# What's an easy job for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767 "2020-04-28T19:20:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/21 "2020-04-29T00:55:58Z")
Nylon inspector for Las Vegas chorus lines. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/22 "2020-04-29T01:00:01Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Scoring standardized tests essays and open response items. I’ve been doing it since 2001. I’ll happily do it as long as I have eyesight, I don’t even look at the pay rate before accepting a project. As I posted elsewhere, I officially retire on Friday. When I read the OP, I thought that there wouldn’t be anything that I would do but I actually wouldn’t mind scoring standardized tests. I liked grading when I was in grad school. Where can I get information on that? ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/23 "2020-04-29T01:28:01Z")
Having been both a field scientist and teacher in the biological sciences, it was no surprise when I retired, I retained my fascination with the biological realm, and returned to my serious lifelong interest of unusual and rare desert plants. I love the challenge of getting the seed and figuring out how to grow them - many of them have unusual requirements for germination and growth, so it is a fun puzzle to solve. I love the intricate keeping of records and growing seedlings to flowering age…and then giving/donating them to friends and institutions. Most folks would really see this as tedious, labor intensive, and generally a pain. I love it! ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/24 "2020-04-29T01:31:31Z")
You know how on car commercials there’s often a written disclaimer that says “professional driver on closed course”? I want to be the professional driver. [Note: I did NOT say stunt driver. That’s not my gig. I’ll do the straightaways.] ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/25 "2020-04-29T01:34:02Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Dishwasher, but only the part where you take the dirty tableware and put in on a tray and put it through the Hobart. None of the scrubbing pans for me, thanks. Dude…you have no idea how wrong you are in this particular manner. I am an executive steward at a private club. three stories in a city high rise. 350,000 sqft of space, front and back of house. we do banquets for up to 700 people using all three floors. Wanna see how many dishes there are to be washed? LOL When we go back I would love to give you a trial run, if your willing. Oh, and I promise I won’t make you “scrub stuff”. I have a whole separate team for that duty. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/26 "2020-04-29T01:53:15Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Here’s the deal - you’ve decided that you’re tired of the rat race, or retirement, or the boredom if idle wealth. You want a job, but it can’t be too much like work. > > There is an available position doing what you consider to be an easy job and it’s yours for the taking. What is that job? Why do you count it as easy? Night watchman/security. I mention it because a relative has been suggesting it for a bit; a friend of hers is doing it and he’s looking to retire. It’s seven hours of sitting and reading, finishing with an hour of greeting the people that come in early in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/27 "2020-04-29T03:11:29Z")
One of the writers on a really good sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/28 "2020-04-29T03:36:09Z")
I’ll update websites. No development or anything. Maybe just a WYSIWYG form I can fill out to get new content posted. And I don’t want to write the content. Just send it to me and I’ll post it. Right now (and for the past 20 years) I develop sites, I develop site editors, and I often develop content. I would love nothing more than to just be the person who sits back and fills out all those nice forms all day. Easy peasy. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/29 "2020-04-29T04:09:01Z")
I am exploring options for plunging more into medeival arts and the possibilities of selling my crafts on the SCA and ren faire circuits, cosplayers, etc. Small metal castings, glass beads, leatherwork, investment casting, basically settle into a simple semi retired artist type existence. few more years and I should be ready to retire at 55ish. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/30 "2020-04-29T04:11:13Z")
I am exploring options for plunging more into medeival arts and the possibilities of selling my crafts on the SCA and ren faire circuits, cosplayers, etc. Small metal castings, glass beads, leatherwork, investment casting, basically settle into a simple semi retired artist type existence. few more years and I should be ready to retire at 55ish. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/31 "2020-04-29T04:20:33Z")
Easiest would be tutor for intermediate FileMaker Pro users who want help developing their databases. Close runner-ups would be: proofreader for an English composition workshop; gender & feminist theory newspaper columnist, cranking out an article once a week; FileMaker developer for professional clients who don’t know databases but know what they want them to do. Some things would be more effortless (e.g., sorting plastic forks into red, green, and white piles) but I’d quickly become bored, and there’s nothing easy about doing dull boring work, generally speaking. The above-mentioned things are fun and challenging enough to keep me engaged but not challenging enough to frustrate me or threaten me with the situation of being unable to do my job. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/32 "2020-04-29T06:26:33Z")
I just heard on the news recently about ‘Gaming tutors’…seems like gamers would be lining up to get to paid to teach their favorite online game. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/33 "2020-04-29T07:01:55Z")
The thing that is absolutely the easiest for me to do, the thing that I have been doing since grade 10 or before, the thing that I can literally do in my sleep (because that’s what many of my dreams end up being), is… design fictional worlds. Unfortunately I have never found a way to turn this skill into an income. In ‘92 I went to Sheridan College to study animation, only to find that the world design part of the course was relatively minor, and animation was more about ‘acting on paper’. So in what may have been one of my less optimal decisions, I did not continue, but went back to work. Now I am deep into writing and (I hope) publishing a book and several other stories, and I am drawing on that skill again. Time will tell whether there is any interest in my stories… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/34 "2020-04-29T09:33:24Z")
Desktop Wallpaper Artist. If there was some way for me to cash in on that skill, I would be sitting pretty. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/35 "2020-04-29T10:32:58Z")
I like Wally’s job, in Dilbert. Most places I’ve worked had one, one was actually named Wally. I often dream that I have a job where I have done nothing for years, there is a lot of pressure to look busy, with constant fear someone will notice my non-productivity. I have an easy job now. I train CR reps. I just call 800 numbers, and they record me to train their operators. Doesn’t pay well, but job satisfaction is high, and you’ll thank me when you get a really competent operator. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/36 "2020-04-29T10:50:56Z")
Bus driver. I’ve just been made redundant from my [airbus driver](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/07/2d/48/072d4837e220814447675d4e66eacf1f.jpg) job, and given that I have literally no experience or skills outside of that, I’m seriously looking at a ground-bus driving job. I think it’d be alright to be honest, the pay is shit though. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/37 "2020-04-29T16:04:44Z")
I’d go back to being a proofreader. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/38 "2020-04-29T16:07:51Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I want to be the guy that sits in the drawbridge tower all day and waits for a boat to come by. I’ll stop the traffic and open the bridge, then reverse the process. In between openings, I’ll look at the water. Typically, you don’t wait for the boat to show up. The bridge rises every 30 minutes or other predetermined set time. So you just set the timer. No watching for boats. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/39 "2020-04-29T16:44:26Z")
I want to be the guy that drives the chase car when they’re transporting windmill blades. Flashing lights on…check. The blade’s right in front of me…check. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767/40 "2020-04-29T16:53:16Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I want to be the guy that sits in the drawbridge tower all day and waits for a boat to come by. I’ll stop the traffic and open the bridge, then reverse the process. In between openings, I’ll look at the water. Sounds easy enough, but shit happens. In St Martin [a yacht left a port open and nearly killed the drawbridge operator.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqBEs7UQAg) [Another view](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ZGoyv6Ly0). In between openings, the bridge-keeper hangs out at The Saint Martin Yacht Club. They drink coffee, I have a bloody when I hang out with them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-an-easy-job-for-you/852767.md?page=3)