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Bored to No End
What's the most boring job you've ever had?
Sometimes the lines can blur... and the worst may very well have been the most boring. Nanny Confessions gives us a peek at an "uncomfortable" job experience, but this Top 10 list from the Washington Post got me thinking... A boring job can definitely be a doozy... or do zer however you look at it.
Here are a few from that list.
The most boring job I ever had involved filing...lots and lots of filing (not to mention transcribing countless hours of video). I convinced myself that it was the worst job EVER, but after reading all the accounts of mind-numbing jobs in a discussion on "The Gene Pool", I have to say that perhaps I was being a tad dramatic.
Sure, filing was a bore, but it's nothing compared to some of the jobs members of "The Gene Pool" have to had to deal with. I went through the group and picked out 10 jobs, as described by readers, that I think qualify as the "most boring." Here they are...
10. Moderator Gene Weingarten: "This was my job: I had to translate the display ads in the Mexican Yellow Pages from Spanish into English, to be republished in the American Yellow Pages. Sometimes I got to translate them back from English into Spanish. I did this for eight hours a day."
9. db_va: "I worked summers in college doing traffic surveys. The more accurate description would be "counting cars." We'd survey AM/PM rush and lunchtime at fast food restaurants mostly. Counting through traffic and turns on the major road, as well as entrances and exits from all the driveways of the restaurant. If it was on a really busy road, it did get a little frantic at times. But since no one REALLY knew how accurate I was, that took the pressure off a bit.."
8. Splangy: "Then there was the art studio security guard, had to watch the paint dry."
7. sarafiend: "Spent a summer as an undergrad removing staples from old newspapers and then photocopying them for archives."
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Back in the day when I was 14, I just received my social security card and a big job on a farm for $.50 per hour!
What was really exciting was we (friend and me) crawled around on our hands and knees picking the blossoms off first year strawberry plants because the berries come in bigger in subsequent years.
Wasn't bad enough we had red stained dirty sore knees poppin blossoms but we had to fight off the bees frequently to get to the flowers. All for $20. per week before social security tax was taken out. Guess how long we lasted................... -
Setting up pins in a bowling alley. I started doing this in the '40's when they didn't have those racks that you throw the pins into and slam them down on the alley. I had to step on a foot pedal and ten pegs would come out of the floor, (one for each pin). You set the pins on them so the pegs would go into the hole in the bottom of the pin. Then, you would release the pedal and run for your life to the ledge over the pit because some bowler was throwing a bowling ball in your direction.
The bowler would knock down some pins, usually, and you had to leave the safety of the ledge to get into the pit, shove the ball onto the return track to the front of the alley and run for the ledge, again, if the bowler didn't bowl a strike.
You're all alone in the pit with nobody to talk to. You could hear all the revelry on the other side of the foul line, but couldn't be a part of it because they couldn't hear you over the ball-pin collision racket. At least, nobody would answer you if you yelled anything at them. It so boring that I nearly put myself to sleep writing about it. -
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I spent 3 months cutting the ends off of brussel spouts, standing for 8 hours with a whirling knife, it was boring, tiring for my feet and dangerous. An AWFUL job
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