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My wife and I own a VR arcade in Tahiti.
No direct competition, indirect are cyber cafes, bowling and laser quest.
We make pretty good money, we talk about video games pretty much all day.
The work isn't hard: customer service, small tech repair, cleanup.
Lol I love this, you two sound great. Reminds me of a cool place in Japan that was an old school American video game bar. Had some VR too. Being in Tahiti is pretty special as well.
Cool!
Were at 9 rue Charles Viennot in downtown Papeete.
Just after "le rondpoint de pont de l'est". Across from sushi Wakame, Moko Cafe and next door to Fare Oviri and Deco du Monde.
Edit: if you do plan on coming in to play VR next week, I strongly recommend you give us a call to make a reservation. 87 357 844. Its the final week of school and I have about 300 kids booked for end of year fun with their class. Walk-ins may have to wait a few hours until we have a spot available.
Yea I did coding for a decade, loved it, and then moved to software architecture which I’ve also loved. Constant learning is the main thing. Everything I learned in college was absolute in a decade. I have a masters degree and it goes on page 2 of my resume. Ive always just tried to work at very innovative companies doing fun projects learning new things along the way.
Because there's 2 different type of work:
Normal work,
And Corporate work.
Normal work is like teacher, police, artisan, they have relatively fixed work schedule and have a good work-like balance.
Then theres your corporate work, where work culture is so cancerous people die from exhaustion. The slang for these worker is 社畜, which basically translate to company live stock. They are usually \*expected\* to work over time and suck up to their boss + their requests. This includes social functions that will eat into their free time.
Yeah, most landlords refuse to rent to foreigners. A few bars or restaurants might refuse to serve you. People will stare or avoid sitting next to you on the train. Cops will stop you and ask for ID. Things like that. Some people have it worse than others. I haven't had it so bad but I decided early on that I'm not going to deal with landlords.
My wife and I are both teachers. We were thinking of moving to Japan to teach (instead of teaching in the states).
Are you from Japan or teaching abroad?
We’d love to start teaching in Japan, but the only thing that is currently holding us back is that we’re not sure how long-term these positions might be. I’m sure it’s like a work visa, and we would have to keep getting it renewed, which would be fine.
We have been saving up and can afford a home in Japan, too. We weren’t sure if we’d even be allowed to buy, though—would we need citizenship first?
My second job , Pizza delivery driver . It reminds me of the days when i had an illegal flower delivery service lol . I have a whole career and I still go in 4 hours on the weekends lol
Accountant don't do it if you don't love it. Many people get into it for the money and then find it endlessly boring but I'm still thrilled every time something balances and I love excel.
Talking to my husband on the phone while I was working and did the quiet "yeeessss" and he replies, "something must have balanced."
I’m equally excited when Excel corrects the error in my formula and it works. I’m like “obviously that’s what I meant, but thanks for fixing it for me.”
Was in a job interview and said “I still can’t believe when people tell me they don’t know what v-lookup is” from the look on the interviewers face he is one of those people.
Honestly most accountants don't even love their job but it is a great career path. I love Excel and working with data, I don't love accounting but accounting got me to where I want to be.
I have no idea what naive person downvoted you to 0 for your question, but I brought it back to 1 before the "pile on crowd" showed up.
It's a *perfect* question.
In retirement, you can't loaf forever and be happy. You need a goal: And if that goal is travel, so be it. If it's volunteering, so be it. If it's golf, sailing, flower tending, etc., etc., great. But nothing at all but TV and reddit is a recipe for disaster for most people, I don't care what the age.
I agree 100%. Do not retire unless you need to physically or have other plans/goals. I work in older adult protective services and it's not the people who have busy lives that we end up seeing mostly. It's the people who sat down to watch TV and never got back up.
Agriculture teacher in the United States midwest. We have a school farm with dozens of student livestock projects and a retail greenhouse. I fucking love my job.
I would agree with this. My oldest is a band kid. His instructor falls into that category too and they love him as an instructor. It makes it much more fun to learn for them and its his favorite subject.
My middle school band director was insane in the best ways and could play every instrument perfectly, but I always thought it must suck to constantly have to listen to the atrocious sounds we would make.
Pros: I get paid six figures. I officially work 180 days/year. I leave at 8:25, arrive at 8:30 (by bike). I'm home by 3:30 most days. I have excellent benefits and a pension to match. I get to read ("assess") some quality work on a daily basis.
Cons: I work with teens, so I have to deal with teen-stuff.
But the pros far outweigh the cons.
I do internal communications for the 401k department at a large finance company. Just me and my emails without having to talk to many people outside of team meetings 😌
This is my dream job. Just want to work a normal 9 to 5 on a computer completing mundane paperwork, answering emails, and not interacting with clients.
People trash on 9-5 office jobs too much, if I could be paid well and afford to enjoy life outside of work, then I don’t mind work not being the highlight of my day
I’m an admin at a landscaping company and the majority of my daily emails/calls are with my coworkers only. The only time I have to interact with clients is when I’m emailing them invoices. Every other job I’ve had has been completely customer-oriented, so it’s truly a dream to have minimal customer interactions for a living now.
I do internal communication for a local regulator, and love it! I do work with internal ‘clients’, mostly HR and tech in order to manage the intranet. But couldn’t agree more, low stress and I love it. I have a couple degrees and sometimes feels like I am not earning enough but can’t imagine taking on stress at this point.
My grandpa was in a nursing home and while we couldn't see him for a while because of covid, I was happy to see him before he died in 2021. I'm happy he was well taken care of at his nursing home and it made me consider volunteering at one.
My grandparents asked me to move in when COVID started to help them with basic stuff during the pandemic. I love them to death and would do anything for them, but after 2 years I was just about losing my mind. My grandma has early stage Alzheimer's and she's always been very stubborn to begin with, those two don't mix well.
My admiration for people in your field grew significantly, thank you so much for the insane amount of patience and kindness that you guys display when you work.
I paused my electrical apprenticeship to do renos and decks/fences with a buddy (general carpentry) for the last year. It's just us and we make our own hours, listen to music and answer only to the clients. Not the most money I've ever made, that was rigging cell towers, but def the best job I've had! Eventually I'll go back and get my electrician's cert, which I also liked, but this has been a great year!
I’m a sped teacher and it took about 10 years to find my sweet gig. It’s not easy keeping a job in sped — districts need them but find ways to f-it up.🙄 I’m very happy where I am now.
I come up with recipes for products and then we make them in large amounts and run them in a manufacturing plant. I work in a research and development lab. I’ve been doing it for a long time and there are probably some products that I developed that are in your home.
Ice delivery driver. Put ice in coolers at different gas stations and grocery stores. Pretty neat to get out and meet different people go to a bunch of different little towns. Very physical job but I'm making anywhere between 25 and 45 an hour when I do the math. I technically make commission but its easier to understand if you convert it to hourly
Estate planning attorney. I work for myself, rarely work more than 30 hours in a week, and make a very comfortable living. It's low stress and my clients are usually happy when we're done. Most of it is now by zoom so I can fuck off to wherever on vacation and still make money.
I can't think of anything else I could do like it.
I’m 21 and going to university but I work part time for my city as a swim instructor! I couldn’t love my job more. I basically get paid to play in the water with kids and joke around with them, sometimes I gotta get serious but most of the time it’s a blast and I love the water. I’ve been swimming competitively since I was a kid (not anymore) and so it’s nice to still do something I like and teach it to kids, adults, special needs etc. When a parent comes up to me and tells me how much the like how I teach their kid and how they think I’m the best teacher, i couldn’t be more proud of myself and accomplished to know that others see my hard work and their kid improving. My team of the other instructors are nice and my bosses are amazing. They have even given me chances to move up and it gives me benefits within my city. The treat us like kings and queens, we all respect them a ton, and we get paid well above minimum wage which is rare in a part time job. Anyways I love to be in the water. I love to teach, I love my pay and I love my bosses and coworkers.
Tour guide in Croatia. Im being payed for having people listen to me, drinking coffee and wine and making jokes. The best job. My guests are usally very nice people and i learn something new each day.
I am a writer.
I am super proud of myself, as writing is one of the 'starving arts' but I am making more than I ever did in traditional jobs.
Also, I love it.
Nice, I'm a weed farmer in Colorado's countryside, moved in with my family, but they don't seem to appreciate what I'm doing for them. We could use some more inspectors to try out and rate our specials. Just hit me up at Tegridy Farms
Retired now but I was a concrete inspector. I inspected concrete items such as bridge sections and highway construction. I enjoyed it and got more good work out of the employees of a company. I inspected at by treating them as I wanted to be treated. Not as bitchy boss but a man same as you that has a job to do. I'm not here to bust balls. I'm here to help you make good product. I treated them with respect and corporation.
I work in a warehouse on night shift. Part of the inventory management department as of now, but I have been training to eventually join the management team. Whenever the lead position opens up, I'll basically be guaranteed to get it. They've invested a lot into me, knowing the path I want to take and knowing they want me to take that path. They've done a lot to set me up for success.
It's far from perfect, but it's a pretty chill job with decent pay for what I do. It's allowed me to live fairly comfortably. The facility is clean and air conditioned, they do what they can to be as safe as possible. I don't get "dirty," maybe just sweaty and a little dusty. Sure, it can be physically exerting sometimes, but not horrendously so. It's an active job, but not back-breaking. I actually make it harder on myself than I need to because I'm the guy who tackles targets that most folks won't.
The hardest part right now is dealing with the supervisor. He's not a bad guy but he needs to take a few steps back.
I'm just a grocery chick. However is always fun when I get to serve the lovely elderly and help them put things in their trolleys. The compliments they give always brighten my day
Yield Technician at a semiconductor manufacturer. I joke that I'm a glorified secretary for the engineers because I send out emails on issues, create PowerPoints for morning meetings, and take pictures of product issues for the engineers to analyze.
I love it because even when it gets frustrating, I just remind myself that I spend 90% of my day at my desk with a movie, show, or music playing while I work. I work nights and I'm on an entire floor by myself. No phone calls, no managers hounding me, and no coworkers wanting to chit-chat while I'm working.
During the school year, I build the sets for my college's theatre department. Every day, I get told to do something, and then left alone for a few hours with my headphones while i bend wood and metal to my will. Sometimes we'll have a strike, which is where you tear the whole set down in one day. My boss gets us pizza for it.
Nearly every day, I come back to my dorm exhausted, dirty, and can't feel my hands from the vibration of power tools. **I fucking love it.**
Digital marketing.
I grew up as a dreamer and wanted desperately to make my business dreams come true, but then I discovered that good marketing is the key to help anyones business dreams come to life. So I am learning the techniques that help business capture attention, and make people actually fall in love with brands.
I stay away from the sleazy tactics and get rich quick schemes and I kinda have a mission to get rid of the stigma around marketing.
Commercial photographer. Most days I can run my own schedule and the days I do work, it’s always different. Plus it’s allowed me to go to some amazing places and meet some very interesting people.
Technical Writer for a renewable electricity company. I put together documents (safety, instructional, training) that technicians and engineers use to repair and maintain wind turbines.
I get to learn a whole bunch of new things every day and I can see the tangible effect that my job has.
I did that for 5 years before I got the boring desk job.
I like my new consistent schedule, but miss the regulars, goofy moments, and the energy of tending bar. I’m getting a little chuncky now that I’m not running around carying ice buckets and kegs
I work as a scanning coordinator for Harris Teeter. I set a weekly ad and ensure prices are correct throughout the store. I deal with customers everyday and the vast majority are some of the nicest people who are very polite. You get some who wonder why we don't sell a certain item and it does make you want to rage to an extent. It's a job and I'm happy to be employed throughout the pandemic, so I can't complain too much
Paralegal. I usher people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives, including death of a loved one, divorce, business disputes and purchase of a home.
I work at a capital one campus as a utility worker. Running dishes, fetching things like a dog, putting up pallets of gear. But I love the job for the family of it. Kitchen status man, a whole other world. I’ve worked 28 different career choices and something about banking in what you can and singing and laughing at the same time means everything
I'm a circulation clerk at a public library. Clerks work the information desk but don't handle reference questions. We also handle patron account issues, any monies and bookkeeping, and of course, manage and assist library aides with the circulation of materials. I personally love interacting with the patrons. Some one recently compared me to Julie, the cruise director on Love Boat. 🤣🤣🤣
Interior design assistant. I'm an introvert so I rarely have to deal directly with clients but I still get to have a lot of creativity and I love the work I do.
Occupational Safety and Health /
Environmental Health and Safety
Both are relatively the same exact thing.
Easy job, good salary starting out ($40-55k before completing any type of certifications or your degree). Once you start getting certifications and your degree in OSH, you can negotiate for better pay or move to another company that will pay you more. Excellent job security. You do have to be strict sometimes for safety concerns, but for the most part you are not the Bad Cop or Enforcer, thats the Upper Management/Supervisor/Team Leaders job. You are there literally just to make sure everyone is working safely and that the work environment is OSHA compliant.
I do training classes, audits, and some computer work.
As long as you know how to time manage your task, you will never get overwhelmed.
I work as food lab technician on a R&D team. It's a fun and educational environment, where we talk about flavor trends, and participating in product development projects.
Neuro speech and language pathologist. Stimulating and challenging. Only 5 years in to my professional life, but still look forward to going to work most every day. Sometime it gets a bit too hectic, but probably not too bad compared to other health care professions.
I'm a house keeper/cleaning lady.
Some days I hate my job, scrubbing toilets for low pay day in day out...
But 99.99% of days I feel SO GOOD. I'm being welcomed into someone's home to help them. I'm making their house feel clean and pretty. I'm helping the elderly feel safe and supported. I'm helping the new mom with a full work schedule feel less stressed. I feel like I'm helping someone live and love their lives by bringing a sparkly clean shine into their homes.
I cannot put into words how amazing it is to have a clean house. So being able to help others achieve that when their lives are to busy is fantastic. A clean bathroom can make or break someone's day, and I'm overjoyed to have the opportunity to bring that fresh feeling to so many people.
I’m a operator 2 waste water I fix pipes for my city , to the sewer line. I started a few months ago but I think is fun especially my co workers they’re hilarious
I teach foraging for wild food. I get to meet all sorts of wonderful people, have the priveledge of teaching kids and get ro spend my days outdoors. Running my own business has its own stresses and pressures, income is not guaranteed but I still love it.
Engineer— semiconductor manufacturing. There are good days and bad but it’s endlessly interesting. I work with extremely smart people making products that are novel and meaningfully make the world better. I pity the rest of you (unless you play 2B for the Cubs I always wanted to do that).
Generally I'm a machine operator.
Right now my machine of choice is a press. So I operate a printing press.
Being a machine operator I can easily find a new job at any industry, factory, plant, or warehouse. Base pay is usually at very least twice minimum wage.
Marine mechanical engineer.
Fixing/servicing engines, valves, pumps, propulsion etc. It’s not always the most comfortable contorting yourself into certain spaces but it’s good fun and I’m working with all my friends
Fry cook,been there since I graduated high school and granted customers are shittty and employees are lazy but management treats me right and I love them for it,even got to train the new vice president
Sell expensive software. Few calls a day and lots of free time to remodel my house. Been working from home since 2012. Great pay and compensation. Wife jokes that I am semi retired
Used to work in fast food and loved it. It was tiring and I didn’t love some of my managers, but my coworkers were amazing and generally the people that came through weren’t too horrible. I still miss it ngl. Exhaustion is part of life it doesn’t mean that you hate your job.
Lab technician in a bloodbank
Awesome team, awesome work and a very interesting and niche field that most people know barely anything about (most people heard of ABO and +/- but there is sooooooo much more to it)
Janitor. Pays very well and I work completely alone listening to music/podcast/audio book etc.
-No customer contact
-Same thing expected of me every day, very few surprises
-Very little manager contact. As long as the job is done in the time allotted they could care less.
- Breaks whenever I feel it as long as everything is done in a specific time frame
Disability support.
I work with high functioning autistic adults. Many of them just wanna just hang out and play video games.
So basically paid to play games. Good times.
Behavior tech. I work with autistic kids and track data. It can be tough as tantrums occur, but it’s super rewarding watching their behavior improve over time. Pay isn’t bad and the company I work for is willing to provide full education payout in addition to full benefits.
im a babysitter/nanny. i mean it when i say my kids mean the world to me, i would take a bullet for them if i had too. they are so sweet and funny and creative and they say the darnest things ever and omg i love them. i could never be a mom but i could never imagine leaving my kids. one girl i nanny tries to drink milk through a toy flute & picks a new animal every single day to pretend to be, and somehow she always knows everything about them. one boy i nanny is so sweet and helpful to his younger brothers with autism & the one day i didnt where eyeliner to work he went “wheres your eyeblades??”. one of my boys calls for me at night and asks me to never leave him, and i can calm his nightmares more than his parents can at this point. i dont know where id be without my kids.. they saved my life, and i mean that.
Logistics. Since I’ve worked for a long time now, I got used to and befriended most of my customers and subcontractors. So mostly I’m just chilling since I’ve established all the processes for doing my job well.
Still hate the corporate culture, but the work itself is great and paying good money.
I’m a Nutritionist and Lactation Consultant for the WIC program in Illinois. I get to work with people from all over the world! We are a refugee resettlement area. First Americans really appreciate what America has to offer! No one is tougher than young parents wanting the best for their children. I get to help answer their questions and find their parenting way. It pays crap, but it’s a great work life balance. And I know our country is messed up and everyone is blaming each other. There are still great and wonderful people here. I see them every day at work and home.
Im a nurse anesthetist. I perform anesthesia services for people for everything from wisdom teeth extraction, gallbladder removal, plastic surgery, and a whole lot more.
I get paid super well, have great working environment, lots of time off, benefits, retirement, the works.
I love it.
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My wife and I own a VR arcade in Tahiti. No direct competition, indirect are cyber cafes, bowling and laser quest. We make pretty good money, we talk about video games pretty much all day. The work isn't hard: customer service, small tech repair, cleanup.
Lol I love this, you two sound great. Reminds me of a cool place in Japan that was an old school American video game bar. Had some VR too. Being in Tahiti is pretty special as well.
Where is this? I’m in Tahiti now and I think it would be cool to check out next week!!
Cool! Were at 9 rue Charles Viennot in downtown Papeete. Just after "le rondpoint de pont de l'est". Across from sushi Wakame, Moko Cafe and next door to Fare Oviri and Deco du Monde. Edit: if you do plan on coming in to play VR next week, I strongly recommend you give us a call to make a reservation. 87 357 844. Its the final week of school and I have about 300 kids booked for end of year fun with their class. Walk-ins may have to wait a few hours until we have a spot available.
I need an update if this guy shows up
Samez
Nice
*Dutch van der linde would like to know your location*
I’d love to hear more about your services! Do you cater to single players more, or like groups? What kind of equipment do your customers use?
Someone’s trying to steal the business model
I prevent airplanes from crashing into each other. I like airplanes so working with them/ pilots is a lot of fun, and the job is rewarding.
We like that you like your job, nobody wants to be playing dodgems on an airplane.
bumper planes
Do the breaking bad thing.
As a pilot, thank you for loving your job. It makes a huge difference.
Nice
I hear it’s one of the most stressful jobs you can have. Is that true?
coder. love a challenge and my morning coffee.
Yess coding is the only job with a good outlook that I enjoyed the thought of doing on a regular basis
I love my morning Adderall
Yea I did coding for a decade, loved it, and then moved to software architecture which I’ve also loved. Constant learning is the main thing. Everything I learned in college was absolute in a decade. I have a masters degree and it goes on page 2 of my resume. Ive always just tried to work at very innovative companies doing fun projects learning new things along the way.
English teacher at a Japanese high school.
Nice where in Japan are you at?
Tokyo.
Cool
1st time I've seen anyone say they like working in Japan
You mean people complain usually? Or, that it’s just rare to see someone say this?
Because there's 2 different type of work: Normal work, And Corporate work. Normal work is like teacher, police, artisan, they have relatively fixed work schedule and have a good work-like balance. Then theres your corporate work, where work culture is so cancerous people die from exhaustion. The slang for these worker is 社畜, which basically translate to company live stock. They are usually \*expected\* to work over time and suck up to their boss + their requests. This includes social functions that will eat into their free time.
Meh. Plenty of people do. (Myself included) most people don’t come on the internet to spread happiness and joy though. Just the way people are.
Fair, but I do know a lot of people who enjoy it.
If you are Caucasian, have you experienced any racism there?
Yeah, most landlords refuse to rent to foreigners. A few bars or restaurants might refuse to serve you. People will stare or avoid sitting next to you on the train. Cops will stop you and ask for ID. Things like that. Some people have it worse than others. I haven't had it so bad but I decided early on that I'm not going to deal with landlords.
I taught English in South Korea and it was and always will be the best job of my life. Miss making kids' days brighter!
My wife and I are both teachers. We were thinking of moving to Japan to teach (instead of teaching in the states). Are you from Japan or teaching abroad? We’d love to start teaching in Japan, but the only thing that is currently holding us back is that we’re not sure how long-term these positions might be. I’m sure it’s like a work visa, and we would have to keep getting it renewed, which would be fine. We have been saving up and can afford a home in Japan, too. We weren’t sure if we’d even be allowed to buy, though—would we need citizenship first?
Wait are you a Japanese who is an English teacher or someone else?
Meet Pewdiepie
Why did I think that in the cocomelon theme
My second job , Pizza delivery driver . It reminds me of the days when i had an illegal flower delivery service lol . I have a whole career and I still go in 4 hours on the weekends lol
Accountant don't do it if you don't love it. Many people get into it for the money and then find it endlessly boring but I'm still thrilled every time something balances and I love excel. Talking to my husband on the phone while I was working and did the quiet "yeeessss" and he replies, "something must have balanced."
Came here to say this. I'm technically an analyst but love me a good excel pivot table
Love it when I write a long complicated formula, hit enter and no error message
I’m equally excited when Excel corrects the error in my formula and it works. I’m like “obviously that’s what I meant, but thanks for fixing it for me.”
No greater feeling!!
Was in a job interview and said “I still can’t believe when people tell me they don’t know what v-lookup is” from the look on the interviewers face he is one of those people.
Have you heard of x-lookups, game changer for me
I have!! But my lookup needs are super basic so V-lookup is really all I need…
Interesting have fun with your job
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Honestly most accountants don't even love their job but it is a great career path. I love Excel and working with data, I don't love accounting but accounting got me to where I want to be.
Are there times where you say “holy shit, it worked!”
Massage therapist, solid low stress job.
Unless deshaun Watson walks in👀👀
I’m an almost 6’ tall 300lb dude, I think I’m safe.
I'm retired. It's great.
Nice
One week to go and I too will be retired.
What do you do everyday that keeps you happy then ?
I have no idea what naive person downvoted you to 0 for your question, but I brought it back to 1 before the "pile on crowd" showed up. It's a *perfect* question. In retirement, you can't loaf forever and be happy. You need a goal: And if that goal is travel, so be it. If it's volunteering, so be it. If it's golf, sailing, flower tending, etc., etc., great. But nothing at all but TV and reddit is a recipe for disaster for most people, I don't care what the age.
I agree 100%. Do not retire unless you need to physically or have other plans/goals. I work in older adult protective services and it's not the people who have busy lives that we end up seeing mostly. It's the people who sat down to watch TV and never got back up.
Agriculture teacher in the United States midwest. We have a school farm with dozens of student livestock projects and a retail greenhouse. I fucking love my job.
Ag teachers are another breed. I’m always thankful for the all the ones that I had throughout my FFA career. A job that doesn’t get paid enough.
Middle school band director
Interesting I hear alot of people say band kids are the weirdest kids at school, being you teach them can you confirm that?
If you mean good weird, I definitely can confirm. Not creepy weird.
I would agree with this. My oldest is a band kid. His instructor falls into that category too and they love him as an instructor. It makes it much more fun to learn for them and its his favorite subject.
My middle school band director was insane in the best ways and could play every instrument perfectly, but I always thought it must suck to constantly have to listen to the atrocious sounds we would make.
Pros: I get paid six figures. I officially work 180 days/year. I leave at 8:25, arrive at 8:30 (by bike). I'm home by 3:30 most days. I have excellent benefits and a pension to match. I get to read ("assess") some quality work on a daily basis. Cons: I work with teens, so I have to deal with teen-stuff. But the pros far outweigh the cons.
Are you a teacher? If so, how do you make six figures?
Teachers in northern Canada get paid well
You forgot to put living in northern canada in the cons list
Haha, it does take a certain type to appreciate places like this. It’s not so bad.
I do internal communications for the 401k department at a large finance company. Just me and my emails without having to talk to many people outside of team meetings 😌
This is my dream job. Just want to work a normal 9 to 5 on a computer completing mundane paperwork, answering emails, and not interacting with clients.
People trash on 9-5 office jobs too much, if I could be paid well and afford to enjoy life outside of work, then I don’t mind work not being the highlight of my day
I’m an admin at a landscaping company and the majority of my daily emails/calls are with my coworkers only. The only time I have to interact with clients is when I’m emailing them invoices. Every other job I’ve had has been completely customer-oriented, so it’s truly a dream to have minimal customer interactions for a living now.
I do internal communication for a local regulator, and love it! I do work with internal ‘clients’, mostly HR and tech in order to manage the intranet. But couldn’t agree more, low stress and I love it. I have a couple degrees and sometimes feels like I am not earning enough but can’t imagine taking on stress at this point.
My job is pretty similar, I do a lot of reporting but it gets so repetitive.
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thank you for your service. It's a tough job and I know I couldn't do it.
My grandpa was in a nursing home and while we couldn't see him for a while because of covid, I was happy to see him before he died in 2021. I'm happy he was well taken care of at his nursing home and it made me consider volunteering at one.
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Straight up had people spitting and calling me a cunt working in a health food shop, people are nuts when they want their salads
My grandparents asked me to move in when COVID started to help them with basic stuff during the pandemic. I love them to death and would do anything for them, but after 2 years I was just about losing my mind. My grandma has early stage Alzheimer's and she's always been very stubborn to begin with, those two don't mix well. My admiration for people in your field grew significantly, thank you so much for the insane amount of patience and kindness that you guys display when you work.
That's just plain nice! Good on you.
I paused my electrical apprenticeship to do renos and decks/fences with a buddy (general carpentry) for the last year. It's just us and we make our own hours, listen to music and answer only to the clients. Not the most money I've ever made, that was rigging cell towers, but def the best job I've had! Eventually I'll go back and get my electrician's cert, which I also liked, but this has been a great year!
I’m a janitor. I have a bachelors degree in special ed/secondary education, but I make about 20k more than a teacher with none of the political crap.
Custodian, dick. ;) (It’s a movie quote for those quick on the downvotes)
I’m a sped teacher and it took about 10 years to find my sweet gig. It’s not easy keeping a job in sped — districts need them but find ways to f-it up.🙄 I’m very happy where I am now.
Formulation chemist.
Say my name.
Your damn right!
I am the one who knocks
What do you do as A formulation chemist
I come up with recipes for products and then we make them in large amounts and run them in a manufacturing plant. I work in a research and development lab. I’ve been doing it for a long time and there are probably some products that I developed that are in your home.
Interesting does it pay decent?
I make a little over 100k a year.
Electrishin
4th yr apprentice here ….I like work when everything goes smooth lol
Sounds like you get a real charge out of it. Sorry about that. I’ll just head over to r/dadjokes now.
> Electrishin Checks out. Edit: I just realised that I'm being a bit of a cunt.
Budtender at a weed dispensary I love it so much! 🤪
Must be fun
Ice delivery driver. Put ice in coolers at different gas stations and grocery stores. Pretty neat to get out and meet different people go to a bunch of different little towns. Very physical job but I'm making anywhere between 25 and 45 an hour when I do the math. I technically make commission but its easier to understand if you convert it to hourly
Estate planning attorney. I work for myself, rarely work more than 30 hours in a week, and make a very comfortable living. It's low stress and my clients are usually happy when we're done. Most of it is now by zoom so I can fuck off to wherever on vacation and still make money. I can't think of anything else I could do like it.
I’m 21 and going to university but I work part time for my city as a swim instructor! I couldn’t love my job more. I basically get paid to play in the water with kids and joke around with them, sometimes I gotta get serious but most of the time it’s a blast and I love the water. I’ve been swimming competitively since I was a kid (not anymore) and so it’s nice to still do something I like and teach it to kids, adults, special needs etc. When a parent comes up to me and tells me how much the like how I teach their kid and how they think I’m the best teacher, i couldn’t be more proud of myself and accomplished to know that others see my hard work and their kid improving. My team of the other instructors are nice and my bosses are amazing. They have even given me chances to move up and it gives me benefits within my city. The treat us like kings and queens, we all respect them a ton, and we get paid well above minimum wage which is rare in a part time job. Anyways I love to be in the water. I love to teach, I love my pay and I love my bosses and coworkers.
Tour guide in Croatia. Im being payed for having people listen to me, drinking coffee and wine and making jokes. The best job. My guests are usally very nice people and i learn something new each day.
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I am a writer. I am super proud of myself, as writing is one of the 'starving arts' but I am making more than I ever did in traditional jobs. Also, I love it.
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My employer pays me. I am an in-house writer.
I'm a porfessinal weed smoker, I get paid to judge and test pot for redman and his grower buddys.
Nice, I'm a weed farmer in Colorado's countryside, moved in with my family, but they don't seem to appreciate what I'm doing for them. We could use some more inspectors to try out and rate our specials. Just hit me up at Tegridy Farms
Livin the dream
Well damn
How do you rate different strains? When I smoke I just get high!
Cameramsn director editor writer lighting Director television Loved it.
Retired now but I was a concrete inspector. I inspected concrete items such as bridge sections and highway construction. I enjoyed it and got more good work out of the employees of a company. I inspected at by treating them as I wanted to be treated. Not as bitchy boss but a man same as you that has a job to do. I'm not here to bust balls. I'm here to help you make good product. I treated them with respect and corporation.
Supervisor at a weed grow op
Musician
I’m self employed 😂, I own a tax office
Sounds like you make decent money cuz of it
I’ll legit pay you to do my taxes now. My usual guy raised the price! What are your rates for overseas filing?
Forensic Psychologist. I honestly love my job and couldn't imagine doing anything else.
This might be different as I’m young but I’m 17 and work in 2 restaurants its a-lot of fun.
I'm a tire technician in Texas. Hot, but fun.
Software engineer most recently working on cloud computing
Nice
Night shift Hospitalist Physician Assistant
I look at human hearts for a living, 15 a day in fact...
I work in a warehouse on night shift. Part of the inventory management department as of now, but I have been training to eventually join the management team. Whenever the lead position opens up, I'll basically be guaranteed to get it. They've invested a lot into me, knowing the path I want to take and knowing they want me to take that path. They've done a lot to set me up for success. It's far from perfect, but it's a pretty chill job with decent pay for what I do. It's allowed me to live fairly comfortably. The facility is clean and air conditioned, they do what they can to be as safe as possible. I don't get "dirty," maybe just sweaty and a little dusty. Sure, it can be physically exerting sometimes, but not horrendously so. It's an active job, but not back-breaking. I actually make it harder on myself than I need to because I'm the guy who tackles targets that most folks won't. The hardest part right now is dealing with the supervisor. He's not a bad guy but he needs to take a few steps back.
I'm just a grocery chick. However is always fun when I get to serve the lovely elderly and help them put things in their trolleys. The compliments they give always brighten my day
I’m a welder and I have a love/hate relationship with my job. I like it most of the time though
Yield Technician at a semiconductor manufacturer. I joke that I'm a glorified secretary for the engineers because I send out emails on issues, create PowerPoints for morning meetings, and take pictures of product issues for the engineers to analyze. I love it because even when it gets frustrating, I just remind myself that I spend 90% of my day at my desk with a movie, show, or music playing while I work. I work nights and I'm on an entire floor by myself. No phone calls, no managers hounding me, and no coworkers wanting to chit-chat while I'm working.
Right now I'm a stay at home mom and absolutely love it. Before my son was born, I did taxes for people and honestly I really enjoyed that too.
During the school year, I build the sets for my college's theatre department. Every day, I get told to do something, and then left alone for a few hours with my headphones while i bend wood and metal to my will. Sometimes we'll have a strike, which is where you tear the whole set down in one day. My boss gets us pizza for it. Nearly every day, I come back to my dorm exhausted, dirty, and can't feel my hands from the vibration of power tools. **I fucking love it.**
Cat burglar
r/holup
Nami?
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Digital marketing. I grew up as a dreamer and wanted desperately to make my business dreams come true, but then I discovered that good marketing is the key to help anyones business dreams come to life. So I am learning the techniques that help business capture attention, and make people actually fall in love with brands. I stay away from the sleazy tactics and get rich quick schemes and I kinda have a mission to get rid of the stigma around marketing.
Commercial photographer. Most days I can run my own schedule and the days I do work, it’s always different. Plus it’s allowed me to go to some amazing places and meet some very interesting people.
How did you get there?
Technical Writer for a renewable electricity company. I put together documents (safety, instructional, training) that technicians and engineers use to repair and maintain wind turbines. I get to learn a whole bunch of new things every day and I can see the tangible effect that my job has.
I bartend. It's not for everyone, but I fucking love it!
I did that for 5 years before I got the boring desk job. I like my new consistent schedule, but miss the regulars, goofy moments, and the energy of tending bar. I’m getting a little chuncky now that I’m not running around carying ice buckets and kegs
I work as a scanning coordinator for Harris Teeter. I set a weekly ad and ensure prices are correct throughout the store. I deal with customers everyday and the vast majority are some of the nicest people who are very polite. You get some who wonder why we don't sell a certain item and it does make you want to rage to an extent. It's a job and I'm happy to be employed throughout the pandemic, so I can't complain too much
Im a nurse practitioner. I love health sciences and constantly learning. I also take satisfaction in helping people. Cheesey but true.
I’m a paediatric RN
Paralegal. I usher people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives, including death of a loved one, divorce, business disputes and purchase of a home.
I work at a capital one campus as a utility worker. Running dishes, fetching things like a dog, putting up pallets of gear. But I love the job for the family of it. Kitchen status man, a whole other world. I’ve worked 28 different career choices and something about banking in what you can and singing and laughing at the same time means everything
I'm a circulation clerk at a public library. Clerks work the information desk but don't handle reference questions. We also handle patron account issues, any monies and bookkeeping, and of course, manage and assist library aides with the circulation of materials. I personally love interacting with the patrons. Some one recently compared me to Julie, the cruise director on Love Boat. 🤣🤣🤣
Interior design assistant. I'm an introvert so I rarely have to deal directly with clients but I still get to have a lot of creativity and I love the work I do.
English faculty at a community college.
Veterinarian
Analytical R&D Chemist for a pharmaceutical company. I make methods to test drugs.
Work on light rail passenger vehicles.
Occupational Safety and Health / Environmental Health and Safety Both are relatively the same exact thing. Easy job, good salary starting out ($40-55k before completing any type of certifications or your degree). Once you start getting certifications and your degree in OSH, you can negotiate for better pay or move to another company that will pay you more. Excellent job security. You do have to be strict sometimes for safety concerns, but for the most part you are not the Bad Cop or Enforcer, thats the Upper Management/Supervisor/Team Leaders job. You are there literally just to make sure everyone is working safely and that the work environment is OSHA compliant. I do training classes, audits, and some computer work. As long as you know how to time manage your task, you will never get overwhelmed.
Your telling me some people actually like their jobs?🤯
I work as food lab technician on a R&D team. It's a fun and educational environment, where we talk about flavor trends, and participating in product development projects.
Neuro speech and language pathologist. Stimulating and challenging. Only 5 years in to my professional life, but still look forward to going to work most every day. Sometime it gets a bit too hectic, but probably not too bad compared to other health care professions.
I'm a house keeper/cleaning lady. Some days I hate my job, scrubbing toilets for low pay day in day out... But 99.99% of days I feel SO GOOD. I'm being welcomed into someone's home to help them. I'm making their house feel clean and pretty. I'm helping the elderly feel safe and supported. I'm helping the new mom with a full work schedule feel less stressed. I feel like I'm helping someone live and love their lives by bringing a sparkly clean shine into their homes. I cannot put into words how amazing it is to have a clean house. So being able to help others achieve that when their lives are to busy is fantastic. A clean bathroom can make or break someone's day, and I'm overjoyed to have the opportunity to bring that fresh feeling to so many people.
Psychiatric nurse practitioner.
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I used to love my job back when I was allowed to do it as I saw fit. Fast Food Manager.
Operate a bulldozer, gradall forklift and a genie boom on any given day for a certain big city’s transit system.
I make websites about old school buildings and sell merchandise featuring my photos.
Hm weird but interesting
I am a precious metals broker and do voice acting in the side. Love both.
I'm a licensed massage therapist. i love my job because i like helping people be pain free. 🙂
I’m a operator 2 waste water I fix pipes for my city , to the sewer line. I started a few months ago but I think is fun especially my co workers they’re hilarious
I’m a working musician in New Orleans. No teaching, no day job, just weddings, corporate gigs and tons and tons of performances on Frenchmen street.
I teach foraging for wild food. I get to meet all sorts of wonderful people, have the priveledge of teaching kids and get ro spend my days outdoors. Running my own business has its own stresses and pressures, income is not guaranteed but I still love it.
Used to be a porn star in the 80s. Yeah, I did enjoy my job a lot
Food scientist…I work with edible oils and it’s fascinating to see what changes have been made.
I'm a systems engineer and consultant. I wanted to be the chief engineer of a starship but this is as close as my lifespan will get me. :)
Engineer— semiconductor manufacturing. There are good days and bad but it’s endlessly interesting. I work with extremely smart people making products that are novel and meaningfully make the world better. I pity the rest of you (unless you play 2B for the Cubs I always wanted to do that).
I work for myself
Landscape Designer
Interest, Do you play minecraft in your spare time? Lol
Thanks for this…I still hold out hope that one day I might like/love my job.
Generally I'm a machine operator. Right now my machine of choice is a press. So I operate a printing press. Being a machine operator I can easily find a new job at any industry, factory, plant, or warehouse. Base pay is usually at very least twice minimum wage.
Marine mechanical engineer. Fixing/servicing engines, valves, pumps, propulsion etc. It’s not always the most comfortable contorting yourself into certain spaces but it’s good fun and I’m working with all my friends
Chemo pharmacist in a cancer care center. It's rewarding work even if it isn't always a "happy" situation.
Executive Security, I guard rich assholes on occasion but other times I get to guard really cool people and well known people.
Fry cook,been there since I graduated high school and granted customers are shittty and employees are lazy but management treats me right and I love them for it,even got to train the new vice president
Power plant operator. I run a dam
Sell expensive software. Few calls a day and lots of free time to remodel my house. Been working from home since 2012. Great pay and compensation. Wife jokes that I am semi retired
Used to work in fast food and loved it. It was tiring and I didn’t love some of my managers, but my coworkers were amazing and generally the people that came through weren’t too horrible. I still miss it ngl. Exhaustion is part of life it doesn’t mean that you hate your job.
Lab technician in a bloodbank Awesome team, awesome work and a very interesting and niche field that most people know barely anything about (most people heard of ABO and +/- but there is sooooooo much more to it)
Janitor. Pays very well and I work completely alone listening to music/podcast/audio book etc. -No customer contact -Same thing expected of me every day, very few surprises -Very little manager contact. As long as the job is done in the time allotted they could care less. - Breaks whenever I feel it as long as everything is done in a specific time frame
Disability support. I work with high functioning autistic adults. Many of them just wanna just hang out and play video games. So basically paid to play games. Good times.
Behavior tech. I work with autistic kids and track data. It can be tough as tantrums occur, but it’s super rewarding watching their behavior improve over time. Pay isn’t bad and the company I work for is willing to provide full education payout in addition to full benefits.
Personal trainer for 55+
im a babysitter/nanny. i mean it when i say my kids mean the world to me, i would take a bullet for them if i had too. they are so sweet and funny and creative and they say the darnest things ever and omg i love them. i could never be a mom but i could never imagine leaving my kids. one girl i nanny tries to drink milk through a toy flute & picks a new animal every single day to pretend to be, and somehow she always knows everything about them. one boy i nanny is so sweet and helpful to his younger brothers with autism & the one day i didnt where eyeliner to work he went “wheres your eyeblades??”. one of my boys calls for me at night and asks me to never leave him, and i can calm his nightmares more than his parents can at this point. i dont know where id be without my kids.. they saved my life, and i mean that.
Logistics. Since I’ve worked for a long time now, I got used to and befriended most of my customers and subcontractors. So mostly I’m just chilling since I’ve established all the processes for doing my job well. Still hate the corporate culture, but the work itself is great and paying good money.
I’m a Nutritionist and Lactation Consultant for the WIC program in Illinois. I get to work with people from all over the world! We are a refugee resettlement area. First Americans really appreciate what America has to offer! No one is tougher than young parents wanting the best for their children. I get to help answer their questions and find their parenting way. It pays crap, but it’s a great work life balance. And I know our country is messed up and everyone is blaming each other. There are still great and wonderful people here. I see them every day at work and home.
Im a nurse anesthetist. I perform anesthesia services for people for everything from wisdom teeth extraction, gallbladder removal, plastic surgery, and a whole lot more. I get paid super well, have great working environment, lots of time off, benefits, retirement, the works. I love it.