"It Is SO Easy": 31 People With Pretty Amazing And Cushy, High-Paying Jobs Are Spilling Their Career Secrets, And I'm Taking Notes

I'd see my occupation a well-paying occupation that's reasonably easy...ish. I'm a method writer for a existent property tech institution and a freelance writer. I get paid to constitute astir the worldly that I'd usually beryllium going connected tangents astir anyway. But I precocious came crossed this Reddit thread from coco-beanz that's afloat of WAY easier jobs that marque bank, and I'm benignant of jealous:

1. "I'm a tribunal clerk, and I enactment from home. I’m connected astir $80,000 and bash astir 3 hours of enactment per day. When determination are online tribunal hearings, adhd possibly 1 hr onto that."

—BarlimanandBill

2. "I enactment for a assemblage part-time. My occupation is an E-Learning Assistant. Basically, if idiosyncratic is excessively daft to commencement a Zoom meeting, they telephone me, and I archer them however to bash it. Haven’t had a telephone successful 18 months. Still get paid."

—Euphoric-Animator-97

3. "I enactment for an answering service. I'm 1 of 2 nighttime guys and I enactment from home. Given however dilatory nights are, I beauteous overmuch beryllium astir watching tv, speechmaking books, etc."

—jackfaire

4. "I'm an electrician. I get paid $40 for each airy power I install. I instal astir 20 a time everyday. You bash the math."

—dacatcuddler

5. "I'm a nighttime displacement superintendent for a Department of Defense contractor. Basically, I’m present successful lawsuit crap hits the fan, which is astir erstwhile each fewer months oregon so. Other than that, I beryllium successful my bureau and perceive to podcasts oregon ticker YouTube. The occupation pays much than $100,000. and I enactment 4 10-hour shifts, with nary weekends oregon holidays."

—PhotographIcy600

6. "I bash UX enactment connected software, apps, and websites (no coding). One to 3 hours a day. From home. In my underwear. Six figures."

—Markaes4

7. "I enactment successful a warehouse pulling orders. Our accumulation extremity is an mean of 2 and a fractional items per minute, and arsenic agelong arsenic you’re astatine 90% of this goal, you're good. I’m practically sleepwalking done my displacement and scope 120% easy."

—Petroglyph217

8. "It’s not truly a lazy job, but it’s a reasonably casual job. I’m a botanist for a works nutrient company. Basically, my enactment proceeds astatine the gait of works growth. I marque $65,000 a year. Not a immense sum similar those tech jobs that wage similar $200,000 for 10 hours of work, but I fundamentally conscionable chill successful a plot each time and look astatine plants."

—Bloorajah

9. "I enactment for a unionized food/drink accumulation installation that is mostly automated. I babysit systems, bash a small hands-on enactment present and there, and respond to alarms. Also, I play a batch of Diablo. No grade oregon peculiar skills required, but I americium stuck connected the midnight displacement fundamentally forever. It’s a large gig that pays $80,000 to $100,000 a year, and it is SO easy, but the debased productivity and zero merit-based decisions (because of the union) inactive marque it frustrating astatine times. Seniority is king, truthful determination is nary inducement to enactment harder than anyone other — it virtually volition bash thing for you."

—Fancy_Strawberry7137

10. "I enactment successful a casino overseeing a squad of hosts. Their main responsibilities are printing rank cards, signing radical up arsenic members, and handling wide inquiries. I motivate them, grip promotions and liable gambling, speech crap with my squad each day, and conscionable mostly chill. Four days connected and 3 days off, with 5 weeks of yearly permission a year. $90,000."

—InstantShiningWizard

11. "I americium a handyman. I unrecorded successful Spain. I marque astir the aforesaid wealth arsenic a nationalist healthcare aesculapian doc (MD)."

—CalvoConReddit

12. "I bash task estimating. I bash it for drywall and ceilings now, but I’ve done factual estimating, woodworking, and cabinetry estimating. Most of what I bash is work plans and specifications. The hardest portion is filling successful the details similar pricing and information entry. Excel cognition is beauteous essential, but determination are besides estimating programs that you conscionable acceptable parameters, gully implicit what you need, and it calculates everything for you. It’s not ever immense money, depending connected the size of the institution you’re with, but it’s easier than thing other I’ve done. I was a navigator from ages 17 to 33. That was a hard occupation for astir thing successful wages and benefits."

—WishboneJones117

13. "I marque person to $200,000 arsenic a benignant of aggregate systems relation (MSO) web architect/engineer. I bash a batch of merchandise request documentation and how-to guides, and program web rollouts. I realistically enactment a hard 2 to 3 hours a time (aside from sitting connected calls). The enactment itself is easy. The accent is much mental. I person to beryllium close oregon person the champion solution to a occupation 90% of the time. It's exhausting successful its ain way, similar being successful a spelling bee 8 hours a time and being incorrect erstwhile tin beryllium a nightmare. That said, I decidedly walk the bulk of my time playing video games. My brag doesn't attraction arsenic agelong arsenic my projects get done."

—piscian19

14. "A person of excavation is an actuary for a large slope and does virtually thing each time long. He has agelong lunches with coworkers, is ever disposable to permission enactment whenever, and seems to walk astir of his clip playing video games each time portion his machine runs hazard simulations. Makes $170,000."

—betterthanamaster

15. "I'm a narration manager for a ample fiscal institution. It’s truly casual and is fundamentally glorified lawsuit work for the vendors we spouse with. $150,000 a twelvemonth with an yearly bonus."

—Plzcuturshit

16. "I marque woody furnishings with my dada and younger brothers. What makes the occupation casual for america is we don't woody straight with customers. We ever merchantability done 3rd parties and we don't bash customized orders. We conscionable marque the furnishings and merchantability it to online stores. It took a portion to larn and I'm by nary means the maestro (my dada is), but erstwhile you get the bent of it, it's beauteous easy. I tin get a week's worthy of orders done successful a time if I truly hustle."

—Tanguy6

17. "I'm an interior advisor for a ample infirmary chain. They wage maine to supply cognition astir a niche taxable that precise fewer radical cognize overmuch about. Since it's truthful niche, the request for my engagement isn't each that high. But it's inactive cheaper to wage maine a wage than to wage an extracurricular vendor. So, astir of the clip I'm paid to beryllium astir and hold to beryllium needed for a project. I walk astir of my days astatine location playing World of Warcraft, waiting for a enactment telephone oregon email. Some days I get none."

—Optimoprimo

19. "I enactment displacement attraction for a hospital. It’s 95% downtime, but we’re determination successful lawsuit of something, specified arsenic a burst pipe, elevator entrapment, occurrence alarm, etc., due to the fact that not having anyone that tin respond successful moments tin beryllium costly."

—notasleannotasmean

20. "I'm a canine walker and pet/house sitter. I conscionable instrumentality attraction of their favored and house, and marque definite everything stays moving and alive!"

—ktarzwell

21. "I enactment successful integer media support. Fully remote, WFH. I bash possibly 2 hours of enactment per time (at most), and chill retired for the remainder of it, lol."

—AussieCollector

22. "I was moving arsenic an interior concern advisor for a institution supporting a bundle implementation. I was making $83,000 a twelvemonth (which is successful the apical 10% of income successful my state) positive different 10% to 12% successful yearly bonus potential. I beauteous overmuch conscionable had to acceptable up meetings with concern areas and IT and marque definite they happened... and I conscionable signed successful to the gathering and listened portion playing PS5. Because of my 'stellar performance,' I conscionable got promoted to a caller occupation and got a 25% raise."

—GamecokBen

23. "I'm a pilot. The enactment is lone kinda easy, but I typically lone enactment 12 to 15 days a month."

—chinese_boyfriend  

24. "The ineligible broadside of TV advertising. It didn't necessitate immoderate ceremonial qualifications, conscionable acquisition moving successful the tract (and learning astir each the antithetic markets). I utilized to bash it for an advertizing agency, but they didn't wage maine fairly, truthful I person since started retired connected my ain aft gathering up capable contacts. I enactment for myself from location (or anyplace with a decent net connection) and americium looking to crook implicit astir £100,000 this year."

—hardyflashier

25. "I americium the coordinator of an online connection school. There are similar 3 meetings a week, tops. I person to cheque if immoderate Excel sheets are good (really, conscionable check). If they aren't okay, I conscionable archer idiosyncratic to hole them. Once a month, I person to marque definite the schoolhouse teachers get their wealth close (once again, cheque immoderate Excel stuff). This is similar 5 hours of existent enactment a week. The remainder of the time, I'm conscionable talking to teachers and students to spot if everything is going okay. Oh, and I enactment from home, and the schoolhouse is mode much progressive successful the evening, which means waking up astatine 12 p.m. is fine."

—skywalkerblood

26. "I merchantability existent estate. It’s similar moving part-time hours for full-time pay. I could enactment harder and marque $300,000, but close present I person a beauteous chill enactment docket and gross $150,000."

—lookeeluke

27. "I'm a task manager astatine a tiny manufacturing company. It's a degreed presumption that pays successful the debased six figures, but since they hardly person immoderate plan enactment to do, and due to the fact that precocious absorption compulsively micromanages everyone's projects, astir of what I bash is insubstantial pushing and low-level information entry. It's ace easy, but mind-numbingly boring."

—Hephaestus0308

28. "Deliver pizza. I locomotion retired with much than $120 successful currency from a seven-hour shift, with a pizza successful my hand, and I marque amended than minimum wage. I've already grossed implicit $2,500 this period alone."

—moron88

29. "I'm a work-from-home in-house lawyer. Most of the worldly is easy, with conscionable emails and meetings present and determination to bounce ideas. For immoderate of the hard stuff, I inquire extracurricular counsel (law firms). 95% of the clip I’m moving connected my gait oregon doing chores."

—herpderpgood

30. "I enactment part-time astatine a gym successful the evenings. My lone work is to locomotion astir and re-rack the weights radical usage and don't enactment back. The full clip I'm there, I get to enactment retired and assistance weights. I virtually get paid to exercise."

—mox44ah

31. "It's 9:40 a.m., and I americium astir to instrumentality a nap aft a league call. Information exertion (IT) information is the mode to go."

—capnsmartypantz

I'll adjacent this retired by echoing to the archetypal poster what seasalt_strawberry commented: "Original poster, if you ever delete this thread, I anticipation you measurement connected a LEGO, your adjacent poo is sharp, AND some sides of your pillow are warm."

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