• Question: Is your roles hard than other? How are they different

    Asked by deed520corm on 2 Jul 2025.
    • Photo: Caroline Roche

      Caroline Roche answered on 2 Jul 2025:

      I really enjoy my job so I don’t think it’s that hard to do. But if I had to do someone else’s work, I would probably find that harder than mine – especially to begin with.
      When I first started in control systems, I did find it difficult but it got alot easier after some training and experience. It especially helped when I got the confidence to ask for help when I couldn’t do something instead of just silently struggling.

    • Photo: Uzair Abdullah

      Uzair Abdullah answered on 3 Jul 2025:

      I wouldn’t say my role is harder than others, just different. Every field has its own kind of difficulty. For examplem, a doctor has to make life-or-death decisions quickly, an artist creates work from pure imagination and emotion, and a builder works physically hard, often outside in all conditions.

      In scientific computing, the difficulty is more mental: solving problems with maths, physics, and code. It’s like trying to get a computer to understand and simulate how nature works, whether that’s heat moving through a house, or plasma swirling inside a reactor.

      What makes it different is how much of it is invisible. You’re not always building something physical, you’re building models, simulations, or predictions. So the challenge is making sure those invisible things are accurate and useful in the real world.

      So, it’s not harder, just a different kind of thinking and pressure. And personally, I enjoy that challenge!

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  • Photo: aureliabrzezowska

    aureliabrzezowska commented on :

    Every job has it’s own difficulties.

    What makes my role hard for some is the demand to know a lot and have a lot of experience, regardless of your level. You are expected to go out of your way to know things as part of your role, which can often seep into your own personal time. If you have a passion for cyber, this could be fun for you but many people after a long shift might just want to get home and play games!