While there are definitely people who love what they do for work, others are only in the field they’re in for the paycheck (totally understandable). However, finding a job that isn’t stressful and doesn’t require a lot of work but earns a good living is probably the American dream, am I right? I didn’t really think those jobs existed until I came across this Reddit thread of people sharing those jobs. Here is what those jobs apparently are:
1.“Insurance brokers. It will be hard for the first 10 years. But once you have built your client base, you just have to renew them, keep the clients happy every year, and take the commission.”
2.“I was a sales manager for a decade and didn’t do anything. When you get into upper management, you realize everyone watches YouTube all day. Aside from meetings, I’d probably do an hour of work a day. Sometimes less and the idiots were paying me $150,000/year.”
3.“High-level individual contributors in remote positions where their managers only care about deliverables. In layman’s terms, they don’t manage people; those they report to only care about the end product. They never miss a deadline but only work 20-30% of their working hours.”
4.“I became a webcam model when I was 21. I never took my clothes off. I didn’t even talk. I just sat there and pretended to laugh at people who talked to me. I was in school at the time to be a therapist, so I was good at talking to people. And I would make about $500 an hour. It was sad, though, a lot of lonely people out there. Most of my customers were men who would get off work and come home and talk to webcam models so they didn’t feel alone. But I stopped doing it because people get obsessive, and it wasn’t safe after I had a run-in with a stalker, but that’s a whole other story.”
5.“Quality assurance, folks. A girl I knew in the Navy got out, got her BS in Quality Assurance, makes $450k going around to local industrial plants, ‘inspecting’ them (sitting in her truck while her subordinates inspect them), and then giving the owner/manager/whomever a paper full of their fuckups.”
6.“A lot of remote tech jobs are great gigs. I just left one because the company was so incompetent, but I could skate for a year doing much of nothing except video games during the day and got paid bank.”
7.“IT architecture. $200k. You have to know how IT shit fits together, but it’s dead simple. I basically just make drawings of what I want other people to build.”
8.“My job is pretty nice — government job. Pretty much a glorified secretary, but I get all my work done in an hour or less and spend the rest of the time watching YouTube for over $100k. I’m not crazy rich, but I have a good salary for playing on my phone.”
9.“I work as a client services director in the market research industry. This is a 6-figure job that mostly involves emails and phone calls. Highly recommend.”
10.“I worked as a customer success manager for a Fortune 500 for two years and made $180k. It was the easiest job in the world because the product worked, and people loved it. Customers wouldn’t even talk to me because of how much it worked. Unfortunately, I was part of a mass layoff earlier this year but could have kept milking that.”
11.“Orthopedic sales reps. $100k per year to be a gopher. The surgeon needs a 54 instead of a 56? Let me fetch it for you! They might have to leave the room and open a box.”
12.“It helps to work for people who don’t know what you do. I’m a Technical Writer and can work about four times faster than anyone thinks I can. So, most weeks, I can get a week’s work done in 10 to 15 hours, but I still have lots of juice left to occasionally crank something out in record time when there’s an emergency. The pay is somewhere between okay and pretty good, but the work-life balance is amazing. It also helps that I enjoy this kind of writing. It’s like getting paid to do crosswords.”
13.“Repairing computers. I posted flyers advertising myself for pc repairs when I was 17 around my suburb. People were more than happy to pay $120 for it. All you do is back up their personal files, reformat, install a fresh Windows, and then copy their files back. And while that’s doing its thing. Have a nap, play some games, and watch a movie. I had one woman who paid me $60 to fix her solitaire shortcut from her desktop.”
14.“People who invest in real estate and rent out the properties.”
15.“I work for a software company as a project manager for infrastructure and enterprise architecture. From the PM side, I manage about four onboarding projects that don’t have any strict deadlines. I work from home and am not micromanaged. I make awesome money with bonuses, and the work isn’t stressful. Now, mind you, it took me YEARS to get here, but it doesn’t have to.”
Do you work in or know of a job that doesn’t require much work but pays well? If so, share it with me in the comments below!
