The world’s most boring jobs

Legal jobs might be well paid but according to new research, they are the most boring jobs on the planet. According to career advisors Emolument, 81% of people employed in legal jobs find their work boring. That’s pretty different from the rosy picture painted by ‘Ally McBeal’, ‘Law & Order’ and countless other TV shows dealing with courtroom drama. Interestingly, project management is ranked the second most boring job (78%), while 71% of people in support functions also find their work fairly monotonous.

Your job might be stressful, confusing, high-pressured or pointless – but one of the very worst things it could be is boring, the Independent’s Indy100 reported.

We spend a lot of our life at work – and as we all know, it’s practically a scientific fact that time goes about ten times slower when we’re sitting behind our desks than it does over the weekend.

So, if you want to avoid spending your life stifling yawns, these are the top jobs to avoid, according to Emolument.

The list, broken down by profession by Statista includes in order: 1. Legal jobs 2. Project management 3. Support functions 4. Finance control 5. Consulting and accounting 6. Financial services and banking 7. Engineering 8. Sales 9. Marketing and communications 10. IT

The least bored people surveyed were those working in education, executive management and research and development.

Eight out of ten law professionals are bored, mainly due to daily tasks of researching cases and rulings, Emolument’s survey of 1,300 professionals found.

The survey also looked at which countries have the most bored employees.

Those working in the United Arab Emirates are the most bored, with 83% saying they’re bored at work.

The UK has the third least bored workers, with 64% saying their work bores them. Switzerland comes in at the least boring, with only half employees saying they’re bored.

Recently, the Indy100 ten “worst jobs”.

Newspaper reporter has come last in a study that examines the best and worst jobs

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Using a methodology that analyses the environment (emotional, physical and hours worked), income (growth potential and salary), outlook (employment growth, income growth potential and unemployment), and 11 stress factors, it was determined that being a data scientist is the best job on the planet.

The study, by recruitment website CareerCast, makes for disheartening reading if you work in one of the following professions. These are the ten worst jobs in 2016: 1. Newspaper reporter 2. Logger 3. Broadcaster 4. Disc jockey 5. Enlisted military personnel 6. Pest control worker 7. Retail salesperson 8. Advertising salesperson 9. Taxi driver 10. Firefighter