• Question: what is the hardest things about your job

    Asked by anon-186807 to Verity, Trystan, Raquel, Danny, Catherine, Andy on 12 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Trystan Leng

      Trystan Leng answered on 12 Nov 2018:

      I’m currently doing a PhD, and one of the hardest thing about that is time management. A PhD takes around three years, and the types of questions you try and answer are your own responsibility. It is also your own responsibility to make sure you are achieving enough that you will finish on time. Because it is so self-directed, it is quite different from previous studies at university!

    • Photo: Danny Ward

      Danny Ward answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      The hardest thing about being a research scientist for me is when experiments don’t work. Experiments don’t always work first time, some require a lot of trial and error to make them produce the data you need or some just never work at all!

    • Photo: Verity Hill

      Verity Hill answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      I find it very difficult not to compare myself to others that I think are doing better! Everybody struggles sometimes, but you usually only see when people are doing well. So you think that you are the only one that hasn’t done something and that can be very hard.
      Also, I’m not great at maths and I’m about to do some very mathsy things!

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