/labor/ - Labor

i googled sinecure and the first result was your picture, anon, did you just want to use the word sinecure?

Do you have to blackmail someone or know someone important to get a sinecure? Because I don't know how else you'd get one.

>>1857
I was actually going to use an anime picture but decided against it.
There's also 'do-nothing-job' I suppose.

>>1859
I doubt anyone would give you a job that offers little-to-no material benefit to the employer on a hostile arrangement like blackmail.

As for knowing someone, a desk job at a family member's company seems like the most obvious category. Things with lots of downtime also work (security?)

If you're older and have worked in a college-educated field for a while, you could get on a board of directors, where you're paid somewhat poorly to show up to a meeting every few weeks or so. You do have to do homework including keeping up with news about your field, you obviously must use the experience given in your resume to avoid destroying the company, but it's unquestionably a job that exerts little pressure on your lifestyle. They unfortunately have tenure limits ranging from 3 to 9 years depending on the where you live.

>>1857
sinecure is an old fashioned word for basically a do-nothing job. Usually it refers to a kind of bureaucratic position, but it can also refer to the kinds of fake job mobsters get after they become "made men"

>>1861
>I was actually going to use an anime picture but decided against it.

Anti-anime sentiment is so cliche and tiring

>>1855
Unarmed night shift "security" or "toll troll" for only serving to open a barrier on a toll booth, I do nothing besides radio in that everything is normal, if its not normal its not my problem its the patrol's problem (patrols are cars of armed security that come when an alarm triggers), I shitpost and eat for a living.
>does it pay the bills
The pay isn't good but its possible to save up by having minimal expenses.
>Do you take the time to pursue some hobbies or do you mostly just chill?
Both yes.
>are you not defending private property
A logistics hub storage of alcohol and pills / pharmaceuticals? From lumpen mafia looking to get drunk and high on DXM? If they come and need something I will buy it for them out of my paycheck.

>>1881
> pills / pharmaceuticals
And from the inventory on the site I've checked most of it is food supplements, cosmetics and other trivial stuff.

>>1882
Then they have to be really retarded to break through metal shutters over such things.

>>1855
Me. Ive been working one for 8 years now. I work only about 10% of the hours I get paid for. However it was all luck and I really mean it, I got very lucky, plus I might be getting fired soon. If you want you can try to replicate what I did but it wont work likely. I joined a boomer owned company, worked for a few months, carved out a tech position for myself, really wowed the ceo/owner, sucked up to him a lot, and told him I was going remote due to a family emergency (lied). He caved and I just never went back.

As for time, I feel guilty because I waste too much of it, but I did do a shit ton of different hobbies to the point where I feel like theres not much left Id like to try. The fear of getting fired and being homeless keeps me from enjoying it all fully as I know I prob wont luck out like that again.