Have you ever had a cushy job?

Seomra Mushie · 06-04-2012 09:09AM

Have to agree with the people who say they like being busy in work. I'm usually non-stop in work and hate the days when I have little to do.

Seomra Mushie · 06-04-2012 09:15AM

Helix wrote: »

would probably say that my job is cushy on face value at least. there are loads of long hours involved, particularly around deadlines, but it's not anything physically demanding. im massively interested in the sectors i cover as a journalist, and i enjoy the challenges of managing projects, so im happy with the directorial role i have too

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krudler · 06-04-2012 09:28AM

Worked in a video shop, i used to get mostly day shifts, we didnt open til 11 and i didnt drive at the time so my dad would drop me off as his drive to work webt right past it, id get the entires day work done in an hour as the place wasnt open and spend the rest of the day watching movies, if it wasnt that the pay was crap and the manager was a tool then i would have worked there forever

Rabidlamb · 06-04-2012 09:45AM

Worked in a Midland Health Board nursing home years ago as an odd jobs man, occasional gardener.
There was a big garage out the back where old beds & mattresses were kept, after clocking in for 9am I'd go out there for a snooze, get up around 12am to potter around & make myself visible, have the lunch then back for an afternoon kip.
Once the bins were emptied & grass cut nobody gave 2 hoots.
Was good money too . . . . . sigh.
Then I got offered a job based on my 3rd level degree so I had to join the Private Sector, yuck.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 06-04-2012 10:25AM

Nope, I've always worked hard - 'tis a pain in the hole but there ya go, flog a willing horse and all that.

Sleepy · 06-04-2012 11:24AM

As a 16 year old I got a temp gig covering for a porter in a bank. Basically: pick up milk, bread and papers on your way in, open up, have a cup of tea whilst letting the other staff in, take a wander around town for a couple of hours to deliver some mail (regular guy spent this time in the bookies), have lunch, frank some mail for the afternoon and drop the transaction documents down to the batch processing centre every couple of hours, close the branch, drop mail to An Post, have more tea and feck off once regular staff were finished or the manager decided he'd lock up for you (most days). Over £350 a week at the time and the easiest money I've ever made.

Mickey Dazzler · 06-04-2012 11:33AM

I have a very cushy job at the moment. Bored out of my mind. Am gonna quit to get a more busy job.

I Heart Internet · 06-04-2012 11:37AM

Night-time security guard in the factory of a big multi-national. No night-time production shifts. Rarely anyone about. 2 other guys with me but we could keep to ourselves and just keep everything locked down.

Very cushy job, 12 hour shifts and plenty of them - it was a summer job. The overtime was unreal. Came out with €600+ most weeks of the summer.

xflyer · 06-04-2012 11:51AM

Had some cushy jobs and parts of some jobs can be cushy. My first proper job involved working in a small cash and carry. In for 9:30 assemble a few orders then nothing much. Hour and a half for lunch, then back to doing not much. Bored out of my head, so I went back to school.

Another job started off quietly because I was hired before they really had no work for me. So I just sat in an office all day with nothing to do. One day I even deliberately did absolutely no work at all for the entire day just to see if I could do it. Believe it or not that's really hard work.

Later it got busy but cushy enough that I could wander off round the factory if I felt like it, to chat to the lads. Also because I had a motorcycle I was sent out to deliver vital samples and lodge cheques. I once lodged £750,000 in the bank. But the best bit was being paid to ride my bike all over Dublin and Kildare and get paid for it.

My current 'job' could be called cushy, after all I only work a few days a week and am off for months every year. But when I work, I really work hard with fourteen hour days at times, doing what many people think is their dream job. That dream fades quickly let me tell you!

Bubblefett · 06-04-2012 11:58AM

Working for a comp training company- esentially worked from home googling schools/businesses for them to target and emailing them to the company at the end of the day

worked every day in my PJs

I Heart Internet · 06-04-2012 12:08PM

xflyer wrote: »

My current 'job' could be called cushy, after all I only work a few days a week and am off for months every year. But when I work, I really work hard with fourteen hour days at times, doing what many people think is their dream job. That dream fades quickly let me tell you!

Are you a teacher or lecturer now? (not trying to be smart - just curious)

sunnysoutheast · 06-04-2012 04:13PM

Six week summer job in an immense document warehouse in Milton Keynes in the late 80s. Minibus from home there and back, fiver an hour and a maximum of one doc. request per day to be satisfied. The rest of the time was spent lounging in a little nest in the labyrinthine corridors reading and drinking endless tea, I must have read fifty-odd books in the time I was there.

SSE

sunnysoutheast · 06-04-2012 04:14PM

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Are you a teacher or lecturer now? (not trying to be smart - just curious)

I think he's a pilot!

SSE

longhalloween · 07-04-2012 01:59PM

phill106 wrote: »

Sorry, they had shops open in the terminal before the terminal was open?
So no possibility of customers?!

Yeh, the only customers were builders and DAA staff, so about 5 a day.

later12 · 07-04-2012 02:06PM

Yep, the local County Council one Summer after school.

Sorry if this comes across as a public sector bashing post, but we really did just sit around on our arses doing nothing except accepting a few documents from members of the public, light photocopying and answering the telephone. My supervisor would suggest we try to look busy if we had nothing to do. The reason for this was that they genuinely did have times that the office was over-run. The problem was they couldn't just ask us to come in on a flexible basis (i.e. when grant applications were coming in). I have absolutely no idea why not, the money would have still been worth it.

Disclaimer: I'm sure it has all changed now with numbers falling. This was in 2005.

Dudess · 07-04-2012 02:06PM

A few. And all in the private sector.

humbert · 07-04-2012 02:07PM

lazygal wrote: »

I still miss a couple of jobs I had in college, making money for doing very, very little work. A brief stint in a public service job stands out as supremely cushy, loads of lunch/tea breaks and was told to make sure to take all my sick leave....by my manager.

Exactly the same. And all the tea breaks meant that there was a good flow of conversation in the brief stints between tea breaks. I think I'd 1:30 for lunch too.

bob the bob · 07-04-2012 03:49PM

My current job is tough but there are frequent times where I can work a full weekend (18 hours a day Saturday and Sunday)

It's easy weekend work (usually supervising a team of guys that are setting up computers at desks, nothing like my normal job of server engineering)

Best thing is I get double pay so I'm getting a weeks salary for 2 long days.
I also expense the petrol driving to work and back, giving me a (legitimate) gain of another £100 plus can expense £20 of food each day, we all usually go for steak and 2 pints from around 4 til 6 in the afternoons.

I only do this around 3 times a year, great for paying off big items like car insurance or a family holiday

saa · 07-04-2012 04:01PM

Go awayy I started college in 2008, all I knows of is going for interviews with hundreds of other folk without having retail experience and the only thing on offer is those commission sales jobs which I'd have a nervous breakdown on.

I think any work I get will seem cushy I know no better :pac:

pragmatic1 · 07-04-2012 04:06PM

Yeah worked in a factory where my job was to basically push a button every few hours and make sure there was enough stock in my area. Pay wasn't bad and there was overtime any weekend you wanted. Extremely boring though.

the purple tin · 07-04-2012 04:18PM

I used to work for Bono years ago.
My job was to walk behind him and constantly say "you are just a man, you are just a man" into his ear.

mcmoustache · 07-04-2012 04:22PM

I worked for aer lingus back in 2003/2004 cleaning airplanes during turnaround. Hoovering, wiping tables, emptying bins and toilets etc.

We got paid around 2000 a month for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. The thing is, we were only ever in there for 6.

We'd clean around 8 planes a day - each one would take an average of 10 minutes.

We spent most of the day back at the base sleeping, chatting, watching football, playing pool, playing darts, reading and eating. A fair bit of time was spent on the apron waiting for planes to land.

You should have heard the indignation and outrage when it was suggested that we become more efficient! Aer lingus was struggling back then and really needed to reduce costs. The whole experience put me off siptu and other trade unions for well-off people.

the keen edge · 07-04-2012 04:24PM

the purple tin wrote: »

I used to work for Bono years ago.
My job was to walk behind him and constantly say "you are just a man, you are just a man" into his ear.

Well done, it obviously worked.

the purple tin · 09-04-2012 10:42PM

the keen edge wrote: »

Well done, it obviously worked.

Unfortunatley in the early 90's he told me my services were no longer required and then promptly disappeared up his own arse

17-04-2012 09:23PM

I have a cushy job, Office Manager.
I feel like Ricky Gervais sometimes and doing a victory dance

keano_afc · 17-04-2012 09:57PM

Used to work in the post room for a big insurance company. Loved the job, could get fairly boring but you'd be moving around all day delivering post and doing the odd job here and there. Could stop for a chat for a while and nobody would care. Then the wife told me I was capable of more, so I moved to the IT dept and now wish I was back in the post room.

Grayson · 17-04-2012 10:10PM

I had one job where I had two work two hours a day, 4 days a week. It was a summer job and I got paid a full time wage for it. I was monitoring fisheries, but the fishermen only came in between 5 and 7 pm. And they were only allowed fish mon - thurs. The rest of the day was spent fishing (I caught one fish. My hook caught it's tail and I dragged it out backwards), wandering on the beach and catching up on sleep.

Cookie_Monster · 17-04-2012 11:35PM

Tesco Offo - enjoyed it and was easily able to get all the work done, late evenings were quiet and lots of tea drinking to pass the time. Those were the days, I miss that job.

Pocketkings :pac::pac::pac: good money, great benefits, no work.:)

Have you ever had a cushy job?

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