• Question: what you like best about the work

    Asked by 69er to Ant, Dan, Matt, Mike, Steph, Ant, Dan, Matt, Mike, Steph on 13 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by rwaller, tom007.
    • Photo: Dan Veal

      Dan Veal answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I love the people I work with, it’s fun coming in every day and chatting to them and working with them. Here’s a hint for the future: generally the people you work with, and depending on if you like them or not, is just as important to how happy you are going to work every day as the work you do.

      That said, the other best part is just the satisfaction of finishing things, and someone saying “good idea” or “good job”

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      Stephanie Tomlinson answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I really enjoy solving problems and seeing something that was just an idea in my head turn into something real.

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      Mike Salter answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I really like the challenge of my job – there are always different problems to solve and I have to learn new things which means it doesn’t get boring.

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      Matt Maddock answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I know I should probably say that it’s ‘helping people’, or ‘changing the world’…and those are great…but what I like best most of the time is that I work in a giant particle accelerator which looks like a film set. Seriously. You could film Star Trek in here.

Comments

  • Photo: tbonesteak

    tbonesteak commented on :

    You say that you always learn new things, do you sometimes find that it feels lie you don’t know anything?

    • Photo: Matt

      Matt commented on :

      One of the best bits about enjoying learning is that the more you learn, the more you realise you don’t know! There’s ALWAYS more to learn and ALWAYS stuff you don’t know.

      If you get good enough, you’ll even run into problems where NOBODY knows the solution and you get to be the first person ever to solve it!

      …but I’m not the clever…and I frequently feel like I don’t know anything, especially about things like art and philosophy, literature…trainers and football…I am in the dark about them!

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      Mike commented on :

      Great thought. I guess sometimes it does, especially when you’re working on something new you know very little about. I guess it’s rather like when you’re at school, you’re always trying to learn new things so it feels like you’re always struggling along – but actually you’ve been learning loads and making great progress, you just didn’t notice!