Woo hoo! Just been offered a fully remote job!

[BlueberryBubbleFrappe]

Taken over a year of job hunting. Just about to give up to be quite honest! Thought that I may never work again! Family responsibilities mean that I can only WFH.

I had to leave my last job due to an issue with a bullying work colleague and enforced requirement to be in the office 80% of the time after previously being remote.

I just cannot believe I got it.

Celebrate with me!

💐❤️

Living the dream op

WFH rocks

Probably on Indeed. I used to put remote in the job search and apply for anything! This company had my details on file from a year ago when I applied for a different vacancy but they said my application came in at the end of the selection process so they kept me on file and another one came up. I’d actually stopped looking for jobs over the last few weeks and resigned myself to not working again (I’m early 50s as well!) until they contacted me which makes it even more of a stroke of luck.

My last job really gave me back some of me after many years of being a SAHM and a carer, I loved it and did it very well. I could also do it without stressing about being around for DC so it really affected me having to resign. Thankfully there is no expectation to ever have to go into the office in this role (HQ is too far away anyway!) and I don’t have to complete a shared workload with a lazy, incompetent, rude CFer who would bug me on Teams 20 million times a day, complaining they didn’t know how to do a simple task, like I did in my last role as I will have my own workload.

Bliss!

Congrats am delighted for you and your family, great that lucky break finally came your way.

Good health and happiness to ye all.

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Congratulations, I’m delighted for you - what wonderful news! 🎉🍾

This is great, well done OP.

I am all for companies offering these types of roles for exactly these reasons. There are so many people out there that can do a stellar job but aren’t afforded the opportunity because they can’t conform to the rigid requirements of office life.

This is going to change because the next generations aren’t going to opt for companies who aren’t flexible, it will become a lot harder for those places to recruit younger workers as the years go on.

best of luck OP!

Congratulations OP!

I've just also started a fully remote job. It was actually advertised as with occasional travel but I was up front about my disability and they've been ok with that.

My job is entirely WFH, it's marvellous! When I'm in a position to recruit I'll make sure that it's a flexible WFH role as there are so many good people out there who are underutilised due to childcare/disability etc and I feel really strongly about changing that, even if it's just for one person!

I saw your thread on Monday night and interviewed for similar myself yesterday and was offered it last night 😁

I am so happy. Currently in a real unicorn job (term-time only, WFH) but the fixed term contract is ending so I'm very pleased to have got this one.

I've found the charity sector to be very supportive of WFH.

Yes very good point about Rishi and access to work for those who are older and with disabilities.

I have a daughter with ASD too op, there are so many of us in this situation.

Congratulations again op! Champagne very much deserved!

Well done x

Nice work op

Congratulations!!!.

Funnily enough I clicked on this thread for inspiration as also have ASD daughters and am struggling with my current role as it's very much on site based.

Congratulations! It's such a relief these jobs exist now. My son also has significant SEN and a few years ago when I still worked in the office I fully anticipated having to give up work, as wrap round care became impossible and he won't ever live independently. Now I know I can do this as have a great role in a growing sector, fully remote. When he's older and won't have a full day of school he will always need someone around and there in case of emergency but not constant supervision, so wfh is a game changer.

Also, the more I get to chat to colleagues across the company the more I discover how many of them are carers either of children with additional needs or other family members. Working from home really is the key to keeping people in work who previously would have had to give up their careers and rely on benefits.

I'm finding it hard to find a job though. I'm bright, 2 degrees, but have mainly taught so not sure how to get into other sectors.

Id so love a pt wfh job with flexibility...

My rapidly growing sector is online teaching. I called it an office as in the habit of being vague on here but name changed anyway. I highly recommended looking into it. The bigger schools advertised on tes now but it doesn't filter for remote yet (so out of date) so you need to research the schools to look out for. LinkedIn is a great place to start.

Does that work with needing to be around to pick kids up from school when they need to come home etc. Don't you need to be on calls essentially all day?

Id considered it but rejected it as thought I'd need more independent working hut maybe just being home would be enough.

I'm also liekely ND and find it so hard to imagine a different job without doing it so really hard to know what to leap into. I've been looking at local council roles and it's part of the problem.

I teach adult Ed at the moment and it's perfect apart from the pay and the needing to be present every day in different locations. I'm exhausted.

I'm speding several hours a day googling and going round in circles.

I kind of wish I was already a qualified professional in a different profession so I could be senior and wfh rather than trying to retrain and work up at 45.

Congratulations op. 🎉

Well done 👍 that's fabulous.

I too am extremely fortunate to be in a senior- ish role which is fully WFH with occasional travel to meetings / quarterly office days etc.

Husband is a teacher and out 7-6. We have one older child (13) with SEND who gets transport to and from his special school 10 miles away.

When he is home he is entirely self sufficient but just needs someone in the house so to speak.

I am incredibly lucky that I have this and without boasting I work hard to keep this privilege- am super conscientious to ensure my employer has no reason to want this to change

Class teachers are on 'calls' teaching live lessons for a large part of the day between 9-3ish. My DC get home independently/via LA transport after my school day ends so just need someone to be here. I do after school staff meetings when they are home but they are old enough to be in own rooms with a snack and own entertainment after school. So yes, with younger kids it would probably be necessary to find wrap round care. Or some of our teachers work part time and finish early enough to pick up from primary school. In an emergency eg sick child needing picked up at short notice it's just like any school - speak to the Head to get cover and go get them.

Congrats op!

DH started his own company a few years pre Covid that was (and still is) completely remote. He has employees all over the UK and Europe, and clients in other continents. As a start up he couldn’t pay the same rate as established companies but the fully remote nature of the jobs was very appealing and he had no trouble recruiting excellent people. They would meet up once a year in a nice European city like Rome or Barcelona for a bit of a jolly strategy conference and to put names to faces, as it were.

As WFH became much more common he had to up the pay to keep the staff! Luckily by then the company had grown and it was affordable. It did become harder to recruit though because suddenly his company was no longer offering such an unusual perk. Now that a lot of those companies are going back to wanting bums on seats in offices, recruitment has become easier again.

People want it. There are no office overheads. You increase your pool of potential employees because location becomes unimportant. I really don’t understand why more companies don’t do it.

@GeneralMusings maybe have a look at working for one of the vocational education bodies? They will typically need people with an education background, have all kinds of support roles, and there are enough of them that there will likely be a sector that interests you!

Congratulations! That's fabulous news. Celebrate!