How do u do your job? and do u enjoy it?

Question: How do u do your job? and do u enjoy it?
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Asked by anon-204424 to Sally, Lucy, Louise, James, David, Dan on 2 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-204594, anon-204609.
- Sally Tilt answered on 2 Mar 2019:
  
  I really love my job.
  
  I am a Forensic Psychologist – so I work in prisons and use psychology to understand why people break the law. I also use psychology to try to understand what the chances are that they might do this again (and whether they are ready to leave prison).
  
  Being in prison is one way to change someone’s behaviour – it is harder to commit a crime if you are in a prison – but it might only last as long as the person is locked in the prison. It would be like taking someone’s phone from them if you wanted to reduce their phone use – it would definitely reduce their phone use while they didn’t have the phone – but would it change their behaviour when they got the phone back? You can ask the same question about prisons – will the person go back to their behaviour when they get out of prison?
  
  If you think about the example of the phone above – how might you reduce phone use, even when the phone was returned? You’d probably need to change the person’s views on phone use, or agree some goals (you might be able to think of other ways too). Forensic Psychologists would approach their work in the same way.
- Lucy Maddox answered on 2 Mar 2019:
  
  I do enjoy my job! I think the best way to get a job you enjoy is to study subjects you enjoy because they should lead to a job you like too.
  
  I do my job in different settings and it involves different things – a mix of doing talking therapy with people, teaching and sharing psychology ideas, trying to find creative ways of explaining psychology, and doing a bit of research. It’s great to have a mix.
- Louise Rodgers answered on 3 Mar 2019: last edited 3 Mar 2019 11:53 pm
  
  I absolutely love my job, and I bet you see a lot of that across all the zones on I’m a Scientist! I genuinely love all the parts of my work, even the ‘boring’ bits, like writing reports. Sometimes I do big training sessions for all the staff in a school, sometimes I observe a child or young person in one of their lessons to find out about how they behave (I have ways of trying to make sure they don’t know I’m watching them). I might also meet their teacher and family to find out what they think and know about the young person. If I work with the young person themselves I could do anything from testing how fast they process information to exploring what their ideal classroom would be like.
  
  A big part of being a psychologist – I’m hoping/assuming the other psychologists will have a similar view (!) – is trying to make sure you don’t get too set in your ways or think you know it all already, so I try to make sure I guard against that it everything I do. To me that means: stay curious, don’t be an ‘expert,’ listen to others, stop regularly to take a look at yourself and question your choices, feelings and assumptions.
- Dan Taylor answered on 4 Mar 2019:
  
  Whilst I haven’t been doing it a long time, I can say that what i’ve experienced I do really love!
  As a research psychologist my job mostly revolves around me trying to find stuff out! Sometimes, I’m talking to people about their experiences, sometimes I’m assessing behaviour with questionnaires and more recently I have been working on a study which involves people recognising what emotion is on someones face (a face perception task) and examining how that might relate to empathy. There’s tonnes of fascinating stuff you can do with research in psychology, and a whole bunch of areas too!
- David Chadwick answered on 4 Mar 2019:
  
  To answer your second question first, yes, I love my job. I actually took Chemistry at university, but found that I loved computer programming more than Chemistry. So after graduation I got a job as a computer programmer rather than a chemist. It was a no-brainer.
  I have already passed the official retirement age, but because I love my work so much, I am still working part time and I do not plan to finish any time soon.
  To do my job, most of my time is spent on my laptop. I talk to people all over the world about the problem we are working on (how to reliably identify people over the Internet), and what to write in the World Wide Web (W3C) standard that we are writing. I also supervise researchers who are implementing the system that we are standardising. Whilst I usually meet my researchers face to face once a week, the other days I talk to them via email or Skype or video conferencing. The beauty of the Internet is that you can be anywhere in the world but talk to people as if they were in the same room as you. But of course, the danger is that you do not know if they are really who they say they are or not, which is where my research comes in.
- James Munro answered on 10 Mar 2019:
  
  I do my job by helping everyone who needs something, pretty much. If you need help with your computer, I’m there. If you don’t know how to design an experiment, I’m there. If you want to discuss a problem that is stopping you doing the science you want, I’m there.
  
  I enjoy it. Fun to be the jack of all psychology trades.

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