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I get parts at shop cost, and get full access of the shop to maintain my families vehicles and make whatever I want (we have 3d printers, lathe, bridgeport, plasma table, 4 axis cnc, tons of welders pipe benders etc). Also the boss is super laid back and willing to teach everything he knows. Wish I had more time to take advantage of it all!

My office is by the sea. I can have my morning coffee outside watching the waves. In summer, I get to work early walking, it's 8 km or so, then have a quick dip in the ocean and get dressed and start working. Bliss

Im mostly remote in an industry ai cant really take over.

I'd say you can work from everywhere and companys are usually chill

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I work in live events as an event planner, running lights, sound, video, etc... I’m paid to be at the shows that audience members pay lots of money to attend.

I legitimately don’t remember the last time I actually paid for a ticket to a show. Because even if I’m not working it, I probably know someone who is. The industry is fairly small, so I have friends all over the local venues. In the past week alone, I have seen four different shows, (two dance shows, a jazz concert, and a play). I was paid to attend three of them. The last one I got into for free, because I play board games with the venue owner.

Dog trainer and kennel tech. I get to take my dogs to work with me and 95% of my job is just me interacting with dogs, a blessedly human free experience.

I work from home. The systemic incompetence of this multinational fortune 500 company means I can do a lot of reading and no one seems to notice.

Of course, management is planning to fire a lot of people, including me, to pivot to AI.

Weirdly, it is my boss. He always got my back and takes everything I say really seriously. I am not the only one who thinks he is the best boss. We get a lot of perks that some of my friends are jealous of, but I value my boss far more than most of those perks. I have learned that if the boss sucks than great perks doesn't keep me, maybe a bit longer, but usually not for long.

That I still have one. I'm a software developer, and my entire industry has lost its mind.

Unlimited servers. I work for a VPS provider and on my first day my boss setup my account with $10k of credit and showed me how to add more in the admin panel "whenever [I] need it". As long as I'm only using things with plenty of excess capacity and don't cause problems, I can spin up whatever I want.

Sadly, I've already got a rack of hardware at home, so all I've done so far is spin up a server with 96GB of ram and put a 2-page static website on it, lol.

Free food and getting to learn new cooking methods and recipes without having to foot the bill if it doesn't come out right

Health insurance is FREE! They cover all my co pays and prescriptions!

Of course this comes at a loss in hourly wage, but I value it at somewhere around an extra $5 an hour due to the insane American healthcare system. I will stay as long as I can.

Working from home.

I must admit, I would not decide to have kids without working from home. What is even the point in bringing them to this world if their parents are gonna just park them at care centers for most of the time?

I work a solid 20 hours a week from my basement and get 200k+

It's not all that remarkable for being in Europe, but... five weeks vacation per year.

Fully remote, decent salary with quarterly bonuses, truly unlimited vacation, and my work life balance is 80/20 in my favor

Full time but 14 days off a month, 7 in a row.

Office so close I can bike in 10 minutes or walk in 20, with a pretty flexible schedule. I like it better than WFH because I give up none of my house for work now. Oh and they close the office from Christmas Eve through New Years day, I have never before worked anywhere that does that.

Lots of PTO days but it's hard to take them (too many busy days at work, not enough staff.) I schedule little 1-2 day offs for every month at least though, and usually a week off in the summer.

Is all of that on top of your actual package or does he hold you green card in exchange?

I work in a restaurant, I haven't had to buy dinner pretty much since I've started. The only times so far that I've sort of had to do it was when I really didn't feel like eating Italian for the 40th day in a row or when I had a girl over because we wanted to make gyros and dolmadakia.

They don't care if I'm on my phone all day so long as I do stuff when it's available to be done

Knowing where to not eat, stay, swim, or do any beauty/health treatments (tattoos, mani/pedi, hairdressing, etc.), and knowing how to protect myself.

Scouting out festivals and special events pre-opening and during for free.

Learning secret recipes and secret ingredients to make food level up.

Flexibility.

Edit: Clearly did not read instructions. The top one is the best perk. The second one is on par if I got to do more festivals!

I would certainly say working from home, I am physically disabled and my whole family is as well in a variety of ways. If it wasn’t for their flexibility I wouldn’t have the job I have. 150k salary with 10k or so bonuses, unlimited PTO. Software Development in fintech can be nice if you work for the right company(the more privately held the better)

Lots of vacation and sick time/decent balance of work vs personal life.

I get to be my own boss (because I own the company) not much of a perk because it comes with a lot of drawbacks.

Also, your job sounds an awful lot like a housewife.

98% work from home.

Flexible working hours (39h per week)

6 weeks vacation.

Sick leave nearly unlimited and with no questions (only the legally required doctor's statement if it's >3 days at once).

Several.

• The best coworkers. Really.
• Paid lunch. Like, they pay for the food.
• Generous health benefits.
• Generous stock grants.
• Generous 401k.
• Unlimited PTO. Yes, really.
• Rapid promotion cycle.
• Respect. My department (operations) is frequently called out for it's critical role in the company's success.

I get an hour of gym time every day.

Any flight longer than four hours are on business class

I have a company van I take home every night and a gas card for it. Also my paid hours start the moment I leave my driveway and stop the moment I pull back in my driveway.

But the best perk is that I have an excuse to spend all my money on tools. I would have done that anyways, but now it's justified.