• Question: have you ever thought of working in a job requiring electricity?

    Asked by anon-202380 to Rebecca, Raashid, Matthew, Marie, Hanna, Gareth on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Hanna Jeffery

      Hanna Jeffery answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      My first job was in medical imaging (doing scans to make pictures of the inside of people). We had a huge machine called a cyclotron, and I worked with lots of engineers and electricians there.

      Working with hearing aids, I have to know a little bit about electronics – how the different parts of a hearing aid work to change the sound.

      With so many things working by computer these days, I would say most scientists are dependent on electronic devices to do their work. I have never thought much about working in electronics, but I think I could be good at it.

    • Photo: Marie Cameron

      Marie Cameron answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I can’t think of any jobs that don’t require electricity! 🙂

    • Photo: Matthew Smith

      Matthew Smith answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Like Marie, there’s not much we d without electricity! I work a lot with microscopes which use laser so that we can see coloured regions we’ve made inside cells. These lasers need lots of energy and hence lots of electricity.

      In terms of a job where i’d be more hands on with electronics, its’s never really crossed my mind but would be very interesting i think.

    • Photo: Raashid Ali

      Raashid Ali answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      As mentioned in earlier comments, electricity is used in many things we do on a daily basis, I think it’s one of the things we take for granted and don’t really give much thought to but we rely on it to do our jobs. There are people (electricians) that work with electricity to ensure we can do our work, electricians are important to ensure electricity is available and safe to use. Personally, although I enjoyed electronics at school it’s not a career I considered to be honest.

    • Photo: Gareth Nye

      Gareth Nye answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I used to work in a lab studying muscles – i had to use an electric current to make the muscle work to see how strong it was!

    • Photo: Rebecca Gosling

      Rebecca Gosling answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I couldn’t do any of my work without electricity…. I need the electricity to power my computer, to light up the room. In the hospital, so much equipment that we use needs electricity. Come to think about it electricity is very clever!

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