Anonymous wrote:Every now and then I need a personal assistant to help dig me out and organize all my papers. For someone responsible, professional to do that I'd pay pretty well.

How much would you pay? This is a good idea.

Teach preschool

Every now and then I need a personal assistant to help dig me out and organize all my papers. For someone responsible, professional to do that I'd pay pretty well.

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you're still reading this thread, think about the following question: What do you enjoy doing? What makes you happy? Seriously think about that and think about how you can incorporate it into a career. I am a strong believer in money does not buy happiness. We work 40+ hours per week; we have to do something that we love.

+1. I was coming here to recommend something similar.

OP--what interests you? When you think about being burned out in your job, what do you wish that you had more time to do? Try to find a way to incorporate something you like into a job or find a job that allows you to do more of what you'd like to spend your time doing.

Become self employed.

How much money do you need to make?

How about retail in an area that you are interested in? Williams Sonoma? Ikea? Book store?
Service industry? Bakery? Restaurant? Hotel?
Education? Instructional assistant? Substitute ($90 a day)?
Work at the front desk of a gym? Maybe you would get free membership. I would do that if we didn't need my salary.

Well, first off, I think the OP is lazy. So there is that.
But, to offer an idea: assassin. You make you own hours, you choose to take or ignore jobs, and, mostly likely you get to travel while working.

If you were single, I'd recommend renting out your home and moving abroad for 6-12 months. There are beautiful places you can live on $1000-$1500 a month.You don't have to do anything, but read books and DCUM all day, go to cafe/bakery across the street, beach, gym, park or do whatever your heart desires. I'm going to do that when I'm done with my career which I never even had, but I saved a lot and have a house paid off soon and another abroad.
Do you like to cook? Follow those good cinnamon buns they make abroad and bake them here for Americans.
Don't want to move? How much do you need to make to bring in money for the household?
What about tutoring, childcare, financial help, restaurant manager, waiter, hostess, Uber driver.
I work in a low key restaurant, I don't bring my work home and make about $17 an hour after taxes. Others make a lot more but they also run around a lot more.
Walking dogs didn't pay since I did it trough a company.
Back to your hobbies. What would you be doing besides nothing if you didn't have to work?

OP, can you find someone to get you into the World Bank?
They have very flexible schedule, and excellent pay.

Can you define not working? It sounds like you do actually want to work but want to be your own boss and set your own hours.

A woman in my neighborhood got licensed to run an in-home daycare but runs it as a back-up & drop-in center. There are days she's open and days she's not - posted a month in advance. She's booked up solid most months. She gets to charge a premium for the back-up nature of the care and she gets to be closed when she needs a day off.

But it's real work and not easy work, so if you genuinely mean not working, then that's not for you.

I'd totally be barista if we didn't need my salary.

Life coach.

Government, but a non-professional role.

Like being a secretary or something.

Literally no work. Ever. Just file your nails and wait till retirement.

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Fed is an easy place to work ONCE you get in. It's got to be hard somewhere, right? Easy to get a job in a fast food restaurant but the work is hard. Hard to get a cushy govt lawyer job but the work is easy, ya dig?

Totally depends on the job and agency. I recently heard some crazy stories about one agency where the new managers kept asking for more head count since the feds, especially those close to retirement, did basically nothing (like seriously, one guy was running a lawn service business from his cube). My friend who worked there came in with an amazing resume (Ivy MBA, top 3 management consulting firm, etc) and was one of the new hires brought in to actually do work...she worked a ton (sometimes slept under her desk), so it really just depends.

At the agency I used to work at (which was small but high profile), there was no way you could get away with coasting. The least productive people would probably be considered average productivity in the private sector. Getting hired was very competitive (1000s of apps for one req, several hundred of which made it past OPM review), but for good reason...you had to work hard and be very responsible to do the job.

For the OP, I would not go back to school unless you first figure out something you want and are excited to do. There are probably ways to get a flavor of various fields through admin type work etc (or even volunteer work depending on what it is). If you're in finance, you're probably pretty smart and good with numbers which is at least a differentiator. Have you considered accounting? A friend of mine is an accountant, and she seems to have pretty great work-life balance. I suspect you would only need to get a CPA certification instead of going back for a new degree. You could probably even do it part-time if you wanted to set up an independent shop.

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Anonymous wrote:Federal attorney.

This sounds like a great idea! Go back to school, get a law degree, and then send an application to a Federal Agency. I'm sure they'll definitely hire you since they only get around 1000 resumes per opening. I mean, those odds are way better than the lottery and you'll only owe like $100K when you're done with your degree.

So I was browsing one fed agency. They have an incredibly intense application process with 7-8 page writing sample, long inputs about course work and GPAs. They DELETE all applications after 72 hours whether or not they are finished. They obviously only want the most motivated of the motivated job searchers to preserve. I think the "fed" is not that "easy" place to work that people envision...

It's like UVA law - hard to get in, piece of cake once you start.