• Question: What do you do on a daily basis

    Asked by 15basnan to Oliver, Lesley, Leah, Hannah, Graeme, Aleks on 6 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by 782eneq43.
    • Photo: Graeme Burt

      Graeme Burt answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      Every day is different. Its not a routine job. I’m paid to do stuff that no one has done before, I could be in a bunker testing accelerators, at CERN, teaching, writing papers, giving talks all over the world, deriving equations, simulating accelerators, speaking to UK industry about using accelerators, doing I’m an engineer. No two days are the same.

    • Photo: Lesley Colquhoun

      Lesley Colquhoun answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      always start the day with a coffee and read up on emails that have come through the night.

      I am working in Sri Lanka at the moment and my day is not the same time as the office. This allows me time in the morning to work onboard the ship making things work and then return to the office to deal with paperwork and planinng in the afternoon.

    • Photo: Hannah Griffin

      Hannah Griffin answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      Get up and dressed. Have breakfast (a must!) Drive to work.
      Make a cup of tea. Check my email for any urgent issues I need to deal with.
      Check my calendar to work out what I’m doing today.
      Attend team stand-up where we all share what we did yesterday, what we plan to do today and if we have any blockers or problems that might stop us doing what we plan to.
      After this, every day is different but here are some common things I do:
      Go to a meeting with a customer or two to understand what problems they currently have and if I can help by making a change to our software or building something new.
      Have lunch. Where I work there is a huge restaurant with lots of different hot and cold meals.
      Maybe have a catch up (one-to-one meeting with someone I manage) to check they are ok and discuss anything in details e.g. a particular project they are working on.
      Join in on some design session, review other people’s code to try and avoid mistakes creeping in early on.
      Do some shortlisting or interviewing – there are not enough software engineers in the world so I’m always recruiting to make sure we have enough engineers to do the work we need to do.

      I usually go home either early (4pm) or late (6:30pm) to miss rush hour.

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