Even more difficult when you add some mental health problems on top of it.
I often define work-life balance as a point where you have enough of a life to escape from work and enough work to escape from life. When there's not enough work, you don't actually get that escape.
Why? Maybe they've already worked hard and made enough. Or maybe they're like me and worked hard but was never rewarded for it, so why continue trying.
High level executives occupy positions at multiple boards. The premium business travel alone solves this problem.
I do have to say, though, that I never thought of treating it as a handbook and not as a expose. (See the meme "_1984_ wasn't intended to be a handbook.")
The value in this case would be to identify types of jobs and the various red flags around them. Some BS jobs actually have a lot of, pointless, work attached to them. You would want to avoid these.
Within the nomenclature of the book, some Flunkie jobs would be what you are looking for. Others not so much.
While the book is very poetic, and very funny, the most useful part for you, I surmise, would be the descriptions supplied to the author as part of his research. Lots of stories where the job in question had no real activities associated with them other than keeping a low profile. One in particular, a municipal water worker, who was systematically being deprived of duties by rival factions managed to stop showing up for work for several years, yet stayed on the payroll for several years unnoticed.
There apparently some unwanted notoriety and legal action towards the end of his tenure. Avoiding this may be considered an exercise for the student/reader...
Look for a position in product management. Other than founders, almost every other "product person" I've worked with did very little.
When that happened to me, I had tenure with the company and slowly became a « reviewer », rubber stamping stuff and slowly become irrelevant technically. ( that’s usually when I switch ship or position )
