• Question: Are you ever stuck or burdened by something in your engineering job?

    Asked by Ore Jay to Ashley, Catherine, John G, Laura, Ray on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Laura Tobin

      Laura Tobin answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Paperwork. Lots of paper work! from writing reports, lab notes, paper work for purchases, paper work for travel expenses, grant applications. It’s all necessary and it serves a purpose but it can take up a lot of time and be very tedious and boring.

    • Photo: John Ging

      John Ging answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Daily. Its usually dealing with non-engineers. They don’t understand why we cant just “do” certain things. Some of them are beyond the laws of physics.

    • Photo: Catherine Conaghan

      Catherine Conaghan answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      I have to deal with a lot of people in other countries working on the same project – this causes issues like different time zones, language barriers, people thinking you meant one thing on a phone-call when you said something else. This can be difficult, but it’s not really related to engineering itself, more so the managing of projects.

    • Photo: Ashley Culbert

      Ashley Culbert answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Like Catherine most of my burdens are dealing with managing projects. I have a team that is spread across the country each carrying out a specalised task that all has to fit together.

    • Photo: Ray Alcorn

      Ray Alcorn answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Ah.. burdened is a strong word.. Every job has overhead associated with. Sometimes managing people is great when all is well and awful when dealing with performance or even personal problems.. but burdened is not the right word.. just some things we all like better than others. The best way to view these things is that they allow you to more appreciate the things you really like doing.

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