• Question: What do you do as a daily job?

    Asked by melsaddig to James, Marcus, Martin, Rob, Suzanne on 14 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by 11andgra, daniel1289.
    • Photo: Marcus Gallagher-Jones

      Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      This is my daily job haha. If you mean what do I do day today then thats a little more difficult. It really does vary. Some days i’m in the wet lab culturing bacteria and purifying proteins. Other days I’m in the workshop fixing motors and building up equipment. I also spend time behind the computer writing reports or analysing data. The wonderful thing about this job is that every day i different.

    • Photo: Suzanne McEndoo

      Suzanne McEndoo answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      In general, my daily job is sitting in front of a computer working on physics. I don’t do any experiments, so from the outside it probably looks quite boring. One of the great things about science though is the variety of things that count as “daily job”. Some stuff I’ve been paid to do are visiting schools, training with circus students in Finland, spending a month working in Canada, a week in Crete, talking about sign language, planning a video game, organising end of year parties, and of course, I’m a Scientist. It’s great fun and I never know what I’m going to get to do next. 🙂

    • Photo: Robert Thompson

      Robert Thompson answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      My day to day job changes from day to day.

      I love that I get to decide when I go in, what I do and who I talk to. So yesterday I got in a bit late as I had a chat on here at 9:00 and then had to go to the doctors to get some stitches taken out (ouch!!). I then spent a fair amount of time in the lab trying to work out why somethign wasn’t working. I had a chat with my mate and we worked out a solution. By then it was late so I just had time to order a couple of bits of practical kit and go home.

      Today I’ve gone to a different university – Imperial College on the other side of London. I’m using a big microscope they have here. It’s very expensive so not every university has one but they are nice here and let me use theirs.

      Tomorrow I will work super hard in the morning as in the afternoon I want to take a bit of time off to go and do some sport. I will also spend a good ammount of time trying to fix that problem from Monday.

      Then Thursday and Friday I’m going up to Birmingham, it’s the Big Bang science fair and I’m presenting some work on how things can be in two places at once. (which is mind blowing) – Check this out which is abotu our stand and a video of me talking about it.

      http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/viewitem.cfm?cit_id=384673 (why did I buy those glasses!!)

    • Photo: Martin Zaltz Austwick

      Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Lots of sitting in front a computer with a nice cup of tea! When you are a lecturer there is a lot to organise – lectures, making sure your students are ok, giving them some advice about the work they’re doing, and so on. There are always some fun things to do, too – today I’m going to meet some journalists about a newspaper article, for example, and on Monday I went with our students to the London Transport Museum where we have some animations of bikes, buses and things like that.

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