career options providing the most free time?

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I figure a lot of people who freqent ILX probably have a good amount of free time.

I was wondering for the person who doesn't really need much more than simple ness

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Part-time postman in quite country village.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

i am a part-time sub-editor = fairly well paid w.lots of waiting time

drawbacks: grammer n spellin need to be ok-ish (haha also LOGIC if you are employed to do rewrite)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

quiet, I mean.

You need to read the Idler.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

um.. I didn't finish my sentence:

..necessities, but prefers more free time, what would be a good career to pursue?

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

You don't need a 'career' to live simply, surely?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

IT, as long as youre not support, is pretty laid back. Lots of opportunity to telecommute and work odd hours too

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've always felt university lecturer might be a good wheeze.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

What about when taking into account things like healthcare and retirement?

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

My job takes up 36 hours a week officially. But, I'm adding 5 hours of travelling, and lunch breaks. That's 41 hours, which leaves me a staggering 127 free hours per week. The answer, my friend is to work in a library.

Obviously, I need to learn how to utilise my free time better.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

healthcare and retirement - IT

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Er, isn't 40 hours a week how much people normally work?

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of people work way more than 40 hours, don't forget overtime.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

haha sorry nairn i thought yr were saying "i have nothin to declare but my simple-ness"

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

also if you have a commute and eight hours plus lunch, then even if you don't work overtime you can end up spending 50 hours at or around work easily.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've only worked overtime for one week in my life, clearly I know how to live.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

and take around 7 hours a night of sleep that means about 100 hours. leaving only 68.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

We're running out of time! We're gonna end up owing Time.

Messing around on the internet outside of work: 10+ hours per week :(

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

park cars

― Vacillating temp (Vacillating temp), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

in an office building - NOT a supermarket carpark

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Print design/layout/prepress, if you find a nice sugar daddy client like mine. My schedule these days is more or less three weeks on/five weeks off. But July to early August is a 40-straight-days bitch.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

What free time? Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

desk jockey security guard! sit and wait for somebody to get their workstation infested with worms, write it up. Reload New Answers, stare at clock/CNN, read about video games.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 13 February 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

pixel farmer, do you need help? I've been trying to find a situation, like closing a magazine doing pre-press for the last week or two of the month and not working the first half...or something.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Not currently, Dan. I have a bid in on another magazine (monthly) that will crank up my workload considerably, and I might have to subcontract some of it, esp. during my insane July schedule.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

You should be a fireman in an airport. Okay, when there is a fire or a plane exploding it is probably a pretty horiffic job, but how often does that happen? And they have to be there.

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Schoolteacher, as long as you just don't give a damn about the kids. Two months off in the summer, three weeks at Christmas, lots of school holidays.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

That's like saying "Sewer worker, as long as you just don't give a damn about the shit."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

More like 'sewer worker, as long as you don't give a damn about people being able to flush their toilets/flash floods draining properly.' Most teachers are overworked because they get involved with their charges - but it's theoretically possible to show up at 8am and leave at 4pm.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

Any kind of nightshift job like nighshift helpdesk, security desk, receptionisty type thing. It is as boring as all fuck but if you have 'net access or can take in a book/knitting/gameboy or something it passes the time. I dont suppose that's good free time though. I hated the long shifts with no calls at my last ISP. I'd have read all of Rinkworks, the Onion, the papers, etc etc within 2 days. Ugh.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

but it's theoretically possible to show up at 8am and leave at 4pm.

Really? I dont know any teacher who'd agree. Dont they have to work normal hours because of papers/preparation/red tape/etc? Even in the hols?

Mikey to thread etc.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

(and anyway whats so free time about 8-4? Those are normal working hours!)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

Overnight checker in a grocery store is a great job. Pays nothing, but you can hook up all your friends and spend most of the night reading magazines.

xpost - yeah, but I'm not talking about good, or even mediocre, teachers. I'm talking bare minimum of effort and preparation.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

Teachers (uni lecturers and kid teachers) have to make hella lesson plans!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention grading!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

Part-time College lecturer in Social Policy/Modern History. (cackles manically!)

― Ant., Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's not that I don't give a damn about my students either...I've done all the lesson plans and am able to keep recycling them as the subjects and modules repeat themselves. Sometimes I'm very busy but most of the time I work no more than 18-20 hours in a week doing something I love.

― Ant, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I second the library thing.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

when I taught we could sign out 15 minutes after the last bell. But if you even halfway did your job right that was impossible to do on a regular basis. And if you're unfortunate to be in a state like Texas where it's all about standarized tests you'd best not teach a core subject cause otherwise it's floating in sewage all the time.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm required to be here for 3 hours a week. The rest is up to me. (Teach grad students at NYU). No dept. meetings, nor marking (TA's do that). Although next semester I'll have 6 hours...

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

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