50 Useless Jobs People Shared Their Intel On

When we first thought about our most useless jobs list, we thought about professions like a night knocker or a human alarm clock, but soon realized that they were, in fact, pretty useful, but just became obsolete with the emergence of new technologies, and, well, time. But then, we stumbled upon this glorious Reddit thread where - jackpot - people listed the jobs they had or knew someone else to have that were truly, incredibly, absolutely useless. As in, you get paid while doing practically nothing. Once we read the cases, we rounded up the most outrageously cool ones and put them on this list - go take a look, because no matter how hard we try to convince you, you wouldn’t believe the farce of these absurd jobs!

But we’ll try, nevertheless! Some of these unusual jobs require the employees just to literally be nice, come to the office, and reply to an email once a week. For a full-time salary, no less! Then, some people are lucky enough to spend all day sorting data from newest to oldest. In an Excel file. One click, and your whole day’s work is done! Still others got a chance to move around a bit during their shifts, by spinning brand signs on the streets nearby or working as Costco greeters. Basically, doing nothing. Of course, this list isn’t limited to these amusingly weird jobs, because people did have something to say about a bit more serious lines of work whose main aim seems to purely be ripping someone off. Not a nice thought to end our intro with!

So, to make it brighter and lighter, we urge you to read the submissions that we found on this AskReddit thread and decide for yourself whether you’d want a useless job or not! Once you find an entry that amuses the heck out of you or one that you couldn’t agree more with, give it your vote. And lastly, you might want to consider sharing this list with your friends!

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"I took a job scheduling residential HVAC technicians for a mid-sized company after a few years of working in the field. A few months in, the company ended its residential program to focus on the commercial.

Thing is, they already had commercial schedulers. My boss told me she'd find me a new role, but then she took another job elsewhere and left.

I stayed as a scheduler with no one to schedule in a department that no longer existed. No one in the office seemed to realize this, and for over half a decade, I would show up, make friendly conversation in the breakroom while making my coffee, and then literally just did nothing the rest of the day. Having left a stressful job, it was glorious.

Occasionally someone would ask me an hvac or system-related question over email, and that was it. I made sure everyone liked me by bringing in bagels every Monday and donuts every Friday.

Then covid happened and now I was doing nothing at home!

When I learned the company was being sold, I figured I wouldn't tempt fate anymore and applied elsewhere. My department head gave a glowing recommendation, having no idea what I even did but knowing I was friendly and helped him jump his car a few times.

TLDR: The department I was adminning was downsized, but they forgot about me and I essentially took a six-year paid vacation."

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