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Would you rather have a very eventful job or a boring one?

At this point, I'd just like to have "A" job. Consider yourselves lucky that you can actually earn and support yourselves at this time.

Now that that's out of the way... I much prefer a job where every day is not the same.

I've had a retail job that I actually enjoyed in the golf industry. I was a "jack-of-all-trades" and really enjoyed that. It wasn't very demanding overall, but I came in everyday expecting something different. I've also had a job where everyday was the same, cubicle, editing video, shooting video, the only thing that was good about that one was that I was doing it for W.V.U. Football and I'm a diehard fan.

I think there is a lot to be said about having interaction with others. In my opinion, any job can be interesting if you are communicating with different people on any given day. But...that may just be because I graduated with a degree in Communication Studies.
 
I'm becoming an accountant, so I'd say I tend towards what most would call a boring job; though I tend to find it interesting.
 
roadbloc said:
I currently have a job that is either one or another, so it'd be kind of inbetween. Although, I'm settling down to just studio work and stopping the tour roadie business.
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Read the first line and thought Security Guard. It's hours and hours of boredom and every once a nutcase comes along and it's a brown trousers moment.:D
I've got a buddy who works as a guard at Bank of America. Years of sitting on his ass bored out of his skull. Out of nowhere, a crazy waves around a .38 demanding cash. He snuck up behind the guy, disarmed him and had him flat in under 15 seconds.:eek: The next few months more boredom.;) One nutcase he can handle. A gang of robbers, he tells me his hands would be tied, literally.
 
Eventful, definitely. My job has been up and down lately, and I can tell you I'd much rather be busy than bored.
 
rhsgolfer33 said:
I'm becoming an accountant, so I'd say I tend towards what most would call a boring job; though I tend to find it interesting.
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If you find it interesting it doesn't matter what others think. It's your life, not theirs.
 
Based on your OP, you're biased to eventful, since that's what you've done, and don't really know what you're talking about for the boring ones (based on your stereotypical views of them, I guess).

I'd like a boring job. It would be nice if no one even knew I existed at my work (as long as they keep paying me, of course).:)
 
I'm ambivalent, I prefer jobs (like people) that don't have a predictable momentum. Without some pressure I can tend towards apathetic solipsism, under constant pressure I'm rapidly sluggish.
 
-aggie- said:
Based on your OP, you're biased to eventful, since that's what you've done, and don't really know what you're talking about for the boring ones (based on your stereotypical views of them, I guess).

I'd like a boring job. It would be nice if no one even knew I existed at my work (as long as they keep paying me, of course).:)
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I wish I had the guts and drive to be or like eventful. ;)

I am too lazy for the high energy, big hour jobs, but at the same time soul sucking, uneventful cubicle jobs (my code monkey friends, for example) are not exactly much better than a life sentence.
 
I think crazy jobs anybody whose young should be great growing experience and well boring for when people have kids and more personal life cause work does not become primary attention. That's just my point of view
 
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