Question: whats challanging about your job

Anna Kutner answered on 18 Jun 2015:

Where do I start? 🙂 I suppose that wiht the project’s I’m managing at the moment the biggest challenge is the language and distance barrier. The projecta are in Russia and we can’t go and meet with our Clients (Scientist and Engineers) as often as we’d like and then sometimes things just get lost in translation. It was a totally new skill to write reports or explain complex commercial and engineering aspects using words which would be easily translated and not cause confusion. Sometimes using a synonym is just not good enough. Another challenge was that when I’ve joined the project it has been already going on for 12 years so it was like jumping on a moving train. There was a LOT of historical information to absorb, a lot of people to meet and gain their respect, and a lot of engineering topics to learn (I’m a scientist after all!). But now after 18 months I can safely say that all that effort was worth it. The more you know about your project (or a subject area), the more confident you feel and if you do a good job then people will respect you and trust your judgement. I suppose that’s a good life lesson 🙂