What are some jobs with free time like receptionist?

[IxilaFA]

I work for a casino in the cash cage and there's tons of downtime on graveyard shift. The first 4 - 6 hours can be hectic, but on a 10 hour shift you can spend a good 3 to 4 hours just sitting around reading or napping. I don't necessarily agree with it, and I'm glad I work a specialized position in the cage that requires me to work a lot harder than most of the cashiers, but if you're looking for a job with lots of downtime that would be a good option.

The problem is you're looking for a Cinderella job here. You want lots of downtime for decent pay and a job you'll enjoy. Most jobs with lots of downtime are boring as hell and you just want the day to end...and they won't pay you well for sitting on your butt all day.

[freeti]

I was working late shift at a home for elderly. I wasn't a guard exactly, don't know the english word for it. I was basicly there to make the elderly feel more safe.
I have no medical training (apart from 2 day training for this job, which means that I know how to give an adrenaline shot pretty much), so I couldn't really help them if something happened, but the elderly felt safer knowing that if they pressed their alarm button, SOMEONE would be there in 1 minute, instead of 15-20 minutes.

The only real work I did was waking two elderly up every night at 3:00 as they had to take meds in the middle of the night. Apart from that the only thing I did was bring some water if someone was thirsty and things of that nature.

It's not something I would do as full time job, but it worked while I was in Uni for extra cash. And considering most of my time was spent studying or playing games on my laptop... It was quite alright.

Since you don't know the English word for it, could you please call your former employer and ask what your job title was? Thanks so much. Is this kind of job easy to get?

[Zoneseek]

I used to know a dude who was a security guard at a fairly large greenhouse farm and he worked the nigh shift, 11pm until 7am I believe. He had his things he needed to do every 15 minutes / 30 minutes / hour / etc but even with that said he gamed more than anyone I know. He wasn't a mmo player (constant AFK) but he would be clearing single player games at a ridiculous pace.

[Reg]

I get to bullshit a lot at my job. Become a writer lol

[Sengiratolom]

depends if you call sleeping "free time", if so, the ultimate downtime job would be bed tester, you get payed to sleep in the bedstore and test a new model, all you have to do is fill in some form after your nights rest to describe how the rest was/the quality of the matras/your view of the overall sleep expierence and the model itself.

The most "free time" task I got payed for doing, was playing unreal tournament @ some computer game sales stand for 8 hours, as the stand owner on that computer fair, wanted me to lure more ppl to his stand, and he happened to have 8 pcs in a network and unreal tournament running on them. That was after having prepared the place/helping to build the stands and such for 3hours, and we had to clean up the place after the customers left (+/- another hour). so in the 12 hours i got payed for "working" ended up 4 work and 8 hours of a lan. Getting payed 12 euros/hour for playing a game definatly was the "work" with the most slack tolerance i have done thusfar. With free food and drinks to boot (sandwiches during the day, pizza after the job was done and different types of soda/juice)

[Elite Peon]

Night shift at an assisted living home . Literally getting paid to do NOTHING !

[freeti]

Night shift at an assisted living home . Literally getting paid to do NOTHING !

What would be the job title of that job?

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I used to know a dude who was a security guard at a fairly large greenhouse farm and he worked the nigh shift, 11pm until 7am I believe. He had his things he needed to do every 15 minutes / 30 minutes / hour / etc but even with that said he gamed more than anyone I know. He wasn't a mmo player (constant AFK) but he would be clearing single player games at a ridiculous pace.

Could you ask him how he got that job?

[blackblade]

What would be the job title of that job?

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Could you ask him how he got that job?

google security companies in your area.

Some regions require a short course/test. Be prepared to do a background check (checking for a criminal record, etc.)

Try to avoid doing security at the mall, go for office buildings or stores after hours.

Alternatively, try for a degree for something you can do from home, or freelance: Like programming, web development/design, graphic artist, journalism, and so on.
You'll want to get solid grades, and get in good with your teachers so you've got someone to vouch for you when it's time to look for work.


When it comes to looking for work. try for the obvious job hunting websites: Monster, Workopolis; as well as the less obvious local classified ads. I got my current position on Kijiji.com

[Deleted]

Military... Special Operations, become a long distance shooter and you get to sit on one spot for ages... from about 8 hours to 72 hours

But as said before, try being a night time security guard. A friend of mine is one and all he has to do is go around the building every 1 and a half hours or so... in between that he simply watches tv or played a videogame.

[Zoneseek]

What would be the job title of that job?

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Could you ask him how he got that job?

I haven't seen him in years. When I was in high school I worked at the local game shop, he would be in there every week buying a few games.

[ultimar235]

Problem with security/monitoring is if you do let your guard down and something bad happens then your screwed. I wouldn't go into this type of job without your serious face on and do at least a year until your very comfortable with your area.

[Tinykong]

The key to sitting around is not finding a job that fits, but rather, learning the fine art of appearing to be working.

[Deleted]

Yeah, it would vary by task.

My boyfriend worked as it some years ago, and he was constantly on the move, checking buildnings during nighttime.

Ye, my ex also was a security agents and basically all he did was: Play wow with me, walk around the building for 5min and play again for 55 minutes.

[k0smo]

This OP is way too excited about the possibility of finding a job with a lot of free time. With that goal in mind....good luck.

[Deleted]

What would be the job title of that job?

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Could you ask him how he got that job?

I don't think you deserve any kind of job if all you want to do is sit on your ass and play games.

[Zao]

As others have said working in an IT department of a non-IT company gives you a lot of spare time. I work in a relatively small company and our department consists of 5 people for ~200 employees total. We're also the general tech department, meaning if it's plugged into an outlet we're the ones fixing it.

But even so I've got 2h a day doing nothing. And for those time I either browse the web, or improve my scripting skills. I just always have CMD open with color a4 and a few man pages. Any non-IT coworker thinks it's some complex IT thing.

But be warned:
It's still a demanding job. Because if shit hits the fan it REALLY starts getting ugly. Our parent company managed to crash our network which corrupted our primary fileserver as well as the backup, completely killed our spooler and had us working 60 hour weeks for nearly two weeks.

The sparetime also has it's downsides. Because at one point or another you WILL get bored, and simply playing some games/reading a book might not be possible depending on your workspace.

You will also be blamed for every single thing not working on something electronical.

Can't cope with going from XP to Win7? Your fault.
Office 2010 applications look different than 2003? The program sucks and it's your fault.
Deleted an important folder? Your fault.

[freeti]

Ye, my ex also was a security agents and basically all he did was: Play wow with me, walk around the building for 5min and play again for 55 minutes.

How did he get that job? Is the competition hard to break through?

[Deleted]

Sadly most of the people on my country that have desk jobs spend half of their time online doing their personal stuff

[eriseis]

Most decent jobs have some downtime. I work in a research lab, and there's quite a bit of time to kill during incubations, between experiments, etc.

I have many acquaintances who are researchers/professors/et cetera. I love it when they bitch about having to stay in the lab past midnight every once in a while compared to the weeks they spend at coffee shops, paid for conferences in fancy cities, lunch whenever they please, so on and so forth.

[Tokru]

I worked in the post office of my bataillon during my military service.

I had to practically work around 1 hour a day.

5 min making coffee for the officer meeting in the morning.
25 min going to fetch the mail for our bataillon from the main post office of our base twice a day and sorting it for the platoons.

The rest I spent reading or doing something on the computer (with no internet). Or I tried to sleep a bit.
One time I got so bored, I created a 2 GB excel file by consecutively numbering all cells on several tables.