• Question: why do you do your job ? for fun? or for another reason e.g save people's lives.

    Asked by bath449dee on 7 Feb 2022.
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      Mercede Lee answered on 7 Feb 2022:

      Hi,
      Honestly, I do my job partly because I find doing experiments really fun, partly because I get paid and partly because I hope that what I do will have an impact (maybe already has!) on people’s lives.

    • Photo: Jonny Coates

      Jonny Coates answered on 7 Feb 2022:

      It’s for a mix of reasons; it’s fun (sometimes), I do eventually help people, it pays OK, I’m (or my experiments are) in charge of my own time, my work has real world impact…But ultimately to help people is my main reason for doing it.

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      Melanie Krause answered on 8 Feb 2022:

      Hi!
      It’s definitely fun.. when something works ;). To me the helping people and curing disease aspect was the deciding factor when I decided to study science but now I also really love the mystery and ‘solving the riddle’… you are the first person to discover something… maybe a small change that the virus makes to a cell which has a big effect and this change has been around maybe as long as the virus… and YOU are the one to find it! That’s really cool!

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