Low Stress Jobs That Pay Well

A 24-year-old teacher in Louisiana is reconsidering her career choice after realizing she doesn’t “need a passion job.” She turned to Reddit's career guidance section for advice, explaining that she just wants “stability, good pay, and a life outside of work.”

She asks, “What’s a high-paying, low-stress job you wish you got into earlier.” She specifically wanted careers that pay well, have good work-life balance, and aren’t emotionally draining. Hundreds of Redditors offered suggestions, including:

• “University administration. Pay is great, stress is limited to managing others’ emotions, hours are predictable, I get a nice pension, I care enough about the people and the work but not so much that I’m drowning.”
• “X-ray tech” and “Radiation therapy technicians,”
• “I make 95k a year and work in organizational learning & development. Low stress when it comes to day to day, but have to find a company that is large enough to have a steady internal support team.
• “Former teacher here. I work as a special Ed admin assistant. I’m one of the few in the district that work year round. I get school vacations/holidays and I work part time in the summer. I do meeting paperwork, records requests and archiving. I make $65,000, school benefits and state retirement.”
• “I work in Supply Chain in a PHARMA company, making 136k a year plus bonuses after 3 years in. Bonuses and benefits are great. Hybrid work schedule, 4 days on 3 days off.”
• “Water Treatment. Bored most days, 100k with overtime.”
• “Software developer, 6 digit salary, work from home, average of 4 hours of work a day to get the job done.”
• “Working corporate at a financial institution. I make just above 200k, I've worked more than 40 hours a week maybe like... 5-7 weeks in the last 3 years?”
• “IT job. Mid level, hardly any stress. 100k. My boss asked if I wanted to apply for a management position, I declined. 20k more for way more stress, more work and all day meetings…no thank you”
• “Business analyst for me. 70k right out of college, wfh, probably work 20 hours a week. Low stress. Guess it matters who you work for though”
• “I have 3 nephews pulling $28/hr as Security Guards at a data center. I can think of no better paying, less demanding job that hires folks with zero experience.”

Source: Newsweek