Boring jobs

[Brugel]

Every time I'm in an art gallery I feel sorry for the attendants there who sit in chairs staring blankly at the wall. Is this the most boring job there is- or does anyone have experience of one that is worse?

[Headtime]

I agree, it must be absolutely tedious. But also any security-type person must be in a similar position. Doing nightshifts sitting at reception of an office building for example. Why don't you sart a conversation with them? It may brighten up their day! I once had a summer job checking death certificates at the headquaters of a large life-assurance firm. It was like a prison sentence! I would feel I had been there for hours, look at the clock, and realise it was only 5 past 9am...Just 1/94th through my day of drudge!

[keltik]

well i reckon the speaking clock guy has a boring job. Even more boring must be the guy who factory tests light bulbs for q.a, i suppose every now and then one must blow?

[keltik]

oh btw, the secret to handling a boring job is first to buy "scott adams - dilbert and the way of the weasel" as it claims to (and i know it does) give you a thousand possible ways to 'make those 31 years in a cubicle fee like 29".

[natalie_1982]

Market researchers .... be nice to them when they call, they probably don't like their job and like it even less when people are rude and/ or hang up on them! I did it for a while when in between jobs and found it so tedious. I was interviewing production companies about what equipment they use and it was so dull!

[vittoria]

I haven't tried it, but to me the most boring jobs are the repetitive ones like working on an assembly line or (as mentioned below) checking death certificates. Being a museum attendant must be boring, but if it was me, letting my imagination wander would ease the boredom.

[CosmoK]

I used to do care assistant work with an agency. Some nights i would be sent on a "special", where the patient just really needs someone to sit beside their bed all night. So for 12 hours, i would sit there in a really uncomfortable chair, while the patient happily dozes away. Its all very well saying you can read or go into your imagination, but at 5am when you know you have 3 more hours of sitting, its a nightmare! Never again.

[pinus]

If their job were to be "looking at the wall", there'd be no point in them being there. They're people-watching

[cruthinboy]

Being a librarian is ghastly! Everbody here is so dull ... except me of course.

[marchantino]

alot of them security blokes that sit in a hut and guard sites at night-time read and/or watch alot of pornography so how bored can they be?

[matpat29]

Being a commercial property lawyer beats that, I can assure you.

[rekstout]

I had an evening job processing credit card applications - just punching in details onto a massive system. I regularly fell asleep doing it so I would like to apologise to all those people whoe refused an RBS Advanta VISA card for no apparent reason in 1995, it was probably becasue I fell asleep on my keyboard and typen in random stuff on your application.

[rekstout]

My spelling was just as bad back then which would also explain mystery rejections ?

[smudge]

Shelling peas all day?

[zgma]

I once had a job filing medical records all day - I had dreams filled with little number codes on the side of files. On a side note, my husband once had a temp job as an art gallery guard/attendent. His job was to guard an exhibit that was a 15 foot tall table and chairs scaled to size, and he had to keep people from trying to climb on the chairs. His last day there - he couldn't resist. He climbed up on them, and got caught.

[Brugel]

Thanks for all your replies. I love art galleries but I'd hate to work in one. My own job isn't boring- just stressful- and I quite like the idea of being a security guard if they thrown in all the pornography as part of the job.

[MissSurfer]

Yes, I've had too much experience of one, in my opinion, is more boring! A paperound! I did mine for seven hours a week (in the summer holidays...it was only one round but it took seven hours and it had to all be done on one day). It's basically paper-letterbox-paper-letterbox etc etc. The worst part is when you only get paid about �2.50 an hour for doing it. Oh yess, did I forget to mention I got stuck outside the other side of town in the thunder and pouring rain once...in the end the only thing I could do was laugh because the roads were flooded and I was soaked through...I could go on and on but I won't :)