Personally I would never say that a job for lazy people really exists. Who wants to create a job position for lazy person instead of working on it?
I notice some ambivalences in presented examples. In my opinion 1. Teaching in China requires a lot of work related to moving to a different country like fitting to a new culture, learning how to live far away from home without any help from current friends and so on. 2. I do not want to say anything about being a good programmer because it is my job thus my opinion is not probably too objective. The next point is connected with this one thus I will say anything also for this part by the way. 3. About being an expert: I would like to remember about the article which we commented at the end of the previous semester about learning new skills in 20 hours. His author claimed that being an expert in any area requires 10 000 hours of learning. It does not seem to be a thing for lazy people. 4. Bill Gates’ opinion I treat more like something which should attract people to work for his company than like a real truth.
It is difficult to prepare list of jobs for lazy people with my point of view. Thus I finish with my opinion: if anybody wants not to work hardly in the future they should work hardly now. And I also would get to know such jobs (I would like to try such job) so I am waiting for my classmates’ opinions.
Nice article! Of course for many people this article will be sensation but for example in Poland this article fits more to people who wants to work for himself. You can work from home and create for example good mobile application and later sell it well (I saw many example in real world). About this what Bill Gates says : "’I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it’." I think that he had something else in mind - many times I work with something very complicated and sometimes is better to stop (yes - stop work) think or better imagine this problem and do this in better (many times easy) way. Perhaps some of us had programming situation like this : You created many lines of code and later find that someone did this before and it is free.
I think that most of the jobs that are related to creativity, like programming or work in advertising can be easy and enjoyable. It all depends on whether we can plan our work or not. At the beginning everyone should sit down and think how to solve the problem in the simplest way (which at the current access to information and different kinds of materials is not a hard job) and after that start working. I worked several years as a programmer and I have to agree with the fact that very often I encounters the same problems so I just wrote a piece of code once and then I used it many times also there are many pieces of code on the internet that already can be used when we adapt it to our solution .
Reference to the list of job for lazy people in Poland there are for sure two such jobs: 1. Politician 2. Civil servant
I would add two more to the list: TV presenter Journalist
It's often said, that if you really enjoy what you do, it doesn't feel like work and you know you'd keep doing it even without being payed. Of course, that doesn't mean you're lazy, in fact it's usually quite the opposite, but finding something you're good at without much effort is always nice.
The article itself seems like a prime example of a lazy person's work: the content is taken word for word from the linked Quora comment section. Yet it was published on BBC, I'm sure the author thinks she's so smart for pulling this off :)
Yes I agree with you that if you doing something what you like then you don't treat this like a work :) For sure everyone want to find job which not demands from him a lot of effort and is good paid job :)
As usual so now the topic is presented too trivial. For a deeper discussion we would need to consider:
• Can we do the work anyhow? Do we have to do the work solidly?
• The best job is to be for intelligent people only or maybe gifted in some area?Talented and not necessarily intelligent people can easier to do something than others people. Good example is story in film “Rain Man”.
• Distinguish same job for lazy people, from hard work over each other to get qualified for this job position. Taking this into account, I believe that:
• English teacher - does not have to be smart so much, but it should have a good memory.
• Computer programmer - I do not think so it is job was for the lazy. Writing a GOOD program in my opinion is harder than writing a book. Depends on what it is for the program, how difficult is the problem, how hard map it in a computer program! Reuse earlier what I wrote; usually possible is only in fragments.
• Expert - how much effort you have to put, to become an expert?
• Bill Gates - I propose consider such a sentence: Reaching for something with a small effort, will only give a little satisfaction.
In conclusion, I agree with Grzegorz, no such jobs. But if you want to treat the issue of jobs in a playful way, I can give you such an example:
• Windows Administrator - Nothing else is doing, just only speaks - RESTART SYSTEM!
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work then you become boring, stupid, and monotonous in your life. If you are highly intelligent then you can probably easy figure out that perfect job for you have to be interesting and sophisticated. Unfortunately finding interesting thinks for highly intelligent people is harder then for others. It is quite easy to find high profitable work for lazy and average intelligent people. Real estate or financial industry is full of examples of people who earn big money and if you do not take into account the level of stress that they must take, their work is so not hard. Intelligent people are focus more on making valuable things then just making a money and only valuable results can satisfy them. Harder you work more valuable your results are. Conclusion is quite sad, intelligent people have to work hard to get satisfaction.
This is a very interesting topic for me. Personally, throughout my professional life I found that most people I met treat laziness as something positive rather than a negative feature and I completely agree with this statement. When you are lazy you try to finish your job with the smallest amount of work required, so often seeing that there's a lot of boring, repetitive things to do I just stop and think of some alternative ways to do them. Most of the time the unwillingness to work proves to be beneficial both for me and the company as the job is done faster and with increased quality.
While I'm not too eager when it comes to changing the place I live searching for the "perfect job for a lazy person" I do see that it might be a tempting idea for some. I also know a few people that are developers-freelancers that pick up lucrative contracts for writing software for others. They don't have to spend long hours in the office and they still earn as much as regularly employed developers (and sometimes even more).
It is hard to say. In my opinion smart people are simply not lazy in general. The stereotype puts successful smart people as the ones that achieve a lot of success and money with little effort. The main misconception here is an automatic assumption that such people are lazy. In almost all the cases nothing is further from the true. They are not lazy, they work hard, it is just their talent that makes their success to appear coming effortlessly.
Part of the problem here is the very definition of laziness. Trying to finish your work in the least possible amount of time so you are free to do something else - is that being lazy or efficient? There is no clear answer, as this depends on the person in question. Some will cut corners and do sloppy job simply to finish faster. Others will be focused and work quickly, with the end result being "good" and "acceptable", for varying definition of these words. And some are really just that good and finish their tasks quickly, without much effort.
As such, I don't really agree with there being such thing as "lazy jobs". Those listed in the article have already been mentioned in the very first post. Just to add something to the "computer programmer" part - like many other, it might have the appearence of "lazy job". To many people, if someone isn't actively typing on their keyboard, they aren't doing anything. Staring at a screen for hours and trying to find a excessive comma can't possibly be called working.
In short, I find this article to be too simplistic and not really getting into necessary details. I can't really agree with the points it makes, or make my own list of "jobs for the lazy", because I disagree with the term.
For sure I don’t agree with an opinion that being expert is good job for a lazy person. It requires a lot of effort and hard job to become an expert and I don’t believe that a lazy person would be an expert in any field. It is hard for me to say if a programming is good for lazy people because is kind of affects me but I don’t think it is hard or time consuming job. Being an English teacher, the same as any other teacher can be in some cases good for lazy people as teachers hardly ever work more than 40 hours per week and have much more holidays than others but it requires a lot of patience that I would never be able to do that job. As a job for lazy people in Poland I would suggest: politicians, priests and any job in which you retire much earlier than retirement age Other option would be to find a country with a really good social benefit system and become unemployed.
I do not like the title in the first place because it elevates laziness. Let's not make assumptions that smartness goes hand in hand with one. The word 'lazy' do not event sound well with the word 'job' and it is rather on the opposite end of scale :) Smart people do not feel lazy nor bored I believe.
I've read most of the examples on www.quora.com, where original
comments where written. Among all I believe one was the most
accurate. Being a middle manager in big corpo. It trully has many
aspects of doing nothing. After spending few years in big US
corpo as a regular employee I've seen numerous managers. Only ones that seemed to do any work were first line managers. Rest looked like an "interface" between high management and rest of a firm.
Aside of that I would also consider a job in a corpo for a lazy person it is possible to find a job where you don't have to do too much.
On the other hand, a great citation in this artice: "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job,
because he will find an easy way to do it" - Bill Gates. It shows that lazy people can be very productive when forced to be so.
But in mine opinion the best job for a lazy person is being an entrepreneur. It makes you to work your a** off for some time to have a lot of free later on.
When it comes to the lazy but of intelligent workers will refer to another blog. It might be worthwhile venture to and move an their work to their homes. Maybe the reason is laziness commuting to work or getting up too fast. Maybe they should perform their work at home without much control other people. This is obviously not a good solution for everyone. Every lazy person is different and her problem should be solved in another way. I think that every person should be subjected to appropriate motivation.
In Poland, people live in constant stress associated with uninteresting work. Everyone is afraid of change and that change has just the quintessence of progress. Work should be a challenge often is not. When someone has a lucrative job and slack at work. This means that it is smart and efficient.
nice post, keep up with this interesting work. It really is good to know that this topic is being covered also on this web site so cheers for taking time to discuss this! Boxbrownie
Personally I would never say that a job for lazy people really exists. Who wants to create a job position for lazy person instead of working on it?
ReplyDeleteI notice some ambivalences in presented examples. In my opinion
1. Teaching in China requires a lot of work related to moving to a different country like fitting to a new culture, learning how to live far away from home without any help from current friends and so on.
2. I do not want to say anything about being a good programmer because it is my job thus my opinion is not probably too objective. The next point is connected with this one thus I will say anything also for this part by the way.
3. About being an expert: I would like to remember about the article which we commented at the end of the previous semester about learning new skills in 20 hours. His author claimed that being an expert in any area requires 10 000 hours of learning. It does not seem to be a thing for lazy people.
4. Bill Gates’ opinion I treat more like something which should attract people to work for his company than like a real truth.
It is difficult to prepare list of jobs for lazy people with my point of view. Thus I finish with my opinion: if anybody wants not to work hardly in the future they should work hardly now. And I also would get to know such jobs (I would like to try such job) so I am waiting for my classmates’ opinions.
Nice article! Of course for many people this article will be sensation but for example in Poland this article fits more to people who wants to work for himself.
ReplyDeleteYou can work from home and create for example good mobile application and later sell it well (I saw many example in real world).
About this what Bill Gates says : "’I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it’."
I think that he had something else in mind - many times I work with something very complicated and sometimes is better to stop (yes - stop work) think or better imagine this problem and do this in better (many times easy) way. Perhaps some of us had programming situation like this : You created many lines of code and later find that someone did this before and it is free.
I think that most of the jobs that are related to creativity, like programming or work in advertising can be easy and enjoyable. It all depends on whether we can plan our work or not. At the beginning everyone should sit down and think how to solve the problem in the simplest way (which at the current access to information and different kinds of materials is not a hard job) and after that start working. I worked several years as a programmer and I have to agree with the fact that very often I encounters the same problems so I just wrote a piece of code once and then I used it many times also there are many pieces of code on the internet that already can be used when we adapt it to our solution .
ReplyDeleteReference to the list of job for lazy people in Poland there are for sure two such jobs:
1. Politician
2. Civil servant
I would add two more to the list:
DeleteTV presenter
Journalist
It's often said, that if you really enjoy what you do, it doesn't feel like work and you know you'd keep doing it even without being payed. Of course, that doesn't mean you're lazy, in fact it's usually quite the opposite, but finding something you're good at without much effort is always nice.
The article itself seems like a prime example of a lazy person's work: the content is taken word for word from the linked Quora comment section. Yet it was published on BBC, I'm sure the author thinks she's so smart for pulling this off :)
Yes I agree with you that if you doing something what you like then you don't treat this like a work :)
ReplyDeleteFor sure everyone want to find job which not demands from him a lot of effort and is good paid job :)
As usual so now the topic is presented too trivial. For a deeper discussion we would need to consider:
ReplyDelete• Can we do the work anyhow? Do we have to do the work solidly?
• The best job is to be for intelligent people only or maybe gifted in some area?Talented and not necessarily intelligent people can easier to do something than others people. Good example is story in film “Rain Man”.
• Distinguish same job for lazy people, from hard work over each other to get qualified for this job position.
Taking this into account, I believe that:
• English teacher - does not have to be smart so much, but it should have a good memory.
• Computer programmer - I do not think so it is job was for the lazy. Writing a GOOD program in my opinion is harder than writing a book. Depends on what it is for the program, how difficult is the problem, how hard map it in a computer program! Reuse earlier what I wrote; usually possible is only in fragments.
• Expert - how much effort you have to put, to become an expert?
• Bill Gates - I propose consider such a sentence: Reaching for something with a small effort, will only give a little satisfaction.
In conclusion, I agree with Grzegorz, no such jobs. But if you want to treat the issue of jobs in a playful way, I can give you such an example:
• Windows Administrator - Nothing else is doing, just only speaks - RESTART SYSTEM!
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work then you become boring, stupid, and monotonous in your life. If you are highly intelligent then you can probably easy figure out that perfect job for you have to be interesting and sophisticated. Unfortunately finding interesting thinks for highly intelligent people is harder then for others. It is quite easy to find high profitable work for lazy and average intelligent people. Real estate or financial industry is full of examples of people who earn big money and if you do not take into account the level of stress that they must take, their work is so not hard. Intelligent people are focus more on making valuable things then just making a money and only valuable results can satisfy them. Harder you work more valuable your results are. Conclusion is quite sad, intelligent people have to work hard to get satisfaction.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting topic for me. Personally, throughout my professional life I found that most people I met treat laziness as something positive rather than a negative feature and I completely agree with this statement. When you are lazy you try to finish your job with the smallest amount of work required, so often seeing that there's a lot of boring, repetitive things to do I just stop and think of some alternative ways to do them. Most of the time the unwillingness to work proves to be beneficial both for me and the company as the job is done faster and with increased quality.
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm not too eager when it comes to changing the place I live searching for the "perfect job for a lazy person" I do see that it might be a tempting idea for some. I also know a few people that are developers-freelancers that pick up lucrative contracts for writing software for others. They don't have to spend long hours in the office and they still earn as much as regularly employed developers (and sometimes even more).
It is hard to say. In my opinion smart people are simply not lazy in general. The stereotype puts successful smart people as the ones that achieve a lot of success and money with little effort. The main misconception here is an automatic assumption that such people are lazy. In almost all the cases nothing is further from the true. They are not lazy, they work hard, it is just their talent that makes their success to appear coming effortlessly.
ReplyDeletePart of the problem here is the very definition of laziness. Trying to finish your work in the least possible amount of time so you are free to do something else - is that being lazy or efficient? There is no clear answer, as this depends on the person in question. Some will cut corners and do sloppy job simply to finish faster. Others will be focused and work quickly, with the end result being "good" and "acceptable", for varying definition of these words. And some are really just that good and finish their tasks quickly, without much effort.
ReplyDeleteAs such, I don't really agree with there being such thing as "lazy jobs". Those listed in the article have already been mentioned in the very first post. Just to add something to the "computer programmer" part - like many other, it might have the appearence of "lazy job". To many people, if someone isn't actively typing on their keyboard, they aren't doing anything. Staring at a screen for hours and trying to find a excessive comma can't possibly be called working.
In short, I find this article to be too simplistic and not really getting into necessary details. I can't really agree with the points it makes, or make my own list of "jobs for the lazy", because I disagree with the term.
For sure I don’t agree with an opinion that being expert is good job for a lazy person. It requires a lot of effort and hard job to become an expert and I don’t believe that a lazy person would be an expert in any field.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard for me to say if a programming is good for lazy people because is kind of affects me but I don’t think it is hard or time consuming job.
Being an English teacher, the same as any other teacher can be in some cases good for lazy people as teachers hardly ever work more than 40 hours per week and have much more holidays than others but it requires a lot of patience that I would never be able to do that job.
As a job for lazy people in Poland I would suggest: politicians, priests and any job in which you retire much earlier than retirement age
Other option would be to find a country with a really good social benefit system and become unemployed.
I do not like the title in the first place because it elevates laziness.
ReplyDeleteLet's not make assumptions that smartness goes hand in hand with one.
The word 'lazy' do not event sound well with the word 'job' and it is rather on the opposite end of scale :)
Smart people do not feel lazy nor bored I believe.
I've read most of the examples on www.quora.com, where original
ReplyDeletecomments where written. Among all I believe one was the most
accurate. Being a middle manager in big corpo. It trully has many
aspects of doing nothing. After spending few years in big US
corpo as a regular employee I've seen numerous managers. Only ones that seemed to do any work were first line managers. Rest looked like an "interface" between high management and rest of a firm.
Aside of that I would also consider a job in a corpo for a lazy person it is possible to find a job where you don't have to do too much.
On the other hand, a great citation in this artice:
"I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job,
because he will find an easy way to do it" - Bill Gates. It shows that lazy people can be very productive when forced to be so.
But in mine opinion the best job for a lazy person is being an entrepreneur. It makes you to work your a** off for some time to have a lot of free later on.
When it comes to the lazy but of intelligent workers will refer to another blog. It might be worthwhile venture to and move an their work to their homes. Maybe the reason is laziness commuting to
ReplyDeletework or getting up too fast. Maybe they should perform their work at home without much control other people. This is obviously not a good solution for everyone. Every lazy person is different
and her problem should be solved in another way. I think that every person should be subjected to appropriate motivation.
In Poland, people live in constant stress associated with uninteresting work. Everyone is afraid of change and that change has just the quintessence of progress. Work should be a challenge often is not. When someone has a lucrative job and slack at work. This means that it is smart and efficient.
ReplyDeletenice post, keep up with this interesting work. It really is good to know that this topic is being covered also on this web site so cheers for taking time to discuss this! Boxbrownie
ReplyDelete