有哪些工作毫无理由地开很多工资？
What’s a job that pays extremely well for no reason?
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What’s a job that pays extremely well for no reason?
有哪些工作毫无理由地开很多工资？
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My job, "management consultant"
我的工作，“管理咨询师”
我年薪六位数，而我唯一真正的工作只是听我老板抱怨。没了。
How do I get that kind of gig?
我该怎么能捞到这种活儿？
5 years experience, listening to people whine
五年的工作经历，听别人抱怨
I teach 8th graders... I've been listening to people whine my whole career. Can I pick up the gig when I retire?
我教八年级学生……我自从干这行就开始听别人抱怨。我能不能退休之后干这个啊？
What you want to do is take a course in "Instructional Design" and then make yourself known to the major enterprise learning and development firms. I pay instructional designers anywhere from 45 to 80 USD. And there are never enough of them.
你需要做的就是上一节“教学设计”，然后让那些大型企业的学习发展部门知道你就行。我给那些“教学设计”的人开的时薪是45-80美元。就这还招不够。
I’ve done 6 years in retail, I’m overqualified
我已经干了六年的零售了。我绝逼够格
Ive been on reddit for 8 years thats a lot of whining.
我已经刷了八年的reddit了，我可见识过不少抱怨。
Keep getting promoted until you stop being a sole contributor and become a project/team manager - eventually your job will just be meetings planning future meetings and retroing past meetings.
那就接着升职，直到你不再单打独斗，成为项目或者团队经理——到最后你的工作内容就只剩下开会，计划接下来要开的会，以及回顾过去开过的会了。
Lol! This is too true. I’m still clinging to actually doing the work because I can’t fully let it go, and really enjoy it (something about being a “pure” PM just feels wrong, like it doesn’t really add value), but it is a bit like doing two or three full time jobs and I’m starting to feel the burnout :-(.
哈哈哈！这实在是太真实了。我仍然在坚持真正干点实事儿，因为我没办法彻底放下，并且我很享受（当一个“纯粹”的产品经理感觉就是不对劲，因为根本没有什么价值），但是感觉有点像同时干两三分全职工作，我开始有点力不从心了。
Go to grad school and get recruited by a consulting firm that charges taxpayers unspeakable fees for doing nothing of substance.
读个研究生，然后让咨询企业招你，收纳税人们不计其数的费用，然后什么实际的事都不干。
你们的税就是这么用的，家人们！
I went to grad school. If you know anyone hiring for this, I’m available.
我读过研，如果你认识有人招这种，我没问题。
Seriously, look at Deloitte, etc. They’ll hire consultants with weird niche expertise to serve as subject matter experts. I mean, if your expertise is 16th Century French poetry, probably not, but if it’s something with contemporary relevance, you could have a chance. Think a philosophy grad with a focus on ethics consulting on AI or an international relations grad consulting on globalization initiatives.
说真的，看看德勤之类的这种公司。他们会招聘一些奇怪的细分领域的人才当他们的专家。当然了，如果你的专业是什么16世纪法国诗歌，那可能没门，但如果是和当代有些关系的，你就有机会了。比如一个哲学系的毕业生，研究方向是道德就可以给AI领域做咨询，或者一个国际关系学院的研究生就可以给企业国际化做咨询。
I personally work for such a company (not Deloitte specifically but a close competitor) and one of our best people was a guy with a degree in Classical Greek literature. Our sector VP was an art school grad. Both could write extremely well and cogently though which probably had lots to do with it.
我个人就在给这种企业打工（不是德勤，但是一个关系紧密的竞争企业），我们这边最厉害的是一个学希腊古典文学的。我们的区域副总监是艺术学院的研究生。这两个人都有很高的写作技巧，可能和他们学过的东西有关。
I did a stint as a consultant in my industry, and in almost all the cases I advised my clients to fire me because in my capacity as a consultant it was my opinion that I was a waste of their money, usually because they wouldn't implement any of the advice I gave them. And, like you say, would basically just whine to me about things. Typically, at first, they would be interested and open to the ideas, but when it came time to actually implement them they would often just be like 'well, you know what, we've always done it this other way so we're gonna keep doing that' .... but they hired me because their status quo was verifiably .... not working...
我曾经在我的领域做过一段时间的咨询师，在几乎所有的情况下我给我客户的建议都是把我开了，因为从我作为咨询师的能力来讲，我认为我是在浪费他们的钱，通常是因为他们从来都不会实施我给他们的任何建议。而且，像你说的，他们只是在跟我抱怨而已。通常来说，在一开始，他们会感到比较有兴趣，对建议持开放态度，但等到真正该实施的时候，他们总是会“你知道吗，我们之前一直都是那么干的，所以我们还是接着那么干吧”……但是他们雇我又是因为他们的当前现状实在是……不太管用……
I suspect the reason why you had trouble getting them to implement your ideas is because managers/CEOs care more about power and control than improvements.
我怀疑你没办法让他们实施你的想法的原因，在于经理和CEO比起改善更在乎权力和控制。
有一种现象，你告诉某人一件他们本来打算要做的事情的时候，他们通常都会做正好相反的事情，因为你给出这个建议之后，这个行动就不是他们自己想做的了。就算是他们自己先想出来的，他们也不会因为执行这个想法而得到任何的称赞。
让他人改变的仅有的少数方式之一，就是让他们觉得这是他们自己想出来的主意。
有一个电影剧本作家叫Max Landis，在他被取消（译注：他被指控性侵了）之前，他是个把看上去不可能的事转变为可能的年轻人，他在给业内一些最牛逼的企业卖剧本，并且绝大多数都是原创IP剧本（不是拿了钱之后才写的，而是先写好后卖出去的）
他拍了很多YouTube视频介绍自己是怎么把剧本卖出去的。最重要的是两点，首先他会经常拿自己的作品和其他的成功作品比较，帮助对方理解概念。比如说“就好像蝙蝠侠在印第安纳琼斯的电影里”。人们不太敢弄新东西，他们宁愿复制之前成功过的东西，尽管复制的东西很少有比原本更好的。
第二个主要的战略就是有意遗漏一些话术，或者在推销时、在剧本里留一些糟糕的创意，让制片人有一些发挥的的空间，假装他们干了自己该干的事情。所有人都希望制片人读了一本完美的剧本之后就直接扔钱，但是为了让自己看上去做了事情，他们永远得给出一些他们希望改变的地方，因为绝大多数人都愚蠢地相信“没有什么是完美的”。所以Max就会在开会的时候假装自己的想法还没有完善，然后给制片人喂饼让他们完成这些创意。然后Max就会很夸张地恭维制片人竟然有这么好的想法，这就是他成功的关键，因为只要制片人对这个创意提出了改进，他就要对这个创意负起责任来，因为他感到这个企划也有一部分属于自己了。
Exactly this. You want a project to succeed you need buy in from all parties.
完全没错。你想要一个企划成功，你就得把所有相关方面都打理好。
怎么能让他们买账？确定所有人都有贡献，就算只是一点点。
于是所有人都有一点油水可以捞了，企划就成功了。
I’ve done this type of thing working for small businesses. I get hired as a crew member. I see how terribly inefficient everything is and can’t stop myself from suggesting other ways. The bosses are either absent or too busy providing services to customers. The boss eventually notices things being done different and starts questioning. Tracks back to me. Owner starts explaining how his/her way is how it’s always been done and I explain we all have been doing it new way for weeks or months and he can check his profit increase, customer satisfaction, and employee retainment, etc. Normally they go back to their way anyways. Once everything starts getting worse again is when they sometimes accept change.
我之前给小企业干过这种活。本来我是普通组员。我在看见一切的效率有多么低之后，就忍不住要给出建议。但老板们要么不在，要么忙着给客户提供服务。老板可能最终会发现我们做事的方式不一样，然后开始问问题。问题追踪到我。老板开始解释他自己的方法一直都是这样的，我解释我们已经按照新方法干了几个星期或者几个月，他可以检查自己的利润增加，顾客满意度，雇员留存率，等等。通常来说他们还是会回到自己的老路去。只有一切再次开始变糟了，他们偶尔才会接受改变。
我不是个专业咨询师。我只是在顾客服务和指派员工责任方面有一些经验而已。
Surely you also have to save to PDF and transcribe scanned and faxed documents and other forms of psychological torture?
你们肯定也得负责保存为PDF，把扫描和传真文件打印成电子版之类的心理折磨吧？
My job doesn't make 6 figures but I'm overly compensated for making sure Tech Support doesn't cuss the customer out and pointing out what they could have done better. I'm not even the supervisor, I'm just the judgey fuck in the corner office.
我的工作挣不到一年六位数，但是我这份工作只需要保证技术支持部门不会把客户喷一顿，指出他们哪里可以做得更好，我还是赚的太多了。我甚至都不是总监，我只是办公室角落里那个指导瘾犯了的傻逼。
I am extremely qualified at being a judgey fuck.
我在当一个指导瘾犯了的傻逼这方面极为擅长。
I worked as a recruiter for Microsoft during the pandemic. There was such a fever pitch for tech talent that we were basically throwing $175k checks at anyone with a pulse and a GitHub. We have a lot of amazing tech talent but some of the people we hired had no business being there. Like, literally just twiddling their thumbs and handling one or two small kanban type projects each week while reaping almost $200k a year. All of the big tech firms did.
疫情期间我给微软招人。当时对技术人才招得特别厉害，只要是活人，有GitHub，我们就扔给他17.5万美元的年薪。我们当然有很多非常厉害的技术人才，但某些我们招来的人根本就不配呆在这。动动大拇指每星期维护一两个看板工程，然后一年就能挣将近20万。所有大厂都这么干。
如果你不懂为什么他们突然裁了这么多人，这个原因占很大一部分。现在新雇佣的员工工资开的少多了。
Going into this thread with a pen and paper to find a new job
我拿着纸笔点进这个帖子找工作来了。
Mail carrier for Canada Post. I make $230 a day (wages are based on route value) and I was home before 9am on Friday. I started at 7am.
加拿大邮政的邮差。我一天挣二百三十块（工资基于路程的价值），星期五我早上九点之前就到家了。我是早上七点上班。
周一要多干一会儿，圣诞节会非常累。但每年有10个月我每天最多干四个小时的活。有工会。这是我干过的最好的工作。
Learned of a guy making 300k translating genius talk to others.
听说一个人把天才的聊天翻译给其他人，挣了三十万。
他会和那些天才工程师对话。这些工程师会跟他讲他们的创意。因为他们通常太社恐不敢自己做，所以他就负责把这些创意解释给团队其他成员。
感觉是个很棒的工作。
Some rich person posted an ad this past week saying they needed a nanny for their dog, it pays 127k a year.
有个有钱人上星期投了个广告，说他们需要给狗找个奶妈，一年12.7万美元。
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It does sound like they expect the dog nanny to be available 24/7/365. It also sounds like the dogs may have some serious health and/or behavior issues.
听起来他们希望这个狗奶妈要365天一周7天一天24小时在线。而且这个狗可能有严重的健康或者行为问题。
其实他们要的是那种老式的仆人，能不动声色地融入到背景里，并且活着就是为了养狗。不只是每天溜几次狗，把饼干倒进碗里那么简单。
是个搞笑的工作吗？是。
太简单或者出价高于给出的服务吗？不是。
I think IT is pretty unbalanced from my experience
我觉得从我的经历来看，IT行业就挺不平衡的。
很多人在自己的领域里变得没有竞争力，他们一边往上爬，一边做更少的事，这样反倒能挣多得多的薪水。
Ah yes I've seen that strategy in use. Spend your time kissing ass instead of working so you become the face of any IT success. When there is a failure, especially if your fault, you already have the ears of leadership so let them "know" the fault lies on someone you want gone. You get promoted out of the situation.
啊没错我见过有人用这种策略。花时间拍别人马屁而不是正经工作，这样你就会成为IT成功的门面。失败了的时候，尤其如果是你自己的责任的时候，反正领导听你的，你只需要让他们“知道”问题出在一个你想让他滚蛋的人的身上。你反倒会因为这种情况升职加薪。
I get paid just under $80k working nights at a gym. Get all my work done in less than 2 hours and can basically do whatever for the other 6. Watch football. Scroll Reddit. Whatever.
我年薪将近8万美元，工作是在健身房上夜班。不到两个小时就能把该干的活都干完，剩下六个小时基本上想干什么都行。看足球。刷reddit。啥都行。
虽然钱不多，但对于我做的事情来说确实很合适。
What gym has night staff? Even the 24/7 gyms I’ve heard none are staffed past 10pm.
什么健身房有夜班？就算是24小时健身房我听说过了晚上十点之后就没有人了呀。
That’s my start time. 10pm-6am. I get paid about $20k more than the manager. It’s a privately owned gym chain and it’s pretty much one of its kind. It’s point of difference is that it is open and staffed 24/7. I spend about an hour resetting the gym floor (packing away weights) and the rest stocking the fridges. There’s no real cleaning as we have cleaners for that. Other than that I just chill.. serve a few customers here and there. Oh plus I get to choose what music to play haha.
那正好是我上班的时间。我的工作时间是晚上十点到早上六点。我挣的钱比经理还多两万美元。是个私有的健身房，基本上算是独一处。他们的差异点就是24小时开放并且有人。我花大概1个小时把健身房地板收拾好（把举重器材收起来），剩下的时间把冰箱塞满。用不着清洁，因为我们有保洁人员。此外我就放松。偶尔给这里那里的顾客提供服务。哦对了我还能选择播放什么音乐哈哈。
The average clown salary in the US is $63k
美国小丑的平均年薪是六万三千美元。
You would think American politicians would make a lot more than that
不得不说美国政治家挣得比这个多多了。
Lawn mowing. I make ridiculous money running a landscaping and lawn care business (5%/95%). It’s hard to overestimate how much people will pay to avoid physical labor.
除草。我开了一家造景和草坪维护的公司（这两样的业务占比是5%/95%）。你很难高估人们为了避免体力劳动到底愿意多花多少钱。
not avoid physical labor--save time. Lawn maintenance can take a full day between the work and the recovery after and a weekend is only 2 days, if that. Time is the most precious thing we have and people pay alot to own their time
不是避免体力劳动，是省时间。维护草坪要花一整天的时间，周末一共只有两天。时间是我们最宝贵的东西，人们为了拥有属于自己的时间愿意花很多钱。
This is accurate, but not really how a lot of customers will see it. It is how I advertise on my website, though, and I have a whole section that explains why time is a more valuable resource to them than money.
这话说的不假，但并不是所有人都能看出这一点。所以我在我的网站上是这么打广告的，并且我有一整个页面介绍为什么对于他们来说时间比金钱更加重要。
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我干的不是维护草坪的工作。我干的是通过维护草坪，给你省下时间的工作。
You're also in the business of keeping me from having to interact more than once a day with the grass I'm allergic to.
你干的也是让我用不着和我过敏的草地每天接触一次以上的工作。
A lot of people think people in retail make minimum wage but actually there is an entire side that works for big food companies that supply the food to retailers. If you’ve got more then one brain cell and work hard it’s not hard to be making close to six figures as a “sales rep” or “territory manager”.
很多人都以为零售业的从业人员只能挣最基础的工资。但实际上这一行有一整个部门是给大型食物企业工作，给零售商批发食物的。如果你的脑子里不止有一个脑细胞，并且愿意努力的话，那么当“销售代理”或者“地区经理”，挣将近六位数的工资并不是什么难事。
work hard
“努力”
问题在于楼主问的是“没有理由”挣钱的工作。我觉得努力本身就是挣大钱很好的理由。
Event technology.. 75k a year to set up projectors and microphones. Most of the day consists of waiting to break everything down after the event. Lots of down time, like a lot. I was able to finish my Associates degree with all the down time.
活动技术人员。每年七万五千美元，架设投影和麦克风。工作内容基本上就是等着活动结束之后再把这些东西给拆了。休息时间很多。非常多。我用休息时间完成了准学士学位。
CEO of a toy submersable
一个玩具潜艇的CEO。
Goddamn. Talk about kicking someone when they’re 12,000 feet down.
草了。人家都沉到一万两千英尺的海底下了还能中枪。
My family runs a currency exchange business in South Korea, , its like printing money lol
我家在韩国经营货币兑换的生意……简直就是在印钞哈哈哈哈
How does one get into that?
怎么从事这一行？
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I didnt start the business so I couldn't give you the exact blue print. But from what I've learned and know, liquid cash flow and ability to speak multiple languages(in our case, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and English)
不是我创的业，所以我没办法告诉你蓝图是什么样的。据我所知，你需要流动现金流，和说多种语言的能力（比如我们的，汉语，韩语，日语和英语）
Life coach. Give rich white housewives (or husbands) a bunch of platitudes for 10k a month so they can feel less guilty for being rich.
人生导师。给那些有钱的白人家庭主妇（或者主夫）说几句恭维的话，一个月挣一万美元，这样他们就会对自己有钱这件事感到没那么愧疚了。
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"Executive"
“执行官”
我处理过成千上万的纳税申报单，每张单子的总收入都是一百万美元，职业填的都是“执行官”。
I'm a pilot and I feel like a glorified uber. I do very little even though I have a lot of training.
我是个飞行员，我感觉自己就是个很高大上的滴滴司机。尽管我接受了大量的训练，但我几乎什么也不干。
I am a recently retired pilot who has had 4 engine failures (one of them over Siberia), a total electrical failure in IMC, seen more than a few runways with poor braking action and have carried enough ice over the Appalachian Mountains to make a Polar Bear habitat. I feel zero quilt about any of my paychecks.
我是个最近刚退役的老飞，经历过四次引擎熄火（其中一次是在西伯利亚上空），一次在仪表气象条件下（译注：恶劣的气象条件，只能通过仪表飞行）的电子设备完全失灵，见过很多刹车很糟糕的跑道，飞越阿巴拉契亚山脉的时候我飞机上的冰都够北极熊搭个窝的。我对于自己挣的每一张工资条都没有任何愧疚。
你要么还很年轻，要么非常幸运。
Influencer
网红
that depends on your worth as an influencer. far from every influencer earns a lot of money from it.
取决于你当网红的价值，并不是每个网红都能挣大钱的。
这就像拍毛片一样。很多人都拍，但很少真的有人能挣到大钱。
CFO’s. They do 5th grade math for a living.
CFO（财务执行官）。他们靠做五年级数学题挣钱。
还有房地产中介。他们干的活只有之前的一半（顶多），挣的佣金却仍然和以前一样多。
If you were average 90 hours a week it doesn't count.
如果你一星期要干九十个小时，那就不算。
Bartending, depending on where you are the money is amazing. All I do is pour and mix drinks and I make an easy 6k per month.
做酒保，取决于你在哪里上班，你挣的钱可以特别多。我只需要倒酒、调酒，我每个月轻松挣6000美元。
Bungie is hiring Destiny 2 players to play their next release and document feedback / status with the development team. $60k a year to play a video game from home.
Bungie正在招聘命运2玩家替他们玩下一个大版本，然后和研发团队一起记录反馈和状况。一年六万美元，在家打电子游戏。
My nephew just turned 21 a few days ago. He will be in his last year of College majoring in Engineering this Fall and is currently working with a Construction Company. They have a contract building this huge bridge and he is an assistant to the on-site Engineer. He doesn’t actually have to do manual labor but will do anything ask of him! Right now his major job responsibility is to follows the Engineer around and “absorb” knowledge (his words not mine) and gets paid $27.00 dollars an hour. He lives at home and his only expenses is his Truck payment and Gas to get back and forth to work. He also has the potential to be employed as an Engineer with this company once he completes his Degree next Spring. Not bad for a young man of his age!
我外甥几天前21岁了。他今年秋天就要读工程系的大四了，现在正在一家建筑公司工作。他们有个合同要造一座特别大的桥，他是工程师的助理。他事实上什么体力劳动都不用做，别的让他干什么他就干什么。现在他最主要的工作职责就是跟着工程师到处走，“吸收”知识（他的原话），然后一小时挣27美元。他住在家里，唯一的开销就是卡车贷款和往返工地的油钱。等到明年春天拿到学位，他还很可能直接在这个公司当上工程师。对于他这个年龄的年轻人来说还不错！
Yeah I mean they aren’t paying him to follow the Engineer around, they’re paying him now to build that relationship so they can hire him as a Engineer instead of an assistant after he graduates. Engineers make a lot of money but they make their companies way more. Having interns and college students view your company positively and be willing to work for you immediately after graduation is huge. Sounds like a great gig for him and I hope he kills it, building relationships and “absorbing” as much as he can will help him go far.
没错，我觉得他们给他开工资不是为了让他跟着工程师到处转的，是为了建设一段关系，好让他们以后直接雇他当工程师，而不是在他毕业之后仍然让他当助理。工程师虽然自己挣很多钱，但是他们给公司挣的钱更多。让实习生和大学学生对你的公司有一个积极的音响，乐意在毕业之后立刻给你们工作，这非常重要。听上去这个工作很不错，我希望他能拿下，在这段过程中“吸收”尽可能多的知识，让他走的越来越远。
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I think Al Franken said that it's not feasible for most people to run for US congress if you aren't independently wealthy. You have to dedicate 6+ months campaigning where you can't work your day job, for a position that is uncertain. Even when you get elected, you make $175k-200k, but you have to maintain 2 separate residences, in your home district and in Washington, with frequent travel between the two. If you have a family with young children, that means a lot of the childcare falls on your spouse, support system, or paid help/daycare.
我记得Al Franken曾经说过，对绝大多数人来说，如果你没有有钱到独立的话，绝大多数人是不可能竞选美国国会的。你得花六个多月的时间去搞竞选活动，在这种情况下你的日常工作都无法完成，而且能不能拿到这个位置还不一定。就算你当选了，你能挣17.5-20万美元，但你还要照顾好两个分开的住址，你的选区和华盛顿，你需要经常往返。如果你有家人还有孩子，那么大量的照顾子女的工作就会落在你的配偶、支持你的人、或者有偿日托之类的身上。
很多政客都是20多年工作经历的律师，并且他们干别的工作很有可能也能拿二十多万的薪水。
我们可以说很多美国政客的坏话，但是绝大多数参政的人都是本来就有政治、个人、道德上的抱负的，而不是为了挣钱。
A lot of them get into politics to get richer.
很多人参政是为了让自己更有钱。
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很多政客在离任之后，反而比上任时更有钱，但是真正的钱还在后面，比如担任咨询工作，以及进入公司董事会。
此外在政客仍然任职的时候，也会有大量的咨询工作能够给配偶和孩子们。