100 Best Jobs for Lazy Bones - 1 on here.

Food and Drink

From bartenders to bus boys to beer testers, these tasty jobs let you hang out in busy, party-oriented places and try new products for free.

1. Waiter: Waiting tables can be a nightmare job or a pretty good gig, depending on how you look at it. If all your friends are heading to corporate jobs at 7a.m., and you can roll out of bed at noon for your shift, take smoke breaks, and flirt with customers, being a waiter isn’t such a bad idea.
2. Personal chef: If you’re lucky enough to score a job as a personal chef, you can work a schedule out with your employer, negotiate your own salary, get to play in someone else’s kitchen and experiment with tasty new treats, without having to pay for them.
3. Ice cream taster: If you love ice cream, this could be your dream job. You get paid to make real decisions about how ice cream products taste.
4. Barista: Working at a coffee shop often means that you can have tattoos, different colored hair, wear comfortable shoes, and talk about cool music or literature. As long as you don’t get the super early shift, this could be a great job for you.
5. Bartender: Good bartenders are busy, but they make great tips and get to experience fun nightlife. Bartenders may also be encouraged to wear fun, more casual clothing and can have a relaxed attitude towards customers.
6. Bus boy: Bus boys often get free or discounted meals if they eat at the beginning or end of their shift, and they don’t have to deal with finicky customers.
7. Chocolate taster: This job is a little more complicated than it sounds, but if you’re a chocoholic, then sampling chocolaty sweets for your grocery store will be a fun reason to get up each morning.
8. Beer tester: Beer people are pretty laid back, and beer testers get to sample new flavors and products all the time.
9. Wine taster: Get your palate ready and your buzz on and start searching for paid wine tasting jobs.

Seasonal

When you’re in desperate need of cash over a vacation but don’t want to ruin your holidays with work, consider these seasonal jobs for lazy bones.

1. Animal breeder: Animal breeders need to research family trees and meet new contacts all year long, but the real breeding and birthing season is shorter.
2. Summer tennis instructor: Get a job with a camp, resort or country club to work part-time as a tennis instructor. If you’re already a good player, you can just show up and enjoy getting paid for doing what you love.
3. Camp counselor: Camp counselors are all about fun. You may have to discipline a kid every once in a while, but you also get to play outside, eat for free, and maybe even get weekends off.
4. Lifeguard: While lifeguards have to be constantly watchful when they’re on duty, they also get to work on their tan, check out hotties in the pool or the beach, and just relax.

Sports

Sports fans don’t have to work up a sweat to get a job in the athletic industry. From ticket sellers to bat boys, these jobs have lots of perks.

1. Ticket taker: Stand (or sit) at the stadium gates to take everyone’s ticket. You may have to smile occasionally or hand out a program, but you might get a free seat to the game.
2. Ticket seller: Ticket sellers have a bit more responsibility than ticket takers, since they have to deal with money. But you get to sit in a booth and don’t have to deal with individual customers for more than a minute or two.
3. T-shirt thrower at a game: Ride around on or push around a t-shirt projection machine to give the crowd a thrill at half time or the 7th inning stretch. Yep, that’s about it.
4. Water boy: You can get down on the field by being a team’s water boy. All you have to do is make sure there’s enough water or Gatorade, and you get to sit down with the team the rest of the time.
5. Bat boy: Bat boys are similar to water boys, but the position is traditionally filled by actual boys, not grown ups. You may be able to bully your way in, however, to score yourself this lazy man’s job.
6. Kid’s sports coach: Set up practice times and have the kids run laps while you flirt with everyone’s mom.

Health and Medical

You traditionally have to be a very ambitious person to get a medical-related job, but this list proves otherwise.

1. Sell your platelets: Selling your platelets isn’t an actual job, but it can earn you some extra cash if you’re in a bind.
2. Sleep study: Participate in a sleep study like this one, and you can earn a few hundred bucks just for snoozing.
3. Nurse for a private practice doctor: There is no way we are going to argue that nursing is a profession for lazy people, because we know it’s not. But working for a private practice doctor has its perks. You can negotiate your schedule a little more easily and may even get to control the office radio.
4. Dentist: Dentists can make the big bucks because they’re smart, driven, and take care of lazy people who don’t look after their teeth. Dentists who work for themselves can also take longer lunches and have shorter work weeks if they can afford it.
5. Sell a kidney: Selling your kidney is a little controversial, but you can earn decent money without having to work too hard for it.
6. Sell your plasma: Sell your plasma a couple times a week to earn extra money.
7. Sperm donor: Sperm donors aren’t really donors, because you can make good money from your efforts. If you qualify, you can make up to a couple hundred bucks each time.
8. Medical study: Sleep studies aren’t the only kinds of medical studies that pay good money. You can find clinical trials for almost any kind of disease or condition.

Arts, Design

From painters to casting directors to mimes, artistically minded lazy bones will find jobs here.

1. Stylist: Big-time stylists jet all over the world and work all day and night to make a photo shoot just right. But if you’re looking for something more low key, you can start a small business that lets you style or shop for friends for special events.
2. Makeup artist: Freelance makeup artists get to set their own hours. It may also be a good solution for those interested in theater but don’t have enough drive to act and show up to rehearsals everyday.
3. Actor: Actors only have to show up to rehearsals everyday if they’re actually working. Out-of-work actors have extra time to find part-time jobs and sleep in.
4. Casting director: A casting director could be a great job for someone who loves to judge others. You may have to see thousands of actors before you pick extras or supporting roles, but you get to pass judgment on each one as you sit on your butt.
5. Painter: We’re talking about the stereotypical, albeit outdated profile of a painter here: morose, sleepy, and slow.
6. Shoe designer: You may have a hard time making ends meet, at least at first, but you’ll get to work for yourself and won’t have to waste time and money shopping for other people’s creations.
7. Fashion closet assistant: Magazines need assistants and interns to sit in the fashion closet and sort shoes, dresses, accessories and other items.
8. Sound effects person: Where what you want to work and play around with blocks of wood, dry pasta, musical instruments, digital tools and more.
9. Novelist’s assistant: Work for an unmotivated novelist as his or her assistant, and you may find yourself with a lot of extra free time.
10. Work as a Disney character: If you can’t get a real gig at Disney World, dress up for kids’ birthday parties. The costume is already picked out for you, and everyone will be happy if you just smile and pose for pictures.
11. Mime: No one can get mad at your choosing to be quiet if you’re a mime. Do your own thing, manage your own schedule and wardrobe, and ignore everyone around you.

Computers and Tech

Techies and designers can use their love of computers to freelance as web workers or give computer support.

1. Video game designer: First you’ll need to brainstorm. Play will all your favorite games to get inspiration.
2. Computer tech: You can work in an office or just freelance your services to friends and neighbors to eliminate unnecessary stress and commute times.
3. IT support: Work from home as a telecommuting IT supporter. You can work for a specific company or for yourself, and no one will know if you’re also playing on the Internet in your pajamas.
4. Open source anything: Start an open source project and let someone else finish it.
5. Web designer: Web workers often work for themselves and get to play around with new fonts, colors, software, scripts and more while they network with other designers and developers.
6. Video game tester: Play video games, make money. Enough said.
7. Software designer for small company: Play around with new computer programs and chock up your wasted time to research.

Independent Gigs and Personal Assistants

From gold diggers to socialites to personal shoppers, these jobs round out our list of the top 100.

1. Personal shopper: Though your clients may be demanding or rude, you’ll get to leave them behind for a day of retail therapy. Unless you run your own organized agency or business, you won’t even have to go to the office.
2. Socialite: Socialites don’t have to work, unless they want to “design” their own clothing line or handbag line, or donate their time to charity.
3. Anything you’re naturally good at: Pick something that you’re naturally good at, and you won’t have to work too hard to get good results.
4. Gold digger (the bimbo kind): Marrying a rich guy isn’t really considered work, if you’ve got the obvious goods.
5. Gold digger (the 49ers kind): Search for gold the old fashioned way: while you sit on your bum under the sun with a sifting pan.

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