> “A lazy girl job is basically something you can just quiet quit,” she says in the two-and-a-half minute video. “There’s lots of jobs out there where you could make, like, 60 to 80 K and not do that much work and be remote.” As an example, she zeroes in on non-technical roles, where she feels the hours fall within a 9-to-5 schedule, and believes the pay is enough to allow for some financial freedom.<p>This influencer branded it “lazy girl job” but this concept is wildly popular among young people of all genders right now.<p>I was invited to be a mentor in a career-focused program for college students. The number of students who wanted advice about how to get easy remote jobs where they didn’t have to do any work was depressing.<p>The ideas they got from social media were wild. It was usually more Reddit than TikTok, but the concepts were the same: Overly confident internet posts had convinced them that most people don’t actually do much work at work and that it was all one big game. They thought remote work was the final piece of the puzzle that would turn these jobs into easy paychecks so they could have near total freedom without having to give up more than a couple hours per day to send some emails.<p>The weirdest part for me was how much they wanted to believe these internet influencers over the mentors in the group. It was hard to get some people to understand that the influencers were selling them a dream as a way to increase their follower count. I guess people will always have an appetite for hearing what they want to hear.
Before responding to what you think the article is about, it might be worthwhile reading up to the point where it explains this person was once working 60+ hours a week as a consultant and the resulting personal damage inspired her to come up with this (admittedly over the top) concept.
The people advocating lazy jobs will be the same ones wanting to hire people to mow their lawns, clean their houses, fix their cars, serve and cook for them at restaurants, pilot their airplanes, clean their pool, collect their trash, replace their roof, fix their AC and repair their leaking pipes.<p>The people doing these difficult and generally back breaking jobs won't be too happy spending 10 hours a day working while the lazy girl is drinking mojitos in the swimming pool.
> “There’s lots of jobs out there where you could make, like, 60 to 80 K and not do that much work and be remote.”<p>Let me know where, please. I guess I'm trash, but I've never stood a chance/have the resume to make it past ATS...<p>Edit: Also, some of these are posted on Reddit every now and then and create a real hubbub, e.g., some email pusher for Uber recently - <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s9iviz/the_misogyny_in_this_sub_is_so_gross_everyone/htojp5q/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s9iviz/the_misogy...</a>
It is interesting that there's little discussion about the gender aspect of this, given that the job title includes the term "girl." Studies suggest that women place a higher priority on work-life balance compared to men. Moreover, it could imply that women are more inclined to pursue this line of work, particularly in fields like social media and influencing, where attractiveness can be leveraged as an advantage.
i don't mind people seeking out easy money jobs like this as long as they don't complain about people who work harder making more money than them!
The important word "TikTok" is missing from the title, which might lead people to believe this was about real trends rather than whatever the heck is going on over there at any particular time.