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

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  • #32
    questionmark?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    Equal opportunities officer in Libya.


  • #33
    AskMyChocolate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Ryanair customer service manager


  • #36
    rednik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,264 ✭✭✭rednik


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


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  • #37
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Boards.ie mod.


    ........wait.


  • #38
    MardiB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭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....


  • #39
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


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


  • #40
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    teacher


  • #41
    AskMyChocolate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #42
    Laika1986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    MardiB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭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?


  • #44
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    Xlami
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Xlami


    Karren Carpenter's chef.


  • #46
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Xtra Vision during the week seems easy enough.


  • #48
    CongoPowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 658 ✭✭✭CongoPowers


    Politician? Few empty promises and you're sorted.


  • #49
    General General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Jizzmopping in a closed order convent.


  • #50
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #51
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Xtra Vision during the week seems easy enough.

    Except Mondays when the weekend rentals are returned.;)


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  • #52
    ScummyMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,672 ✭✭✭ScummyMan


    Fernando Torres


  • #53
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    Except Mondays when the weekend rentals are returned.;)
    So working Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday would be the dream so.
    I remember going into Xtra Vison so many times when the guy would be hooked watching a film with his feet up...What a job.


  • #54
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    So working Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday would be the dream so.
    I remember going into Xtra Vison so many times when the guy would be hooked watching a film with his feet up...What a job.

    Thursday is usually delivery day, and Wednesday there's usually a tonne of feckers to ring who didn't return DVD's on the Monday so Tuesday is the ideal day!


  • #55
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,163 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Government Artist.


  • #56
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    Thursday is usually delivery day, and Wednesday there's usually a tonne of feckers to ring who didn't return DVD's on the Monday so Tuesday is the ideal day!

    Very regularly our local store changes the layout. Ballyfermot.
    Lost count of the number of times it's been changed.

    Staff are probably busy at that too


  • #57
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    Thursday is usually delivery day, and Wednesday there's usually a tonne of feckers to ring who didn't return DVD's on the Monday so Tuesday is the ideal day!
    Nothing worse than feckers!
    I'm going to ask can I just work on the Tuesday then so:D


  • #58
    KylieWyley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭KylieWyley


    Lifeguard.



    You're absolutely f*cked if you don't recognise when you're supposed to get off your arse though!


  • #59
    General General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    KylieWyley wrote: »
    Lifeguard.



    You're absolutely f*cked if you don't recognise when you're supposed to get off your arse though!

    Not as fucked as little Timmy on his way to Boshton.


  • #60
    AskMyChocolate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭AskMyChocolate


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

    Yeah. Sorry chief, I should have multiquoted the fool who you were replying to. I was just backing you up and adding a bit more.

    I get really annoyed when people attack the library service, as if it was an unskilled job.

    Btw, I'm neither a librarian nor a public servant.


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  • #61
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Xlami wrote: »
    Karren Carpenter's chef.
    Bit of a nasty dig at her there?


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