7 Jobs That Are Perfect for Night Owls

 Are you a night owl who's tired of working 9-to-5? Here are some jobs that are perfect for you.

Originally published on Makeuseof.com by SANDRA DAWES-CHATHA

Whether you prefer working late hours because you struggle to get out of bed before 10 a.m. or find you're more productive later in the day, finding a job that accommodates your desired schedule can be challenging. The good news is that there are jobs that are excellent options for people looking for work beyond the 9-to-5.

The skillsets required for the jobs listed below range from possessing a driver's license to receiving specialized training. All the jobs included in this list offer the complete flexibility of being freelance so that you can control your work hours.

1. IT Support Technician

Technology doesn't have a schedule for when it stops working. You may have been on a support call troubleshooting technology you bought somewhere and been grateful that someone was available to help you at 11 p.m.

As an IT support technician, you handle technology-based questions and provide troubleshooting. While some technicians travel to locations to repair hardware, others provide technical support on the phone or online.

Most IT support technician jobs can be done remotely, allowing you to work from the comfort of your home office or even a vacation spot. Since many IT companies have international customers, you can work the late shift to meet their needs.

2. Customer Service Representative

Customer service reps are professionals that help customers by solving problems and answering questions. As a customer service representative, you can work on the phone or answer questions online via the company's chat service.

Depending on the company you work for, you may be able to work late afternoon, evening, or overnight shifts. While many customer service representatives work during daytime hours, some companies may need workers for late hours, particularly in a call-center environment.

Effective customer service representatives have specific skills that help in their work. Being an excellent customer service representative takes patience and good problem-solving skills. If this is your current profession, you may be interested in learning how to integrate ChatGPT with WhatsApp for customer support.

3. Freelance Writer

If you're interested in creating written content, then freelance writing is an option for you to consider. You can do the work for one specific company or several clients.

As a freelance writer, your responsibilities may entail researching, writing, and editing content while following specific content style guides. You can set your own hours as long as you meet your deadlines.

A career as a freelance writer is an excellent option for late risers because it offers flexibility in when and where you work. For some organizations, it doesn't matter if you write from a local café or on a beach with good Wi-Fi as long as you get the work done.

One of the things you need, if you're starting your career as a freelance writer, is a portfolio of your previous work. If you don't have one yet, you may be interested in learning how to create a writer's portfolio using Contently.

4. Ride-Share Driver

As an independent ride-share driver, you can set your schedule and work whenever you can. Whether you drive for Uber, Lyft, or both, you can start working whenever you want, even if it's at 4 in the afternoon.

To qualify as a ride-share driver, you must have at least one year of licensed driving experience if you're over 25, and three years if you're under 25. You also need to have a four-door vehicle in good working condition with no cosmetic damage and pass a vehicle inspection.

You can choose to pick up customers arriving at the airport from late-night flights or transport party-goers on the weekends and weeknights. If you're considering becoming a ride-share driver, or you already are one, you may consider learning tips for staying safe as an Uber driver.

5. Freelance Website Developer

You can work with clients across the globe as a freelance website developer. Since your clients can be anywhere and in different time zones, their morning may be your night.

As long as you let your clients know when they can reach you with questions or concerns, you can control your work hours as a website developer. To start as a freelance website developer, you should assemble a portfolio of your previous work and a summary of your technical languages and skills knowledge.

If you're already a web developer, you may be looking for a new job or ready to move to freelance. Before your next interview, you should learn some common web developer interview questions and how to answer them.

6. Freelance Graphic Designers

Graphic designers are artists that create on a digital platform. As a freelance graphic designer, your responsibilities may include connecting with clients to discuss styles and designs, choosing fonts and colors, and developing logos.

Like web developers, to get started as a freelance graphic designer, you need a portfolio of your previous work, attention to detail skills, and an eye for design. A graphic designer is another job where you can work with clients worldwide in different time zones.

Often graphic designers collaborate with website developers on projects, so being part of a community can be helpful to your career. You may be interested in learning about the best online communities for graphic designers.

7. Tutor

Tutoring is another excellent option for people who don't like to wake up early. You can offer help to adults or children in various subjects.

You can tutor in languages like Arabic, German, Korean, or Spanish or academic subjects such as reading, algebra, and physics. You can create your own schedule if you offer tutoring services on platforms like Wyzant or Amazing Talkers.

Tutoring is another career where you can find customers in different countries, and time zones, who want to learn English as a second language. If you'd rather work for yourself, you can learn how to start your own online tutoring business.

You Can Find Work That Fits Your Schedule

It is possible to find employment that fits your schedule. You can find a job that allows you to drop the kids off at school or allows you to work when you're most productive.

Employers are increasingly aware that the 9-to-5 workday isn't a one-size-fits-all situation. As globalization causes organizations to have international customers, they need to provide support and service 24 hours a day, opening the door for late-night shifts, so you can find employment that fits your lifestyle.

Gen Z want to work ‘lazy girl jobs’. Who can blame them?

 

‘Lazy girl jobs’ mostly refer to people on computers, sending a few emails and taking home a comfortable salary. Photograph: PixelsEffect/Getty Images

originally published by The Guardian 

Daisy Jones is a writer and author of All the Things She Said

aisy Jones

A new TikTok trend sees young women eschewing hustle culture to focus on life outside of work. Perhaps they are beating capitalism at its own game.

In the mid-2010s, I worked in a cafe in a south London art gallery. Every day I’d make a few coffees, gossip idly with customers and then take home my little sack full of generous tips. It smelled nice in there, too: like baked bread, and salty anchovies fresh from the tin. And though I’ve had jobs more suited to my genuine interests since, that cafe job was one of my favourites, mainly because of the pure leisure of it. I got paid more or less the same as I did later, as an editor at a major media publication. But I was relaxed, all of the time, and never checked my emails.

Young women have taken to calling these sorts of jobs – as in, jobs that are undemanding but well enough paid, with little personal passion involved – “lazy girl jobs”. Mostly the term refers to menial office jobs as opposed to the service industry: people on computers, sending a few emails and taking home a comfortable salary. On TikTok, the #lazygirljob hashtag currently has about 14m views, and the mood is overwhelmingly aspirational. “I love my lazy girl job,” reads one post. “I don’t have to talk to people, only come to the office twice a week.” “Me at my lazy girl job that lets me do whatever the heck I want as long as I answer emails and keep everything clean,” reads another. The posters appear to be unanimously women – I’ve seen no evidence of a “lazy boy jobs” hashtag. Perhaps the concept of men being paid more to do less isn’t quite as novel or interesting. (Similarly, there’s no male equivalent of the “girlboss” phenomenon.)

While the phrase “lazy girl job” might be relatively new, an anti-work, anti-ambition sentiment has been brewing among gen Z for quite some time now (see also: quiet quitting). These are the post-pandemic twentysomethings who spent their teens witnessing the rise and fall of the girlboss, and, disillusioned with hustle culture and the resultant burnout, would rather just take home a solid monthly wage and enjoy life within the parameters possible under capitalism. At a time when creative industries are becoming next to impossible to enter for swathes of the working class, why not just focus on having an easy life, while finding meaning and life satisfaction outside of career stress?

It’s an emergent attitude broadly backed by stats: according to a survey from Workspace Technology, almost half of gen Z would leave a workplace if they weren’t given a “hybrid work option”. Meanwhile, just 49% of gen Z say work is central to their identity, in comparison with 62% of millennials. Plenty of #lazygirljob posts echo this sentiment: “Realising at this age that I don’t care about building a ‘career’ or climbing the corporate ladder,” reads one. “All I want to do is make the most amount of money working the least amount of hours so I can spend the majority of my time with my family living life on my own terms instead of spending 40 years working for a boss who’s paying what they think is ‘fair’.”

Look closely, and it’s a shift reflected in wider pop culture, too. Consider the films and TV shows that millennials were spoonfed growing up: Sex and the City, Ugly Betty, The Devil Wears Prada, Legally Blonde. These were stories about high-flying, stressed yet sexy women who dared to “have it all”. A decade or two later and the mood has substantially shifted. Young people are more interested in shows such as Euphoria, The Last of Us and Sex Education, in which interpersonal dynamics are prioritised over anything related to careers. People have jobs on screen, sure, but it’s no longer the central premise of our most beloved culture (bar, of course, Succession, although that’s hardly hustle propaganda). In a way, there’s something almost old-fashioned, even 1950s, about this approach to work: jobs are for making money and supporting the home, while the real drama of life goes on around them.

Lazy girl jobs obviously have a certain appeal (who doesn’t want to fill out a few boring spreadsheets for a nice little pay package and holiday leave?). But they aren’t within reach of lot of people. There’s an inherent privilege in being able to land one of these jobs, which aren’t necessarily accessible to those who aren’t university-educated, for example, or easy for those who face workplace discrimination or recruitment bias.

But the fact that so-called lazy girl jobs have become aspirational is an interesting development. While it’s deeply depressing that making a living from our passions is becoming practically impossible for many people, any move away from our careers having to be our entire identity can only be a good thing. Or, at least, the better of two evils.

Indeed, the days of asking people, “So, what do you do?” might finally be over. Maybe we’re moving a little closer to something more like, “So, what do you do outside of work? What are you into?”

• Daisy Jones is a writer, editor and author of All The Things She Said