Model Aylah Peterson is styled by Elissa Santisi in ‘Suits You’, a fashion collection of relaxed but sharp-tailoring suits for women accepting that in our post-COVID world [if true], employees who want a career path must show up at the office at least three-days a week.

Photographer Geordie Wood [IG] captures the androgynous fashion looks for ELLE US [IG] August 2023./ Hair by Edward Lampley; makeup by Frank B

Loving ‘Lazy Girl Jobs’

Headlines this week were unanimous on a new trend in the workplace called ‘Lazy girl jobs’. As defined by Gabrielle Judge, who popularized the term, a “lazy girl job” is remote and pays your bills without demanding too much of your time, or that you be at work at any particular time.

Given the low unemployment rate in America of 3.6% and the worsening situation of unfilled, high-paying STEM jobs in America headed to 3.5 million by 2025, our lack of educated workers situation could become even more of a major problem in America.

Imigration Policy and STEM Jobs Challenges

STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math. These four fields share an emphasis on innovation, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Most STEM workers use computers and other technology in their day-to-day jobs.

Republicans refuse to fill these jobs with highly-educated immigrants from India, Kenya and other poc nations around the world who want highly-skilled, high paying STEM jobs.

If our young people — and especially our young women — don’t want the pressure and responsibility of work anymore, our only prayer is that automation and AI take over sooner rather than later in the American workplace.

I’ve spent my entire life fighting for women in STEM jobs, and now I’m reading that young women are opting for ‘lazy girl jobs’ instead and detest the term ‘girl boss’ and ‘leaning in’.

It’s been clear for decades that the American work culture has been out of control and without work-life balance. But ‘lazy girls’ add a new dimension to the problem of getting women to be taken seriously in the workplace.

Most articles make clear that many young humans share this attitude, not only ‘lazy girls’. But it’s females who are most vocal about this preference and the term is now on the backs of our young women — and American women at large. Thanks.

They are not young mothers or women with other responsibilities like caring for aging parents, either. They are young women who just want to live a life with no stress. Good luck with that demand. WSJ explains:

“To fans, the ideal lazy-girl job is one that can be done from home, comes with a chill boss, ends at 5 p.m. sharp and earns between $60,000 and $80,000 a year—enough to afford the basic comforts of young-adult life, yet not enough to feel compelled to work overtime. Veterans of such jobs say roles such as “digital marketing associate,” “customer-success manager” and “office administrator” are good bets for achieving the lazy-girl lifestyle.”

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Artificial Intelligence to the Rescue

Considering my own daily work with three AI assistants, they have completely changed my life in a positive way. Often I pit them against each other as a way of fact-checking and also doing a very deep-dive into my questions.

My human assistant is free to do other higher-level work as well, and her focus is elsewhere on another ‘returning to AOC’ project of ours for years — just not on AOC.

For me, having my three AIs vs three humans doing research — there’s no way I want humans, primarily because the quality of the AI output is beyond excellent and I’m not getting any lectures about not being a ‘chill boss’.

So good luck, my dears. I hope your desire to be a ‘lazy girl’ works out for you over the longterm. I guess you won’t be needing these sharp-tailoring, fall fashion suits any time soon. ~ Anne