WFH / hybrid, earning 50k+, what do you do?

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I really, really, REALLY need a new job. I have been in my current area (teaching and research in healthcare) for 12 years now and have gained lots of skills (I think!) but I am SO bored and demotivated and fed up. I'm starting to feel as if I'll never be any good doing anything else.

So, I'm coming to MN for inspiration! I also a) need to maintain my current salary and b) want to either WFH or hybrid (eg: going into an office a couple of times a week max).

If your job matches that - what do you do? (And do you like it?)

Could you look at Private healthcare or governance? Ops Management in private healthcare firm or have u considered being a project or programme manager? Business analysts usually start over 40k where I work too.

I do a project management role with a healthcare background, i WFH and get paid Circa £52k

WFH, copywriter for an agency, earn £50k but less because pro-rata (I do 3.5 days)

Look at an NHSE National or regional role, or DHSC?

Online advertising (agency side). where i work is fully remote and you can work from wherever you like as long as you do 6hrs within UK office hrs. (someone on my team is based in London but has been in Bali for the last 5 weeks, someone else used to live in London, then moved to Slovenia and is now on holiday/working from India). It's great, absolutely love it.

Business Analyst, £51k + 15% bonus. Fully remote except a meeting approx once a month in various European locations. Love my job 😀

Senior officer in local govt
Work a couple of 9.30-2.30 days in office. Rest is at home. I do work very hard and long hours but have a lot of autonomy over when those hours are worked

Sales

Could you sell healthcare products?
Either to the healthcare sector or to retail

Many wfh jobs with £50k plus in that area
Look for National Account Manager positions

Good thread, OP!

@stuntbubbles what kind of copy do you produce? Do you have a specialism, or is it all sorts?

What are your transferable skills, what interests you? What I do is kind of irrelevant with that info.

I earn slightly less, but not much and I am an assessor of professional qualifications. Wfh most of the time - occasional visit to an office but there is no pressure.
One of my colleagues works part time and on the other days she assessor health and nutrition qualifications. Something that could work in your context maybe?

I'm a freelance medical copyeditor and generally earn between £50,000 and £60,000 a year. It's taken a very long time to build up to that though and my business has been built up over decades!

Freelance copywriter. I'm a generalist but have over a decade of experience.

I've thought about medical / health copywriting jobs - it would work well with my skillset and background. I always rather assumed that the salaries advertised weren't very accurate though (eg as @FivePotatoes suggests, would take a long time to get to 50k+)

I'd be rubbish at sales

What does a business analyst actually do? Apart from the obvious!

I work in policy at that salary. There's a lot of healthcare policy organisations

Solicitor. Fully hybrid - I choose to work in office 2 or 3 days a week but absolutely no pressure to. £83k.

Working for pharma sounds like an obvious move for you. Plenty of well-paid, remote work.

Business Advisor to SMEs, plus some strategic stuff within the company.
I am PT from home and earn around £45k so would be around £55- 60 FT
I absolutely love it!

Ditto - I'm P/T (4 days a week), £75k, and typically do two in the office and two at home, but that's my choice. I imagine if I never came into the office it might raise some eyebrows but don't have mandated days and if I wanted to WFH for a full week no-one would care.

Hybrid but can choose what days etc mostly two days in, but sometimes one, on occasion three but rarely. Higher education management within departments, looking after both teaching and research teams with some strategy work.

I’m head of comms for a public sector organisation and mostly enjoy it, although it can be a bit stressful. Have done similar roles in charities for that kind of salary; less stressful (in some ways)

I'm on >£50k.
I go to the office approx once a week.
I'm a Bid Manager in professional services.

Possibly not helpful, but I earn a significant chunk more than £50k and can pick & choose my WFH v office ratio. Quite often it’s all WFH. Currently at home, under my heated blanket. Bliss!

But…I’m an in-house tax specialist for a multinational group, so:

1. even if I went into my local office, I’d still be mainly dealing with people many many miles from there.
2. I’m 15 years qualified & experienced.

What I have noticed though, is all our IT bods, and most of our accounting staff, are also WFH for significant proportion of week - sometimes all of it, and again they can often pick & choose. For same reasons as me.

Main determining factor appears to be access to printer 😬

If you want to enjoy your job, work with competent people, and have a good work/life balance, I do not recommend this

NHS all the way, either national, regional or ICB. I go in maybe once a week but have colleagues who go in once a month at most. The NHS management world has not returned to pre-lockdown work patterns. In my ICB we can't recruit for love nor money, no one wants the jobs.

if you've worked in research, what are your data analysis skills like?

• can you wrangle a great bit Excel sheet and organise it?
• can you make beautiful plots and explain complex data?
• Can you use R for statistics?
• can you code (Python / R / Matlab)?

If yes to more than 1 of those, look into Data Science. There are lots of roles for people with the skills above and pay can be very good.