• Question: Do you enjoy being a scientist? And Why?

    Asked by leftym to Carla, Madgie, Nick, Vicky, Werner on 9 Nov 2013. This question was also asked by paulchuckel1, becca123, sophiepearce, emilyyelland2000, thelittleducklin, kimberly1999, bigdogmcshane, johanna, xxhannahxx, zanbabe, jeffereypig123.
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      Carla Turner answered on 9 Nov 2013:

      I do enjoy being a scientist. I love finding new things. It’s really exciting when you look down the microscope at something no one else in the world has ever seen before.

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      Werner Muller answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      Being a scientist is almost never boring. You have some ideas, follow the ideas up and when experiments turn out to support your ideas it is great. If they do not support your ideas you have to start again from the beginning. Sometimes you read about the experiments in the scientific literature faster then you can do them yourself and again you have to start from the beginning.

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      Marlene Lorgen answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      It’s a lot of fun being a scientist as you get to explore new things all the time and you may go home after a day at work knowing something that no one else in the world knows at that time! There are also a lot of opportunities to travel in science and you get to meet a lot of people doing very interesting things, which will never be exactly the same 🙂

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      Nick Groves-Kirkby answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      I usually do! I really like the freedom I have to work on whatever I want to, and to organise my own working day. I also like the feeling of learning new things every day and having a job where I can use my brain.

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      Vicky Forster answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      Yes, most of the time I do. As with most jobs, there are some days when I absolutely love it, and some where it’s really hard, or ‘just okay’. Science is quite demanding, especially when your experiments are going wrong and you have to be at your best to try and work out the problems. However nothing I’ve ever found beats the feeling of getting a positive result from an experiment, or having a really good talk with my boss about how what we have found can potentially help people and which new experiments to plan. I also really like doing experiments for the first time – trying to figure out how to make them work, is like a puzzle sometimes.

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