• Question: Do you all love your jobs and what is the worst part of your job? :D

    Asked by anon-198591 to Srinath, Natasha, Nana, Luisa, Gautam, Alex on 12 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-198922.
    • Photo: Alexander Allen

      Alexander Allen answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      My job is amazing! Ok picture this… You’re interested in science and are a bit curious and you watch a youtube video here and there… You go to bed then go to work the next day.

      At work you get presented with all the questions that are unknown to the scientific community, like in the video you watched. IT’S MY TURN!

      I am doing things that no one else has and I can teach other people to do the same… it’s amazing 🙂

      THEN, then you ask… what’s the worst part of my job… It’s the paperwork… We have to make sure we report in and tell everyone what we’re doing. I understand why but there are so many questions! It takes a while but if this is the worst part… well sign me up for more!

    • Photo: Srinath Kasturirangan

      Srinath Kasturirangan answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      I love my job – so much so that sometimes I am obsessed with it! If I am running an exciting experiment, I lose sleep over it and am back in the lab early the next morning to see the results!! But this excitement and obsession is also the worst part of my job – I find it hard to tune it out, even when I am with my family and friends I am checking my emails or I take my computer on my vacations and check and respond to emails!!! Thankfully my family has learnt to deal with this and they know when I am doing something important and are willing to give me my space and put up with me!!

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      Natasha Dowey answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      I really love science, and I am passionate about my specialism of geoscience. Its incredible to get paid to do something you love, which for me is try to understand how the Earth around us works and was formed. But it’s not perfect- the worst part about being a scientist for me is there is still a lot of inequality. There are not many black or ethnic minority people in my field, and it can be hard for women to reach the top and also juggle having a family. Sometimes it seems that it’s harder for people from poorer backgrounds too. I, like many others, do science outreach to try to encourage people from all backgrounds, genders and cultures to believe that they can do it- it’s positive feedback- the more women who become awesome scientists, the more female role models there are, and the more women will want to do it! There’s a long way to go but there has been a lot of improvement in the last 50 years so I am really hopeful it will continue to get better!

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