Dan Wilbur
Here’s hoping you currently have an easy job and work with people you like. Better yet, maybe you have no job and are just watching your crypto portfolio go through the roof.
Whatever work you find personally fulfilling, I sincerely hope you’re doing. If, however, you want to collect a paycheck and not think about work that much at all, I hope you have one of these easy but high-paying gigs.
Someone on Reddit asked people to share the most “low-effort jobs that still paid a surprisingly high salary” and the internet listed several dream jobs.
Frankly, my job requires my whole heart and soul. I can’t write unless I’m extremely caffeinated and in the right mindset.
Just kidding. Writing is easy. You just sit down every day at the keyboard and bleed. I think that’s what Hemingway said. I haven’t been in school for a long time.
Here are the best responses people had to the question “What’s a low effort job with a surprisingly high salary?”:
1. Owning a parking lot.
“Oh man. My Aunt and Uncle own a fairly large field right outside of a small town. They do all of their harvesting by the end of August. Come the 2nd week of September, a HUGE harvest festival is held.
The town sees like half a million visitors in a weekend. They clean the fuck up every year for it by charging $12 a day to park. They even let people camp there & charge $45 a night for camping. It’s crazy. They don’t even do anything- they have a bunch of kids volunteer to park cars as a part of school community service. They donate maybe a quarter of the earnings & pocket the rest for “operational” costs.” –Tlr321
2. Acamedia isn’t bad
“I.T. Manager at a university. The techs know their jobs, their users, and manage their own schedules and workloads among themselves. Managers basically just have to rubber-stamp timecards, confirm parts orders, and make sure the techs don’t all take vacations at the same time.” –CMDR_Tauri
3. Real-life Homer Simpson.
“My next door neighbour works in a power station. His job is to sit in front of a monitor and make sure everything is working well. If something goes wrong, he calls the appropriate work station and they fix the problem.
Because an alarm sounds if something is out of sync (which rarely happens) he is able to play games or read a book 99% of the time. He is on $150 per hour to basically play games and chill at work.” –spetzie55
4. People need to practice somehow.
“I worked as a massage “model” at a massage school. My job was to lay there and be massaged for a few hours while the students did their lessons or took their exams. It was £30 an hour which isn’t loads, but better than the £10 an hour office job I had before.” –scenecunt
5. The Lord’s work.
“As a closed captioner broadcaster for the News, I work from home. I set my own hours and earn anything from $50 to $70 per hour, depending on the assignment. It takes a lot of money to get started, but the payoff is well worth it.” –Agreeable-Equal1432
6. The bright side of call centers.
“Not even something high up like operations or quality assurance, even being middle management can be lucrative. I’ve worked a few call center jobs, the people on the bottom absolutely get fucked over, overworked, stressed out… but once you get to management it’s fucking easy.
Last call center job I worked, I got promoted to management just due to how long I had been there. After the promotion, I was paid 50K per year to sit at home, listen to people do their job, fill out paperwork and have the occasional web meeting. I spent more time playing video games and working out than anything else while on the clock.
Funniest part to me is that when I gave my notice, they tried to offer me a promotion to stay because I was such a hard worker. I was super tempted to laugh and tell them how little work I actually did in a day.” –TheTrueGoldenboy
7. Where your tax dollars go.
“I have some relatives that work for the (US) Federal Government that often talk about jobs where they work in areas like Accounting and Project Management that make over $100,000 and might on a busy day have as much as two hours of actual work.
My Aunt was talking about this one older women near retirement that made over $120,000 a year and her only job was running some transactions every morning, which usually took no more than 20 minutes, then she would spend the rest of the day knitting at her desk.” –Dervrak
8. This job sounds nice.
“The bulk of my job is essentially helping ICU nurses get through annual basic life support.
Now that it’s all on computerised dummies, I basically just click the link for them, adjust hand position now and then and sit back.
I watched Jurassic Park today because every one is up to date.
I make $120k.” –Roaming_Pie
9. Holding a sign.
“In Australia ‘lollipop ladies’ can earn up to $3k per week for flipping a slow/stop sign for traffic at road side construction site and just generally existing as eye candy. The boredom, overtime and risk of death/injury kind of makes up for it.” –firefist674
10. Schools offer a lot of free time.
“I got paid $28 an hour working as an administrative assistant in a high school. It takes like 15 minutes to input grades and send truancy letters. Answering phone calls always resorts to just transferring them to the Principal or school nurse. Literally nothing to do. I left the job because there’s no work in the summer (school is closed) and honestly, the environment was toxic.
When you have that much free time at work, people want to start talking about their personal lives and I don’t like to talk about mine to my toxic coworkers. So I left. This job was the definition of money doesn’t buy happiness.” –luv2lerk
11. The dream job of making games actually pays well?
“If you can land it but very difficult architectural 3d modeler and render guy. Usually firms hire out the work or they have interns do it .
Some firms never have this set up so I become that guy , make around 90k in LA.
Usually I model buildings in 3D , texture , then render. It’s fun and no one bugs you.
I have everything sort of automated except for the building part . I give them around a week so I can get the renders out” –omnigear
12. Don’t stop truckin’.
“Driving the massive dump trucks that serve mines. Starting salary is like 70k and all you do is drive back and forth all day.” –Wyrdeone
13. Doesn’t help me with my fear of flying.
“International Pilot! I make $200k a year as a widebody first officer. None of the decisions fall to me, I fly one leg to Europe (I get a couple hour nap on each leg), I get 24-48 hours in a cool city, then I fly 1 leg home (couple hour nap again on the way home).
When I’m home there is nothing I could conceivably do for work so I just get to enjoy my many many days off. Don’t get me wrong the training was intense, but man, my job now is stupid easy.” –Greedodode
14. Radiologist.
“My mother was a radiologist and she worked 4 hours on weekdays with no night/weekend shifts and 1 day/month being on call. She also made $300k/year + another 100-200k from part time consultation to private hospitals. This wasn’t in US though and she retired 10~ years ago.” –Naitra
15. Living the dream.
“Work at the SEC. $135K a year and all you have to do is watch Pornhub on taxpayer funded computers while ignoring all the financial crimes of Wall Street.” –
16. What would you say… you do here?
“My last job at Microsoft. My manager literally gave me nothing to do. I don’t even know why I was there. In six months I did maybe 3 weeks work. For a while it was very pleasant, but eventually looking busy gets harder than actually being busy. Then a reorg happened and suddenly I had a competent manager who was wondering why I existed. No problem, I just had to go get an actual job before my review came up. All in all a great year.” –sparkythewondersnail
17. Finally, a general note about work:
“Over the course of my many careers, I can confidently say that there’s an inverse relationship between how taxing my work has been and how much I’ve gotten paid. the most gut-wrenching, physical and emotionally intensive labor was lowest paying; the highest paying was chilling out on some meetings and making comments every now and then on spreadsheets.” –OverallSafety791
h/t Reddit: r/AskReddit
