• Question: Do you like your work? Do you regret it?

    Asked by fatz123 to Austin, Kirsty, Nicola, Nike, Sarah on 12 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by bence, keeno15, amyconnor, chazzer636, littleman43.
    • Photo: Kirsty Ross

      Kirsty Ross answered on 12 Jun 2012:

      I love my work and have no regrets about doing it. Despite that, when it is 2am in the morning and I am STILL waiting for bacterial cultures to grow, I do occasionally have second thoughts! My other half usually pops in with a pizza and a DVD to keep me company though. The highs definitely outweigh the lows for me.

    • Photo: Sarah Hart

      Sarah Hart answered on 14 Jun 2012:

      As Kirsty said, there have been moments (usually late-night ones) when you wonder if the experiment is really worth the sacrifice of personal time, memorably during my PhD I used to finish my experiments for 9pm so that I could go dancing afterwards, but the finished work makes up for a lot. That said, now I have a family I can’t stay in the lab til silly-o’clock any more, so I have to plan my time and experiments much more carefully so that I can fit them into my working day. I love the variety of what I do, and enjoy the fact that I get to work with lots of interesting people from different places.

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