Some aspects of my job are very repetitive. Like this week for example. I was on loan to another program in the building to help them finish a time sensitive research project. We needed to take a variety of measurements from a bunch of tree seedlings that had been exposed to a variety of environmental conditions. This involved measuring and recording ad nauseum.
I was the recorder.
I heard numbers.
I wrote down numbers.
Since we finished faster than anticipated I retired to my office to catch up on some data entry- typing numbers.
Sometimes I think a well trained monkey or robot could almost do my job.
I told one of my co-workers this. He likes coming up with songs for everything we do. For example we have a field site nicknamed "the jungle" and everytime we go there he sings "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns and Roses. My offhand comment resulted in him jumping into a rendition of "Hey, Hey We are the Monkees" by the Monkees.
Ironically one of my supervisors used to work for the U.S.
It all makes sense to me now.
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