It's called tedious because people think you're doing nothing but working with numbers, numbers, and more numbers ALL day. But that's just a matter of opinion, and some people might even enjoy that.

Unsed to know a couple of people who found accounting thrilling. Making everything balance, and the hunt when things did not balance. Makes me happy there are people who enjoy that type of work day in and day out.

tedious is the description of those who find it so. those who enjoy numbers and solving puzzles find it often fun. The Tedious, or boring, is in the mind of the beholder.

Some people are suited for some jobs, and other people are suited for others. To some people accounting would be tedious, to others teaching would be tedious, and to others marketing would be tedious (you get the point). Different people are suited for different jobs. To be in the wrong one makes going to work quite tedious (believe me - I'm there right now). The goal is to find what job suits you - not a job other people think is good.

Accounting is a very focused career. The acoutants do seem to have that certain type of personality though, like the exact opposite of mine. Very literal. No way to get them to relax properly without maybe a huge does of valium and/or quaaludes or something. I've incuded a few typos in here just to drive them up the wall.

I would find it tedious but if you have a gift for figures and solving puzzles it may be fascinating to you. I worked in Mental health and enjoyed it but working with people with learning difficulties I found very difficult. Good job we are not all the same.

Its supposed to be extremely boring.

My career isn't tedious. Thirty-three years ago I joined the Canadian Navy, first as an Electronic Warfare Operator and then later as an Electronic Technician. I have sailed both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, visited Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle East. I have served as a transfer sailor on US, UK, Dutch and Japanese ships… getting to know their cultures just as well as their fleet operating procedures. I’ve lived with a (non-military) family in New Zealand, hiked a glacier in Norway and gone bar-hopping in Australia. I’ve attended a cocktail party hosted by the Canadian Ambassador to Japan and stood guard for visits to Canada for both Queen Elizabeth and Pope John Paul II. While in foreign ports, I’ve helped build a school in Grenada and an orphanage in Thailand. I’ve done gardening work at the Cemeteries of Canadian Servicemen (and women) in South Korea and Hong Kong and attended Remembrance Day ceremonies on three different continents. I’ve assisted in boarding operations in the Arabian Gulf and rescue operations in the North Sea. I’ve trained to fight the “evil” Soviet Empire and served long enough to be able to have Russian sailors on-board my ship as my guests at a cocktail party. I met my wife at the wedding of a fellow crew-member and thanks to the Navy, my wife and I had our Honeymoon in Sydney, Australia and our now-grown son was able to join me for the aforementioned bar-hopping in Australia. Now don’t get me wrong… there have been days of exceedingly great tedium… but all in all it has been an extremely exciting career and I wouldn’t change a bit of it. Okay maybe that one night in Copenhagen back in 1979… Hope this helps.

As for me I like different things to do during the day, not only dealing with the numbers. Dealing with the numbers all day long is too monotonous for me. LOL

One man's meat is another man's tofu.

All careers have some level of tedium. Some have more than others. The main thing is to find something that suits your talents, will be a service to others, and will pay you well enough to be able to eat.