This is probably a lot more dependent on unique job circumstances & management dynamics but curious if anyone's achieved a job in which they get paid $80k+/yr for at best 10 hours a week from work.
Circumstances that qualify include:
- Performing a function that everyone thinks is much more complicated that it really is
- Automating your job but not telling anyone about that
- You're the only one that can perform X function
- You've mastered the job so you're ridiculously efficient at it & no one cares what you do outside of that
- The corporation is a lumber inefficient giant that just DGAF
Bonus points if:
- You can work remotely
- Your performance reviews have somehow been great
- You rarely have meetings or need to show your face
This is a unicorn. Jobs that pay 80k+ are not some simple expense that gets swept under the rug. The job you are looking for pays 40 - 50k per year and is deep within the realm of government work.
completely wrong
lol there is too much evidence of deadweight workers making high five to low six figs for this to be true
Probably a developer, Quant, or sales rainmaker that makes few calls and makes things happen.
Yeah but even then those people work well over 10 hours a week.
Why Quant? That struck me as something very difficult
Yeah its difficult for most people, easy for some people.
Aren’t you a STEM grad student...
You sound like a member of the trophy generation. Dude max 10 hours/week is incredibly lazy. Even coworkers who are dumb or don’t care too much about work will easily blow you out of the water in terms of comparative performance.
I'll provide an example:
A friend of mine was hired into FP&A at a very old-school logistics company of which he was meant to take over the reporting function of a 50-year old who knew very little about automation. My friend didn't even need to know coding to automate his whole job, just enough Excel formulas to organize data dumps and his 50-year old superior thought he was the shit because that guy used to organize stuff manually. No one else in the department was close to his level of Excel "mastery" lol
Could he leave tho after 2 hours a day? My impression with these roles is still you need to be in the office for 40-50 hours even if you aren’t doing much. Also FP&A definitely does not start at 80k.
the only thing that pays anywhere in this ballpark would be a freelance software engineer that gets paid like $1,000 per hour because they were a rockstar engineer at Google. No other way you could bring in decent comp with these hours. Good luck lmao
lol a lot of people work at big tech companies as individual contributors putting in a chiefly 25-30hrs of real work (inc. meetings) whilst making 100s of thousands... legit check out blind, there's always a contest for how few hours you can work with high TC on there
what're you going to do with the rest of your time if you only make $80k?
I always wanted to do a 3-6 month contract gig as a performance dancer for some popular shopping venue or destination. I've only done one-off crew performances here & there but never a dedicated period of time. Inspired off a friend who did a 6 month celebrity cruise ship tour of which he described as being paid to just practice his dance in a public space. Also had other dance friends take part-time gigs being the hype team for the New York Nets.
Probably some specialized / niche consultancy or freelance position, where you come in and put out flames, or consult on some very detailed work. $80000 / 520 hours = $154 / hour - after taxes, I take it you mean? And you still need to factor in a lot of other things to that number.
Better yet if you can actually generate some work you could probably hire someone to work for you.
80,000/2000 = $40 per hour
Charge a client 100 per hour and you pay someone 120,000 to do all the work. Seems good to me.
Most SEO & digital marketing agencies do this exact form of labor arbitrage. They usually have a network of freelance writers to write blog posts and make a spread off of what they charge clients vs what they pay the freelancer.
I used to do a version of this in management consulting. Mainly with subcontractors. We would get an agreed upon rate from the client and our margins for our consultants were 20-30% profit, but if we hired subcontractors, we could get 40-50% profit margins on them. Their salaries and costs were lower. Some of them lived in rural areas where the costs were lower, so it made sense. Others worked with the client directly; however, our costs were supposed to be confidential to the client, but the client eventually found out our margins and didn’t care. As long as we did the job outlined in the contract.
middle office. and pays way more than 80k.
I made over the equivalent of $100k in MO and literally ticked all these boxes -
Bonus points if:
Love it lol
Engineer at a defense company.
Security clearances mean you have a secret key to all kinds of jobs and you don't have to worry about all those smart kids from China and India. Some people deliberately write confusing code so they never can get fired (or promoted lmao), and some of the code was written before I was even born. Most companies have 9 hour days with every other Friday off, and you choose your hours as long as they don't conflict with your meetings. Pay is worse than tech or finance but from what I've heard its easy to get into management because so many people just don't give a fuck.
I've only been an intern but that's what I've heard. Unfortunately, I am going to have a Russian wifey so I will be leaving this industry behind. Don't want my clearance revoked cause I made too many flights to Mother Russia.
My friend just got hired to an entry level position at Lockheed, 10 hour days 4x a week. Not sure about his comp, but I definitely believe it's a sweet gig like you said.
I worked in finance in the defense industry in management consulting. Lockheed was a competitor. It was pretty easy work.
A have a buddy that was like that at a big 4 consulting firm. Worked his butt to manager and then just chilled. He sent a few emails every once in a while and attended meetings to make sure the lower consultants got the actual heavy lifting done. This dude knows how to manage to a contract, got them exactly what they asked for and not a cent more. Played xbox most of the day.
Start buying rental properties. you'll eventually get to 80k net income then you can quit your day job and work 10 hours a week...less if you hire a management company or have a good handy man on call.
Interned for a Multinational conglomerate and there was an old sales guy who had gotten into a position where he had no direct reports, and basically got lost as a dashed line on the org chart so didn't have a formal relationship with a manager. Pay was largely base + small percentage commission, and he was in a position where he'd intended to retire anyways but realized the situation he was in so decided to see how long it would last. "Worked" like this for like 5 years before anyone noticed, he'd come into the office like once a week to chit chat with people just for the social aspect, otherwise didn't really do anything other than take calls from old customers he liked. Boss shit.
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