hackwork

noun

Etymology: From hack + work.

1. Work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.

   “During those fifteen months, he cannot have earned more than $10 a month from writing, mostly from the worst sort of hackwork”

   “Early on, the film even blunders into outright hackwork, employing laughably literal-minded needle drops.”

2. Any type of work that is dull or unoriginal.