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What are the easiest ways to get a sinecure, without special connections or credentials?
I'm assuming you're saying without special unique credentials, not without any credentials or ordinary education.
The answer is to work for government or other very large organizations and be willing to work below your true talent level. If you're a lawyer with a hypothetical true talent level of $400k/yr, and you're willing to take a secure job making $130k/yr that only requires half as much effort, those jobs are available. Ditto engineers, etc at different price points.
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Pucker up and start kissing some asses!
There's a thing where large hierarchical organizations may have "clans". One or more lower-level workers are loyal to a higher-level patron. They back all of their patron's plays, let them take credit for everything good, deflect blame for anything bad, rat on any other subordinates who aren't with the program, etc. In return, the patron promotes his loyalists with him, gives them plum assignments, protects them from poor reviews and layoffs etc, if only so they can keep on backing him. Pick somebody who seems like they might be such a patron and start kissing some ass.
Just be clear all around, you're looking for somebody prepared to promote for loyalty, not competence. Don't ever display enough independent competence that you're at risk of being promoted without your patron. Swallow your pride and your ego. You're not gonna be buddies with your co-workers either, you need to be selling them out at any opportunity. And obviously, get away from any potential patron who fails to hold up their side of the bargain. With a little bit of luck and skill, you can eventually rise pretty high like this without ever being particularly competent or qualified at anything.
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Buy the not so special connections via donation-more than 1000 USD to cause X can often mean you get invited to the local party for the big donors. Probably more like 10,000 at national level or rich city level or 100,000 at international level,
I'm assuming you mean special credentials that are especially hard or unusual to get.
This only works in America. I'm retyping this, quite drunk, as an adaptation of "How can a normie get into the 1%"? cultivate great credit/low debt, if right age right fitness right temperament- join military as officer (get a degree from wgu if you don't have one), after 90 days active duty use the VA home loan ($0 down, or more for better rate) to get a 4 unit multiplex, you have to live in 1 unit as primary residence for a year (unless deployed elsewhere, then you can rent that unit out early). After that 1 year you can refinance and hypothetically reuse the VA home loan, though this will depend on your current debt-to-income ratio. If reliably making income from tenants, shouldn't be a problem to do round 2 and round 3 isn't impossible. After 4 years active duty, try to go for irr or reserve over guard. Then get a Commercial Driver's License to drive 18 wheel trucks, possibly a security clearance, and get a small business administration loan to buy an 18 wheeler yourself to become an Over The Road Owner-Operator. As an Owner Operator, your actual take home pay will be substantially less than your listed income- it's not atypical for a 400-500k income Owner Operator to take home more like 150-200. But this takes us back to VA home loans and debt-to-income ratios, where the math they're doing doesn't actually take this into account. And also that some of the shittiest parts of trucking are sleeping in the truck cab or a seedy motel. You could strategically buy places such that you would rarely be that far from one. If you found an insane spouse who agreed with this way of doing things, you could easily have around 40-60 residential units together after 12 years, with a fair number of them having mortgages paid off. If you started process at 18, comfy retirement at 30, or just keep going a bit, and retire to very low cost of living country while returns stack up.
I have no idea if this is plausible but it was very fun to read. Well done, you earned those drinks.
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