Did something ever go wrong?

Question: Did something ever go wrong?
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Asked by 956cdge26 to Conor, Frederik, Ilaria, Jeffrey, Sarah on 3 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by stannes8.
- Jeffrey Roe answered on 3 Mar 2016:
  
  Yes yes yes. So the biggest mistake I ever made in my current job was within the first six weeks of working for the company.
  By mistake I deleted all the files on our server. Its a classic mistake to make. “rm -r *” It’s a mistake most people only make once.
  It cause the website to go down on a Saturday and not come backup for over 4 hours.
  What did I learn from it ? You need to own up to your mistakes right away. I could have said nothing and wait for someone else to find out. But it was better to put my hand up right away and ask for help to fix the problems. You work in a team, everyone makes mistakes but when you own up, everyone can help fix a mistake and the effect is lower.
- Conor McGinn answered on 4 Mar 2016:
  
  Yea – all the time. Making mistakes and failing is a fundamental part of engineering. Most of the things I design are new – meaning the design hasn’t been been built before – and its really hard to know in advance what will work well and what wont. When things fail, we naturally learn from this and the next time we design it, we can do a much better job of it.
  I try to embrace failure all every day. I always try new things and quite often, its a mess. But doing this keeps me interested in my work, and every once in a while the idea works and that is a great thing.
  I’ve also screwed up and made stupid mistakes. Usually this happens when I’m tired. Over the years I’ve blown quite a bit of electronics, damaged equipment and cut/brused/burnt myself when making parts.
- Ilaria Cinelli answered on 4 Mar 2016:
  
  Ooohh yep!! Dont be worry if something in your life is going wrong, that is part of the life and this is what is will make it different because you learn more from something is going wrong than something going well.
  During the first year of my pc, I overloaded my pc and I have lost everything! Then, during presentation to my meeting, the projector wasnt working or my laptop decided to show personal images instead of my actual work.
  It worries in the first part but then you will make a few jokes on that 🙂
- Sarah Doran answered on 6 Mar 2016:
  
  Sometimes! We try to write code with loads of tests but sometimes something unexpected happens. We can usually fix problems pretty quickly and learn what we can do better next time!
- Frederik Gossen answered on 9 Mar 2016:
  
  Sure. Something always goes wrong but we are there to fix it. The key is to plan things such that they do not go wrong too badly 😀

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