• Question: What things do you like about your job

    Asked by Einstein123jnr to Áine, Ciarán, Eoin, Lydia, Victoria on 7 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Sparkey1, Snoopy2.
    • Photo: Ciarán O'Brien

      Ciarán O'Brien answered on 7 Nov 2014:

      There’s a lot to like.

      -The hours. We have deadlines for projects and reports, but as long as the deadlines are met, it doesn’t matter if I come in at noon for a few days here and there.

      -The research. Researchers get to look at things and make discoveries that nobody else has seen or found before, and that’s awesome.

      -The canteen. Seriously, Damien the Chef makes the BEST food.

      -The gadgets. Yesterday I used a centrifuge to subject bacteria to thousands of times the normal gravity we get on Earth. Today I’m using chaotropic salts and ultra-fine silica filters to purify DNA. Tomorrow I’ll be remotely accessing a massive computer network to analyse hundreds of millions of DNA sequences to match them up to the bacteria that live in the human gut. I love my science toys!

    • Photo: Áine Broderick

      Áine Broderick answered on 9 Nov 2014:

      I like that I get to meet different people every day and that in doing my job I am making people’s jobs safer, so I am making a difference to people. It may be a small difference but I am helping people which is what I love to do.

    • Photo: Lydia Bach

      Lydia Bach answered on 9 Nov 2014:

      Hi!

      There are lots of things I like about being a marine biologist:
      • I like going on boats
      • I like seeing and learning about amazing animals
      • I like asking questions about nature and trying to answer them, its like a quiz
      • I like talking to my colleagues about my work and discussing things.
      • I like talking to people about my work
      • I like travelling to different countries to talk about my work
      • I like diving

      … and probably 100 more reasons that I have just forgotten :p

    • Photo: Victoria Simms

      Victoria Simms answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I really like that every day is different! That I get to speak to people who are really clever and we can come up with interesting experiments. That I get to try and make students VERY excited about psychology. That I do research that can help kids who are struggling to do better in school.

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