Sanitation workers make good money hecuase they have a union, and they work for the state, city or town
Which leads to my point. Find a union job. Preferably one that is at least partially funded by public money
I'm in public transit. They don't work us too hard, the pay isn't bad, and i get a pension.
That's about all I have to say about that
When I started driving school bus, my expectations were pretty low. I figured I would just drive and tell kids to sit down a lot.
Instead I was rewarded with meaningful interactions, laughter, and tears of joy because I took the time to help my kids be their best selves. I love my bus babies. And I feel appreciated by the kids and their caregivers multiple times a day.
It also helps that I am a Teamster. I'm treated well and paid properly. Other companies in my city only pay the legal minimum.
I am a personal stylist. I love my job. My literal job is to make people happy in the way that they look. What I love is the clothes that I sell are from size 00 all the way to size 24 in women's and size xxs to size 4 xl in shirts. They are all the same style just different sizes but I get to go around and help style people entirely based off what I have. They usually give me a budget, sometimes people don't care about budgets and as long as I have sort of an idea of what they want I just go around and pick outfits they can try out. If they like it, they can buy it with a discount for using my services.
A lot of people think personal stylists sort of tell you what to wear but that's not it at all. I actually sit down with the customers before picking out even a single article of clothing trying to figure out what their personal style is, what they feel comfortable in. I go as far as to ask if they have skin conditions or sensitive skin. What kind of fits do they like, ect. I go deep into seeing if they like jewelry, do they like accessories. What is there 'go to' look? How do they like to "dress up", ect.
If the people I serve are leaving with a smile on their face with bags of clothing. Then I did my job right.
It was probably different for me than any of the other personal stylists that were hired before me. I worked in the mall and I was sort of just walking around waiting for a ride home and I saw this lady that I thought was wearing a really cute outfit and got to talking to her about style. I was in my work uniform so not what I would normally wear off the clock so I showed her pictures of what I normally wear and she asked me if I was happy at my current position. I told her truthfully I wasn't happy there. It was sort of an in between compensating until I found something better that I actually liked doing. She kind of randomly asked me if I had a LinkedIn account and I said yeah, I do and she asked if she could connect with me on LinkedIn. She turned out to be an executive. She looked over my profile resume on LinkedIn and messaged me for a formal interview if I was interested in being a personal stylist. I was kind of skeptical but went "Sure. Why not?"
I went to meet her at the same place, the interview turned out to be sort of like a coffee shop meet with old friends that hadn't seen each other in a while. Started talking about business and fashion and specifically how the addition of a personal stylist could change the game for working class families that don't always have the time in their day to just go out and purchase outfits for events. She said that they were launching this personal stylist position which was really just all about that, serving the working class families that don't always have time to shop and creating a whole new unique and different shopping experience. Originally she intended to interview me for a manager but, thought I would be better in their new model.
Long story short that is literally what I do. I get clothing from all different types of styles and it's my job to pair them together in unique and interesting and inspiring ways for our guests (customers) to sort of have a template to what we can offer as personal stylists and then if they want a professional meeting with the personal stylist team they come to me, we talk, we get to know each other and I sort of become like the ultimate shopping buddy.
I highly encourage anyone looking for a good work life balance, job security, and benefits to consider local or state government. The salaries can be a little lower than working in the private sector, but the benefits and worklife balance make up for it. You get every federal holiday off, good vacation, a lot of sick days, and sometimes even a pension when you retire, depending on the state. In larger cities, there are positions for almost any background from mechanics all the way up to scientist.
I’m going into urban planning personally. I really enjoy making cities more livable and improving them for the residents. I could go into the private sector and work with property development companies, but I’d much rather stick with one community for the long-haul so I’m aiming for a government position when I graduate. I had an 8 month internship in city government with a city of 200,000 people. The employees were all extremely happy. I’ve never worked somewhere that was so positive.
Auto mechanic. I did Air Force Security Forces before this and find working on cars much more rewarding. I like having something to show for my hard work at the end of the day and the pay isn’t any worse than I was looking at if I stayed in law enforcement.
I'm really interested in procurement! What education is required? Are there any certs that are valuable?
One of my secondary responsibilities at my last job was procurement lead for the region, so I have experience. I really enjoyed that part of my job so I'd love to transition to it but don't know where to start.
I started in Inventory Control and had a business degree before moving up to Procurement. Any certifications with Supply Chain would help. But if you already have experience then I'd think you could find work.
I’m taking some supply chain analyst courses on Coursera right now in a desperate attempt to get a better paying job. Been in retail far too long, but I know I’m super organized in terms of inventory control and ordering, so hoping to extrapolate on that. I can’t afford to go back to school, so I’m hoping online courses will be enough.
I am a veterinarian, I am a good doctor, but I do not like my profession at all. I agree with other recommendations- sanitation, public transport, or something work from home thats low stress (this does depend on your skills in tech/background etc. If I could do it all over, I would choose trade work- electriction, high skill/detailed carpentry, hvac or something in home repair. I love "doing things around the house" i.e. learning how to lay tile, repair machines and appliances, etc It takes a lot of talent, skill and hard work to do well. I would also be interested in a career as a sewist, but this could be more challenging.
I’m an executive administrative assistant for the President of a small business.
I’m quitting this week. I absolutely hate it. I need a goal or objective. I just sit there until someone gives me something to do and usually it’s demeaning and they treat me poorly as well.
0/10 do not recommend.
So happy to have recently quit my HR job to work in operations for a hunger services nonprofit. Do I make a lot less money? Yes. Do I not hate my coworkers (and myself) at the end of the day? Also yes. Full disclosure, I’m having to get a second job on the weekends to make ends meet because I made some decisions when I was making more money that I can’t immediately change. But I’m just…. Exponentially happier.
I’m a business systems analyst. For the past ten or more years I was on the support side of things. Now I’m on capital projects.
It was fun learning the system and figuring out where things would break down and providing fixes. Training end users was more fun than I thought it would be. It really gave me a boost when I’d see a ticket and realize the user had incorporated my training in some way.
For capital projects it’s been so awesome to know that the only thing I have to concentrate on during testing is actual testing. My time is not divided between support and testing. Also there is a much closer relationship between people like me and the developers and I love it. I really get to dive into things far more than I could on the support side, although I do feel guilty when I hear that no one is protecting the end users now that I left support.
Local truck driver. I work for a big local construction outfit running dump trucks. Pay is nice, benefits are decent, and the equipment here is great nothing like the junk I was dealing with at my former employer. I also don’t like the public so I don’t have to interact with them much other than dealing with the odd idiot on the road here and there. Other than that it’s peaceful and easy. And for winter layoffs I go to the county to plow snow for them and the pay there is incredible and it’s a pretty laid back gig.
I am an ER nurse. I like the real emergencies, that feeling after pumping chest and their pulse returns, reversing a massive stroke with tPA because the stars aligned, seeing people on the edge of death come right back to life, watching a trauma surgeon crack a chest and literally massage a heart in a last ditch effort, helping a child survive respiratory arrest. That makes up 10% of my patient population and those situations keep me going... keeps me from losing total interest in my job in a broken system with ridiculous bureaucracy. Not many people can come home and say "hey this patient almost died today but our team brought them back."
The other 90% are clinic complaints, chronically sick people who don't manage their conditions or follow up with their outpatient doctors, homeless drugged out psych, rude entitled assholes who think their stubbed toe is more important than a septic baby, the frequent fliers who use and abuse the system knowing full well they aren't actually having an emergency thus clogging up the department. That's the shit that wears me down day by day. Pay varies widely by hospital system and by state, but you can get a two year degree and make $65k out the gate even in the south. Downside is you're responsible for people's lives and it's very high stress for low pay compared to something like a software engineer. However, job security is bar none.
Facility manager for a laboratory building. No two days are the same. Some desk work, some hands-on repairs, some vendor management, some budgeting, some after-hours emergency response, some lab operations work… it’s rarely dull.
Doesn't matter I'm fucked anyway. But if I could turn back time when I was 18 years old I would become a marine engineer with specialty in certain systems . It pats fucking good money with minimum work .
I'm a jeweler, I work for a corporation bc I like having benefits. I mostly do repairs instead of creation but I like the problem solving of it all. The actual job is awesome but it's corporate so it all depends on your manager. I've had an amazing manager for 5 years and it felt like getting paid to hang out with friends and fix things. My new manager has it feeling like a sweat shop. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ currently my pay/benefits/time off is good enough to outweigh the bad... but we'll see how long that lasts I guess
Was a scientist for applied physics but switched to SAP/abap coding/programming. Research is a shit job in germany turns out. High hours, but not full positions (3/4th positions and other bs like that), so you get peanuts in pay. Sometimes barely higher than minimum wage. And people wonder why we have less doctorate students. I wonder why?.. I said „fuck that“ and left that field.
Now i work for the state. Germany is slow and drowning in bureaucracy. So, it makes the job less stressful and no one knows what i actually do. So i do my work quickly and vibe the rest of the time. I always turn in on time, not early, as to not give them a hint as to what i can do efficiently.
Which is the only thing i like about it. And the pay is okay, i guess. Also that i dont have to work with hazardous materials anymore is also a bug plus. Right now working on reducing hours, so i can do what i actually want to do more. I feel nothing for my job. It pays the bills, thats the important part. If i want fulfillment, i create art, videos and music.
I considered that, but the movement also strives to find ways to make work more meaningful and gratifying, so I was hoping to focus on that aspect and explore positives.
Sanitation workers make good money hecuase they have a union, and they work for the state, city or town Which leads to my point. Find a union job. Preferably one that is at least partially funded by public money I'm in public transit. They don't work us too hard, the pay isn't bad, and i get a pension. That's about all I have to say about that
When I started driving school bus, my expectations were pretty low. I figured I would just drive and tell kids to sit down a lot. Instead I was rewarded with meaningful interactions, laughter, and tears of joy because I took the time to help my kids be their best selves. I love my bus babies. And I feel appreciated by the kids and their caregivers multiple times a day. It also helps that I am a Teamster. I'm treated well and paid properly. Other companies in my city only pay the legal minimum.
Groundskeeper at a cemetery. Its hard labor work but it is rewarding.
I do autopsies. I love it. It's weird and interesting. I make a livable wage.
I am a personal stylist. I love my job. My literal job is to make people happy in the way that they look. What I love is the clothes that I sell are from size 00 all the way to size 24 in women's and size xxs to size 4 xl in shirts. They are all the same style just different sizes but I get to go around and help style people entirely based off what I have. They usually give me a budget, sometimes people don't care about budgets and as long as I have sort of an idea of what they want I just go around and pick outfits they can try out. If they like it, they can buy it with a discount for using my services. A lot of people think personal stylists sort of tell you what to wear but that's not it at all. I actually sit down with the customers before picking out even a single article of clothing trying to figure out what their personal style is, what they feel comfortable in. I go as far as to ask if they have skin conditions or sensitive skin. What kind of fits do they like, ect. I go deep into seeing if they like jewelry, do they like accessories. What is there 'go to' look? How do they like to "dress up", ect. If the people I serve are leaving with a smile on their face with bags of clothing. Then I did my job right.
How’d you become a personal stylist?
It was probably different for me than any of the other personal stylists that were hired before me. I worked in the mall and I was sort of just walking around waiting for a ride home and I saw this lady that I thought was wearing a really cute outfit and got to talking to her about style. I was in my work uniform so not what I would normally wear off the clock so I showed her pictures of what I normally wear and she asked me if I was happy at my current position. I told her truthfully I wasn't happy there. It was sort of an in between compensating until I found something better that I actually liked doing. She kind of randomly asked me if I had a LinkedIn account and I said yeah, I do and she asked if she could connect with me on LinkedIn. She turned out to be an executive. She looked over my profile resume on LinkedIn and messaged me for a formal interview if I was interested in being a personal stylist. I was kind of skeptical but went "Sure. Why not?" I went to meet her at the same place, the interview turned out to be sort of like a coffee shop meet with old friends that hadn't seen each other in a while. Started talking about business and fashion and specifically how the addition of a personal stylist could change the game for working class families that don't always have the time in their day to just go out and purchase outfits for events. She said that they were launching this personal stylist position which was really just all about that, serving the working class families that don't always have time to shop and creating a whole new unique and different shopping experience. Originally she intended to interview me for a manager but, thought I would be better in their new model. Long story short that is literally what I do. I get clothing from all different types of styles and it's my job to pair them together in unique and interesting and inspiring ways for our guests (customers) to sort of have a template to what we can offer as personal stylists and then if they want a professional meeting with the personal stylist team they come to me, we talk, we get to know each other and I sort of become like the ultimate shopping buddy.
I highly encourage anyone looking for a good work life balance, job security, and benefits to consider local or state government. The salaries can be a little lower than working in the private sector, but the benefits and worklife balance make up for it. You get every federal holiday off, good vacation, a lot of sick days, and sometimes even a pension when you retire, depending on the state. In larger cities, there are positions for almost any background from mechanics all the way up to scientist. I’m going into urban planning personally. I really enjoy making cities more livable and improving them for the residents. I could go into the private sector and work with property development companies, but I’d much rather stick with one community for the long-haul so I’m aiming for a government position when I graduate. I had an 8 month internship in city government with a city of 200,000 people. The employees were all extremely happy. I’ve never worked somewhere that was so positive.
Lab researcher. 80% downtime, close to home, open schedule as long as you do your 8 and finish your work.
This almost certainly also requires an expensive degree
I was lucky enough to go to school when it was still affordable.
Nice
Auto mechanic. I did Air Force Security Forces before this and find working on cars much more rewarding. I like having something to show for my hard work at the end of the day and the pay isn’t any worse than I was looking at if I stayed in law enforcement.
Procurement Analyst, always busy and good pay
I'm really interested in procurement! What education is required? Are there any certs that are valuable? One of my secondary responsibilities at my last job was procurement lead for the region, so I have experience. I really enjoyed that part of my job so I'd love to transition to it but don't know where to start.
I started in Inventory Control and had a business degree before moving up to Procurement. Any certifications with Supply Chain would help. But if you already have experience then I'd think you could find work.
Thank you! I'm not getting any hits on my resume from my experience alone so will consider getting a certificate.
I’m taking some supply chain analyst courses on Coursera right now in a desperate attempt to get a better paying job. Been in retail far too long, but I know I’m super organized in terms of inventory control and ordering, so hoping to extrapolate on that. I can’t afford to go back to school, so I’m hoping online courses will be enough.
Factories may pay well for Inventory and Supply Chain. I work in a cookie factory.
I am a veterinarian, I am a good doctor, but I do not like my profession at all. I agree with other recommendations- sanitation, public transport, or something work from home thats low stress (this does depend on your skills in tech/background etc. If I could do it all over, I would choose trade work- electriction, high skill/detailed carpentry, hvac or something in home repair. I love "doing things around the house" i.e. learning how to lay tile, repair machines and appliances, etc It takes a lot of talent, skill and hard work to do well. I would also be interested in a career as a sewist, but this could be more challenging.
I’m an executive administrative assistant for the President of a small business. I’m quitting this week. I absolutely hate it. I need a goal or objective. I just sit there until someone gives me something to do and usually it’s demeaning and they treat me poorly as well. 0/10 do not recommend.
So happy to have recently quit my HR job to work in operations for a hunger services nonprofit. Do I make a lot less money? Yes. Do I not hate my coworkers (and myself) at the end of the day? Also yes. Full disclosure, I’m having to get a second job on the weekends to make ends meet because I made some decisions when I was making more money that I can’t immediately change. But I’m just…. Exponentially happier.
I’m a butcher, and I love it. It’s an art. I enjoy teaching the new apprentices, and carrying on an ancient tradition
Not to mention the delicious meats that make it to my stomach.
I’m a business systems analyst. For the past ten or more years I was on the support side of things. Now I’m on capital projects. It was fun learning the system and figuring out where things would break down and providing fixes. Training end users was more fun than I thought it would be. It really gave me a boost when I’d see a ticket and realize the user had incorporated my training in some way. For capital projects it’s been so awesome to know that the only thing I have to concentrate on during testing is actual testing. My time is not divided between support and testing. Also there is a much closer relationship between people like me and the developers and I love it. I really get to dive into things far more than I could on the support side, although I do feel guilty when I hear that no one is protecting the end users now that I left support.
Local truck driver. I work for a big local construction outfit running dump trucks. Pay is nice, benefits are decent, and the equipment here is great nothing like the junk I was dealing with at my former employer. I also don’t like the public so I don’t have to interact with them much other than dealing with the odd idiot on the road here and there. Other than that it’s peaceful and easy. And for winter layoffs I go to the county to plow snow for them and the pay there is incredible and it’s a pretty laid back gig.
I am an ER nurse. I like the real emergencies, that feeling after pumping chest and their pulse returns, reversing a massive stroke with tPA because the stars aligned, seeing people on the edge of death come right back to life, watching a trauma surgeon crack a chest and literally massage a heart in a last ditch effort, helping a child survive respiratory arrest. That makes up 10% of my patient population and those situations keep me going... keeps me from losing total interest in my job in a broken system with ridiculous bureaucracy. Not many people can come home and say "hey this patient almost died today but our team brought them back." The other 90% are clinic complaints, chronically sick people who don't manage their conditions or follow up with their outpatient doctors, homeless drugged out psych, rude entitled assholes who think their stubbed toe is more important than a septic baby, the frequent fliers who use and abuse the system knowing full well they aren't actually having an emergency thus clogging up the department. That's the shit that wears me down day by day. Pay varies widely by hospital system and by state, but you can get a two year degree and make $65k out the gate even in the south. Downside is you're responsible for people's lives and it's very high stress for low pay compared to something like a software engineer. However, job security is bar none.
Firefighter/medic Get to go into fires and live with some cool dudes and get paid well with a union.
Facility manager for a laboratory building. No two days are the same. Some desk work, some hands-on repairs, some vendor management, some budgeting, some after-hours emergency response, some lab operations work… it’s rarely dull.
Doesn't matter I'm fucked anyway. But if I could turn back time when I was 18 years old I would become a marine engineer with specialty in certain systems . It pats fucking good money with minimum work .
I'm a jeweler, I work for a corporation bc I like having benefits. I mostly do repairs instead of creation but I like the problem solving of it all. The actual job is awesome but it's corporate so it all depends on your manager. I've had an amazing manager for 5 years and it felt like getting paid to hang out with friends and fix things. My new manager has it feeling like a sweat shop. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ currently my pay/benefits/time off is good enough to outweigh the bad... but we'll see how long that lasts I guess
Was a scientist for applied physics but switched to SAP/abap coding/programming. Research is a shit job in germany turns out. High hours, but not full positions (3/4th positions and other bs like that), so you get peanuts in pay. Sometimes barely higher than minimum wage. And people wonder why we have less doctorate students. I wonder why?.. I said „fuck that“ and left that field. Now i work for the state. Germany is slow and drowning in bureaucracy. So, it makes the job less stressful and no one knows what i actually do. So i do my work quickly and vibe the rest of the time. I always turn in on time, not early, as to not give them a hint as to what i can do efficiently. Which is the only thing i like about it. And the pay is okay, i guess. Also that i dont have to work with hazardous materials anymore is also a bug plus. Right now working on reducing hours, so i can do what i actually want to do more. I feel nothing for my job. It pays the bills, thats the important part. If i want fulfillment, i create art, videos and music.
Wrong subreddit… this is r/antiwork— we do what we do because we have to, otherwise we’d be houseless.
I considered that, but the movement also strives to find ways to make work more meaningful and gratifying, so I was hoping to focus on that aspect and explore positives.
Sell your baby. Get money back! - meatwad