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Boring is where the money is, because no one will do the boring work for free.

• Xylakant 12y ago
  I'd pick fairly boring work with a nice team over interesting work with assholes every single time. Some people also prefer boring as in "uneventful" since they have kids, family, other obligations and value having a 9-5 job over interesting. There's a lot of reasons to pick boring. I can have exciting hobbies after work.
  • kyllo 12y ago
    Agreed. I think we tend to underestimate how highly people value interesting work. If you want to do work that most people would rate as interesting, you're going to pay a very high "passion tax" for the privilege. People will put up with more competition for fewer openings, drastically lower salaries, longer hours, worse work environments, and meaner coworkers, in order to do work they feel "passionate" about. I have interesting hobbies and am happy to do boring work in exchange for the better pay and working conditions and more free time to spend on my hobbies and family.
    • raverbashing 12y ago
      > If you want to do work that most people would rate as interesting, you're going to pay a very high "passion tax" for the privilege. True. See game companies Of course there's a whole spectrum between "boring" and "cool", and even games have some very boring parts