In terms of gigs Griffen's had as an itinerant factory worker, lab tech is definitely more interesting than average. Sure, it means becoming intimately familiar with everything from vacuum pumps to electron multipliers, but the upside is the job mostly involves long breaks interspersed with moments of great excitement (high vacuum, high temperatures, high currents and high frequencies will do that). It calls on rather more of zir education than ze's normally willing to let on about, but hey: ze still gets bored (and thus into trouble) easily; when looked at that way, many things beat assembly lines.