• Question: is your job fun and exciting but also helps people in a way?

    Asked by 648spcn34 to Xu, Kathryn, Ian, Andrew, Hina, Leah-Nani on 11 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by 223spcn34, Mason The Amazing :).
    • Photo: Kathryn Burrows

      Kathryn Burrows answered on 11 Jun 2018:

      I do find my job fun and exciting for sure! I sometimes ask myself if my job is helping other people enough, compared to medical doctors for example my work does not directly help anyone. But I think though not directly helping people, science helps society and humanity progress. Humans have a fundamental need for understanding and science is our best path to reach it. I am currently working for the National Physical Laboratory which is a great place to work, here we maintain the nations time scale which is service for the public and in this way helps people. Though I have a small part in it I am proud of that. We had an open day recently and I was happy to talk to our visitors and see how interested people are in science. At the end of the day people are generally curious and want to know things.

    • Photo: Ian Jones

      Ian Jones answered on 11 Jun 2018:

      That’s right. Engineers help to make everything in the world that we use in our daily lives.

    • Photo: Andrew Margetts-Kelly

      Andrew Margetts-Kelly answered on 21 Jun 2018:

      It is fun and exciting yes. The work I do helps to feed all the people on the planet, and it also helps to save peoples lives when there is a disaster like an earthquake. It makes me very proud doing what I do.

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