• Question: Do you ever get bored of your job?

    Asked by Imy to Alex, Chris, Mohamed, Rik, Victoria on 6 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by tree.
    • Photo: Rik Allen

      Rik Allen answered on 6 Mar 2015:

      Hi,

      I think there are times in most jobs when you might get bored, but it’s quiet rare for me – I can’t honestly think of a time in the last few years. There might be boring, repetitive parts to the job, but one thing about being an engineer is that we usually try and find a way to do the boring stuff automatically – which can turn it into a fun challenge.

      I do sometimes have to stop myself from spending 2 hours to make something to do something automatically that would only have taken 5 minutes.

      Rik

    • Photo: Victoria Sharpe

      Victoria Sharpe answered on 8 Mar 2015:

      The only time I ever got bored of my job was when I drifted out of engineering and became a full time project manager watching and tracking engineers doing the job I wanted to do!

    • Photo: Alex Shenfield

      Alex Shenfield answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      No – I get to do something new practically everyday! One of the reasons I became an academic is that I have a short attention span and doing the same thing everyday would bore me to tears!

      Whether it’s writing a paper, giving a lecture, or putting together worked examples for a lab class my job has an incredible amount of variety – and when I get bored of all that I can go and talk to students!

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