Jobs that are not 9-5
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Anonymous
| What careers allow you to work hard, and then not, or be flexible all the time/work plenty just not always in office? I can think of firefighting, nursing, real estate...what else? |
Anonymous
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chefs/caterers
musicians/actors/singers retail/hotel management Have you ever worked a job that required you to work evenings/weekends? It sucks. |
Anonymous
I work all the time and so does dh, but the question is for my ds! He wants a different life balance. |
Anonymous
| Chefs/caterers have no flexibility |
Anonymous
Not musicians/actors/singers. Once you are off the treadmill, it’s hard to jump back on. The rebirth stories you hear about in the media are the lucky exceptions. |
Anonymous
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All the jobs you’re listing don’t have 9-5 hours not lots of them have extensive hours that are not at all flexible.
For other non-office jobs, I have a friend in technical theatre. She works several movies a year, which are crazy 12+ hour days for a few months at a time… and then takes weeks to months entirely off work. It would make me crazy but she enjoys it. Another friend is a writer — novels and freelancing journalism and stuff. Totally flexible but she sure has to be able to motivate herself to get stuff done. Someone else I know is a woodworker. He has normal hours but no office work, obviously. He started vocational training at the end of high school. His brother is an EMT, which seems a bit more flexible but doesn’t always pay terribly well: for a while he joked he worked at a rehab center to be able to support hours EMT habit. What is your son looking for/trying to avoid? Work life balance, in my experience, is best found by being a white collar cog in a large company in the middle of the organization (this is what I do — it’s WFH, flexible enough for me to be the primary parent for my young kids, pays fine, etc). But not everyone is cut out for that kind of thing. |
Anonymous
| Recruiting |
Anonymous
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Any of the trades. Unless you are an owner/management, you’re off the clock when you leave.
Most therapists that focus on medical - physical, occupational, speech, etc. Most medical techs/assistants. Radiology |
Anonymous
But they aren’t 9-5. |
Anonymous
I get that, I guess I was focusing more on the "not 9-5" part. |
Anonymous
| My federal job is flexible. I need to put my 40 hours in but I can generally make my own schedule. As long as we don’t work after 11pm or on Sunday’s we’re good. I think Wednesday 10-2 are our core hours we’re required to be working. |
Anonymous
| Speech therapy is a great gig. |
Anonymous
| 24 hour IT support desk |
Anonymous
I don’t understand. Firefighting and nursing aren’t flexible— they have very rigid staffing schedules that must be planned a month or more in advance. I have a friend who must submit ALL vacation days for the year in January to ensure coverage. Can you be more concrete on what his lifestyle goal is! |
Anonymous
| lobbying |