Whether it's worth doing, or even possible to do, is highly dependent upon who you are. As a scientist, I appear to be essentially banned from being on a jury.

Whether it's worth doing, or even possible to do, is highly dependent upon who you are. As a scientist, I appear to be essentially banned from being on a jury. The last time I was there, my experience consisted of wasting two days sitting in a courthouse, surrounded by people trying to escape from jury duty, only to be dismissed from a jury by the prosecution immediately after stating my profession. In total I said less than ten words. Everything I have been told by others in academia seems to go along with this: scientists are immediately dismissed. So what's the point of my going? I'd like to be on a jury, and think it's an important civic duty, but the end result is an utter waste of my time that achieves nothing, for which the court insultingly tries to "compensate" me with $15 per day.