Accountancy Shanty
I can see some of the appeal -- day-to-day lab work can involve a lot of number crunching and statistical grunt work. Sometimes it's very "zen" to get that graph just right. But I couldn't do that all day.
You could win an Ig Nobel!
The 2008 banking crisis surely violated the law of conservation when all that wealth evaporated, and there's just no competing with that. I mean, even if I advise every one of my clients to invest in Bitcoins and the second-hand food market there's no way I can compare.