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Anonymous wrote: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?

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!

24 hour IT support desk

Speech therapy is a great gig.

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 wrote:Chefs/caterers have no flexibility

I get that, I guess I was focusing more on the "not 9-5" part.

Anonymous wrote:Chefs/caterers have no flexibility

But they aren’t 9-5.

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

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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 wrote:chefs/caterers
musicians/actors/singers
retail/hotel management

Have you ever worked a job that required you to work evenings/weekends?
It sucks.

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.

Chefs/caterers have no flexibility

Anonymous wrote:chefs/caterers
musicians/actors/singers
retail/hotel management

Have you ever worked a job that required you to work evenings/weekends?
It sucks.

I work all the time and so does dh, but the question is for my ds! He wants a different life balance.

chefs/caterers
musicians/actors/singers
retail/hotel management

Have you ever worked a job that required you to work evenings/weekends?
It sucks.

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?