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!

I'm a insurance pricing analyst and would consider my job well paid and 'cushy'. I'm not rich a all but I earn slightly more working 16 hours a week than I would full time in a minimum wage job which I'm happy with. No management responsibilities and a workplace focused on good mental health and work,/life balance.
How did I get here? 8 years at university studying mathematics and 10 years building skills and experience. And the luck of having a natural apptitude in maths and a stable home situation which encouraged me to get educated to a high level even though my parents didn't have it themselves. I'm definitely privileged I that way.

Interesting - what do you do within the sector? I looked at transitioning into charity comms - which I'd actually really enjoy - but it would mean at least a £10K pay cut. No can do!

Events management. I love it!

Me neither! Unless you count the National Lottery!

TBF there are plenty of white women who are incompetent and are at the top. In the NHS, people are often mediocre but are promoted up and out of the department as a way of getting rid of them. But for the private sector it seems as though you have to be the right ‘fit’ usually white and middle class, know the right people and be willing to do anything to please share holders and make them money.

I organise events as part of my job (I don't work in anything related to events or marketing) and it's stressful as hell. Maybe you've hit the jackpot and found a hard job that comes naturally to you!

I think sadly the truth is you have to put the hard yards in the beginning which is annoying because that’s when you want to be having most fun. But yeah I’ve worked incredibly hard to do this little

It's not what you know....its who you know!

My job looks cushy and well paid now. I earn the lower end of 6 figures. Wfh. And knock off at 5/5.30.

what you don’t see is the brutal jobs I did before the at as a single parent to 3 to get me where I am. The retraining (degree, masters and professional qualifications) with kids and working in a minimum wage job to get there.

That’s a really valid point that applies across the board. I am ridiculously well organised, to the point it annoys/amuses friends and family.

So yeah, do what comes easily to you to be able to find your job cushy.

I have taken a step back now, but I have had well paid jobs, as in six figures since I was in my mid 30s, twenty years ago. I don't know what you mean by cushy, I suppose there can sometimes be a bit more flexiblity than with more junior jobs and I have travelled overseas a fair bit. But the flexibility is a two way street and I have always been expected to work whatever hours are required, answer out of hours emails etc. I also worked hard and studied for years to get there in the first place.

I am a data protection specialist.

Loads of organisations need them, and the pay is decent, especially once you have some experience.

Everyone in management is legally required to take you seriously, but they won't generally get het up or excited about your work, so it's low stress. Especially good if you like reading and detail work.

I basically fart around making recommendations, and my company remains legally on the hook for implementing them.

(I do actually add value, but I don't have to. The idea of fretting over who will cover for my role or when I'll take holiday is alien to me. That is what makes it cushy to me.)

You've got to find what you enjoy and look into the career path to get to the money.

If you're doing a job you enjoy and paid well for it it'll be cushy.

Well that's incredibly sexist and racist

I’m 34 and blagged my way into a 40k job (was on 21k) 5 years ago. I had extremely little experience in my field but have a great ability to digest information and become an “expert” overnight (thanks ADHD). I now actually know what I’m talking about and am on 60. About to start a law degree part time (complements the job) so my earning potential is around 100k when I finish. I just don’t like to be static, I constantly need to be better. Love my career though!

In my company I see two types of these roles. The first is the global account manager. From what I can see, this role involves lots of travel and events with customers and listening to their complaints. You then instruct other people to deal with these. It sounds fantastically cushy to me and I’m sure comes with a whopping salary, but it’s extremely hard to become one so they’ve paid their dues going up the sales ladder which is definitely not cushy.

The other type of cushy job is the layer of senior experts brought in to enact various strategies. These don’t seem to do a huge amount other than delivering presentations about said strategies and building little empires. I’m unenvious of these roles as they’re vulnerable when change is in the air.

Also. I contracted for a few years to build lots of experience in different orgs quickly. And that sucks.

@Letsgotitans But absolutely true, we've all seen very average white Men being promoted above their competence because they have more self confidence than ability and aren't afraid to talk themselves up.

I know one of those 🙄

I have a cushy well paid job but its taken me 27 years of building my career to get to this point. It still has loads of stress but the hours and salary compensates for that.

I needed a degree, lots of training, and lots of gaining knowledge and experience over 2 and a half decades.

If I had chosen a different degree - law, accountancy etc then I could have achieved that many years ago.

So much this. Just seen it in action yet again today at work. Gives me the rage 😤

Really good point well made @RebelR

What @JauntyJinty said!
In my experience my best paid friends knew the right people, as depressing as that is. I’ve started networking much better this year as a consequence of watching people get ahead so much from it. It is starting to work!
Also digital marketing pays very well for wage vs time spent!

I'm an in-house lawyer earning 90k, I rarely work past 6.30pm and I only need to go to the office a couple of times a week. I am in my late twenties and hope to start a family soon.

I worked hard throughout school, university and my twenties, qualifying as a solicitor in a City law firm and working a LOT of hours as a junior associate for around 120k.

The (relatively) lower salary now has been so worth it for the reduced stress and more time for friendships, self care and hobbies. My long term career progression opportunities are likely more limited now though.

Lots of people saying their job fits the bill but not actually saying what their job is so of no use whatsoever to the OP 🙄