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?

Freelance business writer – similar income, though it varies. Also a bit bored. Isn't that inevitable when you've been in the same line of work for a long time though? Am considering retraining when the mortgage end/kids leave home, but I assume I'd need to take a salary cut if I did.

Civil service (obviously a very broad answer) I earn £70k and go into the office a couple of times a month, have progressed from SEO (£35k), G7 (£50k), to my role now all mostly WFH. My role isn't very exciting right now tbh, but I've had really interesting roles in the past, and it's pretty easy to move about, I'm just quite comfortable right now!

I could literally have written this myself - I am in the exact same position. Everything you have written is the same for me. Following, to steal your next job from you... 😁

Actuary, although earn more than £50k. Haven’t been in the office since September and that was just one day.

Engineer here m, I wfh mostly but can go on site when I want a change. Lots of variation and flexibility. I’m trusted to do my job so get a lot of freedom

What field are you in? What are your qualifications and training?
There's little point in me telling you what I do unless you have quite specific training.

Sorry all, work called

@charlottebog, I don't want to give my field or a list of my qualifications and training. I know what my transferable skills are. I'm just interested in what others do at a similar level of money with a WFH element, in case there may be something random and interesting and possible that I'd not thought of before.

You are not obliged to tell me what you do for a living if you don't want to.

Personally I think some of the most interesting/varied/exciting jobs are the lowest paid and require being out of the house (vocations?)!

I completely agree. I don't want WFH because I'm an introvert who hates people. I just loathe the commute and office environment. I'd be very happy to work in eg; a garden centre or a bookshop - out of the house all day, on my feet, meeting lots of people etc doesn't bother me. The crappy pay does, though.

I'm in a similar position. Work in marketing, 50k exactly, no pressure to go into the office (and when I do go in, it's literally 10 minutes down the road), decent amount of flexibility, but I'm bored AF. For now, I think the positives outweigh the negatives though.

I earn £80k and have total WFH freedom which I use 8 or 9 days out of 10. I am often very bored during the day, but don’t see it as ‘golden handcuffs’ at all. I realise my astounding good fortune, and take advantage.
I exercise (often a 1hr+ walk over lunchtime), do the housework so that it doesn’t interfere with non-working time. I take the kids to school and am home when they return. I read my Kindle, I prepare meals, I write poems, I take the odd ten minutes of horizontal me time (😳), I chat to friends. I even, very occasionally, do some work.

There was a time when I became quite slovenly. I’d not shower until later in the day, often have the curtains closed etc. But now I realise that if I get ready like normal I can have a great day!

HE professional services, mid 50k. Mix of WFH and office. Lots of WFH post covid. I'd look at HE jobs boards and see what might fit, with generic skills like project/ops management, high level management administration essentially

My role is mental health specialist for a criminal justice team.

50k, WFH. Flexible working. I'm paid for my knowledge and expertise and not the hour's I clock in or out.

It's brilliant quite frankly.

I'd earn quite a bit more than that FTE, but it's very niche (scientific software development) and entry level is relevant PhD plus experience nowadays so not really much help to someone looking for a career change.

I work for a high street bank. currently in a product governance role but hoping to move soon as I really dislike it.

I earn £50k and WFH, I'm supposed to go in 2 days a week but there's no one from my team in my location so I don't always.

I was a software developer (currently taking a break following redundancy to think about what I want to do next) and my partner is an engineer involved with compliance and safety (though he's on about 65k). Both of those aren't really careers that you can easily transfer into though.

IT (in finance sector specifically) - I earn more than you stipulate but most recruitment in my sector is WFH/Hybrid now.

IT security, but you won't waltz in on a whim because you're bored of your job. I've been to work offices once in 18 months. It's not a great deal more over all my roles since 2016

Not sure how many £50k+ jobs you can walk into without experience. I wouldn't call my job hard, but you need to do a bit of work and probably a lower level role first

Editorial job in PR for creative businesses. £45k and WFH with one day in a month and occasional socials. Suits me.

Fundraiser for a charity, I’m bored to tears too though and thinking about how my skills could be transferred back to private sector

I work for a civil engineering company as a senior stakeholder and communications manager - £47k. Plenty of wfh.

I'm a learning partner in the sales enablement function. Essentially I ensure any training requests from the business are reasonable, achievable, and strategic. I have oversight of the programme managers who design and deliver the training, and offer support and consultancy from a "science of learning" perspective. 52k and fully remote.

I work in compliance. I earn £60k. I don’t WFH all week, but there are roles out there where you can without a drop in salary (I prefer to go in a couple of days a week).

About to take up a role at that salary with a regulator. One day a week in the office, rest from home.

Public Sector, hybrid in theory but really fully WFH in practice £55k full time. Very niche role, can be high stress, lots of balls in the air, lots of scrutiny.

I earn about 2x that, almost fully remote apart from vendor travel. Work in retail buying. DH is a software engineer and earns a lot more. Also fully remote.