Solution-prep is a mundane job, but it is a responsible job and it is important that it be done properly. When I worked in a pulp mill, we had lots of good technicians who could perform tests, etc, but the job of making solutions for the labs always fell to us chemists. The efficiency and production costs of the mill hinged in great part on the accuracy of the tests done by the technicians, and though they could follow simple cook-book test procedures quite well, it was up to the chemists to make up their test solutions accurately and consistently and monitor them and replenish them if they started "drifting". If you perform your job well, and get good recommendations regarding your performance (both are important) that will be a leg-up when you look for your next position with a research group.
Accuracy and consistency is important to large commercial ventures because when you're producing lots of valuable product daily (especially in a commodity-market) very small economies add up quickly. Accuracy and consistency are going to be very important to a research group, too, but for different reasons. The people leading the research will want to have confidence in the people doing what you might now consider a mundane job, not only to maximize the accuracy of their research, but to ensure that other groups with similar standards can replicate their work.
BTW, washing glassware is REALLY boring (Voice of Experience) but if it's done in a hap-hazard manner, it can result in contamination, inconsistent test results, etc, so it's a pretty important job in its own right. We chemists always washed our own glassware prior to making up standard solutions for the process labs for that reason.
Good luck!