LOL, you may have a point.  But I actually don't find my job boring, but
that's part of what makes it my job.  Accountant is more of a
personality type than a skillset.  It runs in my family.  A true story:
my mother gave a baby up for adoption.  He found us 30 years later.
He's a tax accountant, too.

But my point was that there are other jobs like mine.

It's the way the season is built and highly dependent on deadlines
imposed by others.  My clients receive the information they need to
prepare their taxes by January 30th.  The next day they all want to come
see me.  I schedule them in back to back to back during every
conceivable time slot.  I do this for all of February.

Then in the first two weeks of March I turn my attention away from the
individuals to the Corporations, which all have a deadline of March
15th.  Each one of them takes an uninterrupted 8 hours of concentration.
 That uninterrupted period tends to start AFTER the workday is done,
i.e., 6 pm to 2 am, because even though I'm trying not to deal with
individual returns during that time, I really am anyway.  (They don't
stop calling or stopping by, for example.)

With the corporations done (and completely exhausted from the effort) I
turn back to scheduling clients every moment of every day.  In the time
before and after clients (I'm usually with them from 9 am to 9 pm)
there's always returns waiting for me to finish.  I went upstairs at 10
pm to brush my teeth and get ready for bed, but came back down to finish
another return.  (Which I just did.)  I've currently got nine returns
ready to finish, which means that there are nine people likely to call
tomorrow asking why their return isn't done yet.  Do I go to bed and
figure I'll shrug them off tomorrow, or do I stay up and tackle another one?

I don't know if this answers your question or provides any insight.
Hiring workers isn't feasible with my business at the moment.  I've got
a receptionist to do all the not-taxes stuff (today I had to send her to
pick up my daughter since I was stuck with a client that ran over by
quite a lot) and she's a big help.  But the work I do is fundamentally
linked to knowing my client's situation intimantly as well as having a
highly specialized body of knowledge.  If I'm going to shift over from
DOING the work to training others and supervising their work then I need
to buy a building and get four or five tax staff all at once.  I'm
planning on doing this, actually - I'm hoping to buy out an existing CPA
firm and just take over his entire operation... but not this week.

Taking less clients is certainly an option.  I've certainly been content
to make less money in the past.  But I'm financially in the hole from my
over-budget kitchen remodel this summer and really trying to rake in the
cash when it's lying around ready to be raked.  Honestly, if you knew it
would cost you $100/hour in lost wages to go watch an episode of
Friends, would you?  Which activities would you choose to do instead of
earning $100/hour?  It's only for ten weeks, and then it all goes away.

So I work as hard as I can for the two and a half months I can make
money.  That's just the way this life goes.

By the way, as off topic as this is, I ought to mention that I'm in the
12th week of my fifth Body for Life challenge.  I'm eating well, I'm
exercising regularly... I've lost 11 pounds in the past 12 weeks.  I
know this doesn't make sense in the context of everything else I've
said, but there it is.  I've taken four client slots a week and given
them to the gym, i.e., I'm paying something like $400/week to go to the
gym in opportunity cost.  (But I figure I'll make it up in increased
longevity at the other end of my life.)

Dally