To wonder if you work from home, what do you do?

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I don't know anyone who works from home in rl but I see it all the time on mumsnet.

If you work from home, what is your job?

Obviously not referring to sahp here!

IT analyst/developer

Thank you for that ghosty sounds very varied and interesting, like my dream
job! I can well imagine the hours stretching to more than 20 though- as we know issues with young people are often far from simple and it's difficult to leave work at 5 and think no more of it until the next time your in the office! Good luck with developing your role and thank you for the info

Run my own aviation business, so I do all the relevant paperwork that goes with it there's a lot

Clerk to community council
Clerk to school governors
Book keeper to semiconductor research company
(So one foot in cutting edge, the other in the middle ages...)
Also school secretary, but they make me go into school for that

I'm a book dealer.

Software support, presenting webinars and doing one to one training sessions, for a US based firm. I do go out to run face to face training sessions several days a month as well - good balance of working from home and getting out and about.

Management consultant in public sector. Varies a lot but work from home on average 2 days per week.

I run my own business renting and selling baby carriers. Love working for myself (integrity and flexibility) and working from home around the kids as a single Mum. Sometimes in my PJs! :)

What sort of books Littlefluffy? Sounds interesting

In-house lawyer. I prefer to work and am more effective in the office but I can pretty much choose the days I work from home and often do (at least once a week) as I manage my own workload.

Another freelance translator here.

I work in publishing, even better it's educational so term time only

I don't work from home but DH is a writer for a magazine and works mostly from home.

People rent baby carriers BumblebeeBum?? Had no idea.

I got into what I do slightly accidentally. Used to work in an accountancy practice and was trained at the place I work for now. I started doing some marking for them at some point and then when I stopped working for a while, I got into doing more marking. Got to know some of the other markers and one of them also worked in the distance learning section. Last year she mentioned that they were trying to find support tutors and I decided to apply. Was always a home based job and everything just fell into place.

This drives me mad. Every week my mum tells me she'll ring me on my 'day off' because I WFH one day a week
It's NOT a sodding day off!!!

Jewellery designer/goldsmith.

Own business and occasional contracts if I have time.

My dining room is my studio, until ds leaves home, then I can move into a proper studio.

Solasum - anything that's worth money! I buy job lots of books - usually people who have died and it's their lifelong collection. I sell anything from antiquarian books from the 1800s to rare out of print books from the last 50 years or so. It's surprising what is worth money and what's not.

Registered Nurse, do consultations over the phone and write reports on them

I'm an editor/proofreader.

Education Performance Manager. I was full time. Then went down to 4 days a week with extended hours after DD1 was born. Now work 2 long days at home and 2 regular days in the office. But I commute 4 hours a day so I think they were sympathetic!

I develop projects for the charity sector for external funding. I review and write project reports. I used to do loads and travelled extensively. Now work from home almost exclusively (London 3 days every couple of months).

But work has been a bit slow lately and I am not sure what happens after the current project.

I'm a procurement manager for a telecoms firm, totally home based but have to travel for meetings etc but generally manage my own diary for that. Many of my colleagues are home based/ take advantage of the flexible working offered by our company

Volunteer Coordinator. WfH 2 days a week, 2 and a half days in the office. Like others, I can remote access my work network so it's exactly like being in the office and I have a work laptop so can work from anywhere that has wifi.

Farmer/Farm Manager. I help DH run the farm and do all the banking, accounts and admin, and I also manage our sheep flock.

It's great most of the time as I manage my own time, don't have to speak to anyone I don't want to and can suit myself if I want to take time off to do something else. The downside is that the livestock always has to come first, as does the combining, hay-making, cattle management...etc. and it's very rare we ever manage to go on holiday without a row and an ultimatum from me