What I find incredible is the drive that these scientists have; then again they get to work at what is in my opinion the most amazing scientific facility humanity has built to date on Earth.
I'd choose looking over mundane data every day for that, regardless of how boring it was, if only to be in the shadow of giants.
A friend of mine, during his PHD defence on some theoretical physics topic that is way beyond me, once used the term "garden variety quantum(something)", to distinguish it from the new crazy theoretical dimensional weirdness he had been researching.
(actually the phrasing was quite a bit funnier in Dutch: "huis- tuin- en keukenquantum")
I'd choose looking over mundane data every day for that, regardless of how boring it was, if only to be in the shadow of giants.