• Question: What part of your work fustrates you the most?

    Asked by Nimisha to Anne, Arthur, Rose, Ruhina, Thomas on 16 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by POwen, Molly.
    • Photo: Anne Canning

      Anne Canning answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Hi Nimisha,
      It’s easy to get frustrated when experiments don’t work and you can’t figure out why this is the case. Especially when you’ve done lots of repeats in different ways to try and avoid any potential problems. It’s a fantastic feeling when you do get them working though! You just have to stay calm and try to not get too worked up!

    • Photo: Ruhina Miller

      Ruhina Miller answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      I agree with Anne on this; it’s also frustrating/disappointing repeating an experiment and not getting consistent results. But, as she said, it’s very rewarding when you get it to work and you identify the problem/s 🙂

    • Photo: Rose Simnett

      Rose Simnett answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I get frustrated when equipment is broken and when that means you can’t do the reaction or analysis that you wanted to do. Often you have to wait a while for it to get fixed and this can mean you get behind with work.

    • Photo: Thomas Farrugia

      Thomas Farrugia answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I think not getting any work done can be quite frustrating – usually due to an instrument being booked for the entire day, or just having to do a lot of non-research things – e.g ordering and picking up chemicals, cleaning up the lab, lots of meetings, or training users on instruments.

      Sometimes doing experiments late into the evening can be frustrating, particularly if it’s down to machines being booked all day. But getting the data, and good results from that, can be very rewarding!

    • Photo: Arthur Wilkinson

      Arthur Wilkinson answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      Very little frustrates me except for equipment breaking down (or being broken due to not being used correctly!)

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