What's Your Well Paying Low Stress Job Of Choice? (r/AskReddit)

to those of you who earn a good salary in a low stress job what do you do I'm a civilian security guard on an army base in the middle of nowhere surrounded by thousands of square miles of empty desert I made 60 K this year for watching tumbleweeds and Jackrabbits my boss is not an butthole I think that matters more than the actual job lot of truth here the people you work with make or break the job at least in my experience I am a medical radiation technologist I think my job is one of the least stressful we don't work long hours like nurses and doctors and only main priority is to take diagnostic images of patients but once we're done they are taken away by porters so we spend little time on patients at the end of the day when we finish our hours we just head home and relax I find it a relaxing job gets easier the better your skill set and there's usually people to help you this is strictly for x-rays only not CT or MRI which is more stressful since you're on a schedule I kind of like my job nuclear medicine tech specifically positron emission tomography our scans are typically 2030 minutes long an old colleague of mine will get through half a novel in an average workday no overtime weekends or uncle only stressful when equipment fails operator at a new plant make up to 180 K depending on how much overtime I work if I don't work ho T I'll make 140 K and only work 30 to 48 hours a week it's shift work which can take a toll but it's a union job and were treated very well it slows stress in a sense where if you can pass the monthly exams demonstrating your knowledge of nuclear plant operations you shouldn't be concerned but if you are not as book-smart as the rest of the crew you can have some problems passing the initial training you receive in the continuing so moral of the story if you can pass the training it's very low stress heck if Homer Simpson could do it edit textbooks online have worked from home for over 15 years I'm a civil servant specifically a staff analyst I deal mainly with contract administration seriously take the tests I changed light bulbs and very minor electrical work for twenty four dollars an hour at a VA hospital barber for 18 years I started off in cosmetology school and went back to be a barber woman's hair is fun for a while but I love cutting a fresh sharp fade I'm a truck driver home every day just listen to music and watch the Sun Rise make about 80k could make much more if I put in the hours the worst is having people complain about you existing just gotta have a frickin mentality I wouldn't recommend truck driving to others though it's very hard to get a good-paying job I got very lucky and had a home daily company hired me the moment I got my commercial driver's license long-haul drivers actually make less than home daily drivers which nobody seems to understand sysadmin if it ain't broke I don't fix it especially on a Friday summer job I was a tree planter all through nine years of school after a few summers experience I was making about $16 K and spending almost nothing in two months if you can handle the weather and have the right attitude there was no stress at all wake up eat put trees in the ground eat sleep repeat now that I have a master's and 15 years experience in my real job I still don't make quite as much as I did back then librarian best job ever green coffee buyer I decide what coffee are roastery buys firefighter when I say low stress I mean that when my shift is over I don't have any looming deadlines or unfinished work waiting for me the next day when I'm working there can be moments of pretty high stress it's not chronic stress though just burst solve occasional crazy high stress it's a good wage not a good salary but I Drive a garbage transfer truck at night my total package is over 120 thousand year but it's heavily weighted towards benefits like lifetime retiree medical coverage and pension on-site on-call technician ninety-five percent of the time nothing is going on when something breaks it's usually back online in about 20 minutes maybe five days a year you need to work on something all shift rest of the time you monitor the system and find other things to do like learn how to code and automate the boring part of the job deckhand on a tugboat in New York three hundred and eighty-five dollars a day next promotion to mate is five hundred and eighty dollars a day captain is six hundred and seventy dollars a day we live in the boats and go up and down the East Coast mostly the Northeast for two weeks then we get two weeks off Fogg work most of the time we eat free food and watch Sat Evie I bring my xbox and play a couple hours every day using my phone as a hotspot literally straight chillin for two weeks with friends oh yeah fool benefits me 401 K math one dollar for one dollar up to 6% starting my father was a deckhand on a tugboat he said he decided it was the job for him when he realized every boat had a bunk bed retirement actory 90 K per year plus bonus five years in the industry so far lots of interesting projects and minimal stress just here to say I love these threads it's always soothing to know I have options in the future if they need be on the other hand reading all of these easy well paying jobs makes me feel even more worthless than I do already because I feel as though I can't even do the simplest ones without issues I'm a sushi chef the work I do carries some stress but the restaurant is completely laid-back just so everyone knows the restaurant industry is generally quite stressful and anyone looking for a low stress workplace should probably avoid it altogether kudos to ops for finding success and avoiding the insanity I design circuits for avionics guidance systems if you know what you're doing it's low stress and I'm 23 making $75 K in the low cost Midwest I Drive Coltrane's I can literally sleep 70 percent of my shift some nights I earn one hundred and forty seven thousand dollars last year by Sleep Train newborns I work nights and only interact with mom and dad for about 10-15 minutes after that it's just me and the baby love my job I guess my job is not low stress or high paying to most people that it checks both boxes for me as a single 24 year old male I work rural Em's in Canada my schedule is 96 hours on followed by 96 hours off in other words I work for four straight days and then get four days off I live in a big city but the town that I work in is one hour and 40 minutes away so my commute is not terrible when you consider that I only need to make the drive once every four days when I am actually at work I can do whatever I want as long as we don't get a call my company sets us up with a nice staff house satellite TV Wi-Fi and a decent gym I spend my days playing video games with my coworkers there are four of us on shift watching TV movies cooking eating working out taking a nap shooting the crap with my co-workers etc if we do get a call we have eight minutes to respond so I can lounge around in pajamas all day if I want and if I need to run an errand in town I can usually get it done without getting more than eight minutes away from the station the calls can be kind off crappy lots of highway accidents and farming accidents but I find the really crappy ones are few and far between most calls are just driving people who don't feel well to the hospital but I do enjoy the tough calls because they challenge me to make quick decisions and use my skills in 96 hours were usually average about 5-6 calls however I have literally worked 96 hours without a single call on more than one occasion regardless I never take the work home with me I make around $70,000 per year with good benefits and there are lots of opportunities to pick up extra shifts which are paid at double-time neat if I ever get bored off medicine in the u.s. I'm just gonna drop my letters and bm's and all canada furniture sales i consider a good salary $100 k plus per year with no previous education or experience required in-house graphic designer for a pretty large retail company we stay busy but there isn't any of the stress that comes from working at an agency and having to please several different clients or worrying about getting enough work as a freelancer by ultrasound hearts and vascular systems and a doctor's office for 35 per hour a super laid back if you're fast enough half your time is free time i managed to trade stocks we'd learn something new keep extra time filled with something interesting etc fireman illustrator but as senior producer pointed out low stress does not equal the effort I am always polishing the craft regardless if I am being paid or not reading this makes me freaking hate everyone in this thread I teach English in China 12 hours a week roughly two thousand seven hundred US dollars a month almost all living expenses all paid one return flight a year three months off a year but unpaid for 11 months I know I'll never get rich but I make way more than I could spend considering the cost of living here I could easily save 2,000 u.s. a month I have plenty of time to pursue my hobbies even my time in the office is very relaxed my classes are so basic QA data analysis I did user acceptance testing for four years before switching to a new job it paid well it was super low stress and I hated my life for the entire time it might technically be an easy job with the endless monotony of it was soul-destroying would not recommend qa/qc on electrical and mechanical projects it is simple read the original proposal and the 100% specifications and don't let the subcontractors waiver from them keep the customer happy by showing them you are all about giving them what they paid for it has its moments where it can get pretty hectic but 90% of the time it is laid-back and stress-free I am noticing QA seems to be one of the main jobs on this pose I make the coca-cola products that go into the freestyle machines 60k plus with over time we make one three batches per shift and that's just following a recipe very little stressors we have few chances to make mistakes I have a lot of downtime as well I'm an attorney civil ligation specifically the stress is killing me or maybe it's the hours perhaps it's the debt I don't know but I am here to see what comes up seeing these posts always kill me as I aspire to become an attorney I sit behind a desk and design DIY home theater and automation systems people send in their floor plans and I put little speaker TV etc images where they should install stuff and I troubleshoot the systems over the phone to easiest dang money I've ever made and I get paid good I'm an electronics engineer for an automotive OEM pretty interesting and fun I like solving problems and designing stuff I'm a PA for a really high-end real estate agent first few months was stressful constantly trying to work out how he operates but now I have it worked out I get everything done in advance for him and spend most of my day chatting crap with others in the office drinking coffee and going on reddit by freaking despise working I've always hated it I thought I would grow out of it but at 27 I just seemed to dislike it even more so to find a job that I can be excellent at with minimum effort and stress that pays me well is a freaking dream I also start early and don't take lunch so I'm home in good time to my dog oh how college professor if you find a field you love you get to talk about your favorite things or 15 hours a week earn the income of a full-time job and get several months off a year quotes because you use that time for grading and prepping stuff for the next semester and of course you work longer than 15 hours a week but what that work consists of varies widely if Community College it's pretty chill mostly meetings and waiting for students to see you research positions vary and responsibilities specialized schools could be chill or more demanding but there's potential for the majority of your time outside the classroom to be up to you and how you spend it put strawberries in 500 gram pockets I get good pay and limited amount of strawberries Senior Accountant for an oil and gas company it is kind of a small family operated company the president of the company takes very good care of the employees and their families in terms of compensation bonuses and benefits unlike other larger oil and gas companies that been hit hard in recent years this one is still very much in the black make no mistake the actual work is very busy and fast-paced my career has advanced pretty fast here going from knowing nothing about oil and gas industry to being one of the three most senior accountants here in just a few short years always something new to learn and skills to advance really it's not just the career or itself that makes a low-stress but the place you work as well the respect the company and people here have for each other is a rare find everyone loves their job and the company is always pushing and making good on the ideal that employees are their biggest asset both people above and below me are highly talented respectful and very easy to work with I have to work a weekend every once in a while from home just to be sure my duties are done to the best of my ability however for the most part I go in at 8:00 a.m. leave at 5:00 p.m. and my job ends there very flexible can work from home will leave early that trust here that everyone is busting but if a big part of that a dream job after years of crap jobs inside and outside the field after graduating college got really lucky waiter in a high-end Steakhouse it's only stressful for about an hour an aha all of these are the complete opposites to my job high stress and low wage stay in school kids or don't leave the city and find a nice government job in a small town where your house payment is $400 a month and you live like a king off 50k a year production welder finished quota in four hours sit on a pail scrolling through Reddit for another four ggs I'm a software developer it's normally low stress better than site ops who has to respond to sight down emergencies and such I can agree software engineer an Taggart stable company equals awesome software engineer at a start-up equals stressful friend of mine makes $45,000 a year in marketing his entire job is making a newspaper TV internet ad saying who would like to try a new product sitting on his butt for several days waiting then when people respond he sorts them by if they qualify or not guys can't test women's deodorant etc . that is the end of his job everything else is done by another group he has hours of paid free time he uses to code and do side projects he went to school for eight years for math to get this job data analysis for a local branch of a very large national healthcare provider began via a temp agency then hired on full 1.8 X what I was earning in retail after a decade you've been visited by the toothpaste man for good teeth and fresh breath comment Oh fresh if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people you

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Length: 16min 40sec (1000 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 16 2019