If you have an 'easy' flexible job, what is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: If not temporary then only obtainable after an investment of time and/or energy. For example, a private equity investor who has made a few good deals, an IT professional who’s automated a lot of his job, a corporate lawyer who’s down-shifted.

This happens in niche sales roles. Often a huge grind years 1-5, but once a book of business is built, things ease up significantly. These types of roles are usually remote with significant autonomy. Earnings may fluctuate, but $500K+ is not unusual. You need to be responsive around the clock - but the actual hourly demands are low.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are three of us.

Make that four now

Five. People occasionally mistake me for a SAHM but I’m a maxed, non-supervisory Fed in a very niche field. And I’m very grateful.

Pretty sure these are all pro DOGE trolls.

They won’t even describe broadly what they do (lawyer, auditor, nurse, whatever) but say they are high paid Feds. So many in succession, seems like pretending to make DOGE justified.

Def seems like this. The original question didn’t ask about pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are three of us.

Make that four now

Five. People occasionally mistake me for a SAHM but I’m a maxed, non-supervisory Fed in a very niche field. And I’m very grateful.

Pretty sure these are all pro DOGE trolls.

They won’t even describe broadly what they do (lawyer, auditor, nurse, whatever) but say they are high paid Feds. So many in succession, seems like pretending to make DOGE justified.

I agree. How many niche things can there be?

[Anonymous]

Created one for myself. Started trading. It replaced my former income in no time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are three of us.

Make that four now

Five. People occasionally mistake me for a SAHM but I’m a maxed, non-supervisory Fed in a very niche field. And I’m very grateful.

But you sign a time sheet for 40 hours a week?

[Anonymous]

I’m a legal secretary. Yesterday I went to Target and Trader Joe’s, setting out at 8:30 after logging in and making sure I had nothing urgent. Got home at 10am. Left at 4:30 to run another errand and go for a walk. Home at 5:30 and rehydrated while working for a half hour.

Some days are busier, but as long as I get my work done timely, nobody cares.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a federal contractor doing IT. I am a project manager for a Web development team of 8 people. I am 100% remote and it pays very well.

We are an agile team and work very well together. I also have a very awesome supportive government task manager.

I work about 4-6 hours/day. I am very organized and respect my team. I don’t micromanage and everyone works hard and gets their work done efficiently. We have process in place and it’s awesome. I can honestly say, I love my job and very fortunate. I have great work life balance and always have time for my kids and family.

Most federal contracts are cost-plus with billable hours. Are you lying about your hours or actually part time?

Some are fixed price. I have seen both kinds. T&M is more common, but fixed price is legal and does exist.

[Anonymous]

Any corp/government white collar bureaucratic information economy job where you get lost in the org chart of a large organization. Company has a large budget for a large project and no one individually kills what they eat, doing planning, compliance, administrative, IT work that doesn’t really matter to anyone. No one know what you do so they can’t say you are doing it wrong. Your manager is just as lazy so they don’t want to rock the boat either. Create some new system or process and get paid forever to “maintain” it. Can be anything from project manager to IT operations to analyst to content specialist to staff attorney to CEO or President.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are three of us.

Make that four now

Five. People occasionally mistake me for a SAHM but I’m a maxed, non-supervisory Fed in a very niche field. And I’m very grateful.

Pretty sure these are all pro DOGE trolls.

They won’t even describe broadly what they do (lawyer, auditor, nurse, whatever) but say they are high paid Feds. So many in succession, seems like pretending to make DOGE justified.

Def seems like this. The original question didn’t ask about pay.

If you can’t find a way to not work while not getting money, you hopeless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are three of us.

Make that four now

Five. People occasionally mistake me for a SAHM but I’m a maxed, non-supervisory Fed in a very niche field. And I’m very grateful.

Six of us ..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any corp/government white collar bureaucratic information economy job where you get lost in the org chart of a large organization. Company has a large budget for a large project and no one individually kills what they eat, doing planning, compliance, administrative, IT work that doesn’t really matter to anyone. No one know what you do so they can’t say you are doing it wrong. Your manager is just as lazy so they don’t want to rock the boat either. Create some new system or process and get paid forever to “maintain” it. Can be anything from project manager to IT operations to analyst to content specialist to staff attorney to CEO or President.

This is a different poster but me as well. I consider it one of my goals while working to stay under the radar and just basically try not to get fired. I’m actually a good worker, don’t tell anybody I said that. 😜

Recently, they demoted a whole bunch of people that were one level above me at work (Fortune 500) in corporate reorg. I still make good money and I’m just counting my lucky stars I wasn’t at that higher level. My colleagues are at the same level agreed with me. We’re going along to get along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are three of us.

Make that four now

Five. People occasionally mistake me for a SAHM but I’m a maxed, non-supervisory Fed in a very niche field. And I’m very grateful.

But you sign a time sheet for 40 hours a week?

NP here. I think they hit or max a production quota and don’t worry about hours

[Anonymous]

optical department

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are three of us.

Make that four now

Five. People occasionally mistake me for a SAHM but I’m a maxed, non-supervisory Fed in a very niche field. And I’m very grateful.

Pretty sure these are all pro DOGE trolls.

They won’t even describe broadly what they do (lawyer, auditor, nurse, whatever) but say they are high paid Feds. So many in succession, seems like pretending to make DOGE justified.

Yeah, I smell a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are three of us.

Make that four now

Five. People occasionally mistake me for a SAHM but I’m a maxed, non-supervisory Fed in a very niche field. And I’m very grateful.

But you sign a time sheet for 40 hours a week?

NP here. I think they hit or max a production quota and don’t worry about hours

That’s only relevant to PTO jobs. Other Fed jobs are not comped that way.