• Question: What is the most demanding thing you do/ have done while working?

    Asked by Julia to Paul, Mobeen, Laura, Jen, Greg on 6 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Laura Haworth

      Laura Haworth answered on 6 Mar 2016:

      Trying to manage the number of patients we have to see and the current pressures of the NHS.

    • Photo: Paul O'Mahoney

      Paul O'Mahoney answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      Probably finishing my PhD. There was a lot of work involved, and not enough hours in the day to do it!

    • Photo: Greg Melia

      Greg Melia answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      I once ran an experiment that took two weeks to run, but needed the equipment changing ever 12 hours or so. That meant getting in early in the morning, doing what I needed to do, working, going home (or just staying late) and then servicing the experiment again at 8 in the evening. Trying to work my life around that was quite a challenge. The worst thing? When I finally got the data after two weeks, something had gone wrong so it was all useless!

    • Photo: Jen Lowe

      Jen Lowe answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      Sometimes working for long hours to make sure that a patient’s treatment gets completed by the end of the day, or treatment prepared on time. Also concentrating for long periods of time. Looking at computer screens for most of the day can be tiring. Personally I find it hard when I need to get to work for 0730 to go to theatre. I am more of an owl than a lark.

    • Photo: Mobeen Ali

      Mobeen Ali answered on 15 Mar 2016:

      For one of the experiments that I did, I started in the morning and finished at 11 in the evening. I did this twice to get enough results to write about. I then submitted these results at 11pm on the day of the deadline to be able to present my research at a conference.

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