How do you all cope with lab work? I'm a professional student and research is a part of my med school curriculum (called a fire project).

I found it miserable as fuck in undergrad, and still miserable as fuck (worse bevause I have even less free time to cope/wind down). How do you get yourself to live such a miserable lifestyle unless you're one of those chosen few who genuinely get fufillment out of beingon the cutting edge of their field and knowing it to a point where nobody else in the world really does?