Please tell me where all these cushy, well paid jobs are...and how I can get one!

[malificent7]

Working in health care ...love it but high stress, poor pay. Not getting any younger.

Someone on the work thread said they know lots of people in cushy, well paid jobs. Posting here for traffic...where are they?!
Disn't have to be interesting or worthy...just cushy and well-paid!

Tell me too when you find out!

There's no such thing as a cushy, well paid job you haven't worked hard to qualify for or build.

You have to be an incompetent white male with zero personal awareness, then you just need to find someone who falls for it when you talk about how great you are.

This is what you need …

Mature Study and Retraining board

Either
A) they are the sort of jobs that rely on you knowing the right people. You bring clients onboard and keep them happy because you are already rich and well connected usually.
B) they are cushy and well paid now but weren't in early stages of career. Eg consultant dermatologist doing a couple of days private work a week. They've worked damn hard to get to that position even if it's cushy now

Agree with @Blinkinbloodyhayfever

I would describe mine a cushy and well paid but doesn’t mean I haven’t worked hard to qualify and don’t still work hard. Just I get to choose when to work and get fairly well paid.

if you want a career change start with what you’re good at and what you enjoy

Define well paid? It’s quite a broad perspective

This also works, I believe …

Yes this. I think mine is relatively well paid and very flexible, but I had to do 4 years of degree and masters, then I did my time as a graduate then junior doing long hours and lots of travelling to build experience and gain my professional qualifications. It’s taken me 12 years of hard work to get to my current nice position.

Its all relative anyway. One person's cushy job is another person's nightmare job, depending on their strengths, personality and skill set.

Well paid is easier to define.

If you can find a way to leverage your healthcare experience then it won't be thrown away as such and can contribute to your "hard work banked earlier in career" bank - what exactly do you do in healthcare? Could you consider jobs in healthcare consulting (as in business strategy not a doctor) - e.g. being on the board or advising medtech startups etc?

I suppose my job would qualify, and I didn't have to put decades of hard graft into my career to get to my level, but I did have to obsessively pursue relevant experience outside of my paid role as well as go above and beyond in my 9-5. I have a natural talent for the work that makes this feel easy and enjoyable, so that helps. I also seem to have a nose for opportunities and have accelerated my career growth by taking full advantage of them.

If you are used to working on the front line, public health work might feel cushy as it’s office-based? It is mentally challenging though and only well-paid if you’re a consultant which takes years of training.

What do you do in healthcare? Have you looked at the new roles in GP surgeries for nurse prescriber/paramedic prescriber? £55k isn't bad pay

As PPs have said there are cushy and well paid jobs but they aren’t advertised. They are usually people who have built a reputation doing something for a company for a long time who then go freelance or cut their hours to suit family life etc.

I feel like I have a job people would say is "cushty" and I earn around 60k so some people would say that's not high in MN! But it's more than I thought I'd earn having a mediocre degree from a basic uni...

But like pp have said I started at the coal face in a contact centre job for this company in 2014, then took on jobs no one else wanted (complaints was a good stepping stone as it was bloody hard work but I did it for a year then went back to the contact centre in a Team Manager position) after doing a few years there which was massively hard work long hours really challenging staff members and daily complex issues I progressed again to head up the department and then did a sideway step into Account management which is much more flexible and have autonomy for my own time and output and a fraction of the stress I had when I earned less than half of what I earn now

So in summary I got to where I am by understanding my company/products to minute detail and using that as leverage as well as my contacts in the business and external too,

Can you afford to make a jump Into business and maybe a bit of a pay cut and give yourself a 5 year plan for progression,take every opportunity that comes your way you can quickly progress

This ^

Try looking into higher education admin, it's relatively well paid for what it is, and there's progression.

In my experience you can have cushy, or well paid but not both.

Unless you are aforementioned white male

My job is fairly cushy and well-paid now, but I slogged very hard for 10-15 years to get to where I am now, and even now there are some weeks when I’m working til the early hours.

Try doing an admin role in an IT vendor then get mentored into sales role. Earnings between £100k and £200k are achievable

It depends how you define cushy and well paid. I have a good salary and very flexible hours but it is still a job with external deadlines which are non negotiable

I know, when people on here say ‘you can just get a better paid job’ it makes me want to scream

I think they get "cushier" in terms of workload, actual tasks, the more senior and experienced you get, but that comes with more responsibility, which some people thrive on and others would see as stress.

I currently manage a team of 20 people all doing jobs that I once worked very hard in. I have things running smoothly, my team are well managed and performing well, I'm sure to many it looks like I don't do much, but if I wasn't there as a reference point, hadn't set up the systems that make it run so well l, resolving issues while they're still minor, supporting the team when they need it, it would soon fall apart.

Also, my experience means I know which elements of my job need lots of time and effort on them and which bits no-one really cares about, where when I was younger I'd have made sure it was all done to the best of my ability.

I don't think my job is "cushy", lots of the people who might wonder what I do all day would struggle with it, but it's not particularly challenging for me now.

I worked in healthcare (60k job) and moved into private work because of the stress. I earn the same but probably half the hours BUT the nhs pension is worth another 50% on top of the pay. I still am tempted to return to NHS sometimes because the terms and conditions and pension are the REALLY cushty item.