What are some jobs with free time like receptionist?

[freeti]

Inspired by this thread: mmo-champion.com/threads/1148996-Desk-Job-Workers-How-do-you-spend-your-free-time

[Deleted]

I replied to the last thread, but I will say it again. Night work. Screws up your social life but it can get quite dead at times.

[Rukh]

Security agents. Don't take my word for it having never been one, and I bet they vary alot by job, but I had a friend who did it for a while and it was basically all sitting on his ass.

[Deleted]

Join the military in an Admin position, lazy buggers.

[Jackmoves]

I had a lot of freetime working as a maintenance tech at preem raf, most of my job was to sit on my ass monitoring computer screens, I spent a lot of time watching movies/surfing the net/listening to music or audiobooks on my laptop.

Decent pay to.

[Deleted]

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.

[Spectral]

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.

[freeti]

Spectral, how much free time do you have? Is it like 4 hours out of 8 hour shift? Do you need a biology degree for that job?

[Deleted]

Boring as hell...

[Duridi]

Security agents. Don't take my word for it having never been one, and I bet they vary alot by job, but I had a friend who did it for a while and it was basically all sitting on his ass.

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.

[Palmatum]

Prison guard or gate guard at a prison on nights. LOTS of downtime.

[yetgdhfgh]

Go back in time and work for british leyland lol

but seriously though I really do love jobs where it was job and knock like when i was working for the royal mail

The only job i can think off that has huge vasts of time to kill is a security guard by law in most countries they aint even allowed to arrest or detain you just report any unusual activity and just spend most of your time reading the paper glancing at a monitor and fiddling about on your mobile phone

[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.

How do you go about getting this job in the US?

[demonskies]

Information System Specialist, Network Admin, Systems Admin, basically alot of IT jobs have a lot of downtime in a well maintained environment. As a Systems Admin, I spend about 80% of my time browsing the forums and then about 5-10 on long term projects and 10% on fixing general help tickets like "my printer stopped working" or "Im locked up in this VHost" or "I need permissions for this file"

[Deleted]

I replied to the last thread, but I will say it again. Night work. Screws up your social life but it can get quite dead at times.

Aye, this. I worked as a cashier in a supermarket for two years on the night shift since it was open all night from Monday to Saturday. For the most part, it was pretty quiet and I rarely had to serve more than a few customers every hour. Decent pay, too. I used to pass the time by reading when no customers were around, or chatting with a co-worker. Of course there were certain periods where it was hectic, for obvious reasons - such as Christmas and the lead up to bank holidays.

I wouldn't suggest getting a job for the sake of having free time during working hours, though. It gets pretty boring after a while, especially if you're on a lengthy shift.

[freeti]

Information System Specialist, Network Admin, Systems Admin, basically alot of IT jobs have a lot of downtime in a well maintained environment. As a Systems Admin, I spend about 80% of my time browsing the forums and then about 5-10 on long term projects and 10% on fixing general help tickets like "my printer stopped working" or "Im locked up in this VHost" or "I need permissions for this file"

How much do you get paid for those kinds of jobs? What kind of credentials do you need? A computer-related degree?

[Melanieshaman]

Not sure how most receptionist jobs have a lot of free time, my wife does a job (admissions coordinator at a college) that has some similarities to receptionist and neither she or the receptionist ever have much if any "free time".

[Xeyu]

Security, Working at tourist information center, Customer service for a company that has low calls... All those boring jobs in towers we're you just fill in words and numbers in excel files all day.

I get that you are inspired and all...but...It's your life, but would you really be proud to be worthless at your job?

Not trying to be mean. I just like to feel needed where i'm at. and if you have the time to browse the internet all the time... you will be the first thought to be kicked out when they need to cut on employees.

Just my Opinion

[PACOX]

2nd or 3rd shift in a lot of places besides restaurants.

You can work with the disabled (elderly, special needs, assisted living) and have TONS of free time. But the times that you are doing work can very stressful and very underpaid.

[freeti]

Security, Working at tourist information center, Customer service for a company that has low calls... All those boring jobs in towers we're you just fill in words and numbers in excel files all day.

How do you find a customer service jobs for a company that has low calls?