What is your favourite part of your job?

Question: What is your favourite part of your job?
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Asked by 953cars46 on 21 Sep 2016. This question was also asked by 672cara48, anon-161383, anon-234841, anon-235278.
- Joanna Bagniewska answered on 21 Sep 2016:
  
  The best part is seeing animals in the wild. But I also like interacting with students, I’m a pretty sociable person.
- Marianne Baker answered on 21 Sep 2016:
  
  I love that I get to sit down with hard-working researchers and see them happily talk about their latest publication or grant award – I’m like some sort of good news fairy. It’s great to see that side of academia, and not just the tears because experiments aren’t working! Those are common too. Science is tough; often things don’t go your way. But when they do, it’s great!
- Melanie Zimmer answered on 21 Sep 2016:
  
  My favourite part is that my job never gets boring! There are new things to learn and solve almost every day! Especially when I have developed code, it is very exciting when it finally runs and gets tested – although this is also the most nerve-racking bit as (although code has been tested before) things can still go wrong!I also really like to work with other people and learn from them. 🙂
  
  Melanie
- Katie Mahon answered on 21 Sep 2016:
  
  The best thing is all the possibilities! As a designer you have a real impact on making something happen in the best way possible. And when you see your design becoming a real product that goes to a customer – it’s so satisfying.
  
  And even better when you get good feedback that people are enjoying your product, and their lives are improving thanks to the work you’ve done.
- Rebecca Dewey answered on 21 Sep 2016:
  
  My favourite part of my job is taking brain images of people’s brains and showing them afterwards. they are always really excited to see the pictures and to ask questions.
- Ollie Brown answered on 21 Sep 2016:
  
  I really enjoy the process of taking an extremely hard problem and breaking it down into parts. Then writing code to solve each of those smaller problems and watching it grow into a finished program! It’s great when you finally have everything working, and get to watch a program you built from scratch perform a tough calculation.
- John Allport answered on 21 Sep 2016:
  
  I really like it when I can see things that I have developed making a difference in the world. There are lots of cars driving around now which contain parts that I have developed, and they would have far greater emissions without those parts, so I feel that I have contributed in a small way to improving the environment.
- Katie Sparks answered on 21 Sep 2016:
  
  My job has a few different stages:
  1 – talk to people to understand what they want
  2 – talk to people to understand the detail of what is going on
  3 – think a lot about how to make that into maths I can use the results for
  4 – do the maths
  5 – check out the results
  6 – compare that with what has been asked in 1
  7 – tell the people in 1 what I found out
  
  I think my favourite bits are stage 3 and 6 – I’m a specialist in one area and the people I work with will be specialist in others, we all work together to make sure that the spacecraft we design will work – it’s great being part of a team and working lots of things out.
- Shona Whittam answered on 21 Sep 2016:
  
  Being involved in the treatment of cancer is very rewarding so my favourite part of my job is that I know I am making a difference to people’s life’s doing something I enjoy (physics!).
- Evan Keane answered on 22 Sep 2016:
  
  My worst nightmare would be to do a boring job, with repetitive tasks. Being a scientist is the exact opposite of this. No two days are the same and it is quite exciting. Also, science will never be ‘finished’. Each new discovery throws up new questions and new mysteries to solve. This means, in a sense, that you will never run out of interesting things to do!
- Ian Hands-Portman answered on 22 Sep 2016:
  
  Seeing inside living things. Most of my microscopes work by looking at fluorescence, the images they produce can be absolutely beautiful both from a science point of view and just for their aesthetic appeal.
  
  No-one ever asks about the worst bit! – Doing the monthly accounts
- Michael Sulu answered on 10 Jul 2017:
  
  I think it is teaching, its good to be able to enthuse students and help them learn!
- anon answered on 19 Jan 2018:
  
  Sometimes I am the first person to find a new result. This is very exciting. That happens less now that I am more senior (and more old!) because I spend more of my time advising/supervising graduate students and more junior colleagues. So not necessarily the first person now, but I help others to be the first person to find a new result and that’s great too.
  
  I work with amazing people.

Comments

Jo commented on 30 Sep 2017:

The favourite part of my job is helping other people achieve results in their project when they have been struggling before visiting our facility.

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Question: What is your favourite part of your job?