How to get an easy job

Morglin

buyaodanxin wrote: »

Hi All,
I wonder if you could offer any advice... My problem is an unusal one but genuine.

I am an Oxford graduate, after a few years in the city I decided I had enough and wanted a simpler life. Best idea I had was to move up North and work for a university doing data admin. I have done this at various places for a number of years.

To be honest it is a great improvement on my life in the city. However I do find there is an inbuilt intertia to the job - in that my responsibilities / abilities increase with time. I get given harder work. In my first year on the job I was given much more difficult work than less experienced people hired the year after to do the same job!

It would be possible for me to be promoted - however given still more additional work for a little additional money it isnt attractive. What I want is a relatively easy 9-5 with little expectation of development, unless I really decide to push myself (and right now I wont). I can apply to go up the pay scale but I am reluctant to even do this. I have often done work above my grade, and am not at all happy about doing this.

I have tried for lower grade posts - but often the interviewers seriously question why someone would want to go down in terms of salary, particularly given my education.

I have cut my hours significantly - which has improved things quite a bit.... I am lucky in that I have plenty of money, so whilst I still need to work - anything over £10k a year isnt really needed....

So my question (to summarize) is where does a well educated, pretty smart person go where they wont be tested/ pushed / developed for the easiest possible life.

I realize this may annoy some people as they have hard lives / struggle to develop themselves etc.. Nevertheless constantly being pushed/ dragged up the ladder when you have no intention of going up there is just as annoying...

Get a well paid job, and pay back your student loan my taxes have paid for. :wall:

You might be a troll, but if you truly are this inert after going to Oxbridge, then the whole ethos must have dumbed down in recent years.

Lin :doh:

Linda_D_2

Morglin wrote: »

Get a well paid job, and pay back your student loan my taxes have paid for. :wall:

You might be a troll, but if you truly are this inert after going to Oxbridge, then the whole ethos must have dumbed down in recent years.

Lin :doh:

Try reading the thread first before attacking him :doh:
It's not a troll thread.

morganedge

What are examples of easy jobs?
I used to type in 'easy' in the search bars and surprise surprise, nothing came up!
What keywords should one type?

Stephb1986_2

What about being a freelance financial advisor if you play the stock market you could easily advise other people on what to invest in and what not to invest in. You work the hours you want not too much pressure.

But at the same time if I was given the same opportunities as you have been given I wouldn't be wasting them I would earn the most money I could now so I could retire early and live a good life. I've been looking for a job for so long with reasonable qualifications just to receive knock back emails luckily I've been offered two jobs at once both which you would class as menial jobs but a job is a job and at least I'm not signing on the dole like a lot of people in this area.

I think you need to ask yourself if you could be absolutely anything what would it be? You need to find yourself. My husbands philosophy is find a job you love and you'll never work again.

Good luck
Steph

morganedge

Stephb1986 wrote: »

I think you need to ask yourself if you could be absolutely anything what would it be?

Footballer for me I think.

CoffeeandStitches

Go and work in a call center. You're smart enough to do well, but will never be pushed to do more. Some of the best workers in a call center are the clever people who are quite happy doing the job, not shatting on anyone to climb the ladder, and leaving it all at the door when they go home at the end of the shift.