• Question: Who out of you 5 has the most exiting job and why?

    Asked by ticehurst to Andrew, Ash, Gem, Paige, SJ on 25 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Paige Brown

      Paige Brown answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      I do I do!!!!!!! 😉

      I have an exciting job because my job entails so many different things! I have worked as a traditional material scientist in the lab, working with cancer cells and TINY particles called nanoparticles. Now I do research in the area of science communications, talking to and surveying both science and non-science students, scientists, and the general public about their media habits, how they feel about controversial science issues such as global warming, and what would make them care more about their environment and the science all around them. I also interview scientists all the time, both for my job at Louisiana State University in the Public Relations and Research Communications Office, and for my own science journalism type blogging at From The Lab Bench, by blog! http://blogs.nature.com/from_the_lab_bench/

      My day might consist of reading scientific articles, talking to a new scientist on the LSU campus, taking pictures of alligators for my new documentary about global warming impacts in Louisiana, interviewing a scientist living in Germany (via Skype!), and designing online polls and surveys to find out things about how general people understand science issues!

    • Photo: Gemma Staite

      Gemma Staite answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      I think each one of us probably believes it is ours. I guess it depends what you’re interested in, but I would say it is mine.

      Some might say my job is boring as it often entails similar tasks each day, but I think it’s great. I think it’s exciting when I get woken in the middle of the night to determine if a patient has meningitis or not. Those results could save the patients life.

    • Photo: SarahJayne Boulton

      SarahJayne Boulton answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Paige definitely has put up a pretty tough challenge for most exciting job however I reckon where her job is exciting through communication, I reckon mine is exciting through pure discovery.

      There aren’t many jobs in the world where you can literally be the first person in the world to make on observation or join the dots together on a real hard life or death problem.

      With my work, everyday there is the possibility that we’ll discover the root of a disease or a new way to protect against the generation of cancers or irrepairable injury. So far, I’ve managed 3 world firsts.

      One was developing a new technology for monitoring stress directly from the mitochondria powerhouses of our cells.

      The second was identifying a new way of using fluorescent dyes and nanoparticles to see free radical generation (free radicals can cause premature aging and DNA damage).

      The 3rd was discovering that a chemical thought to promote Parkinson’s Disease actually works by destroying the mitochondira in a certain part of the brain.

      Making these little discoveries was the most exciting thing ever, and I get to make more of them!! AWESOME!

    • Photo: Ashley Cadby

      Ashley Cadby answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      I do.
      One day I am saving the world from drug resistant bacteria, the next I a working on the next display technology, the next I am flying of the America to tell them how my work on biological computers is going, the next I am helping a big chemical company reduce the amount of water needed to clean cloths ( I kid you not, and that one might have the biggest impact on saving the planet). The next day I’m on my yacht sailing of the Greek islands. Actually the last one has never happened. There is always something exciting going on in my labs.

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