Giving me a choice will not make me like you any better

Received a reply to my email this morning. Thankfully with Weiguang online to remind me, I'll never send out stupid replies (Then again, even without Mr Randall around, I'm still sensible enough not to do that.. Just that his online presence allowed me to let off some steam.. and show how rude I can get, if only I want and can be)

If given a choice, would you:

(1) Request to do something that you are interested in, that you might fill up your checklist with, but might not get any work because there are too many people (which means you can't fill up your checklist anyway) and there are many people you would want to avoid and hate, and that you probably have to force a smile everyday; or

(2) Request to do something that does not interest you as much and which probably won't be as useful for you since you don't see yourself doing it in the near future, but you like the people you sit with, the people you see and putting on a smile is not as difficult.

Which would you choose? I'm quite tempted by the latter, but is it very dumb?