• Question: What do you love most about your job? and what are your aspirations for the future?

    Asked by 08mhook to Ailsa, Evan, James, Kath, Ryan on 21 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by rosieapple, thinescientistsofcoolio, themarinebiologists, thebosh98.
    • Photo: Ryan Ladd

      Ryan Ladd answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Making discoveries (no matter how small!), solving problems and developing things which no one else ever has!

      I’m still not really sure what I want to do in the future. I really enjoy what I’m researching at the moment but that won’t last forever! I would really like to work for the ESA (European Space Agency), I doubt I’d ever get to go into space but maybe one day a robot I designed would be sent to Titan or Io.

    • Photo: Evan Keane

      Evan Keane answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Finding things! That every day is different. That it is fun, and not a “boring job”. 😀

    • Photo: Ailsa Powell

      Ailsa Powell answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      The fact that you never really know what you are going to be doing next – you don’t always know in which direction the science is going to lead you. It makes it exciting 🙂

      In the future I would like to be a university lecturer, running my own research group and teaching undergraduates biochemistry. These jobs are becoming very rare though, so I will have to see if this is possible.

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