{"id":40740,"date":"2015-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/40740\/a-definitive-guide-to-the-best-jobs-in-lebanon"},"modified":"2023-08-30T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T06:50:11","slug":"a-definitive-guide-to-the-best-jobs-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40740\/a-definitive-guide-to-the-best-jobs-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Definitive Guide to the Best Jobs in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<big>A few weeks ago to mark Labor Day, we brought you a guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/40538\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">the worst jobs in Lebanon<\/a>.  Things may seem grim for a lot of us, but not everyone is wallowing in the sadness of low wages and crap work.<br \/>  <br \/>  Heck, most of these aren&#8217;t even considered real jobs&#8230;<\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <b><big><big>The Guys at the Music Stand in Hamra<\/big><\/big><\/b><br \/>  <big>Sure, the salary probably isn\u2019t that great but these guys get to legitimately sit around all day, blast music on the sidewalk and people watch with absolutely no shame whatsoever. That&#8217;s what I call a 9-5 party.<\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <b><big><big>Rich Kids<\/big><\/big><\/b><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40740-250x141.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <big>If you want to be really productive, you might start a fashion blog and land a show on LBC where you and your sisters can pretend that your lives are interesting and worthwhile. Or you can just sit at Zaitunay Bay and sip wine on your yacht, its up to you. Daddy\u2019s laundered money isn\u2019t going anywhere anytime soon, <i>inshallah<\/i>.<\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <b><big><big>Classic Burger Employees<\/big><\/big><\/b><br \/>  <big>The wall on the restaurant claims they have the \u201chappiest employees.\u201d If its posted on the wall, who are we to argue?<\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <b><big><big>Railway Employees<\/big><\/big><\/b><br \/>  <big>Have you ridden the train lately? Well, nobody has in decades but that hasn\u2019t stopped a whole government department from existing and paying salaries out to its employees.<\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <b><big><big>Politicians<\/big><\/big><\/b><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40740-1.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <big>You get paid a lot of money to do nothing while getting your photo taken all the time and collecting bribe money from everybody to go on doing absolutely nothing. When you get tired of doing nothing, you pass on this honor to your children. <\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <b><big><big>Expats With Student Loan Money<\/big><\/big><\/b><br \/>  <big>Your friends back home think you are either crazy or incredibly hipster for moving to Beirut. As for you, you just drink, smoke up and spend your days at cafes smugly believing that one day you won&#8217;t have to pay back thousands up thousands of dollars in racked up student loan debt.<\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <b><big><big>Landlords<\/big><\/big><\/b><br \/>  <big>You just get to live out your days in an old decaying building, annually raising the rent to absurd levels with a constant stream of expats willing to pay whatever you ask. Oh, and you don\u2019t even have to worry about maintenance until the building collapses.<\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>      <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" data-id=\"417603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40740-250x141.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-417603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40740-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40740.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/figure>    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago to mark Labor Day, we brought you a guide to the worst jobs in 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