Easy?
I honestly cannot understand a lot of these posts saying "I basically got paid to sit on my arse for 3 months. It was great!" Seriously? That would be my idea of hell. I think I would have some kind of psychotic episode through boredom.

The job I do involves working extremely long hours (well over 100 hours a week during busy periods) including lots of weekend work and is stressful to the point that I'll probably have a massive heart attack by the time I'm 40. It is however the easiest thing I have ever done. Why? Because I love it. It fulfiils me both intellectually and creatively. I'd still want to do this even if I wasn't getting paid for it.

The hard work and stress may have left me broken and on the verge of alcoholism more times than I care to remember but boredom is a slow, miserable death.
( pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 9:13, 14 replies)

Only boring people get bored
That's what my grandmother used to say.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:47, closed)

this almost exactly echoes my response to this qotw
apart from the 100hr weeks and alcohol induced stroking out at 40.
fuck sitting on your arse, people should WANT to work. it's a symptom of the general endemic sense of entitlement to a free ride that's turning this country into a litter of semi literate scroungers.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 12:39, closed)

You're so right
Boredom is a slow, miserable death. I used to work in a fast paced industry, travelling all over until I became disabled. The boredom depresses me more than the physical problems.

I would give all my (working) limbs to be back working full time.
(Chicken Little This signature has been left blank., Tue 14 Sep 2010, 13:05, closed)

What did you used to do and what do you do with yourself now?
I know I can't really begin to imagine but I do know I'd find it very difficult in your position
( pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 22:27, closed)

amen to that
what exactly do you do?
(Atomised teabagged your mum on, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 15:06, closed)

What he said down there
VFX for films
( pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 22:23, closed)

Yes...
I also work in VFX too.
The job you hate to love to hate to love.
(Colonel Panic, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 15:15, closed)

Did you get that...
...just from what I wrote or from other posts of mine?

It's a hell of a job but I don't think I could do anything else
( pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 22:11, closed)

just from what you wrote above
I recognized it when you mentioned 100 hour weeks.
It's the only job I know of where that kind of schedule would be permitted.
I've been there many times myself.
And your name confirmed it.
Seriously though, I don't get stressed about it and you shouldn't either.
It's not worth the heart attack.
(Colonel Panic, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 7:37, closed)

I agree
Starting my PhD in a month and I can't wait. Chemistry is something I love and hope that one day I can do something good with :)
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 17:53, closed)

Woo! Good luck to you!
I've always thought if you do something you love and are good at then the worst that can happen is you'll be happy. If you're lucky you'll be happy *and* rich.
( pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 22:21, closed)

Hahaha
If there's a better way to destroy your enthusiasm for a subject than doing a PhD I've not heard of it. I handed in my PhD thesis in molecular biology last month after four and a half years, and now I'm a soulless husk of my former self with no idea what to do next.

Good luck!

PS pardon the cynicism but you'll see what I mean. Oh, you'll see.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 22:31, closed)

Amen
i was off work for best part of a year due to illness and the worst part was the boredom to say i was keen to get back to work was an epic understatement it may be hard/heavy work but i love it
(roadkillontoast, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 20:12, closed)

Terminology...
It's not the best or most fulfilling job, but the easiest. Sitting on your arse and getting paid to do things you'd normally do (like going to the supermarket and eating chocolate, like happened to me) is easy.

True, it's not like I was kept prisoner at my desk, unable to read a book or do what I wanted, but even so, while that might be mind-achingly dull, it's still, by definition, easy.

Learning how to stay busy and satisfied was one of the hardest things to deal with when I went self-employed.
(jellybeanflicker Jesus was Korean, but there he was Cho Sun Wun, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 5:19, closed)