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What jobs/careers DON'T suck and still pay decently well?

Edit: that would be realistically within reach for most xoxo...
magical rigor
  01/25/15
tenured college professor
bearded dashing people who are hurt famous landscape painting
  01/25/15
That's pipe dream though right? Who actually gets that?
magical rigor
  01/25/15
That's not a "career" per se--it's the ideal outco...
contagious chartreuse corn cake juggernaut
  01/25/15
Pro golf
Cobalt indian lodge
  01/25/15
Rock star Star of the Silver Screen Porn star Bar ...
orchid dopamine
  01/25/15
family member is a BarStarr. He makes money fucking doing p...
wine chapel
  01/25/15
depends what you mean by "dont suck". If you just ...
Fishy church building
  01/25/15
Examples of those kind of jobs? Like network admin and shit ...
magical rigor
  01/25/15
yeah. network admin, HR, compliance, risk, project managemen...
Fishy church building
  01/25/15
Easy for T14 lawyers to stroll into jobs like that?
magical rigor
  01/25/15
yeah.. lots of it has a legal aspect.. compliance & risk...
Fishy church building
  01/25/15
What is compliance and/or risk? Can you link to a job in eac...
Razzmatazz Purple Station Macaca
  01/26/15
PTI host
awkward lavender death wish whorehouse
  01/25/15
Sales, bro. you can write your own ticket, if you have brass...
Laughsome bonkers piazza
  01/25/15
What if you have paper mâché balls? (Xo poa
Hideous harsh heaven
  01/26/15
A lot of people think programming sucks, but if you're a gee...
Hairraiser tanning salon
  01/25/15
How hard to learn that shit?
magical rigor
  01/25/15
i know how to program, its not that hard to learn, but then ...
Adulterous scarlet multi-billionaire
  01/25/15
Yeah programming sucks. CS can be interesting, but professio...
Mind-boggling house-broken fanboi
  01/25/15
midlaw/niche small firm law. ...cue xo poasters lining up...
Big Mildly Autistic Office Useless Brakes
  01/25/15
private practice seems shitty to me.
Soul-stirring Knife
  01/26/15
Sports
Stimulating Hairless Trailer Park
  01/25/15
Medicine. I'm not even kidding. Outside of surgery, it's not...
flirting parlour
  01/25/15
newly minted MDs outside of surgery will be out of a job soo...
Soggy menage crotch
  01/25/15
lol at NPs doing general survey. Will never happen
Mind-boggling house-broken fanboi
  01/25/15
i said *outside* of surgery. surgeons will have a jerb but t...
Soggy menage crotch
  01/25/15
actually thinking about that my persian brother in law finis...
Adulterous scarlet multi-billionaire
  01/25/15
it depends on your specialty and where you are willing to wo...
impertinent range
  01/27/15
sports radio host
pale shrine
  01/25/15
Good one. Seems like it'd be really hard to land though.
magical rigor
  01/25/15
private military contractor offshore rig operator landman ...
Talented forum
  01/25/15
PI ... interesting. How difficult to crack into that? Pay? D...
magical rigor
  01/25/15
lolno. why would they be anything other than ex cops?
Glassy bossy gas station sandwich
  01/25/15
Just saw inherent vice, PI would be great
blathering bipolar step-uncle's house kitty
  01/26/15
have you ever met a real PI? does the thought of spending 60...
titillating theater codepig
  01/26/15
off shore private military contractor is fucking money. firs...
Soul-stirring Knife
  01/26/15
Professional poker player
At-the-ready white potus community account
  01/25/15
Production Operator
geriatric location
  01/26/15
Diver
Talented forum
  01/26/15
any type of celebrity (film, tv, music) passive income in...
Irradiated Spot Wrinkle
  01/26/15
gay porn
crusty exhilarant boiling water
  01/26/15
im interested in OP. I never went to law school and am gunni...
Angry stirring reading party
  01/26/15
Beekeeper. Not even kidding. I know a guy making low six fi...
aphrodisiac henna persian
  01/26/15
Hairdresser to the stars
Insanely creepy jet stock car
  01/27/15
something like marketing, advertising, hr. ad agency ->...
impertinent range
  01/27/15
Commercial real estate broker municipal/county assessor In...
grizzly 180 box office
  01/27/15


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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:50 PM
Author: magical rigor

Edit: that would be realistically within reach for most xoxo poasters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185514)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:52 PM
Author: bearded dashing people who are hurt famous landscape painting

tenured college professor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185523)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:55 PM
Author: magical rigor

That's pipe dream though right? Who actually gets that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185539)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:01 PM
Author: contagious chartreuse corn cake juggernaut

That's not a "career" per se--it's the ideal outcome of a particular career path. "Tenured prof" is like "law partner," it's something you attain on a certain career path and is not guaranteed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185597)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:53 PM
Author: Cobalt indian lodge

Pro golf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185529)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:54 PM
Author: orchid dopamine

Rock star

Star of the Silver Screen

Porn star

Bar star

...pretty much any star

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185537)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:59 PM
Author: wine chapel

family member is a BarStarr. He makes money fucking doing pullups and muscleups with videos with over a million views. lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185569)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:56 PM
Author: Fishy church building

depends what you mean by "dont suck". If you just mean "aren't that stressful and don't ahve to do much" there's lots of jobs that pay like 80k that are in that category. it's just they are boring as shit and you want to kill yourself for wasting your life away sitting there to collect your shit paycheck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185548)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:59 PM
Author: magical rigor

Examples of those kind of jobs? Like network admin and shit like that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185575)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:15 PM
Author: Fishy church building

yeah. network admin, HR, compliance, risk, project management bullshit.. basically any job at a large corp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185706)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:19 PM
Author: magical rigor

Easy for T14 lawyers to stroll into jobs like that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185740)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:20 PM
Author: Fishy church building

yeah.. lots of it has a legal aspect.. compliance & risk for sure. might take a while like anything but can definitely cop something within a year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185750)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 8:16 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Purple Station Macaca

What is compliance and/or risk? Can you link to a job in each of those? Just some indeed listing or whatever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27192835)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:56 PM
Author: awkward lavender death wish whorehouse

PTI host

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185549)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:57 PM
Author: Laughsome bonkers piazza

Sales, bro. you can write your own ticket, if you have brass balls.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185559)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 1:27 PM
Author: Hideous harsh heaven

What if you have paper mâché balls?

(Xo poa

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27189860)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:59 PM
Author: Hairraiser tanning salon

A lot of people think programming sucks, but if you're a geek anyway it's pretty good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185570)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:00 PM
Author: magical rigor

How hard to learn that shit?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185582)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:02 PM
Author: Adulterous scarlet multi-billionaire

i know how to program, its not that hard to learn, but then once you learn the basics there is a fucking mount everest of shit to master, also new fucking shit comes out every day so its constantly having to learn new complex shit

a lot of the time ill write my own program to automate repetitive shit that comes up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185608)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:07 PM
Author: Mind-boggling house-broken fanboi

Yeah programming sucks. CS can be interesting, but professional app dev is dull as nails. Reading 1000+ page api documentation and there still being huge parts completely undocumented or broken is extremely tedious

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185651)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 7:59 PM
Author: Big Mildly Autistic Office Useless Brakes

midlaw/niche small firm law.

...cue xo poasters lining up to "lol at shitlaw" before getting back to billing on a sunday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185581)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 8:11 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Knife

private practice seems shitty to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27192813)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:02 PM
Author: Stimulating Hairless Trailer Park

Sports

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185607)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:02 PM
Author: flirting parlour

Medicine. I'm not even kidding. Outside of surgery, it's not that bad if the place you work at has good infrastructure.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185611)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:12 PM
Author: Soggy menage crotch

newly minted MDs outside of surgery will be out of a job soon enough. medicare, medicaid, and obamacare subsidies aren't sustainable in the long run unless we cut costs. they'll never touch hospital admins, pharma companies, medical device companies, etc. doctors are an easy target -- factionalized, easy to demonize, and non-union. replace most of them with NPs and have a few MDs supervising and you can cut costs.

of course, this will barely move the needle since physician comp is 6% of healthcare spending, but i'm convinced that's how it'll go. visited my uncle who was hospitalized with cancer (stable condition) and he was only visited by a "DNP" the whole day (doctor of nurse practioning). he called her a doctor because he assumed she was one -- and the dumb bitch never corrected him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185688)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:24 PM
Author: Mind-boggling house-broken fanboi

lol at NPs doing general survey. Will never happen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185774)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:27 PM
Author: Soggy menage crotch

i said *outside* of surgery. surgeons will have a jerb but their lifestyle fucking sucks. 6-7 years of your prime working for below minimum wage and doing 100 hours a week?

shieeet at least biglaw pays me bennies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185801)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:14 PM
Author: Adulterous scarlet multi-billionaire

actually thinking about that my persian brother in law finished his pharmacy degree about 1/2 a year ago and I'm pretty sure he is making like 120k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185704)



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Date: January 27th, 2015 7:41 AM
Author: impertinent range

it depends on your specialty and where you are willing to work. most medical fields have a lot of stress because of the procedural nature of the work (cardiology, ENT, anesthesia, to a lesser extent GI and radiology). something like endo or rheum is probably low stress but pays shit like primary care. there's nothing wrong with topping out at mid 100's low 200's per se, but you leave med school with half a million in debt. tl;dr dont do primary care unless someone else is paying.

a lot of fields are also saturated in desirable markets, which diminishes teh negotiating power of the doctor as far as how many patients they have to churn out in a day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27195565)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:14 PM
Author: pale shrine

sports radio host

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185694)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:18 PM
Author: magical rigor

Good one. Seems like it'd be really hard to land though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185734)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:16 PM
Author: Talented forum

private military contractor

offshore rig operator

landman

private investigator

bookkeeping/home casino

crossfit studio

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185715)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:18 PM
Author: magical rigor

PI ... interesting. How difficult to crack into that? Pay? Do you start with existing agency?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185730)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:27 PM
Author: Glassy bossy gas station sandwich

lolno. why would they be anything other than ex cops?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185802)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 8:04 PM
Author: blathering bipolar step-uncle's house kitty

Just saw inherent vice, PI would be great

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27192762)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 8:07 PM
Author: titillating theater codepig

have you ever met a real PI? does the thought of spending 60 hours a week camped out in a van following around cheating husbands or trying catch out some guy on 'disability' for 60k a year sound appealing?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27192782)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 8:15 PM
Author: Soul-stirring Knife

off shore private military contractor is fucking money. first 100k in non taxable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27192827)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 8:25 PM
Author: At-the-ready white potus community account

Professional poker player

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27185787)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 1:28 PM
Author: geriatric location

Production Operator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27189872)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 2:03 PM
Author: Talented forum

Diver

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27190106)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 2:13 PM
Author: Irradiated Spot Wrinkle

any type of celebrity (film, tv, music)

passive income investor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27190181)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 2:23 PM
Author: crusty exhilarant boiling water

gay porn

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27190259)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 3:01 PM
Author: Angry stirring reading party

im interested in OP. I never went to law school and am gunning pretty hard for a fed gov job. there seems like a lot of luck involved in the process.. if i can't land a fedgov job in the next year or so my plan is to go to government relations, which seems like a pretty solid industry.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27190548)



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Date: January 26th, 2015 9:39 PM
Author: aphrodisiac henna persian

Beekeeper. Not even kidding. I know a guy making low six figures selling come-in alfalfa honey to yuppies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27193404)



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Date: January 27th, 2015 7:24 AM
Author: Insanely creepy jet stock car

Hairdresser to the stars

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27195540)



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Date: January 27th, 2015 7:45 AM
Author: impertinent range

something like marketing, advertising, hr. ad agency -> in house 9-5

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27195570)



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Date: January 27th, 2015 9:08 AM
Author: grizzly 180 box office

Commercial real estate broker

municipal/county assessor

Insurance agent for specialty product such as construction bonds

Planning/zoning administrator



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2791643&forum_id=2#27195773)