• Question: what has been the hardest challenge been?

    Asked by soph-dog to Faranak, Shruti, Mark, Douglas, Charlene, Alistair on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by gracie, foggy+mum.
    • Photo: Shruti Turner

      Shruti Turner answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Ever or in my job? I’ll just answer both…
      In my job: was learning the medical side of prosthetic legs. I never liked biology at school and didn’t take it for A level. So going from being an engineer of aeroplanes to an engineer of artificial limbs meant I had a lot of learning to do! Everything from medical conditions and problems to how to conduct research in a medical environment rather than a completely engineering one.
      Ever: trying to decide what career I wanted after I had to leave the RAF career path because I got injured. I was so sure about what I wanted to do that when it was gone I felt like I had to start again. It worked out in the end because I love what I’m doing now, but it took a couple of years to get there!

    • Photo: Faranak Bahrami

      Faranak Bahrami answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I’m sure there is going to be many more challenges that I will face in my life but up to now, the hardest challenge in my life has been living on my own in a new country without my family since I was 17 ( no regrets, so many lessons learnt), and hardest challenge in my job has been to come to do my Doctorate in Materials engineering from a biomedical engineering background, I had to learn many new things, I remember the first few months of my doctorate I was feeling very horrible, I felt like I don’t belong to this company because everyone around me was very experienced already with doctorates and sometimes I couldn’t even understand what my supervisor was asking me …. 😀 but it all passed, I had to work hard for a few months but now I love it. 😉

    • Photo: Charlene Chung

      Charlene Chung answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      The hardest challenge for me was going through the initial stages of times where my parents were not completely supportive of my choices.
      We disagreed on what university and what city I wanted to go to and live in, but they saw how much it benefited me and it made me happy, and that’s all that mattered.

      Another hard challenge was when I had a slight career change, it was a very scary thing to do and to undertake and realise it wasn’t what I wanted, and where I wanted to be, but that’s was also a benefit from it, hindsight!

      Having challenges produce the rewards and benefits for me as a person as a whole.

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