• Question: do you like your job and why

    Asked by disabledballs to Yannick, Tris, Calum, Calum on 19 Nov 2020. This question was also asked by mollieM, Dariag, Meriam R.
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      Tris Warren answered on 19 Nov 2020:

      I do like my job – I like that I get to work on lots of different projects and I get to do a wide range of different things. One day I might be working building some electronics in the lab to control the seismometer we built for a mission to Mars. The next day I might be modelling how hot the lunar surface gets to find where there might be water or I might be in the cleanroom running a thermal vacuum chamber to test a totally different space instrument.
      I also like that I often accidentally find things out in job – for example, when we were testing the seismometers in our lab we kept getting this odd signal every Sunday – we would see some strong vibration that came from particular directions at certain times of the day. Eventually, we figured out it was church bells ringing – that were vibrating the ground causing our strange signal!

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    Stu commented on :

    I like my job, it is balanced. I do work that I enjoy with people I (mostly) like. I get enough down-time to be a good father and get paid enough to run a comfortable home.

    Getting the balance right for my life is important. When I worked flat out in the deserts of the Arctic or Australia running an instrument or observatory, then that was perfect. It was actually a lot less fun to run my company: a lot less choice about who I work with and while I got paid a lot, I didn’t have much time for my partner or children. Not a good balance. When I get the balnce right, life and work is more fun.