• Question: do you work in a team

    Asked by anon-161300 to Aisling, Alessandra, Ananthi, Daniel, Ian, Michelle, Omar, Phil, Tabby on 18 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Ananthi Ramachandran

      Ananthi Ramachandran answered on 14 Jun 2018:

      As a PhD student you tend to work alone, however we are part of a team and we have weekly meetings in order to try and help each other out if needed

    • Photo: Aisling Shannon

      Aisling Shannon answered on 12 Sep 2018:

      Yes. Most people in our organization are part of a team. I am in fact part of more than one team/group. I have my technical group, who are people with the same skill set and responsibilities as I have – Structural Engineering. But also I have a project team, which is made up of the lots of different engineers from different specialisms/backgrounds, managers and Scientists. Everyone works together to achieve the same goal – to get the spacecraft launched and operating it’s mission.

Comments

  • Photo: John

    John commented on :

    I sure do. It makes every day more interesting than the last, because not only do you learn new things, your colleagues also do and will share their discoveries with you. Like Ananthi above, I used to work along when I was doing my PhD and when I moved out to a job in Industry, I found being part of a team quite different. Instead of setting my own hours and investigating what I pleased, I then had to work around the teams hours. It was challenging but fun. After a few years, I became more integral to that team, pushing how we looked at things and defining our business. Now I’m the leader of my team and get to help others learn and grow into their roles.
    I wouldn’t change it for the world. However, there are certain projects which I still work alone on. These are fun, because they’re mine, but its always more rewarding when your sharing them with others afterwards. They often make suggestions you’d not have thought of, which can lead down a very different path.