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The thread starter asked the “Whatever Live” board (NanJ) for a job that’s “just driving a car, nothing else,” and suggestions poured in one after another: taxi driver, F1 racer, mobile supermarket driver, limousine driver, septic-tank truck driver, garbage collector, and more. But the OP shot each one down in turn, citing reasons like “day shifts barely get any days off,” “driving the same route over and over is mentally exhausting,” and “I’m scared of carrying passengers” — and the thread kept growing. At one point someone jabbed back, “OP’s really committed to finding reasons not to do anything.”
What people said
Day shift doesn't get many days off
It's easy actually
All the time you spend waiting for a fare counts as break time, so you can just sit on your phone browsing NanJ
I checked a job listing and it said something like 105 days off a year
Super high income
Unless you've got tens of billions of yen in "dowry money" (a personal sponsor), no team's gonna hire you
You're just running a route visiting old ladies' houses, so it feels mentally lighter somehow
Prepping all the goods sounds like a pain though
Though you'll get chewed out if you're late
Driving a car that long scares me
They just loop the same route over and over, don't they?
Just driving a fixed route is mentally rough
Apparently that job's brutal
You leave a suburban parking lot at dawn and drive nonstop until evening
You can't slack off because they submit the GPS logs to the advertiser
Just be a post office delivery bike rider
Delivering by bike is way too weather-dependent
Though it's only for people who can handle carrying passengers who really shouldn't be driving themselves
Sounds like you'd get slammed with complaints
Cargo doesn't talk back, it's way easier
If the customer's decent, I don't actually mind customer-facing work itself
But it's hit or miss
I did something similar on a bike, but doing it full-time is rough
Driving the same fixed route in circles is rough
Cars are bound to run late anyway
There's always a jam somewhere on the Shuto Expressway, it was brutal
Delivery work is basically all physical labor🤮
I got stuck with a crap job before, so I'm being careful now — cut me some slack
You like poop and you like driving, it's a perfect match
I'm actually a neat freak
Working in a pair/team isn't for me
The ID changed after midnight — are you sure you're still OP?
That's right
Re: #73
There are, but when I checked, the days off were few
Like confectionery shops hiring drivers to deliver to roadside rest stops and the like
Doesn't sound bad, but ideally I want a job that takes me all over the place
I've done it before, but I couldn't picture doing it full-time as an actual career
I don't think I could handle a truck that size
There are jobs transporting packages from post office to post office, if you look
Background and Points of Debate
Behind this thread lies interest in the labor shortage in the taxi and trucking industries, and the long hours and scarce days off tied to Japan’s so-called “2024 problem” (new overtime caps on drivers that took effect in 2024). Worth noting: figures mentioned in the replies, like “105 days off a year” or the GPS-log tracking on ad trucks, are just anonymous posts, not verified statistics. Where opinions split was over how seriously to take the OP’s conditions — “I don’t want to carry passengers,” “a fixed route is mentally exhausting” — as genuine concerns versus simple pickiness, a tension captured by the later jab that the OP was “really committed to finding reasons not to do anything.” Even within “driving jobs,” whether passengers are involved, how many hours you’re tied down, and the pay structure vary wildly by occupation — and the sheer range of suggestions here shows just how hard it is to lump “an easy driving job” into one category.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Whatever Live) thread “Isn’t there a decent job that’s just driving a car?.”
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