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!

@Rainbowsandrainclouds1

Not my idea of cushy. Ride or die/ gruelling schedule etc at times. People are paid over 6 figures usually for a very good reason.

At 28k my salary is way below yours. But I have zero stress, total autonomy/flexibility/control over my diary and zero responsibility/accountability.

It’s basically a bit like playing. I mean it’s not bad for doing next to nothing which enables me to do the things I love more (reading, gym etc). I mean I could definitely earn more but I do think the level of cushiness would decrease 🤣🤣.

It's horses for courses. To me, my job is cushy. But it's taken 20 years to get here.

There are parts of my job that would be excruciating for other people but I quite enjoy. And if the pressure starts, then I definitely earn my money.

I'm interested in how my job contributes to a better future, I am naturally good at the skills needed to do it well and I have good colleagues and terms and conditions. It pays well (60k) but it doesn't take over my life. I could progress but don't want to head back in to the office more or work more than 40hrs a week.

Focus on what comes easy to you, then build up skills/experience which fit with what you are interested in/enjoy. My SIL is an accountant but works in a sexy industry. She gets money, interest and prestige.

Too many people say do something you love - I say do something you find easy and are good at and then choose a business you're interested in

Best if you can be a man, working in a male field, and be carefree with regards to domestic responsibilities.

If you don’t have balls and a wife, you’ll struggle.

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its amazing that people say they know plenty of people in these jobs. But people would say it about my job.

Very well paid, manage my own diary, can work from anywhere, can usually get anytime off that I need to be there for the kids.

But what people always seem to miss is the fact that I might have to log on a weekend as something f is urgent, or on holiday. That I sometimes do 15 hour days. That decisions I make could make or lose the company a lot of money or even staff and there’s a huge amount of pressure to never make a mistake. One mistake could end up with me losing my job.

I am paid to make decisions and for my experience. And for my availability. Non of that came over night or easily.

Hmm, I have a cushy well paid part time job. Unfortunately the route to get here was brutal. Degree, 3 years of professional training, 5 years of barely scraping by before getting sufficiently high up the ladder to earn a good wage. Kept climbing into the lead role in my profession in 3 organisations, worked 60-80 hours a week for 15 years and, in my worst year, took 120 flights (average was about 40-50). Frankly, I am knackered at 55 and I don’t think I could work full time if I tried!

This.

This. Mine is fairly cushy and fairly well paid. But I'm in my 50's and have worked in the industry for over 20 years to get to where I am now.

ture. I know these jobs, you need to be highly qualified, know where to look, and be luck enough to get in. or you can get introduced into it as an apprentice with family connections, like those lloyds insurance brokers.

I think you usually need a niche set of skills to find a cushy well paid role, I earn around £70,000 in healthcare and my role is fairly cushy, I work four days a week 8-6, but my job is very niche and I have a masters degree plus additional qualifications. My SIL’s step dad earns £200k wfh as a software developer, but again he has a very niche set of skills and years of experience.

In my experience, the cushy jobs are either ones that someone has had to work very hard for over many years, or ones that people with privileged backgrounds walk into due to connections.

I have what I consider a cushy job now, working in the NHS as a psychotherapist. It's well paid, lots of autonomy, very rewarding, partly working from home, it's the dream really. But it took over a decade of volunteering, studying, moving, to get here.

Prime minister of the UK if Sunak is anything to go by. He gets paid to do fuck all.

I’m an actuary and think I’ve got it pretty cushty now. But I worked so hard to get did maths at uni then 7 years of exams after uni.

I think the key is to go for industries that pay well (e.g. finance, technology, law) and then just work hard at something and within a few years you should be able to get into a "cushy" role. I'm returning to work after a few years out and I've not struggled to get employers to give me flexibility in terms of days/hours /WFH because my expertise is very in-demand.

That's a very ill-informed post from someone who probably hasn't ever had a responsible job.

To many my job seems cushy and is well paid but it's taken a long slog to get it with 8+ years of long hours working, last minute phone calls well into the night and getting sent (and stuck) in random locations. That's on top of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
It's also pretty high stress but is very flexible and I now finish on time and no random 10pm phone calls!

I think many jobs may seem cushy from the outside but reality is different.

If you're a people person, any kind of sales

I wouldn't say so at all.

A lot of sales jobs are horrible call churning with poor compensation package.

The more consultancy type ones in professional services i.e tech require more than just being a people person - you need to be smart, have excellent presentational skills and usually have good knowledge of the thing you're selling. But, you can get large packages.

But all sales jobs are usually pretty relentless at the begining of your career and only get somewhat cushy when you have proven yourself and arent at constant risk of being fired if you under perform.

this post makes me so angry somehow

I earn £70k and work in marketing.

It’s relatively cushy in the sense that there’s no genuine stress - I don’t love my job and certain projects can feel stressful at the time, but it’s marketing. Nobody dies if a project overruns.

I also have quite a bit of flexibility and can wfh. I feel very fortunate and have also been quite lucky to get to this stage so early in my career.

Software development. Fully remote, well-paid, very little stress and always sought-after.

Cushy in what sense? I’m a teacher so many people feel my job is cushy - decent salary and pension and long long holidays. However the day to day is bloody hard. My DH is an engineer, earns bit less than me but he does 2-3 WFH days which I think is a cushy number cause some days being up and out for 7:30-8 is a PITA. Someone earning 20k might think I was rich, someone earning 80k would call me skint. It’s all relative.

Nailed it

Not v well paid, but academia…. Especially this time of year. I also do consulting on the side. Love my job.

But…. It was hard work to claw my way here. And numerous people I PhDed with didn’t make it. Some were way more talented than me.

This.

You can switch over to private sector, not sure how cushy it will be but will be less stressful than now.