• Question: do you like anything about your job?

    Asked by maccer to Shruti, Mark, Faranak, Douglas, Charlene, Alistair on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Mark Bentley

      Mark Bentley answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I love my job.

      What I don’t enjoy is all the admin (paper work) side of the job, managing budgets, ordering materials and the like.

      And I hate tidying up 😉

      I feel like I spend half my life putting tools away!!

    • Photo: Shruti Turner

      Shruti Turner answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I like many parts of my job! Otherwise, I most probably wouldn’t be doing it 🙂
      A PhD is great because whilst you have a set topic area, it is very broad and you can choose what you want to do specifically a lot of the time. I love that, because whilst there are still things I need to do that I don’t really enjoy (e.g. writing applications for ethics and other similar admin!) there’s so much more that I do enjoy so it’s well worth it.
      I like that my days are full of variety. I am often able to pick and choose what I want to do depending on my mood: if I want to write, there are always things to write up (results, methods, planning) or if I just want some space, I can go to the workshop and make or test things and if I just want to sit and work on my code with my headphones on and loud music, I can do that!

    • Photo: Faranak Bahrami

      Faranak Bahrami answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I think if you don’t like your job, it probably means you shouldn’t be doing it. I love what I do, I love solving problems and come up with new ideas. I love being surrounded by like-minded people who I can learn so much from. As they say, do what you love and you don’t have to work a day in your life! 🙂

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