• Question: So doyou enjoy your job? If you weren't a scientist what would you be??

    Asked by graciiecallery12 to Edd, Jess, Zara on 23 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Zara Gladman

      Zara Gladman answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      Hey graciiecallery12!

      Yup most of the time I love my job! 🙂 I get to study interesting animals, work outside, travel… it’s great! I don’t like getting up early though (does anyone?!).

      If I wasn’t a scientist, I’m not sure what I’d be… I really liked art and music at school, and French too. So maybe I’d be a part time artist part time musician living in Paris and eating nutella all day.

    • Photo: Edward Codling

      Edward Codling answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      I definitely enjoy my job! I like finding out new things and studying what I am interested in (animal behaviour). I like having the freedom to do the projects that I want to work on. I also like working together with other scientists.

      Some aspects of my job I don’t like are the admin duties I have to do – marking and stuff like that. I also have to do teaching – I do enjoy this as I like helping people to learn, but it does take up a lot of time sometimes and means I don’t do as much research as I’d like.

      If I wasn’t a scientist then I would probably be very frustrated not being able to do what I wanted to do! In terms of a job, I might do teaching or something like that. I used to coach football to kids so that might be an option!

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