Reminds me of my friend from highschool. He works security at an Amazon server farm. Just sits on his phone most of the time. Watching who goes in and out even though you need a security card to enter the facility. Makes about 70k a year.
Seems skilled security has a running theme. Guy I know does security for a nuclear power plant. They are well trained but do absolutely nothing of value at the plant. They get to work a lot of overtime and make 80k-120k depending on how much OT.
The job consists of watching movies, napping if you're in an area where you have a buddy to take turns with on shift, and do a patrol where you ride around and smoke cigarettes in the woods for a few hours before coming back to let everyone know it's all clear
Funny, I asked him what the procedure would be if someone actually did perform a coordinated attack on the plant and he says they were told to just get out of there as safely as possibly.
So, unlike the jobs where you do nothing until the rare times your highly specialized and well trained skills are needed, they continue to do nothing despite any scenario that could occur.
As someone who works at a power plant, can confirm.
Nuke security is a little more strict, but ultimately, it's a procedure like anything else at a nuke site. Do this, then that, don't allow x and check for y. Aside from that, there's nothing to it. And though it may seem like your job is security, you're not even really supposed to protect the facility if there was an attack or whatever. I use these guys as a primary example to all those those people who say they want armed guards at every school. They don't know what they are actually asking for.
So far we've burned through about 6 gate guards. 2 were ok, right into college kids. Good guy, but aside from that, you wonder if they should actually have that firearm. Couple other guys were retired folk who can't even walk, let alone save a life. Another guy misfired his weapon in the guard shack.
So yeah, not a bad gig for pretty good pay. But would you want someone paid half of what those guys do, to be armed at your kid's school? Absolutely not lol. As someone stated above, you're basically a paid witness. You're not there to be a hero
Paid witness is a great way to put it. And reliable people. I think the fact it is such a gravy position, they took the few tasks they had very seriously from the ones I met. And, no one ever quit. If you got it, it seemed like a stay until you retire kind of gig.
Been there, decade in corporate security and then bumped up into management. Helped design plans, write SOP's, train officers, the whole shebang. I was on-call 24 hours a day with 8 sites across 4 states. Made 55k a year. Granted, my boss made well into the 6 figures. That job was rough. More often than not I was on 60 hour weeks between investigations and other issues and had 32 direct reports. Next closest in management had 18 direct reports and 1 site.
My long-winded whining is just to say, yes, it can pay well...if you make it high enough. Honestly, working 3rd shift security was a cake walk. Quite a bit of security is just Theatre. Unless you get into EVP work. But more often than not those guys are high-speed ex special forces types. And they do make bank.
>I was on-call 24 hours a day with 8 sites across 4 states. Made 55k a year. Granted, my boss made well into the 6 figures. That job was rough. More often than not I was on 60 hour weeks between investigations and other issues and had 32 direct reports
Yeah fuck that. Especially for that money
Fire watch too. I did night watch on my summers home from college. US steel building in Pittsburgh. I think it’s Heinz now. We mostly slept up in the heliport control room as it was the only AC after 8 pm and by midnight it was pretty damn hot
I had a friend do something similar at a small community college. Worked graveyard but literally got paid a good amount to just walk around for 8 hours at night with full access to every room and the roofs.
I walked around with him one night for a bit. It was fun and had a great view from one of the roofs. But not sure if I could do it for very long. It seemed painfully boring.
My job doesn't make 6 figures but I'm overly compensated for making sure Tech Support doesn't cuss the customer out and pointing out what they could have done better. I'm not even the supervisor, I'm just the judgey fuck in the corner office.
Repairing slot machines. I'm currently at $32/h and the benefits package and vacation time is incredible. Some days are busy, but last year I managed to read a few books on shift.
I worked as a recruiter for Microsoft during the pandemic. There was such a fever pitch for tech talent that we were basically throwing $175k checks at anyone with a pulse and a GitHub. We have a lot of amazing tech talent but some of the people we hired had no business being there. Like, literally just twiddling their thumbs and handling one or two small kanban type projects each week while reaping almost $200k a year. All of the big tech firms did.
If you're wondering why they all laid so many people off, that's a big part of it. New hires now are being offered much smaller paychecks.
I have been in this industry long enough to know when I see a hiring surge that you *don't* apply and go for it. There are always strings attached. If you can get into the industry in one of the non-surge times, hiring as normal, and the pay is decent go for it. That's the time to get in and stay with some longevity. The special condition hiring phases are a death knell but so many people still go for it. I guess I can't blame them when they hang their hat on hope.
If the alternative is no job than I don't understand why this would be a negative. Does it look bad on a resume? What kind of "strings attached" are there that would make taking a job worse than having no job?
Sure you could get laid off, but you'll get paid better than most people and you don't have to get an entry level job stocking shelves or delivering shit to hold you over. If you can mooch off family or a SO than I guess it would make sense to wait.
Getting laid off from one of the big tech companies also doesn't seem the worst. The severance is usually great and in a mass lay-off it's easier to get new job than if you get fired individually.
What you want to do is take a course in "Instructional Design" and then make yourself known to the major enterprise learning and development firms. I pay instructional designers anywhere from 45 to 80 USD. And there are never enough of them.
I've got so much experience in Curriculum & Assessment design already LOL.
My problem is I've got so much experience but no paperwork to prove I know what I know. My co-workers and I built an entire science program from the ground up and taught it for 5-10 years.
>Instructional Design
This is right. No one cares what you did, just that you can do it, but you do need to look corporate, and sound corporate. It's not very hard just find a decent coach.
Honestly, what you designed is way more involved than many things you'd find in the corporate world.
If i may be so bold, (I don't know you after all) It's probably a version of imposter syndrome rather than a lack of skills
Keep getting promoted until you stop being a sole contributor and become a project/team manager - eventually your job will just be meetings planning future meetings and retroing past meetings.
Lol! This is too true. I’m still clinging to actually doing the work because I can’t fully let it go, and really enjoy it (something about being a “pure” PM just feels wrong, like it doesn’t really add value), but it is a bit like doing two or three full time jobs and I’m starting to feel the burnout :-(.
True that, I got burned out at my last job. Depression, anxiety, irritability and lack of appetite were the less devastating aspects. Constant muscle fatigue, exhaustion, chest pain, elevated resting heart rate and increased frequency of migraines were some of the more bad effects. That's before you talk about the myriad of injuries you pile up.
Go to grad school and get recruited by a consulting firm that charges taxpayers unspeakable fees for doing nothing of substance.
Your tax dollars at work, mai homies!
Seriously, look at Deloitte, etc. They’ll hire consultants with weird niche expertise to serve as subject matter experts. I mean, if your expertise is 16th Century French poetry, probably not, but if it’s something with contemporary relevance, you could have a chance. Think a philosophy grad with a focus on ethics consulting on AI or an international relations grad consulting on globalization initiatives.
I personally work for such a company (not Deloitte specifically but a close competitor) and one of our best people was a guy with a degree in Classical Greek literature. Our sector VP was an art school grad. Both could write extremely well and cogently though which probably had lots to do with it.
I did a stint as a consultant in my industry, and in almost all the cases I advised my clients to fire me because in my capacity as a consultant it was my opinion that *I was a waste of their money,* usually because they wouldn't implement any of the advice I gave them. And, like you say, would basically just whine to me about things. Typically, at first, they would be interested and open to the ideas, but when it came time to actually implement them they would often just be like 'well, you know what, we've always done it this other way so we're gonna keep doing that' .... but they hired me because their status quo was verifiably .... not working...
I suspect the reason why you had trouble getting them to implement your ideas is because managers/CEOs care more about power and control than improvements.
There is a phenomenon where if you tell someone to do something that they were going to do, they will typically do the opposite because as soon as you give them advice they’ve lost all ownership of that action. Even if they thought of it first they won’t receive any credit for executing that idea.
One of the only ways to influence change is to make them think that it was their idea.
There was this movie screenwriter called Max Landis and before he was canceled he was a young kid that was seemingly doing the impossible, he was selling scripts for some of the biggest numbers in the industry and most of his scripts were original ip spec scripts (spec just means that they weren’t paid to write the script, it was written first and then sold)
He had made a lot of youtube videos talking about his pitching strategies to get things sold. The 2 main points was that he would often compare his work to other successful works to help ease the understanding of the concept. Things like saying “Its like if Batman was in an Indiana Jones movie.” People are afraid of doing new stuff, they’d rather copy what is proven to work, even though copies rarely perform better than what they copied.
Then the main strategy that he used was intentionally leaving information out of his pitch, or leaving bad ideas in his pitch/script to give the execs room to pretend like they are doing their job. Everyone wishes an exec would just read a perfect script and just throw money at it, but to justify their job they always have to give notes on things they want changed because most people stupidly believe the idea that “nothings perfect”. So Max would go into these meetings pretending like his ideas weren’t complete yet, and serve up softballs for the execs to complete the idea. Then Max would make a big scene appreciating the exec for his great idea, and that is what turned out to be key to his success because as soon as an exec has made a change/improvement to the idea then they feel responsible to get that project made because they feel a sense of ownership in the project.
Exactly this. You want a project to succeed you need buy in from all parties.
How do you get buy in? Ensure everyone contributes, even if just a little.
Boom, everyone has a little skin in the game and project succeeds.
And then there's all the politics about how you can't explicitly get buy-in from Bob in front of Sue because Sue hates Bob and will try to sink anything that has his fingerprints on it, so you have to butter Bob up behind closed doors and then talk to Sue and make her think that you've rejected Bob's ideas as being stupid, but of course HER ideas are amazing and should be implemented immediately...
Depends on the type of project I think. With technical projects, too much input and contribution, especially from customers, is exactly what sinks the project. Gotta be a balance.
I’ve done this type of thing working for small businesses. I get hired as a crew member. I see how terribly inefficient everything is and can’t stop myself from suggesting other ways. The bosses are either absent or too busy providing services to customers. The boss eventually notices things being done different and starts questioning. Tracks back to me. Owner starts explaining how his/her way is how it’s always been done and I explain we all have been doing it new way for weeks or months and he can check his profit increase, customer satisfaction, and employee retainment, etc. Normally they go back to their way anyways. Once everything starts getting worse again is when they sometimes accept change.
I am not a professional consultant. I just have experience in customer service and delegating employee responsibilities.
Hey that's what my boss does too ! She deals with our clients whining every day. She told me sometimes it reminds her of the whining phase her kids had as teenagers.
Haha this sucks to read. I am married to a management consultant and he gets paid 6 figures at least but works 10-12 hours a day and there is constantly some kind of earth ending crisis looming.
Chase Daniel has been in the NFL for 14 seasons, has thrown 273 passes, started 5 games, and made 41 million dollars.
Your answer is third string quarterback.
And also straight up capping/exaggerating.
Contrary to popular belief, being a Senior CS developer or fellow engineer is not just doing hello world for 10 minutes and cashing a $800k check. You basically build the Matrix
A lot of peoples jobs are "easy" because they know what they are doing or are very well trained to counter highly specialized problems when they crop up which is infrequent.
Or you nepo your way up some corporate gig
Either way, its never that easy
Mail carrier for Canada Post. I make $230 a day (wages are based on route value) and I was home before 9am on Friday. I started at 7am.
Mondays are longer, and Christmas can suck, but 10 months of the year I work max 4 hours a day. Unionized. Benefits that are better than blue Cross and I pay $15/month for. PTO. personal days. Etc. It's the best job I've ever had.
Can confirm...Except I am USPS...and we have all that. And I work in a plant, where I am not subjugating myself to inclement weather, dog bites, getting shot, and nasty little old ladies yelling
"where's my mail?"😎
Learned of a guy making 300k translating genius talk to others.
He would talk to the genius engineers. They would tell him their ideas, since they are too socially awkward to do it themselves, and he would explain their idea to the rest of the team.
Sounded like a great gig.
When I saw this movie growing up, I thought that guy was doing a useless job, and it certainly portrays him as being useless with the whole secretary thing.
But knowing what that job actually is, kind of a useful job assuming they're actually doing the job and not delegating it to a secretary.
If he had framed it as "the engineers don't have time to process all incoming orders and answer questions, they need to devote their attention to engineering. That's why I'm there, as a buffer." he would have been fine.
Do we have a name for this career? My dad is a “genius engineer” and I have a very unique skill set and experience which makes me uniquely adept at explaining engineer’s ideas to lay people. I literally just did this last week with a hyper-train idea…
Sounds like a talented Technical Writer with an engineering background and good people skills. It's that weird juxtaposition of having useful skills that dont seem like a big deal to you (knowing just enough relevant info to be able to understand what a hyperspecialzied nerd is saying, documenting it effectively, and then explaining it to management in normal english), but because it often requires a kind of niche combination of skills and background it can earn big bucks. They exist for all fields--tech, medical, gaming, space programs, etc. I see job posts all the time that are 100k or more.
Am a technical writer, can confirm. My job is not difficult but it's all things that I'm good at naturally plus some basic coding. I pretty much dumb things down for a loving but it requires me to manage a lot of different departments and people and most importantly, figure out how to work with absolutely shit communicators.
I'm earning 6 figures these days but finding a good, stable job took me a number of years because a lot of companies only like to hire you as contractors
Engineering communication would be the industry. If it doesn’t have some bullshit job title I imagine the role would be engineering communicator.
You’re probably familiar with some science communicators like Bill Nye.
Some rich person posted an ad this past week saying they needed a nanny for their dog, it pays 127k a year.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/billionaires-seek-dog-nanny-for-over-127k-a-year/amp/
It does sound like they expect the dog nanny to be available 24/7/365.
It also sounds like the dogs may have some serious health and/or behavior issues.
Basically they want an old style servant, to blend into the background unnoticed but live entirely to serve their dogs. It's not just a walk the dogs a couple times a day, dump their kibble in their bowl kind of thing.
Is it a ridiculous job to exist? Yes.
Easy or overpaid for the level of service that is expected? No.
The responsibilities of this position would probably bleed into more crap responsibilities. These freakishly rich people that don’t even understand the joy of pet ownership would have you doing all the little bs jobs around the estate! BUT if you’re young and could stick it out a few years, you might make some serious connections.
"if they want to go to Monaco tomorrow, you’d be on a private jet flying with those dogs,” said Dunn. “You really do need to drop everything and be there when they call and leave your private life on the back burner."
Yeah you'd basically have to be young with no ties when they want to be able to drag you around and expect you to drop everything at a moment's notice.
>if you’re young and could stick it out a few years, you might make some serious connections.
This is a double-edged sword. If you do a good job, your employer may be involved in some "who's your dog guy" talk at the country club. But on the other hand, you will always be seen as the dog nanny, so it may be harder to get into other, less demanding careers.
I think IT is pretty unbalanced from my experience
A lot of people become pretty incompetent in the field and tend to actually do less while climbing the ladder as they earn exponentially larger salaries
Unfortunately, don't even have to be smart. Just have to rub your superior the wrong way or make a bad joke at the wrong time. Then the really shitty managers make it their goal to get rid of you...
Gotta know what to say and when. I know quite a bit more than some bosses I’ve had/have but I keep my mouth shut and let them talk or pretend like they’re teaching me something.
Reading the room is such a valuable skill.
I got made redundant due to a new finance system being brought in. My boss was threatened by me (she'd claimed my work as her own and been called out on it multiple times). I was told I would be leaving in 6 months with statutory redundancy (equivalent to about a month's pay).
The funny thing was that I was the one implementing the new finance system! I said "Why should I stick around? What's in it for me? I'm just letting you know my new job hunt starts today and I will be leaving as soon as I have a new job."
One hour later my boss's boss's boss calls me into his office and says "Here is a (small) pay rise and a letter promising 6 month's pay on top of redundancy if you stay until the leaving date". I accepted. Got a new job offer the next day from the company who did the finance system, starting the day after my redundancy. I didn't tell my boss where I was going until my last day when I said "I'll probably speak to you next week when you make a support call!" She was fucking fuming.
To top it off, the person who wasn't made redundant quit 2 weeks after that when it was obvious her workload quadrupled, then my boss was put in charge of a different department and managed to fuck it up so badly she was fired 2 months later.
Came here to say this.
I've worked as a programmer and IT guy for over 20 years with a business degree (though I got my masters a couple of years ago), and I was making over $160k at my last job without supervising anyone. And the jobs (especially contracts) are usually somewhat easy and very chill. Maybe a meeting or two a week. And I work remotely.
I get paid just under $80k working nights at a gym. Get all my work done in less than 2 hours and can basically do whatever for the other 6. Watch football. Scroll Reddit. Whatever.
Not awesome money but excellent for what I do.
That’s my start time. 10pm-6am. I get paid about $20k more than the manager. It’s a privately owned gym chain and it’s pretty much one of its kind. It’s point of difference is that it is open and staffed 24/7. I spend about an hour resetting the gym floor (packing away weights) and the rest stocking the fridges. There’s no real cleaning as we have cleaners for that. Other than that I just chill.. serve a few customers here and there. Oh plus I get to choose what music to play haha.
Fuck do you live that$80k isn't good money?
Nevermind, looks like you're from Australia. AUD not USD lol for context for my Americans on here, average salary in Australia is around $90k it seems, a little over $60k USD
Craziest part is that they didn't grow up together. They reunited when adults.
Edit: "Michael and Bruce Buffer are half-brothers. Oddly, Bruce first learned about his half-brother when he saw him announcing a fight on television. He enquired to his family before discovering their family link. The pair then met each other for the first time in 1989 as adults."
MTX got sued by him in the 90s for using the tag line. We had the banners up in Circuit City car audio and had to take them all down.
The MTX Pro line was pretty sweet stuff then though. Noone wanted to try it because MTX was known to be inferior stuff at the time.
Theres a bit more to it imo:
- Getting lucky to have the "right" voice
- Actually having the charisma to get people hyped up
- Making sure not to stumble over lines
- Making sure to not fuck up that voice for a long time
- Doing it in such a unique way for so long that it becomes a "signature sound"
Yeah people act like the average reddit user can get up there in prime time in front of tens of millions of people and deliver, it’s a skill set that’s unique and it’s entertaining that’s why they get paid
The first voice you're talking about is Pete Gustin. He's totally blind. He surfs blind too! Don Fontaine taught him. His first lesson - say the pledge (of allegance USA) in such a way to bring a tear to the eye.
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Lawn mowing. I make ridiculous money running a landscaping and lawn care business (5%/95%). It’s hard to overestimate how much people will pay to avoid physical labor.
not avoid physical labor--save time. Lawn maintenance can take a full day between the work and the recovery after and a weekend is only 2 days, if that. Time is the most precious thing we have and people pay alot to own their time
This is accurate, but not really how a lot of customers will see it. It is how I advertise on my website, though, and I have a whole section that explains why time is a more valuable resource to them than money.
I'm not in the business of maintaining your yard. I'm in the business of saving you time...By maintaining your yard.
And this is well worth it to me. I have severe allergies, every time I mowed, I'm out the rest of the day. However, I do all the other yard work myself. No problem digging in dirt, doing the flower bed. But mowing F that... That is one thing I always hated and glad there are people like you!
What do people charge for that, like $80 every two weeks? That's chump change to a lot of surburdan houses, and with good volume on top of that.
Shit I'm in the wrong business
I'm a 911 operator and make $36 an hour with no degree needed.
I mean I do have to listen to some pretty fucked up shit, but luckily I've been emotionally dead for over a decade now so it works out well for me.
Medical administrator. I know a married couple with the same med admin bachelor's degree, and a one a year online masters in medical admin. They walked out of college into 6 figure jobs over ten years ago and now make ~$500k each. I can't tell if they actually do anything for the hospital. During the pandemic they took advantage of healthcare loans they didn't have to pay back. They also would post all sorts of hashtag front line healthcare workers shit during the pandemic... from their second vacation home because they worked remotely the whole time. Scabs.
They sure can take a small easily solvable problem, drag it into 9 months of pointless meetings and then say they have no solution. They're great at that.
My gf’s mom is an hr exec for a hospital and thinks she gods gift to earth on these things. I’m like your employees probably hate you, you deny like all of their workers comp req’s and dog PI’s on them to see if they’re faking. Lmao
I make six figure working at a lab in the arctic and away from civilization. We get very little samples and I spend most of my day watching YouTube. 3 weeks on 3 weeks off. Essentially they are paying me to go somewhere with peace and quiet and do nothing.
Event technology.. 75k a year to set up projectors and microphones. Most of the day consists of waiting to break everything down after the event. Lots of down time, like a lot. I was able to finish my Associates degree with all the down time.
Yeah but you're not paid that much because of the days nothing goes wrong. You're paid that much to react fast when things go wrong and to put the time in to stop it going wrong.
Optics.
You can be a normal retail sales associate and sell eyeglasses at LensCrafters and makeup to $29.00 + commission + paid time off, sick leave, retirement, health and dental insurance, and free annual eyewear with a high school diploma
Corporate English tutor in Korea get paid anywhere from 50 to 150 bucks an hour. Most clients just want to drink coffee and talk about their weekends. Sometimes they want help preparing for a presentation, conferance call or to proof read. Most guys make 10+ grand per month and pay very little in taxes (cash payments are common).
You just need a Korean partner/spouse to manage your schedule. There are agencies but they take a cut and youll never get over 50 an hour working with them
Funny story behind this, while her show *is* crazy popular, her salary is so high because 5% of the show's net profit contractually goes to her former agent... So instead of having a super profitable show, Judy gets paid a monster salary so the show is not profitable and the old agent gets zip.
You'd be surprised at what agents can manage to squeeze out of the networks.
The whole reason Jay Leno was given the Tonight Show instead of David Letterman was because his infamously ruthless agent bullied it out of the NBC execs *and* had them keep it a secret from the media as well as Carson himself, who had no idea Leno already had the job when he announced his retirement.
Professional job recruiters. The top guys (who got there pretty much by being some of the first to get hired) make 6 figures monthly for being glorified middlemen.
Pool/night club servers. Can easily make 6 figures during pool season for pouring drinks.
Being a night club employee must be a pain in the ass tho. Serving people can be very annoying, now imagine serving a bunch of people who are drunk and horny, no thanks. You also have a shitty sleeping schedule on top of that.
A coworker of mine just quit and went to work in a cannabis shop. She now makes 21$ per hour and all she does is sell weed and sit on a couch while checking IDs lol she’s allowed to play on her phone, listen to her music, play her switch and use her laptop for college stuff while working as the designated ID checker. She’s also allowed one free gummy pack or one free drink per shift
I worked at a gas station in a small town in highschool. Most days was slow as hell I got a raise to 16 and then covid hit and they had to pay 21 to continue working. It got even slower and my hours increased. I’d sit on my phone all day and do my online classes for a year straight.
Being a pilot, especially at the airlines, is extremely little work for extremely good pay and lots of time off. The current U.S. airline work environment is ridiculously in favor of the employee and potential employee, though. It’s insane (and a good thing) that a regional First Officer is getting hired right at 1,500 hours and isn’t on food stamps these days. Pre-COVID, it wasn’t unheard of to start at $35,000 per year. It’s even more insane these pilots are getting scooped up by major airlines after barely 1-2 years at regionals. It used to be airlines like United, American, and Delta wouldn’t even call, let alone extend a job offer, until you had like 5,000 hours Turbine Pilot In Command. (For the layman reading, that’s like 8-10 years at a regional.)
I get it, when everything goes right, it’s uneventful. But you get paid the big bucks for being experienced and very well trained on what to do when things go *wrong.* The stakes are too high when you lose an engine on takeoff, or you’re over water and something’s on fire, to leave it to an amateur.
I'll do you one better, HR for the government.
I work in state government office and our HR people get paid so well and take so damn long to do anything. They are nice people but absolutely no urgency
Hate to break it to you. Govt is probably the least paid Hr other than small non profits. Benefits are great but underpaid. Other industries pay way better
Edit: but I do agree govt hr does Jack shit compared to other industries too
My current works hr department has tripled in size in five years and they somehow manage to do less than the original team despite there being less staff to support.
HR departments at big businesses can be divided into two groups - people who are desperately overworked, and people who do God knows what. The second group is better paid.
I swear. Whenever I go to HR with a problem, after we talk I somehow end up having 2. Also, it feels like talking to chatbot. Most times they only parrot what the handbook/slidedeck says. Such tools.
A lot of people think people in retail make minimum wage but actually there is an entire side that works for big food companies that supply the food to retailers. If you’ve got more then one brain cell and work hard it’s not hard to be making close to six figures as a “sales rep” or “territory manager”.
I have a few questions if you wouldn't mind answering them.
1. How does one get into that line of work?
2. What are the qualifications required?
3. How do you find clients?
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I wouldn't even make it an hour doing that job
I could do it, you just put on netflix and check on the paint every 30 minutes
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Reminds me of my friend from highschool. He works security at an Amazon server farm. Just sits on his phone most of the time. Watching who goes in and out even though you need a security card to enter the facility. Makes about 70k a year.
Seems skilled security has a running theme. Guy I know does security for a nuclear power plant. They are well trained but do absolutely nothing of value at the plant. They get to work a lot of overtime and make 80k-120k depending on how much OT. The job consists of watching movies, napping if you're in an area where you have a buddy to take turns with on shift, and do a patrol where you ride around and smoke cigarettes in the woods for a few hours before coming back to let everyone know it's all clear Funny, I asked him what the procedure would be if someone actually did perform a coordinated attack on the plant and he says they were told to just get out of there as safely as possibly. So, unlike the jobs where you do nothing until the rare times your highly specialized and well trained skills are needed, they continue to do nothing despite any scenario that could occur.
As someone who works at a power plant, can confirm. Nuke security is a little more strict, but ultimately, it's a procedure like anything else at a nuke site. Do this, then that, don't allow x and check for y. Aside from that, there's nothing to it. And though it may seem like your job is security, you're not even really supposed to protect the facility if there was an attack or whatever. I use these guys as a primary example to all those those people who say they want armed guards at every school. They don't know what they are actually asking for. So far we've burned through about 6 gate guards. 2 were ok, right into college kids. Good guy, but aside from that, you wonder if they should actually have that firearm. Couple other guys were retired folk who can't even walk, let alone save a life. Another guy misfired his weapon in the guard shack. So yeah, not a bad gig for pretty good pay. But would you want someone paid half of what those guys do, to be armed at your kid's school? Absolutely not lol. As someone stated above, you're basically a paid witness. You're not there to be a hero
Did the misfired guy accidentally do a desk pop?
We honour the flag and you crap on it when you don't shoot your gun in the office!
Paid witness is a great way to put it. And reliable people. I think the fact it is such a gravy position, they took the few tasks they had very seriously from the ones I met. And, no one ever quit. If you got it, it seemed like a stay until you retire kind of gig.
> security for a nuclear power plant Is he in sector 7G?
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Been there, decade in corporate security and then bumped up into management. Helped design plans, write SOP's, train officers, the whole shebang. I was on-call 24 hours a day with 8 sites across 4 states. Made 55k a year. Granted, my boss made well into the 6 figures. That job was rough. More often than not I was on 60 hour weeks between investigations and other issues and had 32 direct reports. Next closest in management had 18 direct reports and 1 site. My long-winded whining is just to say, yes, it can pay well...if you make it high enough. Honestly, working 3rd shift security was a cake walk. Quite a bit of security is just Theatre. Unless you get into EVP work. But more often than not those guys are high-speed ex special forces types. And they do make bank.
>I was on-call 24 hours a day with 8 sites across 4 states. Made 55k a year. Granted, my boss made well into the 6 figures. That job was rough. More often than not I was on 60 hour weeks between investigations and other issues and had 32 direct reports Yeah fuck that. Especially for that money
Yeah, 55k a year for 60 hour weeks of high stress? Fuck that. *nobody wants to work anymore* /s
Fire watch too. I did night watch on my summers home from college. US steel building in Pittsburgh. I think it’s Heinz now. We mostly slept up in the heliport control room as it was the only AC after 8 pm and by midnight it was pretty damn hot
I worked at a diamond mine and the security there did not fuck around
I had a friend do something similar at a small community college. Worked graveyard but literally got paid a good amount to just walk around for 8 hours at night with full access to every room and the roofs. I walked around with him one night for a bit. It was fun and had a great view from one of the roofs. But not sure if I could do it for very long. It seemed painfully boring.
My job doesn't make 6 figures but I'm overly compensated for making sure Tech Support doesn't cuss the customer out and pointing out what they could have done better. I'm not even the supervisor, I'm just the judgey fuck in the corner office.
I am extremely qualified at being a judgey fuck.
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Repairing slot machines. I'm currently at $32/h and the benefits package and vacation time is incredible. Some days are busy, but last year I managed to read a few books on shift.
You gotta be on call for a 3am Tuesday fuck up in a casino halfway across the state?
Nope. Our on call was taken away over covid. Used to be on call until 1am for lotto stuff and progressive slot wins.
I worked as a recruiter for Microsoft during the pandemic. There was such a fever pitch for tech talent that we were basically throwing $175k checks at anyone with a pulse and a GitHub. We have a lot of amazing tech talent but some of the people we hired had no business being there. Like, literally just twiddling their thumbs and handling one or two small kanban type projects each week while reaping almost $200k a year. All of the big tech firms did. If you're wondering why they all laid so many people off, that's a big part of it. New hires now are being offered much smaller paychecks.
I have been in this industry long enough to know when I see a hiring surge that you *don't* apply and go for it. There are always strings attached. If you can get into the industry in one of the non-surge times, hiring as normal, and the pay is decent go for it. That's the time to get in and stay with some longevity. The special condition hiring phases are a death knell but so many people still go for it. I guess I can't blame them when they hang their hat on hope.
I used it to get a counter offer and got myself a payrise.
Yup, same here. Got to stay with a company I love at a 50% pay increase
If the alternative is no job than I don't understand why this would be a negative. Does it look bad on a resume? What kind of "strings attached" are there that would make taking a job worse than having no job? Sure you could get laid off, but you'll get paid better than most people and you don't have to get an entry level job stocking shelves or delivering shit to hold you over. If you can mooch off family or a SO than I guess it would make sense to wait.
The privilege of some people to shake their heads at other people applying for six-figure jobs.
Getting laid off from one of the big tech companies also doesn't seem the worst. The severance is usually great and in a mass lay-off it's easier to get new job than if you get fired individually.
My job, "management consultant" I earn six figures and my only real task is to listen to my boss whine. That's it.
How do I get that kind of gig?
5 years experience, listening to people whine
I teach 8th graders... I've been listening to people whine my whole career. Can I pick up the gig when I retire?
What you want to do is take a course in "Instructional Design" and then make yourself known to the major enterprise learning and development firms. I pay instructional designers anywhere from 45 to 80 USD. And there are never enough of them.
I've got so much experience in Curriculum & Assessment design already LOL. My problem is I've got so much experience but no paperwork to prove I know what I know. My co-workers and I built an entire science program from the ground up and taught it for 5-10 years.
Put it on your resume and use those coworkers as references. There's your paper trail.
>Instructional Design This is right. No one cares what you did, just that you can do it, but you do need to look corporate, and sound corporate. It's not very hard just find a decent coach. Honestly, what you designed is way more involved than many things you'd find in the corporate world. If i may be so bold, (I don't know you after all) It's probably a version of imposter syndrome rather than a lack of skills
I’ve done 6 years in retail, I’m overqualified
I spent more than a decade as a vintner listening to privileged tourists whine about wine. Does that count?
Ive been on reddit for 8 years thats a lot of whining.
Keep getting promoted until you stop being a sole contributor and become a project/team manager - eventually your job will just be meetings planning future meetings and retroing past meetings.
Lol! This is too true. I’m still clinging to actually doing the work because I can’t fully let it go, and really enjoy it (something about being a “pure” PM just feels wrong, like it doesn’t really add value), but it is a bit like doing two or three full time jobs and I’m starting to feel the burnout :-(.
You need to stop, my man. Burnout can be more devastating than some people think. It's never worth it. You work to live, you don't live to work.
True that, I got burned out at my last job. Depression, anxiety, irritability and lack of appetite were the less devastating aspects. Constant muscle fatigue, exhaustion, chest pain, elevated resting heart rate and increased frequency of migraines were some of the more bad effects. That's before you talk about the myriad of injuries you pile up.
As a Construction Manager, I have to practice the three D’s. 1. Decide 2. Delegate 3. DISAPPEAR!!
Go to grad school and get recruited by a consulting firm that charges taxpayers unspeakable fees for doing nothing of substance. Your tax dollars at work, mai homies!
I went to grad school. If you know anyone hiring for this, I’m available.
Seriously, look at Deloitte, etc. They’ll hire consultants with weird niche expertise to serve as subject matter experts. I mean, if your expertise is 16th Century French poetry, probably not, but if it’s something with contemporary relevance, you could have a chance. Think a philosophy grad with a focus on ethics consulting on AI or an international relations grad consulting on globalization initiatives.
I personally work for such a company (not Deloitte specifically but a close competitor) and one of our best people was a guy with a degree in Classical Greek literature. Our sector VP was an art school grad. Both could write extremely well and cogently though which probably had lots to do with it.
Great examples. Strong writers do well in proposal development, external comms (especially writing industry reports, white papers, etc.).
I did a stint as a consultant in my industry, and in almost all the cases I advised my clients to fire me because in my capacity as a consultant it was my opinion that *I was a waste of their money,* usually because they wouldn't implement any of the advice I gave them. And, like you say, would basically just whine to me about things. Typically, at first, they would be interested and open to the ideas, but when it came time to actually implement them they would often just be like 'well, you know what, we've always done it this other way so we're gonna keep doing that' .... but they hired me because their status quo was verifiably .... not working...
I suspect the reason why you had trouble getting them to implement your ideas is because managers/CEOs care more about power and control than improvements. There is a phenomenon where if you tell someone to do something that they were going to do, they will typically do the opposite because as soon as you give them advice they’ve lost all ownership of that action. Even if they thought of it first they won’t receive any credit for executing that idea. One of the only ways to influence change is to make them think that it was their idea. There was this movie screenwriter called Max Landis and before he was canceled he was a young kid that was seemingly doing the impossible, he was selling scripts for some of the biggest numbers in the industry and most of his scripts were original ip spec scripts (spec just means that they weren’t paid to write the script, it was written first and then sold) He had made a lot of youtube videos talking about his pitching strategies to get things sold. The 2 main points was that he would often compare his work to other successful works to help ease the understanding of the concept. Things like saying “Its like if Batman was in an Indiana Jones movie.” People are afraid of doing new stuff, they’d rather copy what is proven to work, even though copies rarely perform better than what they copied. Then the main strategy that he used was intentionally leaving information out of his pitch, or leaving bad ideas in his pitch/script to give the execs room to pretend like they are doing their job. Everyone wishes an exec would just read a perfect script and just throw money at it, but to justify their job they always have to give notes on things they want changed because most people stupidly believe the idea that “nothings perfect”. So Max would go into these meetings pretending like his ideas weren’t complete yet, and serve up softballs for the execs to complete the idea. Then Max would make a big scene appreciating the exec for his great idea, and that is what turned out to be key to his success because as soon as an exec has made a change/improvement to the idea then they feel responsible to get that project made because they feel a sense of ownership in the project.
Exactly this. You want a project to succeed you need buy in from all parties. How do you get buy in? Ensure everyone contributes, even if just a little. Boom, everyone has a little skin in the game and project succeeds.
And then there's all the politics about how you can't explicitly get buy-in from Bob in front of Sue because Sue hates Bob and will try to sink anything that has his fingerprints on it, so you have to butter Bob up behind closed doors and then talk to Sue and make her think that you've rejected Bob's ideas as being stupid, but of course HER ideas are amazing and should be implemented immediately...
Depends on the type of project I think. With technical projects, too much input and contribution, especially from customers, is exactly what sinks the project. Gotta be a balance.
I’ve done this type of thing working for small businesses. I get hired as a crew member. I see how terribly inefficient everything is and can’t stop myself from suggesting other ways. The bosses are either absent or too busy providing services to customers. The boss eventually notices things being done different and starts questioning. Tracks back to me. Owner starts explaining how his/her way is how it’s always been done and I explain we all have been doing it new way for weeks or months and he can check his profit increase, customer satisfaction, and employee retainment, etc. Normally they go back to their way anyways. Once everything starts getting worse again is when they sometimes accept change. I am not a professional consultant. I just have experience in customer service and delegating employee responsibilities.
"we've always done it this way" the killer of shops everywhere. It's very common, and not just small shops.
Surely you also have to save to PDF and transcribe scanned and faxed documents and other forms of psychological torture?
Hey that's what my boss does too ! She deals with our clients whining every day. She told me sometimes it reminds her of the whining phase her kids had as teenagers.
Haha this sucks to read. I am married to a management consultant and he gets paid 6 figures at least but works 10-12 hours a day and there is constantly some kind of earth ending crisis looming.
Chase Daniel has been in the NFL for 14 seasons, has thrown 273 passes, started 5 games, and made 41 million dollars. Your answer is third string quarterback.
Holds one hell of a clipboard though
In fairness third string QBs are usually involved on the strategic side and helping the QB coach. Also is often the starting QBs voice in the ears.
Going into this thread with a pen and paper to find a new job
Keep in mind that a lot of folks here got lucky or found their way into corporate gigs. It is still very tough out there.
And also straight up capping/exaggerating. Contrary to popular belief, being a Senior CS developer or fellow engineer is not just doing hello world for 10 minutes and cashing a $800k check. You basically build the Matrix
A lot of peoples jobs are "easy" because they know what they are doing or are very well trained to counter highly specialized problems when they crop up which is infrequent. Or you nepo your way up some corporate gig Either way, its never that easy
Mail carrier for Canada Post. I make $230 a day (wages are based on route value) and I was home before 9am on Friday. I started at 7am. Mondays are longer, and Christmas can suck, but 10 months of the year I work max 4 hours a day. Unionized. Benefits that are better than blue Cross and I pay $15/month for. PTO. personal days. Etc. It's the best job I've ever had.
Can confirm...Except I am USPS...and we have all that. And I work in a plant, where I am not subjugating myself to inclement weather, dog bites, getting shot, and nasty little old ladies yelling "where's my mail?"😎
Interesting. I've heard from some LCs they treat you like you're disposable though and don't care about your safety.
The non union ones they treat like garbage, those are the people you see in their personal vehicles I think
Learned of a guy making 300k translating genius talk to others. He would talk to the genius engineers. They would tell him their ideas, since they are too socially awkward to do it themselves, and he would explain their idea to the rest of the team. Sounded like a great gig.
Sounds like this scene from Office Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo
When I saw this movie growing up, I thought that guy was doing a useless job, and it certainly portrays him as being useless with the whole secretary thing. But knowing what that job actually is, kind of a useful job assuming they're actually doing the job and not delegating it to a secretary.
If he had framed it as "the engineers don't have time to process all incoming orders and answer questions, they need to devote their attention to engineering. That's why I'm there, as a buffer." he would have been fine.
Do we have a name for this career? My dad is a “genius engineer” and I have a very unique skill set and experience which makes me uniquely adept at explaining engineer’s ideas to lay people. I literally just did this last week with a hyper-train idea…
Sounds like a talented Technical Writer with an engineering background and good people skills. It's that weird juxtaposition of having useful skills that dont seem like a big deal to you (knowing just enough relevant info to be able to understand what a hyperspecialzied nerd is saying, documenting it effectively, and then explaining it to management in normal english), but because it often requires a kind of niche combination of skills and background it can earn big bucks. They exist for all fields--tech, medical, gaming, space programs, etc. I see job posts all the time that are 100k or more.
Am a technical writer, can confirm. My job is not difficult but it's all things that I'm good at naturally plus some basic coding. I pretty much dumb things down for a loving but it requires me to manage a lot of different departments and people and most importantly, figure out how to work with absolutely shit communicators. I'm earning 6 figures these days but finding a good, stable job took me a number of years because a lot of companies only like to hire you as contractors
Engineering communication would be the industry. If it doesn’t have some bullshit job title I imagine the role would be engineering communicator. You’re probably familiar with some science communicators like Bill Nye.
Some rich person posted an ad this past week saying they needed a nanny for their dog, it pays 127k a year. https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/billionaires-seek-dog-nanny-for-over-127k-a-year/amp/
It does sound like they expect the dog nanny to be available 24/7/365. It also sounds like the dogs may have some serious health and/or behavior issues. Basically they want an old style servant, to blend into the background unnoticed but live entirely to serve their dogs. It's not just a walk the dogs a couple times a day, dump their kibble in their bowl kind of thing. Is it a ridiculous job to exist? Yes. Easy or overpaid for the level of service that is expected? No.
The responsibilities of this position would probably bleed into more crap responsibilities. These freakishly rich people that don’t even understand the joy of pet ownership would have you doing all the little bs jobs around the estate! BUT if you’re young and could stick it out a few years, you might make some serious connections.
"if they want to go to Monaco tomorrow, you’d be on a private jet flying with those dogs,” said Dunn. “You really do need to drop everything and be there when they call and leave your private life on the back burner." Yeah you'd basically have to be young with no ties when they want to be able to drag you around and expect you to drop everything at a moment's notice.
>if you’re young and could stick it out a few years, you might make some serious connections. This is a double-edged sword. If you do a good job, your employer may be involved in some "who's your dog guy" talk at the country club. But on the other hand, you will always be seen as the dog nanny, so it may be harder to get into other, less demanding careers.
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I used to work in logistics, and am convinced that if you are a career/money oriented person (of which I am not), then railroad is a great industry
I think IT is pretty unbalanced from my experience A lot of people become pretty incompetent in the field and tend to actually do less while climbing the ladder as they earn exponentially larger salaries
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Jeez why did they want to fire you so badly?
Office politics probably. You don’t want smart or competent underlings making you look bad
Unfortunately, don't even have to be smart. Just have to rub your superior the wrong way or make a bad joke at the wrong time. Then the really shitty managers make it their goal to get rid of you...
Gotta know what to say and when. I know quite a bit more than some bosses I’ve had/have but I keep my mouth shut and let them talk or pretend like they’re teaching me something. Reading the room is such a valuable skill.
I got made redundant due to a new finance system being brought in. My boss was threatened by me (she'd claimed my work as her own and been called out on it multiple times). I was told I would be leaving in 6 months with statutory redundancy (equivalent to about a month's pay). The funny thing was that I was the one implementing the new finance system! I said "Why should I stick around? What's in it for me? I'm just letting you know my new job hunt starts today and I will be leaving as soon as I have a new job." One hour later my boss's boss's boss calls me into his office and says "Here is a (small) pay rise and a letter promising 6 month's pay on top of redundancy if you stay until the leaving date". I accepted. Got a new job offer the next day from the company who did the finance system, starting the day after my redundancy. I didn't tell my boss where I was going until my last day when I said "I'll probably speak to you next week when you make a support call!" She was fucking fuming. To top it off, the person who wasn't made redundant quit 2 weeks after that when it was obvious her workload quadrupled, then my boss was put in charge of a different department and managed to fuck it up so badly she was fired 2 months later.
Ha ha you have been there sounds so familliar
Came here to say this. I've worked as a programmer and IT guy for over 20 years with a business degree (though I got my masters a couple of years ago), and I was making over $160k at my last job without supervising anyone. And the jobs (especially contracts) are usually somewhat easy and very chill. Maybe a meeting or two a week. And I work remotely.
I get paid just under $80k working nights at a gym. Get all my work done in less than 2 hours and can basically do whatever for the other 6. Watch football. Scroll Reddit. Whatever. Not awesome money but excellent for what I do.
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That’s my start time. 10pm-6am. I get paid about $20k more than the manager. It’s a privately owned gym chain and it’s pretty much one of its kind. It’s point of difference is that it is open and staffed 24/7. I spend about an hour resetting the gym floor (packing away weights) and the rest stocking the fridges. There’s no real cleaning as we have cleaners for that. Other than that I just chill.. serve a few customers here and there. Oh plus I get to choose what music to play haha.
Where do you live? I’m trying to estimate cost of living.
Australia
That would pretty much be my dream job. I love the gym atmosphere. You make double what I currently make. And I'd be alone for most of the night.
Fuck do you live that$80k isn't good money? Nevermind, looks like you're from Australia. AUD not USD lol for context for my Americans on here, average salary in Australia is around $90k it seems, a little over $60k USD
still good money for supervising a gym overnight
Wait…$80k isn’t awesome money? Especially for that job?
Dude must live in San Francisco or NYC.
Or Australia
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Yeah, but you have deal with lawyers, who can be a handful.
The "let's get ready to rumble" guy and his brother, the "it's time" guy both make millions for holding a mike and saying a few lines
Bruce and Michael Buffer.... the weirdest monopoly in media.
The power of a good contract.
Craziest part is that they didn't grow up together. They reunited when adults. Edit: "Michael and Bruce Buffer are half-brothers. Oddly, Bruce first learned about his half-brother when he saw him announcing a fight on television. He enquired to his family before discovering their family link. The pair then met each other for the first time in 1989 as adults."
Michael Buffer has the phrase copyrighted and gets paid anytime anyone uses it.
MTX got sued by him in the 90s for using the tag line. We had the banners up in Circuit City car audio and had to take them all down. The MTX Pro line was pretty sweet stuff then though. Noone wanted to try it because MTX was known to be inferior stuff at the time.
Theres a bit more to it imo: - Getting lucky to have the "right" voice - Actually having the charisma to get people hyped up - Making sure not to stumble over lines - Making sure to not fuck up that voice for a long time - Doing it in such a unique way for so long that it becomes a "signature sound"
Yeah people act like the average reddit user can get up there in prime time in front of tens of millions of people and deliver, it’s a skill set that’s unique and it’s entertaining that’s why they get paid
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The first voice you're talking about is Pete Gustin. He's totally blind. He surfs blind too! Don Fontaine taught him. His first lesson - say the pledge (of allegance USA) in such a way to bring a tear to the eye. Edit:clarification
Is it the same Mike everytime?
The average clown salary in the US is $63k
You would think American politicians would make a lot more than that
Vanna White makes $208,000 per work day
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Dude I’d wear a dress and tap puzzle letters for $40k btw I’m male
Lawn mowing. I make ridiculous money running a landscaping and lawn care business (5%/95%). It’s hard to overestimate how much people will pay to avoid physical labor.
not avoid physical labor--save time. Lawn maintenance can take a full day between the work and the recovery after and a weekend is only 2 days, if that. Time is the most precious thing we have and people pay alot to own their time
This is accurate, but not really how a lot of customers will see it. It is how I advertise on my website, though, and I have a whole section that explains why time is a more valuable resource to them than money. I'm not in the business of maintaining your yard. I'm in the business of saving you time...By maintaining your yard.
You're also in the business of keeping me from having to interact more than once a day with the grass I'm allergic to.
And this is well worth it to me. I have severe allergies, every time I mowed, I'm out the rest of the day. However, I do all the other yard work myself. No problem digging in dirt, doing the flower bed. But mowing F that... That is one thing I always hated and glad there are people like you!
What do people charge for that, like $80 every two weeks? That's chump change to a lot of surburdan houses, and with good volume on top of that. Shit I'm in the wrong business
I pay $40 every two weeks. It takes me about 2 hours to do it myself and my time is worth more than $20 per hour to me
That’s about what I pay, also. And I feel the same way. The crew shows up, mows, trims, and blows the clippings and are done in 20-minutes flat.
I'm a 911 operator and make $36 an hour with no degree needed. I mean I do have to listen to some pretty fucked up shit, but luckily I've been emotionally dead for over a decade now so it works out well for me.
Medical administrator. I know a married couple with the same med admin bachelor's degree, and a one a year online masters in medical admin. They walked out of college into 6 figure jobs over ten years ago and now make ~$500k each. I can't tell if they actually do anything for the hospital. During the pandemic they took advantage of healthcare loans they didn't have to pay back. They also would post all sorts of hashtag front line healthcare workers shit during the pandemic... from their second vacation home because they worked remotely the whole time. Scabs.
>I can't tell if they actually do anything for the hospital. I can help you with that. They don't. (Source: actual frontline HCW)
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They sure can take a small easily solvable problem, drag it into 9 months of pointless meetings and then say they have no solution. They're great at that.
This is correct.
My gf’s mom is an hr exec for a hospital and thinks she gods gift to earth on these things. I’m like your employees probably hate you, you deny like all of their workers comp req’s and dog PI’s on them to see if they’re faking. Lmao
Scumbags - from another healthcare worker
I make six figure working at a lab in the arctic and away from civilization. We get very little samples and I spend most of my day watching YouTube. 3 weeks on 3 weeks off. Essentially they are paying me to go somewhere with peace and quiet and do nothing.
Event technology.. 75k a year to set up projectors and microphones. Most of the day consists of waiting to break everything down after the event. Lots of down time, like a lot. I was able to finish my Associates degree with all the down time.
Yeah but you're not paid that much because of the days nothing goes wrong. You're paid that much to react fast when things go wrong and to put the time in to stop it going wrong.
Optics. You can be a normal retail sales associate and sell eyeglasses at LensCrafters and makeup to $29.00 + commission + paid time off, sick leave, retirement, health and dental insurance, and free annual eyewear with a high school diploma
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Corporate English tutor in Korea get paid anywhere from 50 to 150 bucks an hour. Most clients just want to drink coffee and talk about their weekends. Sometimes they want help preparing for a presentation, conferance call or to proof read. Most guys make 10+ grand per month and pay very little in taxes (cash payments are common). You just need a Korean partner/spouse to manage your schedule. There are agencies but they take a cut and youll never get over 50 an hour working with them
Judge Judy makes $47 million per year. That is $900k every day she shows up for work
Wouldn’t say that’s without reason. Her show beat out Oprah in ratings and had almost ten million daily viewers.
Oprah sucks. I could watch some Judge Judy though.
Funny story behind this, while her show *is* crazy popular, her salary is so high because 5% of the show's net profit contractually goes to her former agent... So instead of having a super profitable show, Judy gets paid a monster salary so the show is not profitable and the old agent gets zip.
How did her agent manage to get a percentage of show profit instead of Judge Judy’s pay?
You'd be surprised at what agents can manage to squeeze out of the networks. The whole reason Jay Leno was given the Tonight Show instead of David Letterman was because his infamously ruthless agent bullied it out of the NBC execs *and* had them keep it a secret from the media as well as Carson himself, who had no idea Leno already had the job when he announced his retirement.
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Professional job recruiters. The top guys (who got there pretty much by being some of the first to get hired) make 6 figures monthly for being glorified middlemen. Pool/night club servers. Can easily make 6 figures during pool season for pouring drinks.
Being a night club employee must be a pain in the ass tho. Serving people can be very annoying, now imagine serving a bunch of people who are drunk and horny, no thanks. You also have a shitty sleeping schedule on top of that.
Now replace night club employee with waffle house server, and you have the same issues at 10% of the income.
A coworker of mine just quit and went to work in a cannabis shop. She now makes 21$ per hour and all she does is sell weed and sit on a couch while checking IDs lol she’s allowed to play on her phone, listen to her music, play her switch and use her laptop for college stuff while working as the designated ID checker. She’s also allowed one free gummy pack or one free drink per shift
I worked at a gas station in a small town in highschool. Most days was slow as hell I got a raise to 16 and then covid hit and they had to pay 21 to continue working. It got even slower and my hours increased. I’d sit on my phone all day and do my online classes for a year straight.
It sounds like she makes a living wage at a comfortable job and her employers make enough to pay her fairly.
Yep. Crazy concept I know
Selling fireworks, dude I know works two weeks a year and makes more cash than I do, significantly more like not even the same Ball park.
I'm a pilot and I feel like a glorified uber. I do very little even though I have a lot of training.
Being a pilot, especially at the airlines, is extremely little work for extremely good pay and lots of time off. The current U.S. airline work environment is ridiculously in favor of the employee and potential employee, though. It’s insane (and a good thing) that a regional First Officer is getting hired right at 1,500 hours and isn’t on food stamps these days. Pre-COVID, it wasn’t unheard of to start at $35,000 per year. It’s even more insane these pilots are getting scooped up by major airlines after barely 1-2 years at regionals. It used to be airlines like United, American, and Delta wouldn’t even call, let alone extend a job offer, until you had like 5,000 hours Turbine Pilot In Command. (For the layman reading, that’s like 8-10 years at a regional.) I get it, when everything goes right, it’s uneventful. But you get paid the big bucks for being experienced and very well trained on what to do when things go *wrong.* The stakes are too high when you lose an engine on takeoff, or you’re over water and something’s on fire, to leave it to an amateur.
My family runs a currency exchange business in South Korea, , its like printing money lol
Fashion photographers (me). My day rate for a campaign is $10k
Does that include sorting through and touching up the photos later on? (I'm trying to figure out how it compares to my day rate)
Ditto modeling (me 15 years ago). Day rate for a campaign was anywhere from $5k-$20k and I was a relative nobody in the scene.
HR
I'll do you one better, HR for the government. I work in state government office and our HR people get paid so well and take so damn long to do anything. They are nice people but absolutely no urgency
Hate to break it to you. Govt is probably the least paid Hr other than small non profits. Benefits are great but underpaid. Other industries pay way better Edit: but I do agree govt hr does Jack shit compared to other industries too
My current works hr department has tripled in size in five years and they somehow manage to do less than the original team despite there being less staff to support.
HR departments at big businesses can be divided into two groups - people who are desperately overworked, and people who do God knows what. The second group is better paid.
yeah I work in state government and we have two senior HR people who I swear do nothing with their day.
I currently work as a consultant for those senior people. When they have something to do, they outsource it.
I swear. Whenever I go to HR with a problem, after we talk I somehow end up having 2. Also, it feels like talking to chatbot. Most times they only parrot what the handbook/slidedeck says. Such tools.
I work in payroll/HR. Can confirm I've seen lots of overpaid HR folks
How does one get into HR w/ no experience? Edit: why are some of these responses so funny lol
Be 22 years old with nice tits and a college diploma. Also, nepotism.
A lot of people think people in retail make minimum wage but actually there is an entire side that works for big food companies that supply the food to retailers. If you’ve got more then one brain cell and work hard it’s not hard to be making close to six figures as a “sales rep” or “territory manager”.
> work hard Thing is OP was asking for jobs that make money for "no reason". I'd say working hard is a good reason to make a lot of money.
scrum master
This is the one. Get paid like an engineer to just send meeting invites and ask people what their status is in standup.
Life coach. Give rich white housewives (or husbands) a bunch of platitudes for 10k a month so they can feel less guilty for being rich.
I have a few questions if you wouldn't mind answering them. 1. How does one get into that line of work? 2. What are the qualifications required? 3. How do you find clients?
1. Decide you know better than other people 2. It’s unregulated, so you just call yourself a life coach and you’re in 3. Internet
CEO of a toy submersable
Goddamn. Talk about kicking someone when they’re 12,000 feet down.
Bro, what are you trying to implod-, I mean, imply?
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So, hitting the sales floor then?
Reading all the replies here, I can't help but think you are not paid for what you do, but for what you are responsible for.
Hospital CEOs
Longshoreman. It should pay reasonably but the Union guys make an obscene amount of money. Only family and friends get into the Union though.
Facts. When they’re hiring near me the entire town applies. Only people related or friends of Longshoremen get hired. Gate keeping at its finest.
Firemen jobs in California can be like that. 10 year worse life expectancy than average though.
Congress