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Quite a simple topic really, I’m in the fortunate position that I’m financially secure at 40 years old and I don’t need to work full time in a stressful job anymore.
For the past 12 months I’ve worked a few delivery driver jobs and currently work in a sports centre. Very simple but tbh these two jobs have you running around like a looney and due to cut backs and pay squeezes, you now do the work of two people. (They are jobs I’ve done 20 years ago so I know what they used to be like) with managers trying to bully you because they are being bullied to get results.
I find it all so tedious
So I’m looking a list of simple jobs that maybe you guys have done during a break from your profession or part time jobs that you done during studies etc
Or just any jobs you think would be good to try out!
For the past 12 months I’ve worked a few delivery driver jobs and currently work in a sports centre. Very simple but tbh these two jobs have you running around like a looney and due to cut backs and pay squeezes, you now do the work of two people. (They are jobs I’ve done 20 years ago so I know what they used to be like) with managers trying to bully you because they are being bullied to get results.
I find it all so tedious
So I’m looking a list of simple jobs that maybe you guys have done during a break from your profession or part time jobs that you done during studies etc
Or just any jobs you think would be good to try out!
Given that you're financially secure have you considered volunteering? A family member of mine volunteers for barnardo's and another one does some work for the local Food Bank. there's no stress because they're glad of any time people can offer.
The source of all stress is people trying to get you to work harder for less money. So perhaps you could do something self-employed?
The source of all stress is people trying to get you to work harder for less money. So perhaps you could do something self-employed?
welshjon81 said:
I have always found that "simple" jobs (ie. minimum wage jobs, or jobs that require no qualifications and are easy to find) are the hardest jobs to actually do. The more I have been paid, the more I have found the job both enjoyable and easier to perform.
I’m finding this as well, I think the cut backs in the last 5 years are really pushing these jobs to the limit. The problem I have is that I’ve never enjoyed any office based work, I hate using a computer although I’m not pc illiterate, I’ve always enjoys being out and about, I was an engineer on the tools in a past life but I’ve invested my way out of all the serious graft now and I don’t think could go back to working a 8/9 hour day they having to miss my family life to stay on and complete a job.. I really want a simple job I can do that has actual realistic expectations! Maybe I’m living in cloud cuckoo land!
Countdown said:
Given that you're financially secure have you considered volunteering? A family member of mine volunteers for barnardo's and another one does some work for the local Food Bank. there's no stress because they're glad of any time people can offer.
The source of all stress is people trying to get you to work harder for less money. So perhaps you could do something self-employed?
I’m secure in that fact that I’m bringing in about 15-20k a year part time, I think I could possible finish work completely but I wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving that few grand on the table tbh!The source of all stress is people trying to get you to work harder for less money. So perhaps you could do something self-employed?
I have plenty to do outside of work so if I did finish I would want to spend that time doing personal or family things really
The easiest and most enjoyable job I had was working in a small Costcutter on an army base. Just gently stocking shelves all day, not too much running around at all. Like normal retail, but with a guardroom as a d
head filter 
. It's no wonder the youth of today are disaffected when the key lesson from the workplace is "things only get worse". In my first job, I remember we used to have one section to face. Then it was two. Then it was half the shop!
I think I would like a garden centre job! Might try a few local ones, there are a few around me.
Yeah, when I was younger and worked as a driver the company I worked for had a contract with a few companies and we just did what was required, some days it was busy and some days really easy, now everything is down to the minute!
Same in the sports centre I work now, when I was younger it was single time 9-5, time and a half outside these hours and a Saturday and double time on Sunday, now it just above minimum wage the whole week, really poor tbh!
Yeah, when I was younger and worked as a driver the company I worked for had a contract with a few companies and we just did what was required, some days it was busy and some days really easy, now everything is down to the minute!
Same in the sports centre I work now, when I was younger it was single time 9-5, time and a half outside these hours and a Saturday and double time on Sunday, now it just above minimum wage the whole week, really poor tbh!
I think I probably have undiagnosed ADHD and had forty odd years of hopping from job to job whenever I got bored. I was lucky enough to pick and chose and I had some very fun jobs over the years and a few which were lucrative enough too.
Thinking back, the ones I enjoyed most were the creative ones which held my attention and produced something I could be proud of at the end of the day... landscape gardening, drystone dyking, cooking, tree surgery. This also ties in with hobbies of painting, sculpture and wood carving.
Other than that, I also enjoyed nightclub bouncing, trawlering, digger driving, rural postieing, and my last job before retirement, mobile librarian.
And (the "ADHD" is raising it's head again), I'm considering coming back out of retirement to take on a part-time position as a highland tour guide/ driver next spring.
Thinking back, the ones I enjoyed most were the creative ones which held my attention and produced something I could be proud of at the end of the day... landscape gardening, drystone dyking, cooking, tree surgery. This also ties in with hobbies of painting, sculpture and wood carving.
Other than that, I also enjoyed nightclub bouncing, trawlering, digger driving, rural postieing, and my last job before retirement, mobile librarian.
And (the "ADHD" is raising it's head again), I'm considering coming back out of retirement to take on a part-time position as a highland tour guide/ driver next spring.
welshjon81 said:
I have always found that "simple" jobs (ie. minimum wage jobs, or jobs that require no qualifications and are easy to find) are the hardest jobs to actually do. The more I have been paid, the more I have found the job both enjoyable and easier to perform.
I agree. When I've been in very senior positions I've found it to be very easy work with others doing most of the tasks When I've worked in a seemingly easy job I've found many of my colleagues doing the same job don't look on it as an easy job at all!
They take it very seriously and work hard and efficiently.
If people think "Flipping burgers" or stacking shelves is a doddle with no stress they need to try it and see if they last a week.
I left nursing after 36 years and went into funeral care. Driving the ceremonial fleet, care of the deceased, bit of stock keeping.
Pay with some of the big chains is NMW or just over. Find a good independent and the pay (and conditions) are usually better.
Most are always looking for casual bearers and drivers.
Good luck.
SD.
Pay with some of the big chains is NMW or just over. Find a good independent and the pay (and conditions) are usually better.
Most are always looking for casual bearers and drivers.
Good luck.
SD.
2 blokes I've envied their working lives in the last few years.
The first is a carpenter who relies wholly on word of mouth and reputation to get his work. Really chilled fella, knew his craft, did most of the work in his unit and took his time to install it perfectly in the house, and was paid well for it. Definitely not against the clock, and not quoting anyone who was going to start pinning his ears to the wall over price or hours on the job.
The second was a gardener. He had it tucked up. He cut the grass on most of the houses in established housing estates around Horsham. Charged a tenner, and got loads of uptake to the extent there were more houses he cut than he didn't.
I don't think it took him more than 6 or 8 minutes to do a property, and he was trundling off to the next door neighbours, never had to switch his mower off except to refuel, unload the mower at the start of the day and load up again at the end. He was taking 80-90 quid an hour easy.
OK it's seasonal but he'd got it nailed for that season. Customers didn't get a choice of when he was coming, he decided his route, but for a tenner plainly many of them were just "yeah fk it, saves me getting up off my arse" and the resultant volume and proximity of customers made it an absolute breeze.
The first is a carpenter who relies wholly on word of mouth and reputation to get his work. Really chilled fella, knew his craft, did most of the work in his unit and took his time to install it perfectly in the house, and was paid well for it. Definitely not against the clock, and not quoting anyone who was going to start pinning his ears to the wall over price or hours on the job.
The second was a gardener. He had it tucked up. He cut the grass on most of the houses in established housing estates around Horsham. Charged a tenner, and got loads of uptake to the extent there were more houses he cut than he didn't.
I don't think it took him more than 6 or 8 minutes to do a property, and he was trundling off to the next door neighbours, never had to switch his mower off except to refuel, unload the mower at the start of the day and load up again at the end. He was taking 80-90 quid an hour easy.
OK it's seasonal but he'd got it nailed for that season. Customers didn't get a choice of when he was coming, he decided his route, but for a tenner plainly many of them were just "yeah f
k it, saves me getting up off my arse" and the resultant volume and proximity of customers made it an absolute breeze.Many years ago I was a hospital kitchen assistant for a while.
It was great, no pressure and a great team, lots of humour and friendly banter.
Mind you that was back in the days when hospitals provided three cooked meals a day, I remember cooking up huge vats of porridge every morning.
One imagines hospital porter would be OK too.
It was great, no pressure and a great team, lots of humour and friendly banter.
Mind you that was back in the days when hospitals provided three cooked meals a day, I remember cooking up huge vats of porridge every morning.
One imagines hospital porter would be OK too.
shed driver said:
I left nursing after 36 years and went into funeral care. Driving the ceremonial fleet, care of the deceased, bit of stock keeping.
Pay with some of the big chains is NMW or just over. Find a good independent and the pay (and conditions) are usually better.
Most are always looking for casual bearers and drivers.
Good luck.
SD.
My wife works for an in independent funeral place and they always need bearers, often have part time jobs available. Bearer is good work £50 odd cash for a few hours standing around talking.Pay with some of the big chains is NMW or just over. Find a good independent and the pay (and conditions) are usually better.
Most are always looking for casual bearers and drivers.
Good luck.
SD.
Sat in the office this morning I have watched the town council handyman repair a bench outside. Turned up in his little van at about half 9, set to work taking the slats off, measuring up and fitting new ones, giving them a coat of paint and then heading off to do something else.
Reminded me of my Grandad pottering about in the garden with not a lot to do and all the time in the world to do it so could take real pride in doing a simple job really well.
If you have a background in engineering then a handman job like that, either for a town/parish council or similar could be a nice way to spend your time.
Reminded me of my Grandad pottering about in the garden with not a lot to do and all the time in the world to do it so could take real pride in doing a simple job really well.
If you have a background in engineering then a handman job like that, either for a town/parish council or similar could be a nice way to spend your time.
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