How to Get a Lazy Girl Job

Without paying me to do it for you

I am going to set the tone with one philosophy first, that I hold very strongly. I get to hear a lot of people’s career stories and questions. A common trend is the belief that in order to get a lazy girl job, you have to go find one and then you will live happily ever after!

This is misguided on so many levels, but there is no judgement here! I will explain:

• No matter how much “work life balance” you start a new job with, that does not guarantee you will be given that same amount of balance throughout the entirety of your time in that role

• It’s actually not about the job “title” itself. BUT, if you need some support with inspiration on your next lazy girl job, feel free to download my free 200 Lazy Girl Job ideas

• The ideal scenario is you staying at your job, and just refining your work life balance there. If you do realize you need to jump ship that is more than perfect too! Just sometimes we don’t need to add more work for ourselves

What is a Lazy Girl Job?

Let’s go over this controversial question first. As the creator of this term, I have been asked what a lazy girl job is so many times! I’ll give you my PR-perfect answer first: It’s a job where an employee can prioritize work-life balance.

My longer answer, that I am more interested in, is my vision for the trend was to normalize working smarter not harder and easing off the breaks with a lot of this corporate climbing pressure. I was starting a movement that gave permission to make your career so aligned, that it feels “lazy”.

What is not a Lazy Girl Job?

An excuse for you to be an actual nightmare to work with or permission to take my advice the wrong way and become insanely nihilistic about your life and your career. It’s not about time theft or being really difficult to work with. Because that behavior eventually leads to negative consequences which adds more stress, paperwork, etc… to your workday; which is not lazy at all and, in fact, a lot of unnecessary work.

Other than that I have no other rules. Your “lazy girl job” can be whatever job that fits you!

What is the goal of a Lazy Girl Job?

Lazy Girl Jobs, reframed what we want in our careers. And by creating this trend, I squashed the traditional advice. The traditional career advice is take on more work and don’t ask questions about it, always be climbing to the next promotion or else you’re “falling behind”, and many other advice we are all too familiar with.

Lazy Girl Jobs turns the tables. Instead of asking how you can work more for your job, ask how can you get your job to work more for you?

Work life balance is out. It’s just more corporate jargon that is used to make you feel valued and supported. Work life balance means so many different things to so many different employees and employers. Work life balance to some people is remote working, others its happy hours and team building, etc.. It’s just this long over done phrase that corporations through around instead of paying you what you’re worth.

Autonomy is in! Autonomy is the right to self govern. In my opinion, we should all be making active steps toward more autonomy. And this starts at our jobs. You spend a third of your life there, why not have more of a say in your relationship with your career?

The lack of autonomy, is the source to many of your problems in your career. If you follow the stress to its source, it’s usually because we are stressing about something we do not have control over. Here is a real-life, person example I can give you that I know will resonate with you:

I actually hated small talk with a specific team I was on. I was the youngest and only Gen Z on the team. I didn’t share the same hobbies or interests. We had different value systems on what office work and collaboration looked like. So at face value, I’d tell myself “I dread my team meetings, they are so boring they drain me”. When really I just wasn’t giving myself the permission to have autonomy in my own interests. I was not embracing the individuality of me so that I could respect other people’s interests. I was so worried that if I didn’t find a way to socially conform quick, I would not be successful at that job.

I couldn’t control my coworkers interests. I can’t control what I am interested in, passions and lifestyles are unique to us all! I didn’t realize that I was just gaslighting myself for my own employer instead of just embracing the autonomy that I do have, to be an independent person from my workplace’s culture.

I have many other toxic examples that I could provide. But I thought I would share an example with a little less heat, to get you to understand that even the smallest tinsiest stressors in our work day is due to a lack of effort in finding my own autonomy.

How Can I Get a Lazy Girl Job?

You have to find ways to be more autonomous at your job. Let me break down the categories to assess your autonomy at work:

• Financially

• Ideologically

• Socially

• Time

(Or as I call it, FIST, tehe)

These 4 factors are at play within your career. Your job affects how much you are making and can make, what you believe is true about yourself and the world, who and how you socialize, and where your current and future time will go.

That’s a lot of stuff!

This is why I get so fired up about our relationship with our jobs, because it affects so much of your actual life. We’re just not encouraged to seek these affects nor assess if these effects are working in our favor. When we have issues in one or many of these categories, we no longer have autonomy. This is very important to understand.

So here is my exercise for you:

Take some time for yourself. This exercise can take you 2 minutes or 2 years. There is no time limit nor right answer.

1. List out everything that is important to you in these FIST categories. (this can be stuff as small as: I want to have an hour lunch, to as big as: I want to tackle my

2. Compare everything on your list, to your current job and habits at said job

3. Assess how much of alignment there is.

4. Decide if you just need to make a few tweaks at your job, or you need to get an entirely new job.

This is the lazy girl job mindset :) Sorry for accidentally trolling you for over a year. It has nothing to do with your job and everything to do with your relationship with your job.

If you are still running into issues completing this, I have a TikTok post with some extra suggestions below!

@gabrielle_judgeHeres how to get out of a job you hate. 1. Make a list of everything you hate about your current job 2. Write thr list again but with the inverse of the sentence so you now know what you want in your dream role. 3. Make two categories: your must have’s and your nice to have’s and put your second list in the appropriate category 4. Go to your must have column and evaluate if you can or cannot negoiate each item in your list of your work life balance needs 5. Decide if you need to quit and find a new job! And then your lazy girl job pursuit begins! #gethired #careeradvice #findajob #jobsearch #toxicworkplace

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This mindset is actually a lot of work if I am being honest. It is very much not lazy. But we are committed to working hard on our mindset, so that our jobs can feel lazy. You cannot have a lazy life without a commitment to an organized, intentional, authentic life.

Can you Stop with the Mindset Stuff and Give me Advice I Can Implement Right Now?

On it! You have three choices. In your career, you can

1. Learn

2. Earn

3. Coast

You can do one or two of these things at a time realistically. Your life, goals, and career has seasons. Nothing is static. You may be focusing on coasting one year and then the next be focusing on earning more money.

Sometimes I am coasting because I am tired from learning. Other times I am learning to earn more. Other times I am earning to be able coast later. And so on…

Boil down your entire career objective to either learning, earning, or coasting. Take it one day at a time.

Note: this also helps with this worry I always here “I could never get a lazy girl job, I would be too bored?” - “bored” just stems from lack of purpose. If you were clear on if you are learning, earning, and coasting, you would have a purpose for your job and wouldn’t feel bored.

By getting clear in this very simple way, you can ignore 99% of the worries, fears, doubts, criticisms, etc… from yourself or others. Just simplify why you are working, cultivate the “why” at your job, and reassess when you feel it’s appropriate to do so.

We find more ways for our job to work for us, not more ways to work for our job!

Do I Need to Quit my Job or Do I need to Make my Current Job Lazier?

That’s a question only you can answer.

Because, every single person has a different skill set, goal, financial situation, lifestyle, etc…

That’s the fun freeing part to this. There’s no rules.

But if you do need to either get a new job and/or make your job lazier, I spent 2 months researching ways to do this at your corporate job, today.

Behold the Autopilot 9-5!

An interactive Superguide where I walk you through all the steps to set your job search and current job on autopilot. For a one time investment of $59, you get access to any updates I make to the guie and can save up to 15 hours at your job per week! That’s 780 hours a year!

Here’s what’s included:

• 2 Sections (1st: automating your job search, 2nd: automating your job (presentations, meetings, emails, and so much more!)

• 34 Voice tips from me! (it’s actually me and my own voice, guiding you through each module - no I didn’t use AI to repurpose my voice).

• 5 exclusive resources only found on this guide.

• 9 bonus digital resources to elevate your lazy girl journey!

• And a lot of other stuff I am super proud of anf excited for you to explore!

Also, I am looking for feedback, so you enter a chance to meet with me to discuss your experiences so far, if you get your Superguide here!

Xoxo,

Gabrielle