“There’s no easy job” … but help me find one

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Anonymous wrote:Do you like to be around people? Working on teams? Do you need your work to be interesting?

If not, I recommend “back office” work for a federal contractor. It’s in house and mostly remote. Subcontracts, compliance, purchasing, contract closeout, accounts payable, records retention. There are a ton of jobs, I supervise several, that are fully remote, 40hrs a week if you work slow, that pay $65-90k. The catch is you work from home and talk to people 1-3x a week. It’s self paced, but detail oriented work. For some people, they would lose their minds with boredom and loneliness. For the right person, it’s a perfect job with minimal stress.

How do I get this job? What’s the job title?

[Anonymous]

I was a teacher and went back to school and became an Xray tech and am working on my xray diagnostic certificate to make more money. From there, I want to become certified in ultrasounds. I am loving my job!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s tons of easy jobs but most of them don’t pay well. I do literally almost nothing on my shifts but I only make $50k a year.

What kind of business?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Admin is not an easy job. Sorry it's not. It usually requires lots of facetime and a good admin ends up being procedure police without any real power/respect.

I have an easy job. I work a good 4 hours a day and the rest is intermittent. Have busy periods a few times a year where I may put in a full 40 hours or even work overtime. I started at mid 40s and have gotten up to 70s recently in less than < 5 years. Pay is low but so is responsibility. leave is okay, health insurance is fantastic.
Retirement is x contribution at the end of the year based on salary.

Pay raises are consistent. I get to WAH FT and travel every 2-3 years for a few days, which is a nice break. I work with chill people who treat me like an adult and understand that I have a life outside of work. Some days are interesting, some are dull. Not a job for an extrovert as 99.9 of my communication is via email or website.

I thought about teaching or going back to school but I'll make more than my teacher friends ina few years who have masters degrees. Our HHI income will be 200k in a few years and that's good enough for me.

This sounds perfect. What do you do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admin is not an easy job. Sorry it's not. It usually requires lots of facetime and a good admin ends up being procedure police without any real power/respect.

I have an easy job. I work a good 4 hours a day and the rest is intermittent. Have busy periods a few times a year where I may put in a full 40 hours or even work overtime. I started at mid 40s and have gotten up to 70s recently in less than < 5 years. Pay is low but so is responsibility. leave is okay, health insurance is fantastic.
Retirement is x contribution at the end of the year based on salary.

Pay raises are consistent. I get to WAH FT and travel every 2-3 years for a few days, which is a nice break. I work with chill people who treat me like an adult and understand that I have a life outside of work. Some days are interesting, some are dull. Not a job for an extrovert as 99.9 of my communication is via email or website.

I thought about teaching or going back to school but I'll make more than my teacher friends ina few years who have masters degrees. Our HHI income will be 200k in a few years and that's good enough for me.

I agree that admin wouldn't be a good fit. That's why I don't want to go into school administration, even though that's where the money is and where more senior teachers want to be.

What is your easy job?

I work for a tech company in a non-tech position

What kind of non tech position? Hope you are still in this forum to answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree there is no easy job but I feel burned out and unappreciated and underpaid. I’m an English teacher (uncertified) and thinking of transitioning to a different line of work. I took a few years off to SAH and am just starting teaching again. What is a good option for me as a career changer? Library? Nursing or some kind of medical assistant? I actually do not need to worry about salary since DH makes enough, but I did the calculations and I make less than Dtarbucks and McDonald’s workers as a teacher, which is kind of demoralizing.

Nursing is the opposite of an easy job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you like to be around people? Working on teams? Do you need your work to be interesting?

If not, I recommend “back office” work for a federal contractor. It’s in house and mostly remote. Subcontracts, compliance, purchasing, contract closeout, accounts payable, records retention. There are a ton of jobs, I supervise several, that are fully remote, 40hrs a week if you work slow, that pay $65-90k. The catch is you work from home and talk to people 1-3x a week. It’s self paced, but detail oriented work. For some people, they would lose their minds with boredom and loneliness. For the right person, it’s a perfect job with minimal stress.

What kind of degree would these jobs require?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: You can check the local public library systems for a job called “library associate”. These are for bachelors degree people and seem to be very basic reference jobs. I think pay starts in the $40,000 to $45,000 rage and goes up to about $60,000 over time. If you have a Master of Library Science degree, you start out a bit higher. You can also work as an assistant checking out books to customers, dealing with fines, basic directional questions and the like. Not hard work.

Libraries aren’t dying and librarians are being hired. But it is a pink collar profession as are nursing and teaching. It gets little respect in terms of status or pay as compared to other professions.

I see so many openings in my area for assistants and they all are asking for a MLIS degree.

[Anonymous]

I would get a literacy certificate like orton gillingham and do specialized tutoring or tutor sat/psat.