Any one else have a job where you do nothing?

Think about all of the useful things you can do with your time now? Ever thought about starting your own business? This is the perfect opportunity to get paid to work on this. You can also go back to school and do homework on the job.

Get something else to do on the job and you will look forward to coming to work every day!

Yeah, but there is little to no chance you're getting this job.

Why? I am black and stupid. It has been done before.

POTUS wrote:

Yeah, but there is little to no chance you're getting this job.

Some jobs I've known or known of:

"Guarding" equipment/supplies for 3 months until we returned...

Inland (river) drawbridge operator. Yeah. Seriously.

Textbook warehouse worker (busy twice a year)

College physical plant worker--over the summer (BOR-ring!)

As for the OP's comment: I know a guy who has pretty much done that with his real estate holdings. I am envious.

yup, that's us to a tee

I have a friend that works for the Government. It's not much (11.50/hour), but it's good for a college guy. He says they never give him anything to do. All he does is mess around on the internet.

I could never have a job with nothing to do. I would lose my mind.

Just looking thanks wrote:

I actually have nothing to do most days. I've automated/outsourced nearly every responsibility my role has and now I spend most of the day in the gym or at a bar. There's really no chance for promotion and I make good money in a major US city. Anyone else in a similar situation?

I once had a job at a magnesium grinding factory for a military contractor. For one hour I'd sit in an office "watching" the lights on a panel, theoretically making sure everything was running smoothly in another room where magnesium ingots were being ground down for military flares. So I read a book for an hour with one eye on the panel. Then I'd switch with a guy in the magnesium grinding room. Every 15 minutes I would get up, pick up a magnesium ingot (maybe 50 pounds), clamp it into a vice and start the grinder, which would draw it in and reduce it to magnesium powder. Meanwhile I would sit and nightdream (it was graveyard shift), and occasionally kill a scorpion (it was in a desert). After one hour, I'd switch with the other guy again and go read my book for an hour while "watching" the panel. If a light occasionally didn't go on or off as it was supposed to, I called the guy in the grinder room and told him to shut down so we could make sure everything was set up right. At the very end of the shift, the other guy and I would sweep up any stray magnesium and mop the floor. We had to wear "grounded" shoes because a static spark might start a very hot fire. It only paid about 8 dollars an hour, but this was back in 1984.

In the summer during high school I had a job at a tourist information booth at a rest stop on I-15. I sat and listened to the radio or read a book. Occasionally people would come in and ask how far it was to Boise, Idaho or some other place, and I would tell them. I also handed out maps or brochures on local Utah attractions. Also minimum wage. Piece of cake, but someone had to do it.

Of course, if we'd had Obama back then he would be pandering to us lowly minimum wagers that we should get 15 dollars an hour for what were really just high school stepping stone jobs, not a living wage for adult losers.

I'm a physician. When I was an intern the state I lived in had a law that required a doctor to be on the premises of any shop that pierced ears since it was considered "surgery." This was one of those jewelry stores in the mall that advertised free piercings with the purchase of a pair of earrings. I didn't have to do anything; I just had to be available in case anyone fainted. Nothing ever happened. I sat in the employee area in the back of the store and read my book, and earned money doing it.

I had a 3 month internship this summer where the sum of the work could have literally been done in 8-10 days, but every task had a clear 2-4 week schedule attached to it. By the end of it, I'd perfected a method of doing 50% of the work on the first day, then working about a minute a day until a couple of days before it was due. The rest of the time I'd learn more programming languages or browse the internet. Somehow, sitting around pretending to be busy was way more draining than actually working.

I have to write daily reports and I sure know how to write them in a way that looks like I did a lot. I can take 1 task and describe it in a way that sounds like 3 tasks.

Logical Phallacy wrote:

I had a 3 month internship this summer where the sum of the work could have literally been done in 8-10 days, but every task had a clear 2-4 week schedule attached to it. By the end of it, I'd perfected a method of doing 50% of the work on the first day, then working about a minute a day until a couple of days before it was due. The rest of the time I'd learn more programming languages or browse the internet. Somehow, sitting around pretending to be busy was way more draining than actually working.

That's beautiful, and so true. TRYING to look busy is much harder than actually being busy. And you are just like me--other people with whom I've worked just drag their feet all day and make the work last. I always want to get it done as quickly as possible. Of course, then you have to work hard looking busy. Vicious cycle.

wow im jealous. My intern year has pretty much been the opposite so far. little time and energy to read, no cool jobs, and incessantly making mistakes routinely so far. Its frightening. tell me it gets better.

Appreciate having a job and getting money.

I'd start looking for another job. Most people I know who had jobs like the one you've described having are no longer employed in that same job they used to have, doing nothing.

Obama, perhaps?

Let Obama know that he doesn't do anything. I think he's flying from Estonia, where he gave a speech affirming NATO's commitment to defend its member states, to the NATO summit in Wales.

My job was like that for the first year or so. Spent a lot of time surfing the web and having conversations. I did some creative writing at work.

But people started retiring or leaving, and then I started doing the job of two to three people, and the glory days are over.

Iam a stunt double for adult films, and really do nothing most of the day until the director calls my name.

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Iam a stunt double for adult films, and really do nothing most of the day until the director calls my name.

Sloppy seconds are great.