• Be a window washer for my (work) building
  
  Good lord. Makes me nervous even watching them from in here.

Data Entry

I worked as an accounting assistant in college once where my job was to sit and enter numbers from sheets of paper into web forms for 8 hours per day. I lasted three days.

I would work in any number of other crappy jobs to avoid straight data entry, just because it’s so unbelievably mind-killing.

I did a lot of just deadly work at the Nick lab, twisting wires around. I actually found it became pretty bearable when I listened to audiobooks and podcasts. Pleasant almost, I zoned out for eight hours listening to lectures on ancient warfare and got paid to do it

I did data entry for about three months before I got my job at UHC (Those who remember “ass of nest” – same time period) – and I’ll never do it again. My job basically consisted of bypassing those little non-machine readable passcode images websites sometimes use to prevent bots from accessing data. I’d hand enter the data criteria for a particular search, let the search run, hit “download” and then enter the passcode to save the data. Over and over and over again all day long with nothing at all to break the monotony but AIM. Never again…

Also? Just about any of the jobs from that show on Discovery, Dirty Jobs. Yuck.

The only jobs I won’t do are the ones Mexicans are good at.

Post updated by Art on 2008/08/07 08:32