whats the most boring part of your job?

Question: whats the most boring part of your job?
- Keywords:
  preference,
  work
Asked by evieb123 to Lyn, Katy, Paul, PB, Ruth on 21 Jun 2013.
- Peter Balfe answered on 21 Jun 2013:
  
  Truthfully – marking exams. Also going to conferences can involve a lot of travel. Getting there can be really boring,- you can only visit Heathrow so many times before it loses it’s thrill…
- Ee Lyn Lim answered on 21 Jun 2013:
  
  Writing reports. It drives me mad. I’m only in the 1st year of my PhD and I’ve done 3 written reports and 3 PowerPoint presentations, which means I’ll have to do many many more before I’m done! The most frustrating part is that, every time I write a new report, I can’t just jump straight to the latest, exciting stuff I’ve done – I’ve got to go right back to the start of my project, so that people who read it know what I’m talking about. That means I’ve already written/talked about the first bits of my project six times this year, and I’m getting mighty bored of it!
- Ruth Mitchell answered on 23 Jun 2013:
  
  I think it would be feeding cells!! It can take aaaggggeeessss and all you are doing is putting the cells into a new flask and adding new feeding media to them. And that isn’t even part of you experiment – it’s simply so you can have the cells so you can do an experiment. And then it’s frustrating if the cells don’t grow!!! Sorry, rant over!
- Katy Brown answered on 24 Jun 2013:
  
  I had to find all the bits of gene sequences for different retroviruses I could – there are thousands of them and they are all online but in different databases, different formats or included in long written reports. That involved a lot of copying and pasting and was pretty boring!
- Paul Waines answered on 25 Jun 2013:
  
  Writing reports, when I’d rather be in the lab!

Question: whats the most boring part of your job?

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