When you think your job is boring think about this. I took a tour through the S&W factory in the late 70's. I talked to the man doing checkering on the Goncalo Alves grips. The first 15 years he was there he did the right grip. He changed and was on his 15th year doing the left one. Can't imagine doing that.

Great job.

Envelope stuffer for a decorating company.Even though it was thirty years ago I can still see those God Awfull Papers.

I don't care what kind of job a person has, someone else is probably going to consider it boring.

passing out leaflets door to door, picked cantaloupe in Yuma az. THAT was boring........

Following on that thought is the one that any job you have will eventually become boring or routine to you. Just ask Niki Lauda.

I would love to have a boring and routine job of driving a Formula 1 car for Ferrari.

Or a photographer for Playboy.

Even in my youth I think I would have preferred to drive the F1 Ferrari.

Boring is like happy. A lot of it is up to you.

I always thought a loaded operator had to be boring. Forward, back, dump, repeat. But watching flaggers on a highway construction site could top that for boring.

Back in the 60's I had a summer job in a Clorox chemical factory. Gallon bottles of Clorox bleach, 4 to a box, on their side, on an endless conveyor would pass by me sitting on a chair. My job was to look for leakers, pull them out and replace with a good jug. Time really dragged because a clock on the wall in front reminded me.

I was really lucky. I worked for 55 years and never had a job in which any two days were exactly the same. That includes gigs like electrician's helper, warehouse laborer, clergyman, radio engineer/announcer, counselor/therapist, masseur and customer service rep. I always found something of interest every day, even on the grim, depressed days in my drinking years. I'm just too curious about things and people.

I think assembly line work, which would have paid better than most if not all of my jobs, would have put me in the nut depository.

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Oh well, what the hell.

I was a pipefitter / pipe welder for 33 years and no two days were the same

Union Pipefitter/welder for 40 and for the most part I agree with you. Companies I worked for did a lot of maintenance in the many large chemical plants and factories in my area.

At the end of my working life I spent 9 years in a large welding fab shop and there I did have a lot of same kind of work days. It was worth it I was in the shade of a building during the summer and inside a heated area during the brutal winters of northern NY.

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Yep mine was similar I spent most of my apprenticeship in a fab shop in Columbus Ohio, ended up running the shop . Worked a couple of power houses , spent some time at Anehizer bush and coca cola finished up building a new contractor a fab shop and ran it until I retired. Your right there were some repetitive jobs but I never got bored even holding down the trigger of a mig all day!

Most boring job I heard of was way back in the late 60s a buddy of mine got a job working for a pile driving company.

His job do to some law or regulation was to count the amount of slams on a pile at a certain height to guarantee that it was in solid and then sign paperwork attesting to it..

He had to be about 20' from the pilling rig and had to count all that noisy work. Of course he had ear plugs but he did that job for 3 months. He said many times that the amount of non moving hits was over 50, and then move on to the next pile!

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14 S&W Revs none with locks!

I worked as an operating room nurse for thirty years and retired this past January. I loved the work and it never got boring as every day brought a new set of challenges. Thinking on my feet, making quick decisions and the accompanying adrenalin rush never got old. I really didn't think retirement would suit me well but I got used to it pretty quickly. I think the most boring job I ever had was in the navy, standing barracks watch. Standing in one spot at parade rest from midnight to 4 am was mind numbing. Thankfully, I didn't have to do it very often.

When I was 19 I got a job guarding a new landfill for a paper company. It was way out in the middle of nowhere and it was not in use yet. Every 2 hours I had to drive around the edge to make sure no animals were walking on the lining and every hour I had to call the office to verify I wasn't sleeping. Did I mention this was at night?
When I was in college, I had a job where I had to guard the movie set for "What Lies Beneath" which was being filmed partially in DAR state park in Addison, Vermont. It was a 12 hour job, from midnight to noon and my job was to make sure no animals or anyone came in and drove on the set where they were building the main house. This was pre-production, long before filming began. I got to meet the nephew of Dick Van Dyke who was part of the set production but it was boring.
I can tell you that I have sat more suicide watches on the night shift in jail than I can remember, often on the back half of a double shift. Nothing like watching someone else sleep when you can't.

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Vaya con Dios

That sounds like that bit from a Cheech and Chong album..."Then I got a job: keeping people from hanging around at the drug store."

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There are no jobs "tasting wine" or "breaking in prostitutes"

That is why they call it work.

One less brain cell he would have been a grape

Does he get a company discount??

I have had a myriad of jobs over my life time. Some of them were nasty and unpleasant, but none of them were boring. The worst was working in a fertilizer plant, loading box cars with 50 pound and 100 pound bags of fertilizer, 8 hours a day, five days a week. That was a summer job while in college. A good friend of mine worked there doing the same thing, and we would sing old blues songs while loading the bags as they came off the conveyer belt. Young and too stupid to be bored.

My best summer job was life guard at a huge apartment complex swimming pool. I worked seven 12-hour days each week and got paid time and a half for overtime. Hardly anyone used the pool, and it could have been boring, but the tennis pro was a 19 or 20 year old babe, who also had almost no clients. So we sat in her air conditioned glass pro shop right next to the pool, and flirted, or played tennis or swam all day long. They acutely did pay me to do that. LOL I would not mind having that job again. LOL Oh yeah there was also a large glassed in cabana building on the other side of the pool with table tennis equipment.

Even the paper routes I had as a boy were fun and interesting.

As a Baltimore firefighter for 30 years, I was rarely bored at work.

(I used to tell people I had the best job in the world: I got paid to make noise, squirt water, and break things! )

This may be right, but I just don't understand how my 22 years in the U.S. Army could be found boring...

Matter of fact, in 68 and 72, I would say it was just down right stimulating

Just saying

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Yep. Been there and done that. Hey, it's all good.

Auto assembly line work was not bad. Moved to security. Setting on the gate for two hours and saw no one was boring. Early years we didn't get to listen to the radio.