Question: what do you like best in your job?
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Looks like a lot of interest in this question with so many asking it!
I love having a job where i get to follow my own curiosity. If I (or my boss) asks a question about how my bacteria is doing something, and I do an experiment to try and answer it, inevitably I end up with more questions to answer. I have the freedom to be able to follow those questions which interest me most. There aren’t many jobs which give you that.
I also love all the travel i get to do, seeing new places, meeting scientists from all over the world and just sitting having a chat at the bar, or as we all go sightseeing together. There’s nothing really like it.
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I love the scientific process. Reading what is known about a topic, coming up with questions to answer about what we don’t know, then testing these questions in experiments and drawing conclusions from the results. To me its really satisfying to complete this process as it can take some time. After I analyse my results from an experiment, I’m usually left thinking, ‘yeah… that’s really cool’.
I also really love that I get to do so many different things. I’m learning and developing my skills all the time. keeps lab work interesting!
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I love learning something new every day. There are so many great things happening in science and I feel privileged to have a job which enables me understanding and explaining new ideas. By doing research I keep challenging myself which contribute a lot in my self-development. And there are these moments of success… The feeling that I get when I look at my cells under the microscope and unravel something totally novel… The thrill of being the first and only one in the world Of looking at my cells and illuminating a previously undiscovered biological mechanism. The thrill of being the first one in the world, the soothing sense of confirmation of your hypothesis… This feeling is very hard to describe but it is priceless!
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