• Question: how long do you work

    Asked by _unknown_ to Mark, Andrei, Dominique, Masha, Sarah on 7 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by connor G, tiger11, 387mtrg47, Charlie.
    • Photo: Sarah Hunt

      Sarah Hunt answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      I cycle to work for 8.30 and usually finish around 5pm. So not too different from a school day ? I get what’s called ‘flexible hours’ which means that if I’m a bit earlier or a bit later it doesn’t matter. Its quite relaxed, really. Finishing a piece of work is more important than the number of hours in my job.

    • Photo: Masha Folk

      Masha Folk answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      It all depends on what I’m doing. Part of my job is measuring the aerodynamics of a model in a wind tunnel. Then I usually spend the morning setting up my experiment, the afternoon conducting my experiment, and the evening looking at my results. The days when I do experiments go by very quickly for me and I won’t even notice that it’s time to go home. Because I can only run the wind tunnel during the day (it’s too noisy to do at night and not safe!), I get to work early (about 8 am) to set up and stay late (about 7 pm) to clean up when I’m done. When I’m not measuring things in my wind tunnel, I spend the day analysing my results and writing about my work or reading other people’s works. On those days I have much more normal working hours (9am-6pm) and take more breaks.

    • Photo: Mark Catherall

      Mark Catherall answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      average about 8am -8pm weekdays, but with no commuting because I work from home.

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