• Question: Do you like your job? If so, what is your favourite part?

    Asked by Leon teh Lion to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 7 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Bruna, Ajay, Debbie, randy orten (out of no where), Big O, Bethany, E_kelleher, Callie.
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      Matthew Camilleri answered on 7 Nov 2014:

      I love what I do, and that is very important when you are working.

      My favourite part is not knowing what’s going to happen next, putting on a new reaction, that nobody else has ever done before and produce something new.

      I have to admit I have no complaints about visiting foreign countries or remote locations in the UK to listen to talks and maybe in the near future give a talk myself.

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      Laura Schofield answered on 7 Nov 2014:

      Hi! I love what I do! And I love the people I work with too. It’s really important to find something you’re good at that you enjoy doing.
      My favourite part is finding something that no one has discovered and getting all the evidence you need to have everyone believe you! There is nothing like telling a Professor that he was wrong and seeing how proud they are when you show them how!

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      Francesca Palombo answered on 8 Nov 2014:

      I love it – it is my dream job! What I really like is the discovery bit, an unprecedented opportunity!

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      Rebecca Ingle answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Some of the great parts about my job are getting to travel so much, I spent three months in Japan working last year and I’m hopefully going back to do the same this year too. I also get to go on various courses in different parts of the UK (all expenses paid of course!) and abroad too.

      My favourite part of science is finally figuring out the ‘story’ of why a chemical reaction happens the way it does or how and why a molecule falls apart. Often, experiments don’t always give you an ‘obvious’ answer so it can take months of trying to think of what questions you need to answer to work out what is going on and try and testing various ideas to see if they hold up. When you finally get a theory that fits all the evidence that is an amazing feeling.

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      Andrew McKinley answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I really like my job! I’m not sure I can single out a favourite part: Teaching my students is fantastic – and I’m sure your teachers will tell you that they really enjoy teaching you too – and recently we have been building a Lego spectrometer to teach principles of spectroscopy – now that is brilliant! Two of my favourite things together 🙂

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