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Asked by anon-186455 to Verity, Trystan, Raquel, Danny, Catherine, Andy on 5 Nov 2018.
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Danny Ward answered on 5 Nov 2018:
My least favourite part is when experiments don’t work. It can often be a lot of work to run experiments and sometimes they won’t give the results you expect…or sometimes they give no results at all! That however is the nature of science. If we knew every experiment was going to work first time, then it wouldnt be research as we would already know the answer.
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Catherine Smith answered on 5 Nov 2018:
To be honest, the worst thing about my current job is that it is a “fixed term” contract, lasting for two years. Most post-doc research jobs are fixed term contracts, which can be a bit stressful because you have a limited amount of time to complete projects, and have to start thinking about the next job quite quickly.
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Trystan Leng answered on 5 Nov 2018:
The experiments I do are called simulations, and I run them from my computer. To run the simulations I have to write computer code to make them work. But I actually don’t enjoy writing computer code very much!
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Raquel Medialdea Carrera answered on 5 Nov 2018:
I don’t like having to spend long hours in front of my computer sometimes doing the analysis of the data about the epidemic or writing up the results.
I enjoy much more going into the “field” to investigate outbreaks! 🙂 However, both sides of my job are important. -
Verity Hill answered on 5 Nov 2018:
Often the code I write doesn’t work! It’s very frustrating when you just can’t see where the issue is. The worst bit though is when you’ve already run your simulation for a month, and then you spot a mistake that means that the results are invalid, so you have to start again.
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