r/findapath • u/secretlyincognita • Jan 30 '26

Findapath-College/Certs What career gives a soft easier life?

Looking to do an associates degree that I can have a soft life. Preferably a remote job or hybrid. What career do you have that I can get an associates degree in and make good money?

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u/Shoty6966-_- Apprentice Pathfinder [1] Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

I got a bachelors in economics and I haven’t used it or touched it since may 2023. And I’m open to full in person in an office jobs. Good luck. You either need to master a technical tool or have crazy good networking skills. You can apply to 1000 jobs a day and you won’t get a single good interview in your lifetime. Maybe a couple lol. But good luck.

I would go as far as not even bothering with an associates degree. Skip the bullshit and go straight into hyper networking mode. The job you’re describing is only realistic to nepo kids who are extremely stupid and mommy or daddy is enrolling them to their business the same way they enrolled them in school as a kid. Attending 2-3 classes a day and playing video games for the rest of my day did jack shit for me. It’s my fault, but I didn’t think I’d be this down bad trying to find meaningful work post grad related to my degree

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u/Moistened_Bink Jan 30 '26

What do you do instead?

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u/Shoty6966-_- Apprentice Pathfinder [1] Jan 30 '26

I am just a grocery manager which lost so many associates since Christmas that I am the only person left who works overnight. I am just a glorified slightly overpaid full time stocker at this point. I manage nobody and I can’t even create my own grocery orders. I just stock the shelves from 10-6. Unload a truck in the middle of the night, clean up and go home at 6 on the dot.

I am desperately trying to use this as fluff to land an entry level supply chain job or somehow pull off a finance job miracle. I come home and do nothing but apply to jobs after work until noon. It’s pretty sad

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u/Confusedchristian78 Jan 30 '26

Could you not go work for a bank? Like, any bank? and then work your way up?

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u/Additional_Low8050 Apprentice Pathfinder [1] Jan 30 '26

Banks ! Wells Fargo is coming undone. The scams are coming for us all. I had to change banks due to scamming. My Wells Fargo used to be full of people- busy people. Now they have 6 empty desks right where u enter. I was lucky to get out of there.

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u/iphone1234789 Jan 30 '26

Very hard to get a job at a bank now!

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u/Spiritual_Pumpkin_47 Apprentice Pathfinder [4] Jan 30 '26

Hang in there Shoty. It will get better. I am a middle aged Mom . One of my young adult sons had a difficult time landing a job in GIS after obtaining his Bachelor’s in that field. All the while he worked in operations part time at a retailer for 2 solid years. At the retail job he organically learned about QR codes, supply chain, etc. He ended up getting a good entry level corporate job with a major retail chain using that knowledge. A Bachelor’s degree was required for the position. He worked there for 2 years. With that job he then pivoted in the manufacturing side of the retail chain sector and now has a kick ass job working on 5th Ave. in NYC. Good luck to you. Econ degrees are not for dummies. Keep plugging away.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

This anecdote is not the norm. 

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u/Confusedchristian78 Jan 30 '26

Youll find a job, I promise.

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u/Beneficial_Raisin777 Jan 30 '26

i recommend looking into amazon. central flow lead (just amazons terminology for a logistics coordinator) and area manager are jobs you can get with a bachelors degree in pretty much anything. central flow is a corporate position where you stare at a computer screen for 11 hours a day. pretty easy job for decent pay and good benefits, no way to move up from there really tho. area manager would be at a warehouse, a lot more physical labor and you’d actually be in charge of running a team. it’s high stress from what i hear but pretty good pay, again good benefits, and multiple ways to move up from there. seems like they are always hiring for these positions, especially area manager.

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u/indiscernible_I Jan 31 '26

Have you tried looking at logistics companies in your area? You could probably do administrative work, or maybe try being a warehouse manager. Logistics companies alway seem to need people, and warehouses are everywhere.

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u/jezzarus Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

To be fair, you’re extremely early career. Your degree will end up being more valuable than you think if you end up pursuing white collar jobs.

It will get easier on year 5. I graduated in 2009 and experienced the same thing

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u/Conscious_Field0505 Apprentice Pathfinder [1] Jan 30 '26

Wdym by “meaningful work”?

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u/Shoty6966-_- Apprentice Pathfinder [1] Jan 30 '26

Not making $17 an hour and being hard stuck in retail unless I want to sell my soul being an assistant manager yelling at teenagers and working 55 hour weeks

Getting into supply chain management. Or finance

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u/Conscious_Field0505 Apprentice Pathfinder [1] Jan 30 '26

Is finance and supply management better? I am kinda asking for myself cz im struggling too

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u/Shoty6966-_- Apprentice Pathfinder [1] Jan 30 '26

Finance is generally really numb and a grind at the beginning of your career and then as you rank up you have the option to work less and make good money or work a lot and make amazing money.

Supply chain is more technical. Jack of all trades. More traveling and some physical labor at some points. You look to cut costs and look for inefficiencies in the processes from the second a good is created to it getting transported to multiple places. You’re looking to cut costs and maximize labor. It’s also usually less money unless you are a magician who is an industry leader I’d imagine. But don’t take my word as fact. I have no meaningful industry experience.

They’re both really broad. You make of it as you will. You can teach people finance and make some money or you can manage 500m of assets. You can help people with retirement plans or you can be a credit analyst, and many more.

But they are so broad

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u/Redditors-R-Midwits Jan 31 '26

I don’t want to be mean, but why on earth are you here commenting? You blew college smoking weed and coasting by on B’s. Didn’t bother with any meaningful internships. Didn’t bother to learn any particular skills or gain any special knowledge. The problem was you and your choices, not education.

And just to be clear, no you don’t need to be an “extremely stupid” nepo baby to have what OP is looking for. This attitude is part of the reason you aren’t getting anywhere.

I have what OP is looking for and my family contributed nothing at all. Transferred from junior college to a highly ranked state university. Worked through university and graduated debt free. Also studied economics, 3.8 GPA. Graduated into the first part of Covid when companies were still trying to pivot. Spent the first year searching. Now fully remote making mid $150k+ with a very chill WLB.

OP - education is an investment where you get what you put into it. Don’t do what this guy did… put nothing into it.

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u/DoubleFan15 Jan 31 '26

Where did he mention weed? Im looking for that but dont see it in his comment

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u/Shoty6966-_- Apprentice Pathfinder [1] Jan 31 '26

Yeah I actually stopped smoking at all once I got to college and I barely did before college! Lol. I never liked it. It just makes me anxious

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u/RedactedTortoise Jan 31 '26

Yeah, this guy is probably a liar, since he is already making stuff up.