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Asquare, I agree and disagree with you in some sense..
It certainly depends on what the project is. I have once been RA where the first 2-3 months were useful in terms of skills learned, but the rest of it was repetition or variations on the same old stuff, very time-consuming, boring, with little added value in terms of knowledge or compensation. The amount of satisfaction will depend on one's interests of course. If you want to be a financial economist but the RA job requires working with labor data, then the value added can be low because even if you learn many new things, not all of them will be useful. When it comes to learning data formating and analysis, I am generally a fan of learning things when I need to do them for myself. Maybe it's just my way of doing things. This was of course just a warning. Not all data work is like this, and not all RA work is data work.
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