# What do you work on? Why is it important?

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**Created:** [May 30, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-do-you-work-on-why-is-it-important/62101 "2021-05-30T20:24:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![lmiq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lmiq/32/18314_2.png) [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-do-you-work-on-why-is-it-important/62101/8 "2021-05-31T23:08:28Z")

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There are many responses here:

> [@Julia - what interesting things are you doing?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-what-interesting-things-are-you-doing/47297):
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> the Julia language site has some nice whitepapers on projects which use Julia. However we are seeing more people ask for help here - which is a great thing! I would like to hear what they are using Julia for in their work. For three reasons a) to keep us all motivated and interested b) the cross-pollination effect of hey - thats not my field but technique XYZ could work here c) to help answer social media posts like the recent Twitter thread on real life Julia usage So a plea to posters - …

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