Wednesday, January 03, 2007
B is for Biophysicist
These days when people ask what I do I call myself a biophysicist. I like my job and I love having a finger in so many different scientific pies but it makes it a nightmare having to explain to people (especially other scientists) quite what it is I do. I went to a 'speed networking' evening run by the university before christmas which I really enjoyed but it was very tricky to get across my work in just a few minutes and also find out what other people were doing.
I always feel like I'm a bit isolated at work as I am a bit of an oddity being a biologist who has gone across to the dark side (the physical sciences) as it seems to be far more common to have physical scientists get grabbed into the life sciences. On the whole I feel like I've been picking up things fairly well (totally unsupported though - but that's another issue for another day) even if the commonly held opinion around here is that biologists can't learn physics! Well we can try but you don't make it easy for us - I for one am going to stick with it as I quite like being an oddity and I get a real sense of satisfaction from chatting about my work from my point of view and comparing my ideas and thoughts with the physicists who have gone a bit bio.
I always feel like I'm a bit isolated at work as I am a bit of an oddity being a biologist who has gone across to the dark side (the physical sciences) as it seems to be far more common to have physical scientists get grabbed into the life sciences. On the whole I feel like I've been picking up things fairly well (totally unsupported though - but that's another issue for another day) even if the commonly held opinion around here is that biologists can't learn physics! Well we can try but you don't make it easy for us - I for one am going to stick with it as I quite like being an oddity and I get a real sense of satisfaction from chatting about my work from my point of view and comparing my ideas and thoughts with the physicists who have gone a bit bio.
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B is for Brava!
The specifics of science are mostly lost on me since I last put down my pen at the end of a physics exam in 1986.
All the same, I know plenty about being an oddity - one of the benefits of people not understanding exactly what I do is the freedom to choose exactly what I spend my time doing, though I wouldn't attempt to explain exactly what I do to anyone unless they were truly interested.
Best of luck in your new year new harder blogging regime, and especially with the driving - I hope it all starts to work out for you.
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The specifics of science are mostly lost on me since I last put down my pen at the end of a physics exam in 1986.
All the same, I know plenty about being an oddity - one of the benefits of people not understanding exactly what I do is the freedom to choose exactly what I spend my time doing, though I wouldn't attempt to explain exactly what I do to anyone unless they were truly interested.
Best of luck in your new year new harder blogging regime, and especially with the driving - I hope it all starts to work out for you.
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