Serious question to all the people who have held a high paying job (if you have to ask it's high paying) where you do little work, what is your job title?
What is your role supposed to accomplish? What does a day to day look like?
I thought I would be doing one of these bs jobs but I somehow ended up in a high paying job where I'm busting my ass all the time
senior software engineer. I'm write web apis to provide some data to another internal team. I work about 1 hour a day + a few 30 min meetings, the rest I spend working on hexbear or various things that interest me. The company is pretty big and for some reason they keep hiring, even when its actually getting difficult to find work for team members to do. If I wasn't slacking off, no one else on the team would have tickets to work on lol.
well if you say so, but I make less than fast food workers in other parts of the country :shrug-outta-hecks:
my job title is "unarmed guard" and i sit in front of a screen of cameras all night. the facility im at uses me as a shipping department so i have to handle paperwork for trucks coming in and out but this is maybe 30 mins to an hour of work per night, and i have to patrol the facility once a night which is another half hour or so. aside from that i am sitting and playing video games or watching anime.
the reason i consider it kinda sorta "high-paying" is because i used to make not much more money in an absurd physical labor job which was killing me
Won't doxx myself by stating title, but even among the same job title there's a huge variation in the amount of work the company expects you to do.
Previous company made me do constant overtime (like 12+ hours at work a day, 4 to 6 days a week). Took a new job with more pay and same title, and now I take a nap after lunch and the head of department tells me to stop working and go home if I try to stay past 5.
Idk if it counts but I work as a clinician in a drug rehab program and I get paid around 78k a year which is decent money for me and I love the work. I routinely have days where I don't take lunch breaks because I can squeeze in another counseling session, get someone's parole officer to reconsider some action, send out a letter of recommendation to a judge for leaner or shorter legal recommendations, or shit just sit down and shoot the shit with someone who just needs to rant about life.
I might be underpaid for the job role I have (private rehabs pay A LOT more for people of my education and experience) but I'd rather be counseling a crip gangmember and helping them get sober and their kids back, than have to do headpats for some rich asshole in Malibu just to get paid an extra 40k a year.
And I gotta say a lot of Marxist ideology and theory really REALLY helps with therapy, I affirm when people say that the system is fucked and unfair, and try to get them connected with the meager resources I can think of (before I was a clinician I was a case manager and I could get someone's food stamps approved and running in 1-2 days without visiting an office) instead of just trying to get them to "cope" with the bleak realities of capitalism.
Under communism I would likely do the exact same work but I'd likely have a lot more post-step down successes for my Patients since their material benefits would be more greatly addressed and the material reasons behind some people's addiction would be heavily addressed.
Database administration is the best, least work position, I was doing it for two places - then one of them had to come along with an engineer position with options that does machine learning shit. As long as they get bought or go public :spongebob-party:
I'm a software engineer for a small company that makes and sells electronic gadgets. I almost exclusively do new product development
Day to day, at a base level it's an average of 30 minutes of meetings per day, plus looking busy and being "available" to answer questions about something they think I might know about (this winds up only taking up around 1 hour per week). On top of that is about 4-30 hours per week of coding depending on what the bosses are expecting and my mood. The hours aren't distributed in any particular way; some days I don't do anything aside from the meetings, others I might do multiple 10-12 hour days back to back. But tbh it probably lands at around 15 hours of coding most weeks, it only gets to 30 if it's crunch time or I'm genuinely interested in what I'm assigned to do, and only gets down to 4 during the holiday season or if I'm working on some internal tool there isn't urgency for.
I am an engineer in a large (10k+ employees) industry metal supplier. Got a M.Sc in some science.
I do have a pretty cushy German union contract, 35h per week, no overtime, around 70k € (probably difficult to compare to US incomes due the different tax and social security systems, but it's plenty where I live), 30 days vacation + bank holidays.
I am relatively happy to say that I actually do things. We produce actual stuff that probably many of you see or touch in your daily lives and I have a relatively important part in it. Work varies heavily, some weeks I'll be super busy, traveling, tons of meetings and development, some weeks are slow and I can essentially jerk off at home, but my boss doesn't mind as long as shit gets done. Really it's about 90% thanks to my boss who keeps us fairly independent and let's us do our jobs without getting bothered by management.
The "lean -> clean" mindset is absolutely insane to me and I would probably quit (if I could) asap if someone just made me work for works sake.
Another software engineer/consultant (these seem to be overrepresented on Hexbear), but I also ended up in a position where I'm busting my ass all the time too. It's relative of course because I can still find time to post. The work comes in waves, basically I'm just given a mountain of huge deadlines 5-10 months out, and every moment I spend not doing it is shooting myself in the foot. If I work harder then I get more work as a reward. But again it's relative, my days are usually 9-10 hours 5-6 days a week.
Does my job help people? I'm not sure, I guess so, a few million people would start to be affected by various services going down if I didn't help build/maintain them. But it's very indirect. I don't ever see who I've helped, except for early in my career when I got to visit a location and talk to end users.
I work repairing production tools in the electronics industry and my job has the word "engineer" in the title, although I have no degree or high school diploma (but I don't advertise that on my resume. In my teens and 20's I just listed my class year and school on my resume, and no one but the feds or universities will actually check your education credentials back to high school, but now I just don't even list my high school because I'm over 30 and no one cares).
I got the job by having some relevant experience gained by selling my soul.
A normal day for me is waking up like fifteen minutes before I clock in, checking my phone to see if I got overnight messages that something broke, showering, playing video games, and posting until the end of the day, then sending out an email telling everyone that nothing's broken. If something breaks, then I travel to the customer site and work until it's fixed or until the end of my contracted on call time (a few hours later than normal workday end time), continuing work the next morning until it's fixed (minus meal times and breaks).
I'm hourly, so I get overtime, and I would absolutely quit before giving up overtime pay. Some weeks I max out overtime (so, 60 hours), but most of the time I'm posting in my underwear.
Serious question to all the people who have held a high paying job (if you have to ask it's high paying) where you do little work, what is your job title?
What is your role supposed to accomplish? What does a day to day look like?
I thought I would be doing one of these bs jobs but I somehow ended up in a high paying job where I'm busting my ass all the time
senior software engineer. I'm write web apis to provide some data to another internal team. I work about 1 hour a day + a few 30 min meetings, the rest I spend working on hexbear or various things that interest me. The company is pretty big and for some reason they keep hiring, even when its actually getting difficult to find work for team members to do. If I wasn't slacking off, no one else on the team would have tickets to work on lol.
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well if you say so, but I make less than fast food workers in other parts of the country :shrug-outta-hecks:
my job title is "unarmed guard" and i sit in front of a screen of cameras all night. the facility im at uses me as a shipping department so i have to handle paperwork for trucks coming in and out but this is maybe 30 mins to an hour of work per night, and i have to patrol the facility once a night which is another half hour or so. aside from that i am sitting and playing video games or watching anime.
the reason i consider it kinda sorta "high-paying" is because i used to make not much more money in an absurd physical labor job which was killing me
Won't doxx myself by stating title, but even among the same job title there's a huge variation in the amount of work the company expects you to do.
Previous company made me do constant overtime (like 12+ hours at work a day, 4 to 6 days a week). Took a new job with more pay and same title, and now I take a nap after lunch and the head of department tells me to stop working and go home if I try to stay past 5.
Idk if it counts but I work as a clinician in a drug rehab program and I get paid around 78k a year which is decent money for me and I love the work. I routinely have days where I don't take lunch breaks because I can squeeze in another counseling session, get someone's parole officer to reconsider some action, send out a letter of recommendation to a judge for leaner or shorter legal recommendations, or shit just sit down and shoot the shit with someone who just needs to rant about life.
I might be underpaid for the job role I have (private rehabs pay A LOT more for people of my education and experience) but I'd rather be counseling a crip gangmember and helping them get sober and their kids back, than have to do headpats for some rich asshole in Malibu just to get paid an extra 40k a year.
And I gotta say a lot of Marxist ideology and theory really REALLY helps with therapy, I affirm when people say that the system is fucked and unfair, and try to get them connected with the meager resources I can think of (before I was a clinician I was a case manager and I could get someone's food stamps approved and running in 1-2 days without visiting an office) instead of just trying to get them to "cope" with the bleak realities of capitalism.
Under communism I would likely do the exact same work but I'd likely have a lot more post-step down successes for my Patients since their material benefits would be more greatly addressed and the material reasons behind some people's addiction would be heavily addressed.
Database administration is the best, least work position, I was doing it for two places - then one of them had to come along with an engineer position with options that does machine learning shit. As long as they get bought or go public :spongebob-party:
I'm a software engineer for a small company that makes and sells electronic gadgets. I almost exclusively do new product development
Day to day, at a base level it's an average of 30 minutes of meetings per day, plus looking busy and being "available" to answer questions about something they think I might know about (this winds up only taking up around 1 hour per week). On top of that is about 4-30 hours per week of coding depending on what the bosses are expecting and my mood. The hours aren't distributed in any particular way; some days I don't do anything aside from the meetings, others I might do multiple 10-12 hour days back to back. But tbh it probably lands at around 15 hours of coding most weeks, it only gets to 30 if it's crunch time or I'm genuinely interested in what I'm assigned to do, and only gets down to 4 during the holiday season or if I'm working on some internal tool there isn't urgency for.
Starting to feel like I'm getting the wrong degree
I am an engineer in a large (10k+ employees) industry metal supplier. Got a M.Sc in some science.
I do have a pretty cushy German union contract, 35h per week, no overtime, around 70k € (probably difficult to compare to US incomes due the different tax and social security systems, but it's plenty where I live), 30 days vacation + bank holidays.
I am relatively happy to say that I actually do things. We produce actual stuff that probably many of you see or touch in your daily lives and I have a relatively important part in it. Work varies heavily, some weeks I'll be super busy, traveling, tons of meetings and development, some weeks are slow and I can essentially jerk off at home, but my boss doesn't mind as long as shit gets done. Really it's about 90% thanks to my boss who keeps us fairly independent and let's us do our jobs without getting bothered by management.
The "lean -> clean" mindset is absolutely insane to me and I would probably quit (if I could) asap if someone just made me work for works sake.
Name a job title in marketing. Nobody is doing any work.
Another software engineer/consultant (these seem to be overrepresented on Hexbear), but I also ended up in a position where I'm busting my ass all the time too. It's relative of course because I can still find time to post. The work comes in waves, basically I'm just given a mountain of huge deadlines 5-10 months out, and every moment I spend not doing it is shooting myself in the foot. If I work harder then I get more work as a reward. But again it's relative, my days are usually 9-10 hours 5-6 days a week.
Does my job help people? I'm not sure, I guess so, a few million people would start to be affected by various services going down if I didn't help build/maintain them. But it's very indirect. I don't ever see who I've helped, except for early in my career when I got to visit a location and talk to end users.
I work repairing production tools in the electronics industry and my job has the word "engineer" in the title, although I have no degree or high school diploma (but I don't advertise that on my resume. In my teens and 20's I just listed my class year and school on my resume, and no one but the feds or universities will actually check your education credentials back to high school, but now I just don't even list my high school because I'm over 30 and no one cares).
I got the job by having some relevant experience gained by selling my soul.
A normal day for me is waking up like fifteen minutes before I clock in, checking my phone to see if I got overnight messages that something broke, showering, playing video games, and posting until the end of the day, then sending out an email telling everyone that nothing's broken. If something breaks, then I travel to the customer site and work until it's fixed or until the end of my contracted on call time (a few hours later than normal workday end time), continuing work the next morning until it's fixed (minus meal times and breaks).
I'm hourly, so I get overtime, and I would absolutely quit before giving up overtime pay. Some weeks I max out overtime (so, 60 hours), but most of the time I'm posting in my underwear.