Sweeps Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 A mate of mine had a business where a sawmill used to pay him to take away the sawdust which he then sold to some stables of some sort to throw on the floor. This got me thinking, there must be some jobs that give the highest return for lack of effort involved either for their sheer inventiveness or being well paid for minimal effort. Can we think of any examples apart from the inevitable jokes, estate agent, MP, solicitor, Judge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted August 1, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 1, 2016 Haakon Olafsson, the retired head brewer at Carlsberg, Northampton, became a part time beer quality assessor for Cask Marque. Apperently FHM voted his the best job in the world, beating the second placed one, Porn star, by a comfortable margin. Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Chocolate taster? Haakon Olafsson, the retired head brewer at Carlsberg.....became a part time beer quality assessor for Cask Marque. Apperently FHM voted his the best job in the world.... Probably..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2016 Back in the day when Courage were still brewing in Bristol (ex Georges' Brewery), I used to drink in the evenings with their chief beer taster. He made me look thin! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2016 Best job, or as the title of the thread indicates, easiest job? Best job, for me, would be doing something I enjoy, even if it wasn't actually easy. So I'm thinking of things like composing music (which I can't currently do) or writing my sequence of science fiction books. Easiest job, for me, would be data entry. But it's bloody boring. In fact, any job that's easy is probably going to be very boring. So an easy job that isn't boring? Probably setting up websites for customers on a server somewhere then sitting back and letting the computer do the work. But to be honest, I'd prefer to design the websites (rather than set up their hosting) even though that isn't that easy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter220950 Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 The bloke that goes around spray painting around potholes in an attempt to convince the public that someone's going to do something about them one day, why don't they just give him a wheelbarrow full of tarmac? Restaurant critic, you got paid to eat. Drugs tester at the Olympics, you get paid to take the p1ss out of people all day. Boss of Sealed Air Systems who gets paid to wrap up air and sell it, https://sealedair.com/products if he gets bored he's got something to do, popping bubble-wrap. Drivers of Class 139's how hard can it be to drive .8 mile on a single track line, then come back. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 A mate of mine had a business where a sawmill used to pay him to take away the sawdust which he then sold to some stables of some sort to throw on the floor... The ingenuity lies in spotting someone else' nuisance and making it painlessly go away. The best of these are carefully kept secrets, and I am not telling you mine! I took my hat off to a guy who had set up a beachgrooming business in a tropical resort location. The key element in his opinion was nice equipment, a low pressure tyre tractor with a rake and a trailer; as the local teenage boys would queue up to drive these, doing the actual work from just before dawn so the beaches were pristine when the drunks guests got up and went out on them. The owner - as he put it - simply 'bummed around all day, inspecting the beaches and making sure the resort managers various were happy, typically over a light refreshment. Mind, he did say he missed a long walk on the South Downs on a bright and frosty morning, followed by a jar or two, and a steak and ale pie. Even an easy life in paradise pales eventually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2016 I once had a job of counting. Counting the number of blows a pile driver took for a given distance on the pile being driven into the ground, then note these numbers down. And I managed to screw it up They were augered piles? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Never having had a proper job, I have no idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2016 I've always thought a Dartmoor National Park Warden sounded like a nice job. A friend's dad help this post for 40 odd years. Hard work and out in all weathers, but I would love to do something like that. Mind you the money isn't very good. Kind regards, Nick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Retirement. Get a nice pension payment every month and do whatever I want, whenever I want. Best job I've ever had. (Just sat here on my butt, quaking as I hear my wife's footsteps approaching in the corridor, door opens, "could we just review the jobs that need doing?") It's not all sloth and indolence despite my best efforts. So let me rephrase that, I do whatever my wife wants whenever she wants it. Happy wife=Happy Life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeps Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 The bloke that goes around spray painting around potholes in an attempt to convince the public that someone's going to do something about them one day, why don't they just give him a wheelbarrow full of tarmac? Restaurant critic, you got paid to eat. Drugs tester at the Olympics, you get paid to take the p1ss out of people all day. Boss of Sealed Air Systems who gets paid to wrap up air and sell it, https://sealedair.com/products if he gets bored he's got something to do, popping bubble-wrap. Drivers of Class 139's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-XF4iyEOIE how hard can it be to drive .8 mile on a single track line, then come back. Peter it was all going well until that bloke sat in the way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 The ingenuity lies in spotting someone else' nuisance and making it painlessly go away. The best of these are carefully kept secrets, and I am not telling you mine! I took my hat off to a guy who had set up a beachgrooming business in a tropical resort location. The key element in his opinion was nice equipment, a low pressure tyre tractor with a rake and a trailer; as the local teenage boys would queue up to drive these, doing the actual work from just before dawn so the beaches were pristine when the drunks guests got up and went out on them. The owner - as he put it - simply 'bummed around all day, inspecting the beaches and making sure the resort managers various were happy..... He may have missed a trick by not charging the local teenagers a bit of pocket money to have a go, in the manner of a fairground ride. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2016 Easiest job ? Photographing model railway layouts ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2016 Reminds me of Compo in the "Last of the Summer Wine" when got himself a job as a gravedigger think it would be easy as "everyone goes up the crem these days"! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 I got paid to do trainspotting once. A few years ago there had been complaints about the vibration caused to properties by trains running through a tunnel during the night. Seismometers were placed at strategic positions on the streets above. As the person in the office with the most extensive Traction and rolling stock knowledge I was nominated to spend a night on a freezing Finchley Road and Frognal station noting down the types of trains, the times and anything pertinent i.e. whether freight trains were loaded or empty... This would then be cross referenced with the seismometers. It was really easy but at 3.00am trying to stave off frostbite not particularly pleasant... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Recording wagon numbers at a British Steel plant was a good'un; I'd have been even quicker if I'd not had two note-books. One was the official copy, to check against the BR Telex for demurrage purposes; the other was of salient details for modelling the things. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 ...Just sat here on my butt, quaking as I hear my wife's footsteps approaching in the corridor, door opens, "could we just review the jobs that need doing?"... A very dear friend once informed me that he was now immortal. He was so far in arrears on the 'little jobs' that madam needed done, that he was going to have to live forever to complete them all. He may have missed a trick by not charging the local teenagers a bit of pocket money to have a go, in the manner of a fairground ride. You are not far off the mark there, the way the owner described it. But sadly he found that to get the boys who would reliably turn up and do the job well without trashing the equipment did require payment, albeit very modest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
28XX Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 My friend Matthew Hatton works as a warden in the Yorkshire Dales. He gets paid to hike around, make notes of issues the National Parks authorities should be aware of, and manages to post one or two stunning photographs of flora, fauna, architecture, landscape etc. on Facebook every day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Weather forecaster ? About the only job you get away with getting it wrong most of the time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted August 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 2, 2016 Is this an academic question, or is the answer (an) academic? Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Due to the summer heat in the Canary Islands, whenever builders pour concrete or do rendering, they always leave behind a little old man at the end of the day. His sole job is to sit in a chair and every 30mins or so, spray some water to try to prevent the concrete cracking if it dries out too quickly. He's usually bunged a fistful of Euros and provided with a bite to eat and a couple of beers. 9 times out of 10 he nods off in the chair. I aspire to be that little old man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Fitness Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 When I was a relief signalman years ago, I moved to Wellington (Salop) which covered Lightmoor Jc on the Ironbridge Power Station branch. I trained the box during the miners strike so there were no trains at all at the time. Once passed out, I covered a vacancy there for 3 months and didn't see a train. The most difficult part of the job was getting there for early turn..Lovely job 'til the miners spoilt it by going back to work! . JF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 3, 2016 Easiest job ? Photographing model railway layouts ? Best job? Photographing models that are nude. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Easiest job ?, Wringer out for a one armed window cleaner. Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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