Question: what is the most dangerous thing about your field of work?

Sreejita Ghosh answered on 18 Nov 2019:

Sometimes when I am trying to debug a code (find the source of error or strange results in a code) it can take hours. Sitting in the same position for hours causes damage to the spinal cord and I have also had dehydration during these debugging hours. Machine learning (computing science) is fun and some days things are done in a jiffy, while on some other days it leads to us being in the same posture for extended period of time (just because we get so much into the code that we cannot think of anything else, not even our own suffering spinal cord). That apart continuous exposure to the computer screen might have an adverse effect on the eyes (however my supervisor has perfect eyesight whereas I have a power of -2D). 🙁
But this “sitting at desk” problem is not confined to our job only. Any office job has this risk. That is why nowadays people are shifting to having sit-stand desks 🙂 Relax, computing science / data science related jobs are much much safer than say doing research in a coal mine or bat cave or researching crocodiles in the wild 🙂