    • Photo: Becky Selwyn

      Becky Selwyn answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      The hardest part of my job is staying motivated when working on your own. Nobody checks what I do and nobody gives me any deadlines, so I have to be organised and motivated to get my work done so that at the end of my project I have done enough to pass.
      Technically the hardest bit is learning a new computer language so that I can model my system.

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