OT: What are some easy jobs that pay well but require little work?

[BuddyBear]

Anyone have any ideas about jobs where you do very little but still get paid well and get things like weekends off and a lot of vacation time.

I would say film critic would be the most obvious....restaurant critic isn't a bad gig either.


Any ideas?

[betplom]

Drug dealer.

[Razz]

Male escort.

[Senator7]

Porn Star

[Razz]

Queen

[Starbuckibm]

[The HG]

There is one clear winner, hands down: state employee.

[tacomax]

Drug dealer.

Taking the off-topic topic off topic, there is some good work in Freakonomics concerning this, some details from a review of the book:

The book's best topic is: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they live with their mothers? The answer is that most drug dealers don't make that much money. Drawing on the work of a sociology student who spent a harrowing time in the company of a Chicago drug gang, Levitt paints a portrait of corporate America headquartered in urban blight. The big drug gangs have an organizational chart like McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) according to Levitt, and--just like the fast food giants--the people actually ringing up the burger sales don't make nearly as much as the dons in the boardrooms. The only difference is that a fast food job isn't as likely to get you shot.

Levitt's data show that if you're a typical member of his Chicago drug gang you'd be likely to endure 5.9 arrests, 2.4 nonfatal injuries and have a 25% chance of being killed. By contrast, a worker in the most dangerous job in America, a timber cutter, has a 0.5% chance of being killed on the job. To add insult to injury, if you're a low-level drug dealer you make far less than a timber cutter; you can expect to make $3.30 an hour selling crack. Granted it's tax free, but that's cold comfort. The gang's leader made a tax-free $100,000 per year.

So, how do you convince someone to accept a 25% chance of dying in exchange for slave wages? "An editorial assistant earning $22,000 a year at a Manhattan publishing house, an unpaid high school quarterback and a teenage crack dealer making $3.30 an hour are all playing the same game," Levitt writes, "a game best viewed as a tournament." Winning the tournament means getting to the top of a highly competitive field and becoming not only rich but also notable. Losing? That's the risk these kids take.

[The Prick]

Forum Moderator

[Stumpage]

Toronto Maple Leaf "Stanley Cup Champions" banner hoister.....

[Razz]

Translator/Interpreter

[jjgold]

bookmaker
drug dealer
prostitute

[michael777]

sleep tester

[bigboydan]

Trust fund baby

[durito]

Trust fund baby

I don't think that counts as a job.

[pico]

you guys are all wrong

the only job in the world that pays you for doing nothing is a gov job. have fun waiting in line at the DMV.

[Dark Horse]

Find something that you love doing and never 'work' another day.

Sounds cheesy, but it works.

[sungus77]

hand model

[Ganchrow]

Plutonium hat model

[pico]

hand model

keeping those hands soft and moist is a fulltime job. now here is a million dollar question for a hand model. do you wear gloves when you choke the chicken?

[LargeMouthBass]

Organ donor

[BrentCrude]

Anything government related

Overpaid,underworked and over benefitted to do makework that just makes people in the private sector have to work harder to pay taxes.Then these people have the gall to think they are vital components of the economy.Look up the words Keynesian economics and that's what we have in this country.It's good for government employees sake that people are too busy working to pay their taxes and for inflation due to the worthless dollar that they don't have time to figure out they are being ripped off by the government.Then of course the public school system brainwashes the masses of worker bee drones to think that government is their friend and good for their lives so they can create a whole new herd of usefull idiots to become private sector wage slaves paying for such things as lesbian studies professors and diversity training councilors in college.

[buztah]

Gate attendant.

I knew this guy who made 20 bucks an hour to sit at a gate, inside a nice airconditioned booth with a TV and a stereo, and let people into a gated community, while not letting others have access.

[picantel]

How about owner of an off shore gambling agency. If it does well you sit back and rake in the cash without lifting a finger. If it does poorly you take all the money, lie and screw the customers, and just start another business. Since you cannot be sued and because most of your customers are gambling in a country where it is illegal there are no ramifications. How much easier can it be.

[pico]

How about owner of an off shore gambling agency. If it does well you sit back and rake in the cash without lifting a finger. If it does poorly you take all the money, lie and screw the customers, and just start another business. Since you cannot be sued and because most of your customers are gambling in a country where it is illegal there are no ramifications. How much easier can it be.

yep. sportsbook.com comes to mind.

[Willie Bee]

Forum Moderator

I'd say that runs second to being JJ's bookie.

[crackerjack]

bank robber

[mad]

Master debater

or perhaps if that's not to your liking, you could try:

Mass debater

Are SBR hiring?

[Doug]

head of snow removal at the airport in Vegas

the job exists

[buztah]

head of snow removal at the airport in Vegas

the job exists

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!! No doubt it's unionized too.

[raiders72002]

A relative of Jesse Jackson

A judge at a Don King fight.

[sungus77]

keeping those hands soft and moist is a fulltime job. now here is a million dollar question for a hand model. do you wear gloves when you choke the chicken?

the problem as i hear it is falling in love with your beautiful hand such that you cannot resist the temptation. you are doomed to end up with a gnarled claw.

[pico]

the problem as i hear it is falling in love with your beautiful hand such that you cannot resist the temptation. you are doomed to end up with a gnarled claw.

if you ever become the #1 hand model in the world i think you'll love your hand more than heidi klum

[gridironguy]

Punter for the Indianapolis Colts.

To (seriously) answer your question, I think those mystery shoppers or ppl who dine at restaurants to give reviews would be a nice paying job that would be pretty easy, and enjoyable too!

[hitbitritz]

how about a judge? they sit on their ****ing ass all day and give orders