👩‍💻WFH - What job do you do out of interest?

[PurplePanda1]

Just that really, so many Mumsnetters are working from home, it makes me wonder what job you do? I assume they are all fairly well paid rather than minimum wage jobs or am I wrong?

Civil servant - hybrid - usually 1/2 days office and rest home. Work 30 hours and earn £77k

I’m a freelance writer, I can earn anything from £10-£60 per hour depending on the client, with that I need to factor in a couple of hours a day for admin, editing and/or calls. The hours are really flexible, I just need to ensure I meet the clients deadline.

Data scientist, 43K, still fairly junior. 100% WFH, very flexible. Live in an area of the UK with low house prices/living costs.

I work from home for an insurance company 16 hours a week. Our department is called performance support (very dull admin work). The pay is the same as the office workers.

Most office jobs will now have an element of WFH days in the week. Although many have returned to full time in office. Oddly enough the more junior and the more senior you are the less likely it is that you will be WFh!

Anything which is face to face obviously won't be; retail, care work, health, hospitality or manufacturing.

If you are wanting to find a job where you WFH so you can look after children at the same time... sorry that's not usually permitted.

I work for a local authority, hybrid role in the office 1-2 days per week. I earn £18,405 per year for 25 hours per week (approx £14.15 per hour), so not much even though it’s quite skilled work & I have 5+ years experience, but it’ll do for now whilst kids are young, as the flexibility is invaluable (I can work around the school & nursery drop offs & pick ups very easily & am always able to attend my eldest’s school events etc).

Editor at a large (global) publishing house. I go into the office once most, but not all, weeks - it's all very flexible. Some teams I know are less flexible. I work 90% hours (which for us is 32, full time is 35) over 4 days and earn about £35k.

I work in housing and earn above NMW. We’re more hybrid working now so work 2 days per week in the office and an additional day per fortnight in the office on duty. I prefer WFH days as get more done because the office is open plan since covid and it’s so noisy! But it’s nice to catch up with colleagues so swings and roundabouts.

Recruitment Consultant, £80k ish depending on how the year is going.
Going into the office a couple of days a week now out of choice.
I know there are lots of exceptions, but many minimum wage jobs are in retail or hospitality so difficult to do from home.

Data Analyst for a bank. Part time 25hrs a week (3.5 days) on 28k. Very flexible working and have to go in the office once in a blue moon.

Mainly a freelance writer and film maker. Do a bit of my old job (marketing and copywriting) self-employed if I need extra cash. £200-400 a day but sadly can't bill for every day! Completely remote unless I need to go meet someone. Even then I try and do it in a cafe. I used to use a co-working space but I have a home office now.

How do those of you who are working freelance find work.

I'm desperately seeking to get out of working in care. Done 15 years.
I have ASD and ADHD as well as recently had cancer so I need to be self employed in order to manage my schedule and my energy. I also want to be home based.

But I haven't a clue where to start!

I think you need to find an industry where the work basically comes to you. I'm a sign language interpreter so I'm never without work. I pick and choose the bookings I'm interested in. There's never no work to choose from.

Director, large multinational 192k. WFH 4 days a week, but lots of travel so I can go over a month without being in the office. Very flexible so I can fit school runs and personal stuff in easily but the hours are a bit all over the place as I have clients and teams across multiple time zones so I’m often up in the middle of the night on calls.

I work for a bank in a back office role and go into the office once a week.
I'm on £45k and am full time.
These posts always make me feel like I need a huge pay rise as other NMs seem to earn a lot!

@Handydandy I think my problem is I've been working in care so long I don't know anything else.
I don't even feel like I have transferable skills. It's pretty overwhelming even knowing where to start.
But I can't keep going on like this 🙁

I'm a Test Analyst

Designer working for an agency for 3 years from home, have just switched to being self employed because I can work for multiple clients and get more money that way!

I am a warranty administrator for a truck and van dealership, I process warranty claims. I work from home all the time, with flexible hours around child care. Our workshop is open 24hrs a day so my work mostly can be done any time of day. I think I am on about £34-35k flat wage, but I haven't worked a flat month in over 6 years, always some overtime or a bonus.

I’m an apprenticeship tutor, pre covid we used to travel around to each person’s work place but since Covid we do do all meetings via zoom from home. So much better and more cost effective for my employer as we’re not wasting time travelling between apprentices work places so can increase our case load and not have to pay travel expenses. Good pay and very flexible, don’t always need teaching qualifications just experience and/or qualifications in an area (for me this is fitness). My work put me through my teacher training 10 years ago as I got the job with no previous teaching experience as have a lot of my colleagues. Wide range of programmes such as business admin, customer service, management, childcare etc.

I’m a Reward Manager (a stream of HR). Fairly well paid. I WFH most of the time. I only go to the office to specifically meet people who will be there (about an hour away) for specific things that are easier face to face. Probably around once a month. Most of the people I work with are either WFH themselves, or vendors in other companies/locations anyway or colleagues in our subsidiary companies who are in other locations. I have my own office at home and find it much easier to get on with work by myself, I have enough Teams calls during the day that I don’t feel lonely, and I have a great team who I message throughout the day. Also I can be more available for my kids.

I’m 100% from home. I work for a company that builds utilities infrastructure nationally so we can work from anywhere. I am office based rather than field based but have never had a need to go into the office which is 3 hours away from me. The company was a start up during COVID and seeks to keep overheads low. My team are spread all over the UK.
We are all intelligent trustworthy people so we just get our work done. I have fired 2 people in my team for being unable to focus; they weren’t getting their work done because their bed and Xbox were too tempting.
Well before COVID I worked for a start-up pharma company 100% from home for the same reasons. Get the best people, keep overheads low.

Senior legal/regulatory role. Earn 200k and WFH full time. I go into the office perhaps 2 or 3 times a year at most.

Minimal out of hours work so able to do nursery drop offs before I start work and pick ups after I’ve finished. Never have to work weekends or bank holidays.

I could live pretty much anywhere and still do my job. As it is my salary combined with being able to live in lovely but less accessible parts of the country provides a much better quality of life than being tethered to London/SE and all the associated costs there.

Finance manager for a small business. Fully wfh.

I would love to do this - what do I need to qualify.?