• Question: Do you ever feel like you have come to a stand still with your work and you want to give up?

    Asked by pughy to Adrian, Gaia, Jim, Scott, Vicky on 14 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Gaia Andreoletti

      Gaia Andreoletti answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      Yes! Last year I went through a personal problem and I did not want to hear about deadlines, experiments or anything else.
      It might happen to have a period like this and you need to put yourself first and decide what is best for you.

    • Photo: Scott Lawrie

      Scott Lawrie answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      Things going wrong is inevitable. Either equipment breaks, you lose some data, you don’t get the result you’re looking for, or you just don’t know what to do next! Often a break where you completely stop thinking about work is the best thing. When you get back to it you’ll have a fresh mind and hopefully some new ideas 🙂

    • Photo: Adrian Buzatu

      Adrian Buzatu answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      As I write code for my work, it is frustrating when the code does not behave as expected. We call it that is has a bug. But with perseverance, the bug is found and the code behaves well. Computers are deterministic, after all, and only do what they are programmed.

    • Photo: Jim Barrett

      Jim Barrett answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      I’ve felt like that more than once, but part of being a good scientist is carrying on regardless 🙂

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