• Question: What do you like the most and least about your job?

    Asked by anon-191348 to Kathryn, Adam, Anne on 6 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-191679.
    • Photo: Kathryn

      Kathryn answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      What I like Most: Working out how to make new targets (how would you make a water-filled ice sphere with a solid core in the centre without it cracking?) and also working out what the result means and understanding the fundamental physics and chemistry behind the results.

      Worst Part: Writing the papers, its need to be done but I struggle with writing.

    • Photo: Adam McGuinness

      Adam McGuinness answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I love being able to think up clever questions, and then working to find out the answer, the sense of achievement is like pulling off a double somersault on a trampoline (probably, there’s no chance I could ever do that on a trampoline!)

      Least favourite is when you spend weeks doing an experiment to find out it hasn’t worked, because you made a mistake somewhere and have to redo it all! Very frustrating!

    • Photo: Anne Green

      Anne Green answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      I like solving problems and understanding new things most. As a professor I spend a lot of my time going to committee meetings and sending emails rather than doing science. And that’s what I enjoy least.

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