• Question: How long do you spend In a lab a day?

    Asked by Dwebb1 to Cristina, Gemma, Loan, Michael, Praveen on 10 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Josh.Draper.
    • Photo: Cristina Villa del Campo

      Cristina Villa del Campo answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      Hi Dwebb,

      It depends quite a lot. I think typically it would be between 9 and 10 hours but the good thing is that the schedule is usually super flexible, so if you don’t want to you don’t have to wake up early, for example. Sometimes we need to come on weekends (if the cells need feeding for example); but I find it very good that you can decide when to come in and when to leave (generally most labs are flexible like that), so even when we do long hours we can make it work quite well.

    • Photo: Michael Schneider

      Michael Schneider answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      About ten hours a day. Longer if I’m writing something long and complicated, or working on a major lecture for a scientific meeting.

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