• Question: what is the best thing that has happened it can be at work or not?

    Asked by anon-233559 to Varun, Sammie, Rebecca, Anna, Alin, Adam on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Rebecca Shaw

      Rebecca Shaw answered on 14 Nov 2019:


      I can’t think of any best things that have happened at work off the top of my head!
      Recently, the best best thing that has happened to me has been learning to scuba dive.
      I’ve wanted to do it since I was really young and I used to go with my Dad on his dive expeditions. I’d wait in the car while he went off into the sea for what seemed like hours. He’d emerge looking like something out of a sci fi movie with all this equipment round him and a massive suit on, seaweed would be dangling from his head, but he would have amazing stories about what he had seen underneath!
      Now I get to see what he saw while he was diving (or similar) and we get to dive in really beautiful, remote parts of Scotland. My favourite trip was diving next to a cliff where sea birds breed, and whilst diving we saw puffins, gannets, gulls and the odd seal came to see what we were doing too!

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      Samantha Firth answered on 14 Nov 2019:


      One of the best things that happened to me was living in New Zealand! I worked as a photographer on the ski slopes and spent all day snowboarding and taking photos of people having a great time 🙂 That’s when i switched from skiing to snowboarding and I also met some of the most wonderful people!

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      Anna Kalorkoti answered on 14 Nov 2019:


      At work, and about work: Learning that a radar I’d worked on had managed to warn some soldiers about an attack, and had probably saved lives.

      At work, but not about work: Winning the prize for best-tasting cake at my office Christmas party last year. (It was a ginger fudge cake, in case you were wondering…)

      Not at work: When I proposed to my girlfriend (now my fiancee), and she said yes <3

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      Varun Ramaswamy answered on 14 Nov 2019:


      ooh, the best thing that’s happened in my life is getting an opportunity to work with a celebrity on a song!

      This happened last year when I was in India for a small vacation.. I write rap music, record and post lyric videos of them online. One day, I got a call from a famous Indian musician who said they saw my some of my songs and really wanted to work with me. I couldn’t believe that was happening! He flew me to his studio, we wrote a song on cancer awareness and recorded it. Two days after, he even gave me an opportunity to perform on his show in front of 3000 people! It was the most exciting moment of my life and I am truly grateful for it.

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