What is the most /lit/ job (NEET isn't a job) in the sense that you can read a lot while working without reading being your actual function? Preferably night shift and I don't really care about the pay.
>>7821510
Security guard
One with a booth you can sit in
No universities
What about receptionist in a shitty hotel? Is it as comfy as it is portrayed in movies like The Innkeepers?
Babysit old people with alzheimers. Usually they will stay quiet for 8 hours if you turn on the idiot box with a high regimen of doctor prescribed medication.
>>7821510
Any overnight job.
Source: Done it several times. Read a shit ton.
Downside? Crippling depression caused by shiftwork disorder.
>>7821510
I was a sign spinner for this furniture store for a summer. Except I couldn't do any spinning because the sign was like 4x6 feet bolted to a 4x4 plank which i just had to lean on for 6 hours a day with a book in one hand. I read the complete carl jung that summer, and some of the books I read twice.
>>7821541
Yes and no. I worked at a shitty, failing motel in Montana for a few months last year, typically working at the desk from 3 in the afternoon until midnight. For the most part, people would check in and just go to their rooms to watch TV and sleep, and I'd have hours to read or do whatever else. Occasionally, there'd be these uppity tourist types who would complain about everything, ask to be moved from room to room, be too stupid to figure out how to turn on their TV or heat. I hate needy people, especially when they complain that there's a stain on the ceiling of their room or whatever. I had to quit.
>>7821687
>They made me do stuff
>I had to quit.
Lolololol
Office job with next to no responsibility if thats your thing.
For the past week I've been doing nothing, literally nothing, but read at my desk. six hours a day of reading, hour lunch break, between half and hour to an hour with emails and/or troubleshooting.
get paid 60k/yr designing corporate lessons for printers. i spend maybe a week of a month actually building courses. piss easy and nice being able to read nonstop but its honestly not worth the lack of purpose and fulfillment in my day to day.
just wish I could explain to my boss how senseless it is to have me come in the office. he could pay me 30k for the same amount of work and id be happy as hell to do it if i could work from home.
sure as shit beats 90% of jobs though.
>>7821713
Sounds awesome to me. I can empathise with the nagging purposelessness but dude work toward something. I'm always reading two books at a time. One is always a textbook, and the other always something a little less dry. Speculative nonfiction by whatever psychologist or biologist i'm into at the time. Three years of this and i've read my way through two bachelor's degrees. I start college soon and i'm going to own it. And you could do the same and get paid to do it
>>7821588
What jobs for example?
security where you just sit in one place, maybe go once an hour to patrol
i'm a sysadmin.
i work on servers and networks remotely most days, which involves answering some emails and taking care of a few tasks.
there can be quite a lot of downtime between doing actual work, so i can read quite often.
Librarian
Book reviewer
Prostitute
>>7821687
Sounds perfect.
>>7821713
what's up with jobs like this? i'm NEET right now, but i know a lot of other people that do.office jobs exactly like this where they work for all of maybe 30 minutes a day (if even that), then spend the rest of the day just pretending to work. and these jobs typically start at 60k like you said.
why do these jobs even exist? why do they pay so well? what do employers have to gain by hiring people to do so little work?
it almost feels like a form of welfare where instead of just giving you the money straight up, they give you fake job to go to so that people won't resent you for not "contributing to society".
it's p dumb imo
>>7821713
I'm always too nervous to do serious reading at work. I just feel guilty and can't focus on the book, even more so since it would probably have to be an ebook on the monitor.I'm a librarian, even got the MLIS
>>7821821
I've considered pursuing sysadmin work before but I heard that you guys have a shit ton of on-call. Is that true?
Carwash. I worked at a carwash for two years and while there read almost everything by Joyce, Faulkner, McCarthy, Dostoyevsky and dozens of other books, including Infinite Jest. Seriously I got so much fucking reading done. There were rainy days where I'd get one or two customers and Id spend the whole day locked in my little office reading. It was bliss.
I miss that shithole
>>7821541
Yes, my stepfather used to be the night auditor at a hotel who also worked the front desk.
It took him like an hour to balance the books for a day and normally nobody came in over the night to get a hotel so he just read all night.
>>7821940
i do, yes. i'm assuming it varies depending on your employer and whatnot, but i'm essentially responsible to answer anything between 9-8pm mon-fri (usually things are slow after 6). and more or less 24/7 for serious emergencies (which are very rare). you pull occasional all nighters as well since some of your work you can only do during night hours when no one is working.
it's part of the job. it allows me a lot of free time during the day when things are slow, i work at home most days which is nice. but when something does come in that needs to be handled, you need to be able to deal with it in a timely manner. all that responsibility means more pay as well so you have to take the bad with the good. i have no family/kids so i can afford to have a strange schedule at the moment.
>>7822082
sysadmin here.
i've been working with computers since i was a kid in the 80s, so i've always been good with them. i had no intention of getting into this field, and have had no formal training or classes. my degree is in history and i hope to go to grad school one day. but during college i needed the work so i started doing tech work for an IT company.
eventually that lead to me being a sysadmin since i had so much experience with computers and knew what i was doing.
>>7821872
They just over-estimate the difficulty and time things take and then dont bother to switch extra work over.
Its an oversight on the firms side that people dont complain about so dont get fixed quick.
>>7821510
Wypierdalaj szmato z wykopu.
>>7821872
My dad works in a soft drinks factory and they have to have engineers on call at all time if a machine breaks and can't be fixed or rebooted by the staff present. Paying these engineers to sit at home on call all day is cheaper than the production line going down because there isn't anybody on call to fix it, thus not producing any drinks. They're paid handsomely as fucked because it's specialist work and they're needed in case of disaster.
>>7821713
>Have boring office job in a windowless basement doing repetitive nonsense and it takes me 15 minutes to meet my hourly quota and I'm pretty much unsupervised
>Only make $10.75/hr before taxes
No fair!
>>7822385
you're doing better than me
>cashier
>$9/hr before taxes
>have to make small talk all day, people never stop coming
>can't move from one spot until my supervisor says I can
>doing this 40 hours a week
and I don't get any windows either
when does this hell end?
>>7821510
I work nights right now and read all night, but the lack of purpose is getting to me. Is a therapist/psychoanalyst a lit job? Whenever I see pictures of their offices they're always filled with books.
>>7822570
What job exactly?
>>7822496
When you get ballsy enough to start testing your boss. I used to work at a shoe store, basically as you described; eventually I started setting up a Japanese copy of Norwegian Wood on the register and looking up unknown words in the inventory room. I made it through the book in a month and a half, god knows how much English reading I could've done
>>7822570
Incredibly few jobs give you a sense of purpose, only security and varying levels of responsibility
>>7822570
i mean yeah, a lot of the same techniques used to analyze a patient can be used to analyze a novel, and vice versa.
>>7822570
therapist/psychoanalyst is not a /lit/ job, even though some parts of it share /lit/ related skills.
the books you see are almost entirely work related psyche books or related textbooks from their university days.
>>7821872
>it almost feels like a form of welfare where instead of just giving you the money straight up, they give you fake job to go to so that people won't resent you for not "contributing to society".
I would argue that 90% of modern jobs are exactly this, but people are too spooked to see/admit the fact that we live in a post-scarcity, nearly fully automated society. We have homeless and dirt-poor people because of cultural ideology, not because there aren't MORE than enough resources for everyone.
>>7821588
>Any overnight job.
I work 3:30pm to 4am at a saw blade factory and its impossible to read. Great for audio books and podcasts though.
>>7821804
I work at a substance abuse rehab. 3d shift (overnight) is easy as fuck. All of my coworkers just get paid to sleep, I get school/personal reading done. Job required an associates degree.
Gotten to the point that I've conditioned myself to only getting reading/homework done there.
My dad is an editor and publisher which sounds like a pretty /lit/ job until you realise what it actually consists of. He sits at his computer all day reading mostly boring books in painstaking detail and is essentially just a professional grammar nazi. He used to just do long law textbooks, but now he's branched out and does some history - think he's editing a book on the history of Shia Islam in Iran at the moment. It doesn't sound that fun to be honest.
>>7822189
Look like the type, be white
>>7824937
Does he like his job?
>>7825172
No idea to be honest, I haven't really asked him about it. I assume he does because he's self-employed and earns about £50-60k if I'm not mistaken (once asked him why he didn't just become a lawyer if he had a law degree, said he earns more money this way).
>>7821510
Librarian
>>7824650
>90% of jobs are like this
Just no.
I'm a tradsman. I earn what most people do in a week in about 4-5 hours of work. If I want to do full works I earn more than most of my friends who work for the government on 100k salaries. But really I'm too lazy so I just work one really long day (say 15ish hours) and a bit of the next day and take the next five days off. It doesn't always it doesn't always happen like that but that's how it is most of the time.
So I earn a good 60-90k a year depending on how it goes and I have all the time I want to read.
>>7825913
what do you do?
>>7825929
Tradesman so probably in finance
>>7825929
Floorer, both carpet and vinyl. Trades work is great. Only three years to get your papers, way easier than uni and you earn money during that time rather than go massively into debt. Spend the time saving so a couple of years after that you can outright buy yourself a vehicle and all the tools. Find a company to give you jobs so you don't have to look. Lay back and leave the moderately rich, easy life.
>>7822133
You're living my dream, anon. How did you get hired without any qualifications?
>>7821532
This. My uncle was a night guard at a pumping station, he just had to do a round of the place every hour or so, then he would read the other 45 minutes or so each hour.
>>7821510
I had a buddy who worked the night shift at petsmart. His job was to fill dog bowls at the beginning of the night, make sure all cages were locked, then watch movies on his laptop until morning. If he had read, he would have accomplished something.
>>7826002
like i said, i had a lot of experience and started out doing more basic tech work. after i was in there and proved i wasn't retarded, i was given more and more to do, eventually switching to a sysadmin
>>7821510
I live and work at a remote roadhouse on the Nullarbor. The job itself is no big deal. Serve customers their petrol and whatnot. But because we are so remote I get housed and fed by the boss. There are literally 17 people living within a 100km radius of me. I walk out in the desert, read shitloads and dick around on the internet all the while banking my entire pay because I have no living expenses.
Biggest bonus is that I have almost no interaction with modern society.
>>7826853
>I will never be you
>>7826853
Lmao SA or WA? Adelaide dickhead here and I want to know how you got your job.
>>7826853
Please, I'm trying not to kill myself.
>>7824650
>90
50%* acoording to a study from a Spanish uni, but that's still a lot
>>7826853
please tell me how you've got that job
>>7823081
Youth crisis center, residential youth facility.
>>7827091
I'm on the WA side of the border about 700kms east of Kalgoorlie.
Job is easy to get. No-one wants to come out here so they take almost anyone who rings up and/or emails their resume.
>>7827189
Honestly just rang up and asked, the guy got me to email my resume through, an hour later he rang and told me I had the job and asked how soon I could get out here.
If you're interested just google the roadhouses along the Eyre highway on the Nullarbor and ring each one asking for a job. It won't take long and someone will hire you.
>>7828004
and what exactly do you have to do in your job?
>>7827766
Same job and same shift, went from juvenile corrections to rehabilitation/mental health. I spend most of my shift reading or writing. I'm paid to pursue my goals, which leaves me more time to socialize or pursue hobbies when I'm off of work.
The job gives me some degree of fulfillment because I do give a shit about helping the kids, but what it really does is give me a means of goals while still managing my time effectively. The job doesn't provide me a goal, it just provides a means to realize one.
Otherwise I'd go back to juvenile or adult corrections and make more money.
>>7821973
nice image :)
>>7821510
Teaching community college courses from home.
Extremely cozy, high pay, little work, just remember to keep up with emails.
>>7821837
>Prostitute
kek
It really depends, anything with a lot of free time to read and write is ideal.
>drug dealer
>owner of a semi automated business
>some kind of artist
I do not recomend stuff like taking care of old people or security guard because it slowly kills you from inside out.
Boring jobs are soul consuming
>>7827165
provide the study please
>>7828653
The only purpose of getting a job is, for me, reading without any distractions, a little bit money, plus having some kind of a daily routine. I don't want to do something and the more boring the job itself is, the more interesting it gets to me since I can read books which are probably much more interesting than nearly any job I could apply for.
>>7828140
How difficult is it trying to help those kids?
Surely at least a few give you shit?
>>7828107
Serve customers their petrol and shit, stack shelves, give the place a clean, that's about it. Like I said the job itself is no big deal. It's the lifestyle of being out in the middle of nowhere plus the potential for saving money because the boss is providing us our meals and accommodation.
>>7821802
What kind of textbooks you read?
