• Question: do you like to be a scientist

    Asked by saida123 to Anil, Blanka, Cees, Emma, Mike on 25 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by evelina100, mary10, danielius, edward321, bonny123, bellaswan123, jadie, jacob983, fraserdcandjam, carleyhayes.
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      Michael Cook answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      I absolutely love being a scientist. I couldn’t imagine being anything else. Every day I get to think about exciting, strange things, and talk to interesting and weird people!

      A few weeks ago I was in Ireland talking to other scientists about computers. I met someone who is trying to invent a joke-making machine; someone who is teaching computers to compose music for nursery rhymes; and I met someone who is trying to get a computer to invent recipes!

      Meeting these people and talking about exciting new problems is very, very rewarding and fun.

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      Blanka Sengerova answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Yes, I do, there is a great amount of excitement in doing that sort of work because you’re always looking to find out something new that hasn’t been known before.

      And you also meet a great bunch of people as work colleagues, or at least I certainly have. Many of them have become good friends. The downside of science are the often short term contracts so people come and go quite a bit so many of the friends you make end up moving on to other places. On the plus side, this can me getting to live in interesting places.

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      Emma Trantham answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      I love being a scientist. I get to spend my days doing stuff that I really care about. A lot of my time is spent learning new things – something else I love to do. Finally, I think in some small ( very very teeny weeny) way I am making a difference to the world with my work. 🙂

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