/lit/ - Literature

>>11538625

be a clerk at an unpopular indie bookstore. we'll probably shut down in less than a year though...

Security guard if you get the right position. But really i think jobs of this kind are a myth (or at least i think they are because they are attainable to me).

>>11538631
yeah there's a local bookstore where the guy is quite old now and quite a non-stop talker and we get on well but sadly he's selling the place.
>>11538644
I'll look into that, definitely an incentive to train in that field. Don't have much work experience though.

I was thinking tech but the training is an absolute nightmare and not worth it.

Unironically airline pilot. I am a pilot and in most countries you are legally permitted to read, eat, or watch any media that does not use your hearing (since you have to be able to hear air traffic control) when the autopilot is engaged above 10,000 feet. Couple this with all the waiting around in the pilot's lounge, the crew bus, the hotels, and you can read and write a great deal. Pay is not great starting out but it is a union job and you should be pulling down over $70,000 after about 5 years and easily $200,000+ once you're near retirement.

>>11538779
Lucky SOB, I wished I worked at the airport, how comfy is it?

>>11538779
Working at an airport sounds super comfy

>>11538779
Do you fuck the flight attendants?
Has your woman consumption grown with this job?

>>11538625
I make over $30/hour as a web developer (which is a fair amount where I live) and I mostly just read at work.

>>11538779
It also costs like 50k to get all your papers and training/flight hours required here in Yurop so I imagine it's even more in the US.

>>11539032
Cheaper or the same actually. Aviation fuel is cheaper in the US and there are many more flight schools.

>>11538625
I work night security, my job is to show up and clock in and be on premises overnight so my employers get an insurance cut.

I regularly read for 6 + hours per shift

>>11539070
Sounds great. I always thought a night-janitor would be a comfy job, but then you're always up and doing something

Night auditor at a small to mid-size hotel with few if any people checking in at night. Actually work for 1-2 hours at most and rest of shift you can read/write/do whatever.

>>11539106
>>11538665


Most overnight positions are actually not that easy. They're overnight because you're able to get a lot more work done, or repulsive work done, because nobody is in the place you're working. You also have to pay more because overnight positions are undesirable, bad for social life and health, so there's usually higher expectations. The exception are many night watchman jobs, which, as >>11539070 said, are basically for insurance purposes. Night janitors actually do the lion's share of cleaning. Night auditors also have work to do, but usually you can finish it up and read for several hours.

>>11538631 is closer to the truth. The best jobs for reading are basically unpopular or low traffic places. Clerks at rural or country gas stations or shops. That kind of thing.

>>11539014 and >>11538779 point out another kind of job, which is the high skill job with lots of down time. The problem with these is they're usually a bitch and a half to get into, often requiring years of giving up most of your reading time.

>>11538948
also interested

I would have thought a cubicle job but doing what, I'm not so sure.

>>11538625
be a programmer and listen to audio books

>>11539400
I'd much rather read a book than listen to it, but I appreciate the addition

>>11538779
>>11538948
answer this

be a camboy

>>11538625

Just sell drugs. You will have plenty of free time to do as you wish, and if you get caught and sent to prison then you'll have nothing but time, to sit around reading all day.

>>11539493
You can’t bring your books into jail. Their selection sucks ass usually

>>11539415
yeah, me too. but librivox is pretty amazing

>>11539417
>>11538948
>>11539371
I do not bang flight attendants but I've had plenty of Tinder 'dates' in cities during overnights. The flight attendant thing is extremely thorny. At some airlines, usually crappier ones that pay their FAs and pilots poorly, everybody is younger, more desperate, and corporate HR is less attentive. Plenty of pilot on FA sex happens at some of them. At my airline we pay pretty well for all crew so we attract more experienced flight attendants who are at least in their forties and fifties and most of them are married with kids or gay men. Further, at my airline and most major US based carriers, propositioning flight attendants, even asking them to drinks, depending on the implication, can be grounds for an HR complaint. A flew with a first officer once who's career was delayed because he asked a male flight attendant to go see the Hobbit with him at a movie theater near the hotel because they'd had a discussion about Tolkien or something on a previous flight and that movie had just come out. The FO was written up for harassment because the FA thought he was being asked on a date. He got it expunged after he made his intentions and orientation clear in an HR appeal but he was in limbo for like six months.

>>11539220
>high skill job with lots of down time.
the 30/hr web dev here. the job is a joke and anyone who spent a bit of time (as in, a few months from scratch) knowing html/css/js essentials and (in my case, since we use c#) OOP basics, they'd be capable. and if they ran into any troubles, everything is easily searchable through stackoverflow. yeah i have a BS in comp sci but I didn't really have to work hard to get here. maybe I just got lucky, but i feel as if web dev is one of the easiest professions as far as pay : effort ratio goes

>>11538625
>I suppose it's quite schizoid to add that I don't care if I'm alone or in a cubicle either
>trying this hard to fit in with other fags on /lit/
Please stop posting here.

>>11539830
>A flew with a first officer once who's career was delayed because he asked a male flight attendant to go see the Hobbit with him at a movie theater near the hotel because they'd had a discussion about Tolkien or something on a previous flight and that movie had just come out. The FO was written up for harassment because the FA thought he was being asked on a date. He got it expunged after he made his intentions and orientation clear in an HR appeal but he was in limbo for like six months
Dude how gay would you have to be to think a guy asking you to go see a Tolkein movie is propositioning you for gay sex?

>>11538625
>>11538644
I had a job as a night security gaurd. Look up the company securitas, it contracts out to other locations and trains you.

>>11539497
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwa6xgIZCv8

>>11539531
+1 for librivox, I loved their rendition of Treasure Island.

>>11539070
I worked at a mall and they were really anal about looking busy. I no-showed one day because I couldn't sleep properly anymore (I did call, but basically said I was done). It sucks because the more I think about it the more I think that a solitary post would have been fine as a job, and even though I called I technically no-showed so I don't know if the contractor would take me for another site. They do half the sites in my province.

I'm a bellman at a hotel where I currently work two overnight shifts, and this place has a great setup because I'm on the ground floor by myself and the front desk is on the second floor, so I'm left alone. I sit at the podium all night on the computer writing, or with my feet up on a bell cart reading. With that said, I don't think you could get away with that at any hotel. I'm very fortunate to have a separation between the front desk and my podium. But at the very least if you worked as a concierge or bellman and had computer access you could get a lot done. The last hotel I worked at I couldn't read during my shift, but I got a lot of writing done, and when I didn't have computer access I stood in the lobby on slow times and wrote in a notebook.

i currently work at a doctors office and it is really comfy and good for reading. a few times an hour someone comes in (i am at registration) and it takes me 2-3 minutes to register him, then i am back to reading.

>>11540013
>implying this reply isn't pure projection

>>11539830
>The FO was written up for harassment because the FA thought he was being asked on a date
America: The Post.

I worked at a private post office as a teenager, I would highly recommend it. Made $20/hr, and was done with most of my work by 11:00 AM. I was able to spend almost all of the other time reading.

I work as a HR recruiter and most or the time I am reading or shitposting here because people never show up for interviews

>>11541460
Like for a special delivery depot?
Sounds decent, what do you do now?

>>11540013
>actually wanting to be around your co-workers

One of the worst parts of working tbqh

>>11541591
I'm a neet, although I'm trying to get a skilled job. I wouldn't know the reality but honestly the only reason I think I'd ever put up with co-workers is if they had hot single friends, which they almost never are or do from what I hear. The rat race doesn't amount to much if it's not fostering your passions.

I work as a freelance designer and although I get a great deal of reading time, not so much of it is spent on anything other than projects really.
It is a 24/7 job but it's quite flexible (including cash flow in the worst ways most of the time).

>>11541433
mfw the postmodern world

bump

>>11538625
i do this anon. ironically i have a very high paying management consultant gig, but i have 3-4 bosses, none of whom really know what i'm doing at any moment. i work from home, reading 9-10 hrs/day and doing my work (i get excellent annual reviews) in 2-3 hrs. one morning i feel like it.
you need to go to a top 5-35 school (any better and expectations will be too high, any lower and they'll be on you to prove yourself), get a job through on campus interviews and then just don't be particularly ambitious. everyone else you work with will be such a bug that the thought of someone NOT working 9-10 hrs./day to avoid thinking about the meaninglessness of their life is not only anathema, but another thing they actively avoid considering—why would someone NOT want to work hard at our job solving the world's BIG problems!?!?

>>11542566
That's more of a "connections" job, not neccessarily available when you don't have any but I have to say that's news to me. Yeah, the rat race isn't worth that Ferrari if you're only gonna buy it to show off to other people, there's no foundation to it without the self.

I work as an IT at a small office. I basically chill in a supply closet and read. Just follow up on emails in a timely manner and youll be fine.

Not really a 'job' but I volunteer at a charity bookshop and can pretty much read all the time aside from when customers buy things (Can go like 30 mins+ without that happening)

>>11542859
Apart from good will, not really much work experience that would "fill out" a CV

>>11542739
not for me, trying to get rid of tech if anything.