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It sounds romantic at first, but then you read "He plans to spend about 16 hours over the weekend changing all 400 clocks on the Windsor estate, including about 250 in the castle itself, along with seven tower clocks" and then it just sounds tedious.

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Yeah, but that's only twice a year. The bulk of his job is further down in the article:

> The rest of his week is spent in his workshop servicing and repairing clocks, many of which are 200 to 300 years old. When a part breaks or wears out, Fjodor makes a replacement using a lathe, a milling machine and lots of hand tools.

That sounds like an absolutely awesome job to me.

Yup. The way I read it was “every job has pros and cons” and this one is particularly a joy

Tedious, but that's only twice a year. I think this one hits even harder:

> When he's not changing the time, Fjodor's job includes spending one full day a week winding up the mechanical clocks to keep their pendulums swinging.

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