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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?
This isn't exactly the answer to your question, but in high school our family business did a large renovation job at a local university, and afterward there was a fairly simple maintenance job that required periodic observation for 10 hours a day seven days a week but only a few hours of actual activity. Because it was a university job, it was "prevailing wage" meaning laborers were paid full union wages, which iirc at the time was $32/hr for this field, including overtime it was a few grand a week for this low-work low-skill job.
So because my dad didn't want to pay a real employee that much money for no real work, I spent most of the summer hanging out on campus, making absurd money (some of which I was even actually paid!), and in between morning and afternoon and evening rounds that took up about half the day, I wandered around the academic libraries and just took books off shelves and read all day. If anyone wondered who I was they never asked, I was just a sort of sixteen year old academic hermit in work boots. I worked a lot of hours but I spend all of it reading, and it didn't matter that I had no weekends because I just spent all night running around with my friends anyway.
I often say if I could have kept that weird little job forever, I never would have even gone to a real college. I got everything I wanted out of life right there.
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