• Question: Do you ever wish that you did not have your job?

    Asked by anon-225586 to Katy, Natalie, Nawapat, Paul, Selen, Simon on 9 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Natalie Fowler

      Natalie Fowler answered on 9 Nov 2019:

      Sometimes my job is very hard and it can be very upsetting. I have to deal with death and patients who won’t get better. This is very sad but I know I have helped a lot more than those who have died. I don’t wish that I had another job but sometimes I wish that every day was a happy day.

    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 9 Nov 2019:

      Honestly? Sometimes. Usually when you have too much to do, not enough time, have missed lunch and looks like I’m going to be doing a 14-hour day.
      Fortunately that doesn’t happen very often.
      Weighed up against the helping someone find out what is wrong with them as a Biomedical scientist and the privilege of shaping the new scientists of the future as a lecturer – then most of the time: no. I don’t wish I did not have my job.

    • Photo: Simon Brown

      Simon Brown answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      There will always be the bad days. It happens when you’re a kid and I’m sorry, it’ll happy when you’re an adult. I luckily I have never had a job I hate – that must be awful.

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      No, not for any of them! As you might have seen from my varied employment history, I get itchy feet quite a lot and don’t settle until I’m truly happy.

      That’s not to say my jobs aren’t sometimes exhausting or soul-destroying, but thankfully these days are outweighed by the good days 🙂

      What I do wish for, however, is more than 24 hours in every day!!

    • Photo: Nawapat Kaweeyanun

      Nawapat Kaweeyanun answered on 16 Nov 2019:

      I’m lucky to say that I have never wish I am not a scientist. However, I have faced tough challenges trying to get my PhD degree that I sometimes wished I did not love academia so much, as I would have an easier time finding a job in other fields! During these times I remind myself the reasons I want to be a scientist – how doing research make me happy and fulfilled with my life. These thoughts serve as my motivation to get to where I am now. 🙂

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