Have you ever made a big mistake in your work?

Question: Have you ever made a big mistake in your work?
- Keywords:
  mistake
Asked by Sophiee :D to Boris, Cat, Chung Han, Ian, Sophie, Sufia on 8 Jun 2018.
- Ian answered on 8 Jun 2018:
  
  Not in my current work. In my previous jobs I have made a few mistakes that I thought were pretty big at the time, but I’ve found if you are open and honest about such things then people will usually be understanding.
- Boris Mocialov answered on 8 Jun 2018:
  
  It takes a big mistake to change the world for the better. I hope the world is a little better now because of me 🙂
- Chung Han Chua answered on 9 Jun 2018:
  
  I was part of a group last year that tried to make objects made of sugar using a laser 3d printer. Whilst we were kind of successful at printing sugar… We pretty much destroyed the machine due to molten sugar getting everywhere (on the bright side the lab smelt very nice).
  
  In all seriousness though, for research it’s all about making mistakes and trying to come up with solutions.
- Sophie Louth answered on 13 Jun 2018:
  
  Hi Sophie (great name by the way)
  
  I did a summer placement at a big car company and it was the last day before a two week holiday and we needed to collect some data or it would have to wait two weeks, and we collected the data but unfortunately I saved it in the wrong way so it was unusable so we had to wait two weeks to do it again – it doesn’t sound too bad except they were loosing something like a million pounds a day because of the problem we were trying to fix – oops. Luckily I was only a student and the bosses were very understanding. We are all human and make mistakes.
- Sufia Fatima answered on 13 Jun 2018:
  
  I make small mistakes everyday but i haven’t made any big mistakes yet (touch wood)
- Cat Macleod answered on 13 Jun 2018:
  
  Lots of small mistakes. That’s definitely how you learn!

Question: Have you ever made a big mistake in your work?

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