My friend Eric works at a job where he works with a lot of data. I know a lot of it is simply taking numbers, and plugging them into spreadsheets and into Excel. It does not sound like a very fun job, but I know that he gets paid pretty handsomely for it. Part of what he does is making sure there is a data backup offsite. I guess part of the reason that they do pay him so well is that the data he is working with is incredibly important. In order to make sure that they have a safe backup for all of the work that they do, Eric has to take time every day and back up all of the work that he has done that day. It is sent electronically to a server offsite, and stored until they need it. The hope is that they will never need to use the backup date, but truthfully, things happen and they need to from time to time. A week or so ago, some new employee crashed their entire system. They have all of the employees the rest of the week of while the retrieved all of the data from the offsite location.