• Question: What is the most important criteria to succeed in your job? Being vigilant or good at mathematics?

    Asked by Aillam to Dominic, Maedeh, Matthew, Matt, Monica on 4 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Dominic Eggbeer

      Dominic Eggbeer answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      My maths is pretty appalling if I’m honest! Being vigilant is extremely useful. Vigilance will allow you to react to a need by identifying the right people (perhaps those better at maths) to involve in developing a solution and execute it.

    • Photo: Maedeh Borhani

      Maedeh Borhani answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      Both are important.

    • Photo: Matthew Oldfield

      Matthew Oldfield answered on 5 Mar 2016:

      In my job being good at maths is certainly helpful. There are many engineers that are not great at maths but very good at understanding how things work and having creative solutions to practical problems though.

      Vigilance is important if you think of it as being careful and responsible. When working in the medical field, what I do has an impact on other people.

      In all honesty the most important criteria is probably patience though. It can take a long time and lots of mistakes before an idea becomes something that someone can use in the medical field.

    • Photo: Monica Rozeik

      Monica Rozeik answered on 6 Mar 2016:

      From the two, I think being vigilant is more important than being good at mathematics to succeed at work. Especially if you’re working on designing and building medical devices. A person’s health needs to be taken very seriously.

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