What is the easiest permanent job?

[Flibble]

Kermit power said:

For me, the easiest job would be the one I'd most enjoy. One where I'd be looking forward to work by Sunday evening. I reckon if I won the lottery or something, I'd retrain as a forestry warden or something like that. Outdoors in all weathers with plenty of serious physical labour, but on the other hand, outdoors in all weather with lots of serious countryside.

I agree with this somewhat, though my "win the lottery job" would be to retrain as a mountain guide, so not exactly what most would call "easy".

[timbob]

daver777 said:

teacher. loads of holidays and free elbow pads for your jumpers. you dont even need to be clever or qualified. just do a 'teacher training' course which takes about 2 minutes, and involves challenging topics like 'Blackboard Strategy' and the 'Report-o-matic' machine which scans the register and generates some guff for the parents to read.

Are you serious?

I know a fair few people who are teachers. The training doesn't take two minutes, you need a degree, and a year studying for a PGCE - which is hard work. Any amount of paperwork, lesson planning, evaluations, filling in folders evidencing all the things you're supposed to improve at etc etc.

Then the job itself - most teachers I know are in work by 7:30 or 8am in order to prepare their classrooms for the kids at 9. Lessons all day are only half the job (some would say the easiest half), but you do have to deal with mouthy s****y kids who "know their rights", cause havok, and generally don't want to be there.

Then there's the after school clubs almost all teachers are involved in, and other out of hours stuff - trips, school productions, sports teams, concerts, parents evenings. On a normal day, despite "finishing work" at 3pm, most teachers I know are never home before 6.

There's then anywhere between an hour and three hours of lesson planning to do each evening, in preparation for the next days lessons.

"Loads of holidays" doesn't really qualify as a perk - as the latter half of each of the smaller holidays (half terms etc) are taken up with getting back to work, so no more than 3 or 4 proper days off, and you're stuck to having your summer holiday in the school summer holiday when prices are at their highest and there's loads of kids about!

[Somewhatfoolish]

timbob said:

daver777 said:

teacher. loads of holidays and free elbow pads for your jumpers. you dont even need to be clever or qualified. just do a 'teacher training' course which takes about 2 minutes, and involves challenging topics like 'Blackboard Strategy' and the 'Report-o-matic' machine which scans the register and generates some guff for the parents to read.

Are you serious?

I know a fair few people who are teachers. The training doesn't take two minutes, you need a degree, and a year studying for a PGCE - which is hard work. Any amount of paperwork, lesson planning, evaluations, filling in folders evidencing all the things you're supposed to improve at etc etc.

Then the job itself - most teachers I know are in work by 7:30 or 8am in order to prepare their classrooms for the kids at 9. Lessons all day are only half the job (some would say the easiest half), but you do have to deal with mouthy s****y kids who "know their rights", cause havok, and generally don't want to be there.

Then there's the after school clubs almost all teachers are involved in, and other out of hours stuff - trips, school productions, sports teams, concerts, parents evenings. On a normal day, despite "finishing work" at 3pm, most teachers I know are never home before 6.

There's then anywhere between an hour and three hours of lesson planning to do each evening, in preparation for the next days lessons.

"Loads of holidays" doesn't really qualify as a perk - as the latter half of each of the smaller holidays (half terms etc) are taken up with getting back to work, so no more than 3 or 4 proper days off, and you're stuck to having your summer holiday in the school summer holiday when prices are at their highest and there's loads of kids about!

I've done some teaching at a summer camp for primary school kids. Piece of piss. First day was hard, second day I learn all you basically have to do is shout and look stern and then they obey you.

Also, most teachers I meet are retards. I suspect any normal person could easily cope with the job.

[timbob]

Somewhatfoolish said:

timbob said:

daver777 said:

teacher. loads of holidays and free elbow pads for your jumpers. you dont even need to be clever or qualified. just do a 'teacher training' course which takes about 2 minutes, and involves challenging topics like 'Blackboard Strategy' and the 'Report-o-matic' machine which scans the register and generates some guff for the parents to read.

Are you serious?

I know a fair few people who are teachers. The training doesn't take two minutes, you need a degree, and a year studying for a PGCE - which is hard work. Any amount of paperwork, lesson planning, evaluations, filling in folders evidencing all the things you're supposed to improve at etc etc.

Then the job itself - most teachers I know are in work by 7:30 or 8am in order to prepare their classrooms for the kids at 9. Lessons all day are only half the job (some would say the easiest half), but you do have to deal with mouthy s****y kids who "know their rights", cause havok, and generally don't want to be there.

Then there's the after school clubs almost all teachers are involved in, and other out of hours stuff - trips, school productions, sports teams, concerts, parents evenings. On a normal day, despite "finishing work" at 3pm, most teachers I know are never home before 6.

There's then anywhere between an hour and three hours of lesson planning to do each evening, in preparation for the next days lessons.

"Loads of holidays" doesn't really qualify as a perk - as the latter half of each of the smaller holidays (half terms etc) are taken up with getting back to work, so no more than 3 or 4 proper days off, and you're stuck to having your summer holiday in the school summer holiday when prices are at their highest and there's loads of kids about!

I've done some teaching at a summer camp for primary school kids. Piece of piss. First day was hard, second day I learn all you basically have to do is shout and look stern and then they obey you.

Also, most teachers I meet are retards. I suspect any normal person could easily cope with the job.

I'm pretty sure a couple of days teaching at primary school summer camp isn't really comparable to a full time job in a busy secondary school!!

[Somewhatfoolish]

timbob said:

Somewhatfoolish said:

timbob said:

daver777 said:

teacher. loads of holidays and free elbow pads for your jumpers. you dont even need to be clever or qualified. just do a 'teacher training' course which takes about 2 minutes, and involves challenging topics like 'Blackboard Strategy' and the 'Report-o-matic' machine which scans the register and generates some guff for the parents to read.

Are you serious?

I know a fair few people who are teachers. The training doesn't take two minutes, you need a degree, and a year studying for a PGCE - which is hard work. Any amount of paperwork, lesson planning, evaluations, filling in folders evidencing all the things you're supposed to improve at etc etc.

Then the job itself - most teachers I know are in work by 7:30 or 8am in order to prepare their classrooms for the kids at 9. Lessons all day are only half the job (some would say the easiest half), but you do have to deal with mouthy s****y kids who "know their rights", cause havok, and generally don't want to be there.

Then there's the after school clubs almost all teachers are involved in, and other out of hours stuff - trips, school productions, sports teams, concerts, parents evenings. On a normal day, despite "finishing work" at 3pm, most teachers I know are never home before 6.

There's then anywhere between an hour and three hours of lesson planning to do each evening, in preparation for the next days lessons.

"Loads of holidays" doesn't really qualify as a perk - as the latter half of each of the smaller holidays (half terms etc) are taken up with getting back to work, so no more than 3 or 4 proper days off, and you're stuck to having your summer holiday in the school summer holiday when prices are at their highest and there's loads of kids about!

I've done some teaching at a summer camp for primary school kids. Piece of piss. First day was hard, second day I learn all you basically have to do is shout and look stern and then they obey you.

Also, most teachers I meet are retards. I suspect any normal person could easily cope with the job.

I'm pretty sure a couple of days teaching at primary school summer camp isn't really comparable to a full time job in a busy secondary school!!

If you're a TV producer or similar I will be quite happy to swap jobs with a teacher for a week and show them how it's done

[OnTheOverrun]

Best temp job?

That would be a 'plater' for a large car company that is a client of mine.

The platers turn up at 7:30am and get driven in minibus to collect a range of premium brand cars from all over the country. They sleep all the way to the pick up, then drive the Merc S-class or whatever home. Next morning they drop it off at the yard and get in the minibus to collect another one, except on Fridays where they keep the car at home until monday. . . . . . .

[ShadownINja]

We stumbled across some healthy living channel on Sky TV last night. It was the Yoga programme. A class was filmed doing their thing. Old hippy at front calling out moves while pacing up and down the hall eyeing up young female students. I'd say that's pretty easy as jobs go. And you could probably con young female students into one-to-one tantric sex sessions with you under the guise of heightened sense of spiritual well-being or something. *goes off to order book on yoga*

[Gedon]

timbob said:

Somewhatfoolish said:

timbob said:

daver777 said:

teacher. loads of holidays and free elbow pads for your jumpers. you dont even need to be clever or qualified. just do a 'teacher training' course which takes about 2 minutes, and involves challenging topics like 'Blackboard Strategy' and the 'Report-o-matic' machine which scans the register and generates some guff for the parents to read.

Are you serious?

I know a fair few people who are teachers. The training doesn't take two minutes, you need a degree, and a year studying for a PGCE - which is hard work. Any amount of paperwork, lesson planning, evaluations, filling in folders evidencing all the things you're supposed to improve at etc etc.

Then the job itself - most teachers I know are in work by 7:30 or 8am in order to prepare their classrooms for the kids at 9. Lessons all day are only half the job (some would say the easiest half), but you do have to deal with mouthy s****y kids who "know their rights", cause havok, and generally don't want to be there.

Then there's the after school clubs almost all teachers are involved in, and other out of hours stuff - trips, school productions, sports teams, concerts, parents evenings. On a normal day, despite "finishing work" at 3pm, most teachers I know are never home before 6.

There's then anywhere between an hour and three hours of lesson planning to do each evening, in preparation for the next days lessons.

"Loads of holidays" doesn't really qualify as a perk - as the latter half of each of the smaller holidays (half terms etc) are taken up with getting back to work, so no more than 3 or 4 proper days off, and you're stuck to having your summer holiday in the school summer holiday when prices are at their highest and there's loads of kids about!

I've done some teaching at a summer camp for primary school kids. Piece of piss. First day was hard, second day I learn all you basically have to do is shout and look stern and then they obey you.

Also, most teachers I meet are retards. I suspect any normal person could easily cope with the job.

I'm pretty sure a couple of days teaching at primary school summer camp isn't really comparable to a full time job in a busy secondary school!!

Teaching varies, it's difficult when you first start, or work in a department with a hard chain of command bullying you and making sure you are accountable at all times. SOme schools let you get on with it and if you are naturally good at it, it can be very easy indeed. The latter is a rarity though, as a rule of thumb. I've done a variety of jobs and teaching is nice.

You hear all the hyperbole about "Up until 10 marking and half my holidays preparing". If that's the case, you're doing it all wrong. A certainly don't do that an my marks are on a par with my collegues. Organisation is the key, as well as grafting in your free periods/lunchtimes.

Snag is that if you want to teach, join the rest of the queue. Record numbers training this year, some very well qualified staff following research funding cuts. Plus, if it's a niceish job, there will be lots of takers. Teaching isn't easy, but it's nice.

I agree with the expensive holidays sentiment.

You can always subcontract and work when you feel like it. Undercut the main scale and the agencies and you'll never be short of work.

[pokethepope]

A buyer for a large supermarket? Take the wine buyer for example. Lots of travelling to nice vineyards in France, Italy, Aus, US etc, trying all types and prices of wine, a little bit of negotiation if you like the stuff and you're done.