Driving 10 hours straight down to Daylesford recently was immensely enjoyable, but the thought did cross my mind that I would go absolutely bonkers if I had to do the drive up and down the Hume day in day out. Being a truckie must be one of the more boring jobs in the world.
It got me thinking: what is the world's most boring job?
It's all subjective, of course. What I might find intensely boring might be nirvana for another. For example, I did fleetingly think to add 'mother' to the list because you can't tell me that singing 'Easy Silence' every night for 1356 nights isn't boring... but there are good bits too, so it didn't qualify.
For me, the short list is basically composed of any job where you're not required to think a lot, the work you do is monotonous and you're essentially on your own all day:
truck driver
car park security guard
tennis umpire
crane lifter
data entry
I might also add 'personal trainer' because I find exercise so intensely dull and imagine it must be mind-numbing having to watch someone else do it. There's also that guy on the Colourbond ad whose main job appears to be watching metal rust... the equivalent of being paid to watch paint dry?
What do you think the most boring job in the world might be?