Most boring jobs

mariaalice

There are lot of threads about this, however I have a slight twist.

I was in a situation recently and I have come a across one of the most boring jobs in the world, I am not going to say what the job is.

Doing this job you would be most likely in a basement with no view of the outside, doing a mind numbing boring receptive task with a small team, plus for a variety of reasons you would not be meeting any other staff except your small team of say 10 to 15 souls it would be the same all day every day unless you became the boss,.......... the place I was in was also about a 20 min walk to the nearest shops, so you could not even look forward to getting out at lunch time to buy a role!
now the twist is that the job is relative well paid circa 40k after a few year's

In order to get the job in the first place you would need a degree and it the kind of degree that you would need over 500 points to get in to.

So as a graduate and working there a few months and realising that's it for the next forty years would you run away screaming or would the fact that the job is relatively well paid, permeate and pensionable be enough for you.

The_Captain

If I got paid for reading your post, I'd have to say that would be the most boring job in the world

solomafioso

Data entry? Maybe? Debugging...or game tester job.

whiskeyman

mariaalice wrote: »

so you could not even look forward to getting out at lunch time to buy a role!

Is this some new jobs scandal within FG ?

kneemos

It's lab work isn't it?

Matt_Trakker

Teaching, pure doddle so it is, boring as hell.

FortuneChip

mariaalice wrote: »

There are lot of threads about this, however I have a slight twist.

I was in a situation recently and I have come a across one of the most boring jobs in the world, I am not going to say what the job is.

Doing this job you would be most likely in a basement with no view of the outside, doing a mind numbing boring receptive task with a small team, plus for a variety of reasons you would not be meeting any other staff except your small team of say 10 to 15 souls it would be the same all day every day unless you became the boss,.......... the place I was in was also about a 20 min walk to the nearest shops, so you could not even look forward to getting out at lunch time to buy a role!
now the twist is that the job is relative well paid circa 40k after a few year's

In order to get the job in the first place you would need a degree and it the kind of degree that you would need over 500 points to get in to.

So as a graduate and working there a few months and realising that's it for the next forty years would you run away screaming or would the fact that the job is relatively well paid, permeate and pensionable be enough for you.

Jaysus it must be fierce boring if you're looking to buy a new job every lunch break.

endacl

Hole borer. Most boring job ever.

wretcheddomain

Moderator of Nature & Birdwatching Forum

Joe Duffy..

Just role with it I suppose.

mariaalice

So essentially very boring but relative well paid secure jobs ( not fantastic paid job ) verse trying to find something challenging and interesting.

It a bit existential question have we the right to expect to find our work fulfilling or is it just about the money.

kneemos

endacl wrote: »

Hole borer. Most boring job ever.

At least you're getting somewhere.

buckfasterer

endacl wrote: »

Hole borer. Most boring job ever.

Depends whose hole it is

The Backwards Man

Only see ten or fifteen people at work? God love you, I think you might have a Human Rights case there.

Winty

The people who have to touch others peoples balls at the security gates at Airports

JustAddWater

The_Captain wrote: »

If I got paid for reading your post, I'd have to say that would be the most boring job in the world

Sooooo..... Being a mod basically ...

Buona Fortuna

Winty wrote: »

The people who have to touch others peoples balls at the security gates at Airports

Get away, they take it in turns

Sugar Free

Only 40K after a few years of that? I wouldn't consider that relatively well paid at all! Unless it's relative to a child worker in a sweatshop.

If it was something that would give a graduate useful experience with a big name company on their cv and allowed me to move into another, better paid and not as soul destroying job in two years, then I guess I'd do it for that long.

Unless I could get the same results from a different role.

The Backwards Man

I spent three weeks walling spuds in a shed two miles from the nearest house with nothing but a Glenn Campbell CD stuck on the Wichita Lineman for company.

gordongekko

mariaalice wrote: »

now the twist is that the job is relative well paid circa 40k after a few year's

I don't get out of bed for less than 100k

Balmed Out

I always pity the guys with the stop / start sign as they pity me being held up in traffic.

Buona Fortuna

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I spent three weeks walling spuds in a shed two miles from the nearest house with nothing but a Glenn Campbell CD stuck on the Wichita Lineman for company.

For you

mewso

Proofreading?

mariaalice

I would generally be it does not matter what you job is, your real life Is outside work!... I think it was the tomb like environment seeing as it was in a basement, with no natural light combined with the repetitiveness of the work. I think it would depressed you after a while.

mariaalice

Balmed Out wrote: »

I always pity the guys with the stop / start sign as they pity me being held up in traffic.

Very boring job, however you are outside and seeing something going on, some human life going by.

mariaalice

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I spent three weeks walling spuds in a shed two miles from the nearest house with nothing but a Glenn Campbell CD stuck on the Wichita Lineman for company.

Well.. the days of the hiring fairs and child slavery/labour are long gone.

The Backwards Man

mariaalice wrote: »

Well.. the days of the hiring fairs and child slavery/labour are long gone.

More's the pity, there would be a lot less people complaining about being bored.

hfallada

Retail is the most boring. You are either putting stuff on shelves or dealing with the same questions at the till

mariaalice

The Backwards Man wrote: »

More's the pity, there would be a lot less people complaining about being bored.

Your the same as my sister... now she thinks going to college with no money and having to working in a poorly paid backbreaking job with a horrible boss, and having no choice about working because you wouldn't be able to pay the rent is character forming,... because if you have that experience and you get your first real job your so grateful for a job in a warm place with actual conditions of employment you never complain again!!!

Plus she feels all the moaners in her work were the type who were cosseted all the way through college by their parents.

Not sure if its as simply as that.

jester77

I had a summer job as a young lad that involved standing in really warm attics holding a fire extinguisher in the off chance that a fire might start due to welding work that was taking place. It was so boring and I didn't even get to use the extinguisher once

The Backwards Man

mariaalice wrote: »

Your the same as my sister... now she thinks going to college with no money and having to working in a poorly paid backbreaking job with a horrible boss, and having no choice about working because you wouldn't be able to pay the rent is character forming,... because if you have that experience and you get your first real job your so grateful for a job in a warm place with actual conditions of employment you never complain again!!!

Plus she feels all the moaners in her work were the type who were cosseted all the way through college by their parents.

Not sure if its as simply as that.

Na, I wouldn't necessarily agree with that, some people moan regardless, some get on with it regardless, nothing to do with background.

I was just speaking for my own benefit, as I wouldn't have to listen to them.

calanus

I have worked at an oyster farm for a year and while it wasn't too bad there were times when you'd spend hours at a conveyor belt sorting through these things every day for a few months. What makes these repetitive jobs so terrible is that there is no escape. I would have dreams that consisted solely of me doing my job just like in real life....no weird flights of fancy just me standing there doing my job. Then I'd wake up and do it all over again.

PizzamanIRL

Your 500+ points in the leaving cert is veiled thinly.

PizzamanIRL

hfallada wrote: »

Retail is the most boring. You are either putting stuff on shelves or dealing with the same questions at the till

What's the most boring job, in your opinion?

cloud493

Them people that stand in the middle of the road trying to sell newspapers. Boring and dangerous.

endacl

Balmed Out wrote: »

I always pity the guys with the stop / start sign as they pity me being held up in traffic.

Better than sitting on a fold up stool beside a junction/roundabout, holding a sign directing people to some shop or other...

YellowFeather

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I spent three weeks walling spuds in a shed two miles from the nearest house with nothing but a Glenn Campbell CD stuck on the Wichita Lineman for company.

I spent three walls weeking spuds in a house two miles from the nearest shed with nothing but a CD stuck in Wichita Lineman and Glenn Campbell for company.

Sorry. I felt an uncontrollable desire to rearrange your words there.

Packrat

Ive done some very repetitive jobs as part timers or in evenings or sumner holidays from school.
I found making it competitive ie speed or something helped. I excel at things like putting herring into a machine heads down, backs to the left. Problem with that was that it wasn't piece work and after a while one good guy got put with three dopes, necessitating you to keep the speed up.
Shaking mussels off a line was the worst. That or picking stones, or turning wet hay with a pike.

Id imagine a toll booth operator would be fairly bad.

Talk radio helps with really awful roles where you don't have to communicate.

The_Captain

Packrat wrote: »

Ive done some very repetitive jobs as part timers or in evenings or sumner holidays from school.
I found making it competitive ie speed or something helped.

You could see how many envelopes you could lick in an hour, then try to break that record.

questionmark?

Always feel sorry to the guys who work in the toll booths. No conversation with anyone. On another note I've always wondered is there a toilet in each little booth?

waraf

questionmark? wrote: »

Always feel sorry to the guys who work in the toll booths. No conversation with anyone. On another note I've always wondered is there a toilet in each little booth?

Absolutely. The chair they're sitting on is actually a toilet so if you ever pull up and they've a weird expression on their face while you're paying your toll the chances are they're curling one out

0byme75341jo28

solomafioso wrote: »

Data entry? Maybe? Debugging...or game tester job.

That kind of job sounds fun... I love data entry... :pac:

mewso

mewso wrote: »

Proofreading?

I love that this post was edited :pac:

demanufactured

The_Captain wrote: »

You could see how many envelopes you could lick in an hour, then try to break that record.

Woah. ..slow down there Armen Tamzarian

Lalealynn

I do proof reading, editing and image/colour/print proofing. I also help with my mother's graphic design business. I write the odd article or two and sometimes write copy. I have to say proof reading text particularly the type of text that pays is one of the most mind numbing things ever. It's usually either forms from things like financial or legal institutions or sometimes technical manuals. On the odd occasion it is something creative.

I want to do more of the writing side hopefully. I have been doing occasional work with a small independent publishing company but they only publish something maybe twice a year.

Joe prim

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

For you

Actually, being a lineman in Wichita sounds fair to middlin' boring in its own right-have we a winner?

Bog Standard User

gordongekko wrote: »

I don't get out of bed for less than 100k

sleep alot?

padd b1975

Supermarket check out operator.

Nomis21

I was a bus driver on the shortest route in Ireland... Airport terminal to car park.

The only time it got slightly interesting was when the customs got on the bus in plain clothes and followed a drug smuggler to his car and caught the rest of the gang waiting in the car park for him.

WoollyRedHat

Kitchen porter. Wash dishes, put away dishes. Bring out dishes. Get more dirty dishes. Just when you think you've washed everything, in comes more, IT NEVER ENDS

hiFidelity

Data entry.

Proof reading for a legal firm or insurance company.