• Question: How many hours a day do you work?

    Asked by leena273 to David, James, Mike, Suze, Will on 15 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by ayishae, thamminb.
    • Photo: Mike Dodd

      Mike Dodd answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Between 10 and 12 hours depending on what I have to do. Like today, I started early to scan on the magnet and I will be finishing late to look at all my data….and to answer lots of great I’m a scienist questions

    • Photo: James Marrow

      James Marrow answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Most days, 8 or 9 but occasionally 24 (seriously – when you have a synchrotron experiment you need to use every minute of it)

    • Photo: Suze Kundu

      Suze Kundu answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Totally varies from day to day, and year to year. At the moment, I’m working loads of hours of the day on different things, but sometimes in the lab, it’s a regular seven hour day. Sometimes it’s a crazy day, especially when there is a deadline coming up, or a tricky experiment that you desperately want to get right.

      There are safety rules in our lab, so if we’re working late, we have to have someone else there with us in case of emergency, and we can’t work after a certain time of the night in the lab, but we can carry on in the lab office next door. Same rules at weekends, always need at least two people there.

    • Photo: David Ingram

      David Ingram answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Most days, 8 to 10 hours but occasionally longer

    • Photo: William Eborall

      William Eborall answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Most days 8 hours, but it can stretch to 12 – 18 hours if I have a big experiment to do or report to write.

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