Who else admits to having a Lazy Girl Job?

[isolabella]

Read this interesting article and realised I finally have what I've always wanted: a lazy girl job that leaves me lots of time for family, exercise, pursuing my interests, life admin etc. Zero guilt.

In my case this is made possible by having put in the effort early on in my job so I've earned trust and I'm efficient so do all my tasks and deal with emails quickly so I can chill out again and do what I want: walk in the woods, go for a run, cook, have a coffee and chat with family. Always take my phone with me so can pick up any calls. Only go to the office once a week max (often not even that) since Covid, thank the lord.

Also made possible because people in my organisation aren't exactly highly performing or skilled, so being efficient when it counts stands out and makes you look like you do an amazing job.

Anyone else?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/09/gen-z-lazy-girl-jobs-tiktok-work

They wouldn't even know how to put together a spreadsheet! I'm currently producing a spreadsheet for them but it's not due until next week so plenty of time for runs and walks! 😂

They get their own lunch (it's not the 1950s anymore) and I frequently coordinate meetings across multiple diaries. A 30-min run doesn't take anything away from that.

Jealous much?

Wtf? Yes, obviously. What’s wrong with that?

This is stupid.
Who WOULDN'T want to earn more money for less work?
Not just lazy 'girls'. Most people.

Sadly if it's easy it's usually low paid.

I used to have one but I ruined it by being too amenable to taking on new tasks and getting promoted. The pay isn't that much better now but the stress level is exponentially higher. Is there anyone else who looks for lazy girl jobs and then ruins them once in post??

I have a job that allows me a very good work life balance, after a change of career. It means I can put a personal appointment in my diary and know I’ll be able to keep it. Even if it’s in the working day (for example a medical appointment or caring obligation) That’s a massive improvement on my my last job where even evening appointments and activities had to be cancelled at the last minute.

I'm good at my job, and efficient. When I started it it was stressful but not so much any more. It’s one of the things that stops me moving on. I sometimes look at the achievements of peers on LinkedIn and can’t decide whether I want that still or not.

This is about people in their 20s. It’s the same as Gen X macjobs - it’s just a lifestage at a point in time where being madly careerist before you have to doesn’t seem worth it.

The author is talking about earning the same in a coffee shop as when she became an ‘editor’ at a major news service. (Editor in this case being a pumped up term for a freelance journo responsible for lifestyle articles for the under 25s or similar). She’s still at flatsharing age.

I know plenty of people who went through a 90s Macjob and drugs on the side phase. They almost all went on to have careers, because boredom and mortgage.

I am torn on this - on one hand I see a lot of people phoning it in and how this can cause massive problems for their co workers. Or people who feel the showing up for work and doing their job deserves some kind of medal. On the other hand, the notion that you have to go 'above and beyond' is massively CFkery on behalf of employers. It should be ok to state people work for lots of different reasons and not everyone is massively career driven.

i do because I work for myself. Hourly rate is good - not amazing but good, but I choose to work PT so I have loads of time for DC, fitness, relaxing and mooching. If I worked the insane hours some people work I'd be on a six figure salary. I don't. At all. So I am on a graduate trainee income.

Being a part time, single mother I've spent the past 7 years (since I went from FT to PT) proving I'm anything but lazy.

Do your colleagues see you as a lazy girl?

If so that can be pretty annoying.

I don't think so, that's the beauty of it! I think I'm seen as one of the efficient (which I am) and competent ones.

When I first started this role, it was the shit-work that nobody else on the team wanted to do. It was a mess and I got thrown into the deep end knowing zero about the tasks and nobody inclined or having the ability to show me what to do. It was a key part of the business too.

The first 6 months were very stressful and I worked a LOT of overtime, shed a lot of tears in the loos but but slowly I got to the point I knew what I was at, I'd streamlined and massively improved what was an expensive, convoluted production process saving the company about 100k a year in overtime

I won't tempt fate by saying that I'm indispensable to our CEO but I created and maintain reports I update in real time of anything he may need to know instantly. I'm kinda like his Janet from The Good Place for this entire department though I'm probably the most junior staff member here.

The system practically runs itself as long as it's maintained, which I do religiously. Some weeks I might have a few hours of work. I regularly ask if there's any additional tasks that I can add to my role, but I'm always told no, keep doing what you are doing...

It's well paid for my skills level, I can hybrid work, and when DC was little, I had massive amounts of flexibility which for any parent, is worth gold.

Sounds amazing, go you! 💪

Where to even begin with 'lazy girl'. The sexism or the fact that it's been given a 'cutesy' name to supposedly appeal to women?

Are there 'lazy boy' jobs? Or are those just jobs?

Why does women doing their jobs efficiently get given such a 'lazy' title that evokes negative imagery?

I thnk there are a lot of jobs where there are a wide range of efficiences and work speeds in people doing them. My job is a bit like this: I am fast and have very efficient methods for doing stuff, so I can get done in two hours what some people will take a whole work day for. So the argument is more whether you then try to seek out more work and do more than your colleagues because you happen to be more efficient/faster, or whether you take that time back as a reward to yourself for being so efficient and go and do something else with it.

I probably do a bit of both. I tend to do over and above what other people do, but I wouldn't say I fill every hour of work doing work - sometimes I go off to pick up the kids from nursery or cook a meal or whatever. But I am still a high performer in the company just because of the way I work.

No but it's now something I'm seriously interested in 😆 seriously though yeah I'm having a gap summer but want a job working from home in the autumn . I've got no admin experience. Any ideas anyone ?

Yes. Make £71,000 a year and right now I'm watching Ben and Holly on Netflix with my 4yo, we will go collect her big sister from school later and have a play date at the local soft play. I might glance at my phone for anything urgent that comes through from work.

I'll do some more emails over the weekend to stay on top of things, but overall my work-life balance is peak. Very lazy.

I hear you OP!

If a certain person I manage can make a mountain out of a bloody molehill then she will! It's painful.

Then she acts in a very condescending way to everyone else who is just getting on with their work at a perfectly reasonable pace.

She won't listen to any suggestions of doing things another way.

She gets lots done but my god i'm stressed just from a phonecall with her most days.

Just remembered this 😂

It's not just a Gen Z thing is it? I'm Gen X and I have never had any career aspiration. I have always struggled with questions about what do you want to do in 5/10 years. I can't seriously answer, same as what I'm doing, finish at 5.30, earn a good wage and enjoy life, can I? I don't live my job. I see it as earning enough money so I can do what I want in life.

It doesn't mean I'm not high performing however. I concentrate while at work but I don't apply for promotions or other jobs that will lead to very long commutes, lots of working away from home and long hours. I prioritise being there for my kids.

Relieved to read the OP is not a Support Worker, but a worker providing PA support! Still reeling from my experiences of some muppets in support work.

If they mean a job that fits around my life, then yes! But I’d work more if health/family issues allowed it. Pay is also crap, but I’m not the main breadwinner.

Imagine what you could achieve if you tried!

Personally I don't get this. Nobody wants to be stressed out but life is for creativity, contribution, helping others and being out there.

creativity, contribution, helping others and being out there can all be done outside paid work. It's quite rare to have a job in which you can do all this.

Imagine what you could achieve if you tried!

I suppose I could try really hard to magic up ever more efficient admin systems or something