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33. What do you mean, horizontal boring or vertical boring?

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Tue Oct 22, 2019, 11:26 AM

Oct 2019

With apologies and respect to Monty Python.

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Most boring job you ever had... [View all] Archae Oct 2019 OP

Boring sure, but a paid work-out it sounds like... hlthe2b Oct 2019 #1

Yard work as a kid PJMcK Oct 2019 #2

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Working for a sales-training company. Aristus Oct 2019 #4

Car dealerships... ugh. Zoonart Oct 2019 #6

someone once told me that "boring" comes from within, not from without. unblock Oct 2019 #5

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I've had several but the one that comes to mind is cutting carnations... yonder Oct 2019 #7

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Summer 1974 home from college I got a job for about a month working for the county. rsdsharp Oct 2019 #10

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I had one that was posted as "a boring job", person must be able to entertain themselves for long GemDigger Oct 2019 #15

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So sorry - my dad might have changed all that for you - Backseat Driver Oct 2019 #53

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What do you mean, horizontal boring or vertical boring? sl8 Oct 2019 #33

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I did 10 key data entry of lab results long enough that I could do it on autopilot. hunter Oct 2019 #38

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