I'm looking for the work life balance company out there. Don't care about comp. What companies should I apply for? I'm looking to work an hour a week.
These companies and positions exist but you can't really tell from outside the company. And the people who are working / have worked there have a strong incentive not to talk about it because it's damaging to their own reputation.
There are development jobs where there is so much dysfunction, so many interruptions, meetings, slacks, whatever, you barely get any deep engineering work done. If there's no "real" work, you get assigned tickets that have been in Jira for 4 years and are now suddenly a priority, just so your scrum master can keep up appearances. Bullshit doesn't obey gravity: it flows up and down.<p>Look for a position in product management. Other than founders, almost every other "product person" I've worked with did very little.
_Bullshit Jobs_, by David Graeber. The article it's based on is all over the web if you want to get a quick overview. The book expands on the ideas. It seems like a joke, and in many ways it is. But it's also a surprisingly thoughtful look at something that's real.<p>I do have to say, though, that I never thought of treating it as a handbook and not as a expose. (See the meme "_1984_ wasn't intended to be a handbook.")<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs</a>
I once worked at a company like that without meaning to. It seemed great at first; seemingly limitless private funding and no expectations meant we could basically dither about on whatever we wanted. But it drove me crazy eventually because I actually enjoy getting stuff done, but trying to accomplish anything there was impossible. I ended up quitting two months before the company shut down completely (coincidentally). Turns out the funding _wasn't_ without limit after all.
Book/vape/music/stereo-shop cashier. You'll have to be present, won't get paid much, but you'll rarely ever have to work.
One hour is a hard sell.<p>When that happened to me, I had tenure with the company and slowly became a « reviewer », rubber stamping stuff and slowly become irrelevant technically. ( that’s usually when I switch ship or position )
Automotive, pharma, banking, insurance, business software - but only in their headquarters and main locations, and only after couple of years of employment.