These are the 5 most 'boring' — and exciting — jobs in the world, according to a recent study. (via CNBCMakeIt)
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Financial jobs may often be lucrative — but some of them could make you seem boring and even incompetent to the people around you, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Essex in Colchester, England, asked more than 500 people across five different experiments about the careers and hobbies they considered the most "boring" — and what characteristics they associated with people who did those jobs. The study was published in theFinance was overwhelmingly tagged as the world's most boring industry, with finance-associated positions occupying four of the top five slots on the "most boring" list.
"I would have thought that accountants would be seen as boring, but effective and the perfect person to do a good job on your tax return,"