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Asked by anon-251251 on 27 Apr 2020. This question was also asked by anon-253269.
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Ella Mercer answered on 27 Apr 2020:
Hey! The thing I love the most about my job so far is exploring things and finding out things that nobody else knows. It’s pretty magical being the only person in the world who knows something – even if it’s only for a few minutes.
I also really like the people I get to work with and I love to travel to other countries to talk about my research.
Do you know what job you might like to have?
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Ana Cruz answered on 5 May 2020:
Hi Iris/Hana,
One of my favourite parts of the job is interacting with scientists from all over the world every single day. We all come from different backgrounds but work towards a common goal – scientific innovation. I also really enjoy doing experiments that I designed to find the answers to questions no one knows the answer to!
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Ailith Ewing answered on 5 May 2020:
My favourite part of my job is sharing some of the cool ways that we can use maths to answer medical research questions with biologists. It’s really cool when you’re able to have a conversation that both biologists and mathematicians can understand. I love working in a team like this because you get so much more done and the research is made better from having lots of different points of view.
Along a similar line I also really enjoy supervising students and encouraging them to do their own research. It’s a great feeling when you’ve helped them to achieve things that they didn’t believe they could do. Which happens a lot!
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James Loan answered on 5 May 2020:
As a doctor my favourite part of the job is doing surgery. It is an opportunity take your intent to make a patient better and get to physically go about making it happen. The environment of the operating theatre is thrilling. The wizz and feel of your drill gripping in bone as you make a hole in someone’s skull to approach the brain is unique. The satisfaction of looking at your finished operation with the problem (a blood clot, a tumor, raised pressure etc) treated and then seeing your patient wake up is fantastic also.
As a scientist, I find looking at new data that can solve a problem which no one else has looked at before to be very exciting. These datasets are often the product of months or years of hard work. Starting to analyse the information and beginning to understand the answer to your question is really cool. It inevitably comes with a hundred more questions – “what could this mean?”, “if this works like this, does that mean that…” – which leads to feeling your creative juices beginning to flow. How do we go about solving the next steps? How should we write up and present this new data?
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Eleanor Raffan answered on 6 May 2020:
I love it when I’m working on a problem and get caught up with what I’m doing so I’m completely ‘in the moment’. The most reliable way to get that feeling is when I meet with colleagues to discuss our results and what to do next, but I get it from coding on the computer for our genetics analyses and in the lab as I work with a pipette too.
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Kam Pou Ha answered on 6 May 2020:
As well as finding out something that no one has done before, I enjoy the freedom I have in my daily work life. I choose what to research, what experiments I want to do, planning my experiments, whether I want to supervise students or not and how many, and I can take a break whenever I want, provided that I’ve planned out my day effectively!
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Giulia Paci answered on 7 May 2020:
Hi Iris & Hana, personally I really like the challenge of exploring something new no one’s ever looked into before. This could also be for example finding ways to make an experiment work, adapt some techniques so you can apply them to your research question. Another aspect I really enjoy is the social one, having interactions about (but not only) science with my colleagues, mentors, students who come to visit the lab, or the public at science fairs! I think communication at all levels is really a key component of scientific work
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Bilal Ahsan answered on 11 May 2020:
My favourite part is to analyse and make sense of the outcome of my experiments, especially when I get unexpected results. It is an evolutionary process, and I get my thoughts mature after some time. I am mostly blank in the beginning and stuck there for a long time, but the phrase ‘there is always an explanation’ pushes me to think, and exhaust all possibilities before the conclusion. I like the freedom of thoughts in the entire process.
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Aisling McGarry answered on 13 May 2020: last edited 13 May 2020 12:45 pm
Hi Iris and Hana,
My favourite part of my job is when you discover a new finding that only you know about and is interesting for other scientists to know. It’s very exciting to get to present these new things you have discovered to scientists who can also use this to help their research. In science, it can also take a lot of hard work, for example, changing and adjusting tiny steps in our experiment, so it can work. Sometimes it can be so difficult to know why an experiment may not be working even when we do everything we are supposed to do. Especially in biology when we are doing experiments with tissue, it can be something very small which we can’t see by eye meaning an experiment may not work. The best part of the job is being able to get an experiment to work and show us results after all this hard work has been put in! This means that other scientists can copy how you did your experiment to help their research – so everyone is happy!
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Roberta Migale answered on 13 May 2020:
My favorite part of my job as a scientist is to do experiments to ask specific question I have in mind. It’s a very creative job, no day is the same, you get to interact with lots of people and in generale you feel a sense of achievement when something works because you are contributing to adding something new to the knowledge of your field. That’s very rewarding. If your research then is eventually going to be useful to cure a specific disease even better!
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Tiffany Chan answered on 18 May 2020:
Hi Iris and Hana! I think my favourite part of my job is that every day is different, and that I’m constantly learning/trying new things. It also involve a lot of teamwork, which means that you get to work with people from all different backgrounds and subjects – even though I’m a chemist, I have worked with physicists, biologists and engineers!
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Gabriela commented on :
Designing experiments to answer questions is the most fun bit! Scientists are essentially professional problem/puzzle solvers: finding ways to solve problems/puzzles is what makes the job so satisfying.