What would be the most BORING industry you could imagine working in?

[MrsMerryHenry]

In my efforts to get my freelance career off the ground I am doing a writing project and am searching for ideas.

Your suggestions much appreciated!

I once met a chap who sold only nuts and bolts. That was a bit of a conversation killer.

there are 'thrust-boring' machines you can drive, oh dear I feel a new thread coming on

Insurance.

And pensions.

childcare! ugh! don't know if its an industry though..

Insurance. No contest.

Not industries per se.

But wouldn't want to sell anything. Or buy anything. Or help anybody else buy or sell anything. Or have any kind of 'consultancy' role. Or wear a uniform. Or ever have to attend anything entitled 'office drinks'.

Actually, I'd rather not work at all.

Life insurance. I have worked with actuaries. I know what I am talking about.

Nuts and bolts!!!

ROFL!

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packaging

I once worked in a knitting woll factory. My job consisted of taking spun balls of wool off the machine, putting ten in a celephane bag and putting a sticker on the end.

Security guard - There is a rather posh jewellers in town near me. For some reason their doors are always locked but have a full time security guard who literally stands at the door and when people want to go in he rings the bell and lets them in. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Blood lab/checking smears etc.

Basically like working on a production line making something but even more boring and with the added bonus that if you cock it up someone might die.

at all the insurance ones! I loved it for 10 years or more - so much drinking and casual sex And actuaries are soooo nice, best drinking partners ever. Oh and yes the work - well it's just office work innit same as any other office job really.

So ner

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Cold Call stationery selling or in the P&L account balance team at Wickes. All day every day doing the same calculations until the account balanced!

Sales.

I'd be crap at sales.

Do you want to buy this product?

No.

Ok, thanks, bye.

Ohh actuaries - aren't they people who find
accountancy too exciting

Cold calling of any kind, selling of any kind. Filing - I once did a temp job that involved filing 6 months worth of paper - I was catatonic bu the end of every day...

I was once hitching home from a party at age 16 and got a lift from a bloke who was an artificial inseminator.

I think logistics, IT and Human Resources would be me idea of job hell.

I couldn't work in a carpet shop.

Chevre - I could be interested in packaging.

Post office on giro day? Not boring, but I think id be ready to kill by 1400!

PR
Whatever that is

When we lived in Russia a fewyears ago [doing worthy jobs],one of the fewexpats there represented Wrigleys.His job basically was to get Russians to buy chewing gum.
I'm amazed he even admitted it to anyone.

Car windscreen replacement.

In a kitchen, boiling hot, and everything turning out wrong and someone shouting at you,i just know i would throw a complete taz

A lot of the answers on this thread give functions not industries...