If you are fully WFH (or almost) and earn around £50k, what do you do?

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My job feels like a set of golden handcuffs at the moment - decent-ish salary, lots of WFH, decent-ish pension, plenty of annual leave, nice people - but I am bored to tears and fed up. I've been working in the same area for over 15 years and really, really need a change. However at the same time I feel a bit paralysed because of the above benefits. I know, for example, that I absolutely want to maintain WFH and I need to maintain a similar salary, at least for the next few years.

I have job-searched but I don't really know what I'm looking for, sector-wise. I tend to stick to what I know but obviously that just brings up the same kind of thing I'm doing now, which I want to get away from!

So I'm looking for random inspiration. If you've got a fully or mainly WFH job and earn around £50k, what do you do? What's out there?

Im part time but by choice, I could go FT at any time.
I am fully WFH since 2012. I work for a large retail company and have had many positions but currently am involved in social media side of things.
FT is 56kE with shares on top, healthcare paid for in full for my family, pension payments , decent holiday allowance of about 6 weeks.
Id never leave. I run my own business with DH and I stay for the benefits and the social life, i love chatting to my mates on line, id miss them too much.

Clinical trials associate in pharma

How depressingly ignorant

Sorry that was in response to whoever said NHS analytics was 'sitting on your arse' and 'not a proper job'

This won’t be popular.
The common theme on here is how can I get as much as possible for doing as little as possible on my own terms.
DH and I worked our arses off in a sector which genuinely delivers good outcomes for many people. We were well payed for this but had to put an awful lot back in, long days working and staying away from home, never worked a day from home, commuting (for DH), We look back and have great satisfaction from our careers and what we achieved not just for us.
Priceless.

Do you wfh people get bored being at home all the time? Do you miss going into work? I’m in school every day and often wish I didn’t have to drive in daily but then I can’t imagine not seeing everyone and talking daily.

I’m part time but my full time salary would be around £60k. In the office one day a month, 25 days’ leave with the option to buy up to 10 more, 10% pension. Work in procurement

Nope. I get huge interaction with my colleagues without any of the office politics. Never miss it.

I’m a Director of Marketing £65k. One office day a week. Tech sector. Great job, loads of variety, sometimes quite stressful.

I guess it depends on the role and whether it involves talking to your team .

100% WFH, freelance business support for multiple clients so I wear different hats all day long; traditional PA, traditional EA, finance assistant, C-suite coach programme manager, admin and client services for a tax pro.....

£70-80k per annum, minimal expenses but of course pension is all on me! Take 8 weeks unpaid leave per year.

This sounds exactly what my cousin needs in a job. How did you become freelance? How do you find the clients?

What is your job? It sounds amazing.

Hi there, yes I started as band 6 after qualification, was band 6 for 10 years, then band 7 for four years and now band 8a, so it’s not been quick! I have friends working privately who earn a lot more but obviously no benefits. I am mid fifties now and hope to last another 10 years to bump up my pension.

I was a mortgage broker for 13 years. Fully WFH and was earning £60k although it took a good 10 years to get to that level. It was around £25k to start.

I always wanted to be a teacher though and finally completed my PGCE in July. I now definitely do not work from home and earn half the salary but really love it. We’ve had to tighten our belts but I have way more job satisfaction.

@FormerlyPathologicallyHappy Well that's certainly niche! I don't think people with high end cars would risk our potholed road😅

Completely agree. I’m furious at how I’ve been totally fleeced with regards to my pension. Have been a top band 6 since afc was introduced. I’m 52, skint, and am in for 15 more years of the same. It’s unbelievably arduous every day.

Freelance writer of exams and learning materials for professional bodies. No holiday, sick pay, pension etc but income is way higher than £50k so it evens out. Have WfH since God was a baby.

Public finance accountant (qualified)

I was also thinking this. Also struck me that some people are doing jobs like this and earning a fortune while nurses are run off their feet for a pittance 😌

DH and I both earn around 50k and wfh 90% of the time. DH is with a local authority. I previously worked for the same LA but got bored shitless, was also poorly paid and a bunch of twats were promoted ahead of me. I am now working in for the NHS. There are lots of non clinical management roles in the NHS, perhaps that would suit you? I find the NHS better than an LA seem to invest more in staff, training etc. My role is a development post so didn't have everything they were looking for and I find NHS better paid, previously was on just shy of 40k, now over 50k rising to 60k.

Nelli, I agree it takes a lot of years of work to et some of these salaries which is one reason I posted about my sons and their friends who started their studies in 2017 and are only now all these years on newly qualified in law, dentistry, accountancy - in other words 6 or 7 years before they are even on the starting blocks as it were. People see the end result and think it was immediate or easy but it was years of slog (I only took 2 weeks of annual leave to have the babies for example and then was back full time). It has not been a walk in the park to get where I am now.

Operations and maintenance consultancy work. Occasional site visits and over night stays away from home.

I’d love to know what you do! Fellow farmer here too 😊

Payroll, at a high managerial level

Lots of jobs WFH, salary dependent on experience obviously