What jobs are there where you can do as little as possible?

IvaBigWun

Politician is probably the most obvious answer but not necessarily always true (especially outside of Ireland)

Night watchman: Zzzzzz

Printer support: "Remove paper jams" "reload toners when they've run out"

Sleep Clinic guinea pig: Zzzzzz

Oranage2

Supermarket stock room - god i loved that job - i actually slept on a pallet of dog food one sunday -

SeaFields

Static security guard.

Name says it all really.

KeithM89_old

Posing nude for artists.

Thatnastyboy

a blow-job. (if you're the receiver..)

Oranage2

Public sector
County council

DaveDaRave

Housewife

opinion guy

Financial regulator

IvaBigWun

DaveDaRave wrote: »

Housewife

*opens popcorn*

grizzly

KeithM89 wrote: »

Posing nude for artists.

not so easy – actually takes a fair bit a physical exertion to hold a pose that long.

I'd say bar tending in an old mans pub.

FunkZ

DaveDaRave wrote: »

Housewife

I'd like to be a kept husband, X Box and football all day. Sex at night. That'd rock!

Saila

one of those nodding donkey type things for a keyboard

AccuTip

a garda in a rural station

tayto lover

Moderator.

Especially when i'm posting.

Saila

Oranage2 wrote: »

Public sector
County council

hmmm you're indenting intriguers me, is this cryptic :eek:

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Civil Servant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yl3UMO-TkE

IvaBigWun

tayto lover wrote: »

Moderator.

Especially when i'm posting.

Voluntary jobs dont count

orourkeda

estate agent

Saila

developer

KeithM89_old

A lighthouse keeper!

bonerm

DaveDaRave wrote: »

Housewife

Take that back! :mad:

(housewife's not a job)

tayto lover

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Voluntary jobs dont count

O.k. then.
What about Confession Box sweeper.
Sweeping all the sins out after confessions.

Oranage2

Saila wrote: »

hmmm you're indenting intriguers me, is this cryptic :eek:

Ha no - hit the button by accident and couldnt be arsed changing it back!

IvaBigWun

bonerm wrote: »

Take that back! :mad:

(housewife's not a job)

*puts the butter on the popcorn*

The Princess Bride

Librarian ?

Checking in and out books all day, then walking a few metres to stack them away.....hardly rocket science or taxing ( sorry, no smilie for yawn, which I just did,by the way.)

AskMyChocolate

grizzly wrote: »

not so easy – actually takes a fair bit a physical exertion to hold a pose that long.

I'd say bar tending in an old mans pub.

Yep. Did this for a few years in a couple of pubs and a GAA club. You tend to have all the cleaning done by noon. If you have a rudimentary grasp of history,politics, GAA, soccer, horseracing and bigotry there isn't even much studying involved. Even if you don't, you can cover up your ignorance with a few stock phrases; "Talk to me about it", "<insert name> would turn in his grave" ,"He couldn't give <insert name> a game on his best day", "They're not as bad as <insert country that's not being talked about>".

Break in case of emergency: "Was it for this that Michael Collins and James Connolly gave their lives?", "Fcuking junkies, ruining this neighbourhood"

Closer: "Shur what chance do those kids have? It's the dealers and the moneymen over in the Bahamas that have this country ruined"

*polish bar busily (with barely concealed/suppressed frustration), and hurry away to get "much needed stock".*

\clientele nod sagely.

Console

Oranage2 wrote: »

Public sector
County council

Got to love the way people bitch and moan about the council being lazy, Over paid, etc etc. Well there was nothing stopping people from getting a job there.

couldntthink

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Yep. Did this for a few years in a couple of pubs and a GAA club. You tend to have all the cleaning done by noon. If you have a rudimentary grasp of history,politics, GAA, soccer, horseracing and bigotry there isn't even much studying involved. Even if you don't, you can cover up your ignorance with a few stock phrases; "Talk to me about it", "<insert name> would turn in his grave" ,"He couldn't give <insert name> a game on his best day", "They're not as bad as <insert country that's not being talked about>".

Break in case of emergency: "Was it for this that Michael Collins and James Connolly gave their lives?", "Fcuking junkies, ruining this neighbourhood"

Closer: "Shur what chance do those kids have? It's the dealers and the moneymen over in the Bahamas that have this country ruined"

*polish bar busily (with barely concealed/suppressed frustration), and hurry away to get "much needed stock".*

\clientele nod sagely.

HA HA HA. Sounds like one of my locals. Classic.

I worked for a guy who was a contractor for Galway County Council. It was a joke. I was supposed to be driving machinery. Somedays we didn't even start the engines. I was asked once why was I working so hard "you're paid by the hour". Loads of tea breaks and we used to block the road if a bakery van or coke truck was coming. We'd get free stuff from them to let them pass. Good old days of the Tiger.

The permanent guys were the worst. Some didn't even carry their shovels, instead they would drag them along the road behind them.

doomed

Present the Marian Finucane Show

rainbowdrop

Toll booth operator......

"€1.80 please"

"Thanks"

Repeat hundreds of times every shift........

purity

Taxi

questionmark?

Equal opportunities officer in Libya.

AskMyChocolate

rainbowdrop wrote: »

Toll booth operator......

"€1.80 please"

"Thanks"

Repeat hundreds of times every shift........

Fundamentally don't agree with this. There's a huge difference between doing "easy" jobs and doing mundane necessary jobs. I'd say the middle management do a lot less work (and less competently) than the average toll booth operator, and I'd bet my last euro that they are better remunerated.

CreepingDeath

msthe80s wrote: »

Librarian ?

Checking in and out books all day, then walking a few metres to stack them away.....hardly rocket science or taxing ( sorry, no smilie for yawn, which I just did,by the way.)

Yeah, a librarian is a real girls job, so no physical labour required.
There's never any urgency in their job, no deadlines or anything.

whiskeyman

Ryanair customer service manager

rednik

Holding a sign pointing to a certain store while standing on the footpath.

cocoshovel

Boards.ie mod.


........wait.

MardiB

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Yeah, a librarian is a real girls job, so no physical labour required.
There's never any urgency in their job, no deadlines or anything.

You haven't a clue

Do you really think all the events, classes. IT, local history, literacy, stock managment, to name but a few run themselves....

Irish Guitarist

Bass player with the Sex Pistols. It doesn't even require learning how to play bass.

admiralofthefleet

teacher

AskMyChocolate

MardiB wrote: »

You haven't a clue

Do you really think all the events, classes. IT, local history, literacy, stock managment, to name but a few run themselves....

Our library service is one of the few things left in this country that the founding fathers would be proud of. Open to all, egalitarian, and a provider of many services that you haven't mentioned. Where immigrants and natives swap language lessons for free, where OAPs meet up to "read the paper" (they have the paper at home but it doesn't come with people to discuss it with), Scrabble clubs, tech solutions for the computer illiterate without having to be embarrassed, Book clubs, I could go on...

How anyone can give out about our library service is beyond me.

Laika1986

Console wrote: »

Got to love the way people bitch and moan about the council being lazy, Over paid, etc etc. Well there was nothing stopping people from getting a job there.

They were doing work outside my house last week and i was chatting to them, i said yer getting on grand and your man says "ah we're slow to get going but when we do, we're grand". Did a cracking job though.

MardiB

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Our library service is one of the few things left in this country that the founding fathers would be proud of. Open to all, egalitarian, and a provider of many services that you haven't mentioned. Where immigrants and natives swap language lessons for free, where OAPs meet up to "read the paper" (they have the paper at home but it doesn't come with people to discuss it with), Scrabble clubs, tech solutions for the computer illiterate without having to be embarrassed, Book clubs, I could go on...

How anyone can give out about our library service is beyond me.

I did say to name but a few. You did get that I was pointing out what library services provide didn't you?

Jesus Wept

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Yeah, a librarian is a real girls job, so no physical labour required.
There's never any urgency in their job, no deadlines or anything.

Just you wait till Ruu gets here.

Xlami

Karren Carpenter's chef.

bonerm

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Yeah, a librarian is a real girls job, so no physical labour required.
There's never any urgency in their job, no deadlines or anything.

I'd like to see you dewey it.

TeddyTedson

Xtra Vision during the week seems easy enough.

CongoPowers

Politician? Few empty promises and you're sorted.

General General

Jizzmopping in a closed order convent.

mikemac

Hotel night porter

Many nights I used to fall asleep in the bar, I knew where the camera couldn't see
There was a sign on reception to ring the mobile phone if they wanted me

Gavin "shels"

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Xtra Vision during the week seems easy enough.

Except Mondays when the weekend rentals are returned.;)