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

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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!

My current job would be considered cushy and relatively well paid. My last job was hard work and if I am honest almost mentally destroyed me at the end. However I got an excellent reputation from it and got my current job from word of mouth. I was headhunted for my current job.

@RedBonnet All the things you say have made things difficult for you in engineering would have made things difficult for you in the legal profession too. You sound exactly the kind of person who would have a frustrating and badly-paid career in law, assuming you kept a job at all. Hope that's some comfort.

Mine was on the other side of a masters degree and through a slow progression from freelance & junior roles into management & executive places.

How much pay would you consider well paid?

Both the industry I work in and write about (I'm a journalist) are full of mediocre older white men who've failed upwards and now have lovely well-paid jobs despite spending most of their days playing golf. So my advice is: become an older white man. Unfortunately if you're a woman you're not judged by the same standards even if you're twice as good and will be considered to be past your sell-by date at 50, if you're lucky.

Also, what do people consider to be a well-paid job? £70K plus?

Work in the charity sector is neither cushy nor well paid.

Would the misogyny be there in law? I guess that's the point I was making about law

I'm pretty sure sinecures have existed since time immemorial.

I would not advise being a woman in journalism if you want a cushy, well paid job.

The pay is OK at senior editor level, but unless you're a celebrity columnist you'll never be rich. And some staffer mug like me writes most of those columns anyway.

I’m in a well paid specialist role in IT, but before I got this role I had to work my way up from less well paid more demanding roles.

I don’t think you can just walk your way into these roles, you have to work hard and prove yourself and work your way up. Specialist skills that you have a proven record in pay well and get you things like flexible working, wfh, and assistants you can delegate to.

Civil service (but will require some working through the ranks albeit you benefit from flexitime and pension from day 1) and train drivers

Go to Eton.

Train drivers? Surely that's stressful!

Agree with what others say - one persons ‘cushy’ means something else to someone else. Some people would say mu job is ‘cushy’. I work in health are, but work from home 90% of the time, have a lot of flexibility. Can be home for my daughter coming home from scholl, can flex my working pattern to attend school things, without much notice.

What people don’t see is me wide awake at 2am stressing about my job, logging on at 3am to meet deadlines and get my work done. Working 12 hour days, working weekends and always having work in my head and not being able to switch off because I have a lot of responsibility.

it depends on what you mean by cushy ? what do you define as cushy ? no job is perfect but you have to be happy going into it every day. you have shite days and you have good days. but no huge salary etc is worth every day a shite day sleepless nights etc.
You might say I have a cushy number. work from home only on the office twice a month. lots of hols flexi time nice salary plus bonus and healthy care. boss very nice too. work is not taxing but then it's stressful some times that's the industry I work in though. what you haven't seen though is my past 20 years hard slog ti get here plus 5 years college (failed one year 😢 so had to repeat) made redundant twice. worked through a recession that the country has never seen before where no staff were hired no bonus pay cuts etc. commute of 2 hours each way due to no jobs and also worked for some very toxic managers. all of thos experience though has got me where I am now.

also to add may work from home but there are days that I work 12 to 14 hours and at weekends to ensure deadlines are met. but my company appreciates that and they show it

Local government in my experience

The cushy well paid jobs where I used to work was generally in house promotions.. so not advertised. You start at the bottom then do courses and work up. If your good at smoozing and mingling it goes a very long way 😂

@horseyhorsey17 mine is. £100k FTE and I do very little. I spend a lot of my working day travelling on trains and in meetings.

Maybe some people would absolutely hate that, I can understand it’s not for everyone, but having been a teacher previously, to me it’s incredibly cushy.

Well, erm yes 😂

Joking aside, women have a tendency to undersell themselves

we look at a job spec can tick 9 out of 10 of the boxes and talk ourselves out of it. Men tick 1 out of 10 and go for it.

we need to tell ourselves to go for it, to believe in ourselves and have a go.

retraining is an excellent idea, from healthcare to midwife or physiotherapist is a valid path

likewise Cyber, you don’t have to be a techie, it’s an industry crying out for people

The only people I know with cushy well paid jobs, also have fairly precarious jobs, so they're in a public sector post that doesn't really deliver anything and might not survive the next restructure or they're consultants who have to keep finding work.

@Madamecholetsbonnet

Ive has some cushy charity jobs where I’ve done sweet FA. This is why I don’t donate any money to charities.

I work as a lawyer in public sector. It's reasonably well paid and I would say fairly cushy, can wfh most days

Precisely. Can’t tell you how many high paid men I’ve come across who are fucking useless at their job and propped up by capable, lesser-paid women.