Fulfilling Well-Paying Job

A Fulfilling Well-Paying Job is a well-paying job that challenges the worker, are a good match for their talents and skills, isn't too stressful, offers room to advance, and provides a satisfying work-life balance.

• AKA: Rewarding Well-Paying Job.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) offer competitive compensation and benefits.
  • It can (often) require a skill set that is in demand and aligns with the individual's talents and skills.
  • It can (often) offer opportunities for career growth and personal development.
  • It can (often) has a work environment that is supportive and conducive to productivity.
  • It can range from being a Stimulating Good-Paying Job to being a Balanced Good-Paying Job that offers personal fulfillment and work-life balance.
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• Example(s):
  • A (talented) Machine Learning Engineer in the 2020s.
  • A (talented) Physician specializing in a high-demand field.
  • An IT Consultant working on diverse and stimulating projects.
  • An Entertainment Writer (such as a screenwriter) who belonged to the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in the late 2010s.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • A Stressful Well-Paying Job.
  • A Dead-End Well-Paying Job (a kind of bullshit job).
  • a Fulfilling Bad-Paying Job (a kind of bad-paying job).
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• See: Stressful Job, Well-Done Task, Good Paying Job.

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References

2023

• "AI won’t kill our jobs — but it will make them worse." In: The Washington Post.
  • QUOTE: The trouble with AI isn’t that it’s new, it’s that it will trigger a very old process
  • … For the better part of a century, managers have deployed digital technology to degrade both blue-collar and white-collar work, and this process has resulted not in the end of human labor, but rather the transformation of good jobs into bad ones.

    Since the 19th century, employers have used machines to transform relatively well-paid skilled work — like weaving and butchering — into poorly paid, ostensibly “unskilled” jobs. Employers used machines to break up these crafts and free themselves from their dependence on more expensive and powerful craft workers. They called this mechanization. ...

2016

• http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs
  • QUOTE: Good jobs are those that pay well, challenge us, are a good match for our talents and skills, aren't too stressful, offer room to advance and provide a satisfying work-life balance. Even though there is no one best job that suits each of us, U.S. News' list of the 100 Best Jobs of 2017 are ranked according to their ability to offer this mix of qualities. Also, the best careers are ones that are hiring. Physician, software developer, nurse practitioner, computer systems analyst and orthodontist are among the top-ranked occupations on U.S. News' list of the 100 Best Jobs of 2017. Read more about how we rank the best jobs, and check out our complete list.

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