My job is super busy and always different! I’m always learning new things and using my scientific analytical skills to solve all sorts of problems. My job can be hard at times but I love knowing the work we do helps ill people today and in the future.
My job allows me to help people find out what different health conditions they may have that is making them feel unwell or their body hurt. For some diseases the earlier you know you are at risk, the sooner you can make changes to what you are eating or how much exercise you are doing, to keep your body healthier or pain free for longer. I really enjoy knowing that I can share my knowledge with family and friends to help the people I care about at home too.
I don’t live in the same town as I work, so have a long working day including travel. However I am lucky that I have a job where I don’t have to work shifts or weekends, so my hours of work are the same every day. This allows me to plan time after work to visit family or friends and spend time doing fun things outside of work.
In many and different ways. I’m lucky in that my job is interesting, often challenging, but doesn’t ask me to do more than my regular hours, so there’s time for life outside of work. It doesn’t pay excessively, but it pays well enough to leave a little left over each month, once my basic needs are met, to provide a little enjoyment in life. The pension that gets set aside for my future is fair and means I don’t fear the future as much as I might. But beyond these basics, having done my job for so long my work inevitably starts affecting how I look at and interact with the world. The skills, practices and experiences of work affect me as much as the practices and experiences out of work do. Questioning, critical thinking, evalutation and weighting, working with others, compromising, and above all the knowledge that neither I nor anyone else know everything, can’t know everything, and are very likely wrong most of the time and that’s fine. I try to be usefully wrong and sometimes succeed in it. Getting 80-90% of a problem solved is better than not solving the problem at all. Others probably have the remaining 10-20% and from them I can learn, adjust and update.
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sandrarobertson commented on :
My job allows me to help people find out what different health conditions they may have that is making them feel unwell or their body hurt. For some diseases the earlier you know you are at risk, the sooner you can make changes to what you are eating or how much exercise you are doing, to keep your body healthier or pain free for longer. I really enjoy knowing that I can share my knowledge with family and friends to help the people I care about at home too.
I don’t live in the same town as I work, so have a long working day including travel. However I am lucky that I have a job where I don’t have to work shifts or weekends, so my hours of work are the same every day. This allows me to plan time after work to visit family or friends and spend time doing fun things outside of work.
Andrew M commented on :
In many and different ways. I’m lucky in that my job is interesting, often challenging, but doesn’t ask me to do more than my regular hours, so there’s time for life outside of work. It doesn’t pay excessively, but it pays well enough to leave a little left over each month, once my basic needs are met, to provide a little enjoyment in life. The pension that gets set aside for my future is fair and means I don’t fear the future as much as I might. But beyond these basics, having done my job for so long my work inevitably starts affecting how I look at and interact with the world. The skills, practices and experiences of work affect me as much as the practices and experiences out of work do. Questioning, critical thinking, evalutation and weighting, working with others, compromising, and above all the knowledge that neither I nor anyone else know everything, can’t know everything, and are very likely wrong most of the time and that’s fine. I try to be usefully wrong and sometimes succeed in it. Getting 80-90% of a problem solved is better than not solving the problem at all. Others probably have the remaining 10-20% and from them I can learn, adjust and update.