> “A lazy girl job is basically something you can just quiet quit,” she says in the two-and-a-half minute video. “There’s lots of jobs out there where you could make, like, 60 to 80 K and not do that much work and be remote.” As an example, she zeroes in on non-technical roles, where she feels the hours fall within a 9-to-5 schedule, and believes the pay is enough to allow for some financial freedom.
This influencer branded it “lazy girl job” but this concept is wildly popular among young people of all genders right now.
I was invited to be a mentor in a career-focused program for college students. The number of students who wanted advice about how to get easy remote jobs where they didn’t have to do any work was depressing.
The ideas they got from social media were wild. It was usually more Reddit than TikTok, but the concepts were the same: Overly confident internet posts had convinced them that most people don’t actually do much work at work and that it was all one big game. They thought remote work was the final piece of the puzzle that would turn these jobs into easy paychecks so they could have near total freedom without having to give up more than a couple hours per day to send some emails.
The weirdest part for me was how much they wanted to believe these internet influencers over the mentors in the group. It was hard to get some people to understand that the influencers were selling them a dream as a way to increase their follower count. I guess people will always have an appetite for hearing what they want to hear.
This influencer branded it “lazy girl job” but this concept is wildly popular among young people of all genders right now.
I was invited to be a mentor in a career-focused program for college students. The number of students who wanted advice about how to get easy remote jobs where they didn’t have to do any work was depressing.
The ideas they got from social media were wild. It was usually more Reddit than TikTok, but the concepts were the same: Overly confident internet posts had convinced them that most people don’t actually do much work at work and that it was all one big game. They thought remote work was the final piece of the puzzle that would turn these jobs into easy paychecks so they could have near total freedom without having to give up more than a couple hours per day to send some emails.
The weirdest part for me was how much they wanted to believe these internet influencers over the mentors in the group. It was hard to get some people to understand that the influencers were selling them a dream as a way to increase their follower count. I guess people will always have an appetite for hearing what they want to hear.