What don’t you like about your job? – Christmas Lectures 2016

Question: What don't you like about your job?
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Asked by darcey on 31 Jan 2017.
- James Betts answered on 31 Jan 2017:
  
  I think the hardest thing about being a scientist is that it often (but not always) costs a lot of money to do the experiments you want to. This means that most scientists spend a lot of time applying for the funding to do those experiments rather than doing the experiments themselves.