Saturday, October 07, 2006

The man who gets paid to watch paint dry

Most of us would admit to finding our working day slightly tedious at times.

But spare a thought for Keith Jackson.

Watching paint dry

The married father-of-one has perhaps the most boring job in the world - watching paint dry.

For more than 30 years, assessing the drying time of industrial paint has been part of Mr Jackson's working life.

The highlight of his day is simply touching the paint to assess it's tackiness.

Mr Jackson refused to reveal exactly how much he earned, but said watching paint dry paid "fairly well."

"Watching paint dry sounds quite easy, but it can be stressful at times," he added.

1 comment:

Lily Cook said...

I wonder how much it would cost to have him monitor my DrawiTPaint project. I read the manual and it takes close to a month for the entire process. I’m planning on just hiring a guy to do it. (The timeline is actually quite common for whiteboard paint apparently.)