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If you could maintain your current standard of living with any job, but you had to have a job, what would you choose to do for work?
I'd take my old job back, driving for a locally-owned Doordash (We were in business before Uber/Doordash where I live, but they eventually wiped us out.).
It was so easy that it barely felt like a job, literally being paid to drive around in circles listening to music, chat with bartenders, gossip with dispatch, and do some light auto repair on the side (I was the guy who got called before one of our drivers resorted to taking their car to a real shop.). Perfect barfly hours (start at 11AM, done when happy hour ends and the olds start going home), and when you're done for the day, you're done for the day, no responsibilities aside from maintaining a roadworthy car, not getting a DUI, and being ready by 11.
The kick in the ass is that adjusted for inflation I made the same to better money (more money but no health insurance; I made $50K/year back in 2016 which is roughly $70K a year now) driving around slinging Chinese and sushi 10 years ago than I do now at my real job (logistics coordinator at a trucking company). Covid, post-covid inflation, and competition from the big national companies ruined all that but it was a fun gravy train while it lasted. I'm hoping for a promotion soon or at least a fat bonus soon to fix or at least salve the money problem and I don't hate my current job, but God it sucks in comparison. Whiny/stupid drivers (Most of them are decent, but the stupid and whiny take most of your time.), insane/delusional customers, inconsistent freight levels, constantly getting fucked by tank washes, and reams of paperwork. I'm on call 24/7 and have been woken up before 7AM by a driver on four of the last seven days.
Unexpectedly high pay is common for jobs with no growth prospects right? Compensating you for that
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That's funny. "Pizza delivery" is close to the top of my list.
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Ah, I was about to say parts driver but you beat me to the punch. 12–8 weekdays. The perfect job for getting drunk every night while in college. That job paid $8/hour 20 years ago, which comes out to $13.21 in today's money, though the guys who had been doing it forever made comparable money to the other shitty jobs at the time that didn't require college education, and they didn't require working in an industrial facility. The best days were the ones where we'd have to drop off a trade-in at the auction, which required two of us driving an hour away and taking the least efficient route possible, which may or may not have included stopping at the end of a dead-end street for a nap. The one truck had satellite radio in it, too, which was luxury at the time.
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