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!

I'm a quilter, I find it very difficult to get away from work. The momentum keeps driving me on.

Sapphire I am sent audio records of patients' medical encounters (office appointments, hospital admissions, operative reports etc) and transcribe them into written documents to be included into the patients' medical files. I also decipher text files that have been run through voice recognition software and turn them into actual, intelligible English that has something to do with the subject at hand. You should see them - some are complete nonsense, others are absolutely hilarious.

It is actually a very interesting job.

Thanks, Shtoppen. It does sound interesting. Do you need a medical background or qualifications?

Writer/researcher for a disability charity/service provider.

Not necessarily, but it helps (if for no other reason than things like hydrochlorothiazide or familial mitochondrial encephalomyopathy don't usually come up in conversation).

I used to be a paramedic, so have a bit of a medical background, but I know of individuals who have learned "on the fly"

The thing about PPH is that is depends what you want for it. If you are looking to use it as your main source or family income, or to provide a guaranteed income stream to pay the mortgage, then the jobs paying £100 for a 500 word article are few and far between.

Many people working on PPH are students, or are like me. I am degree-qualified with 12ish years of full time work experience, but haven't worked out of the home since 2003. My husband is the main earner, my job has to work around his as he's often away from home and it's up to me to do all the running around after the kids (3 of them). Most of my jobs pay 2p to 3p per word - BUT it's copy that I can bang out in 20 minutes to half an hour, and £20 to £30 as an hourly rate is a LOT more than I'd get in many other jobs round here. Plus a "proper" job wouldn't let me have the flexibility to do all of the other things I do too, I'd have to buy smart work clothes, pay petrol to commute etc etc. I'm averaging £750 - £1000 a month and I'm more than happy with that - I know what I'm writing isn't going to win a Pulitzer prize, but that's not what I'm interested in doing.

Horses for courses - I occupy the middle ground in reasonably priced blogging between writers who charge a lot and think of themselves as true professionals and at the top of their game, and the cheap "writers" from Jamaica, Kenya or Bangladesh who produce barely readable copy but who charge as little as $1 for 500 words.

Really interesting, Shtoppen – thanks again!

Waves to Portia

NannyOgg all three of my parishes are very small and one doesn't have a village hall. I far prefer to work from home as I can do it when I like (generally 4 days a week during term, but sporadically and usually early in the morning during the summer holidays) and I only get telephone interruptions so I can decide when I want to meet villagers! It also means I can do my other volunteering at school.

I do get into my villages regularly, but it's not a prerequisite for the job.

I'm a Support Manager for a Global Software Company. I work from home at least 2-3 days (more if I can) a week.

I am a Project Manager for a global IT firm. Mu team can be anywhere in the world so no need for me to be in an office.

I'm a marketing manager.

I work from home a couple of days a week; my manager encourages it mainly because I get hassled so much when I'm in the office that I get more work done with no distractions!

I couldn't do it all the time, I would miss the office spirit.

I'm a programmer. I like being at home during term time but find it stressful in the holidays if I have a lot of work on and feel I should be doing stuff with my children. They're both teenagers now so don't really want to spend masses of time with me but we live quite rurally and so have to involve me if they want to meet up with friends which is a bit of a shame for them.

I also find it quite lonely as it's just me on my own and if I get stuck with something there's no one else to ask - I just have to Google and hope someone else has hit upon the same problem and found the solution.

Also, I'm self employed but would rather be employed as I don't like the stress of looking for new work while trying to complete existing work.

Audio Describer. I write scripts and record them in my home studio (garage office!)

Marketing manager - 1-2 days wfh let week

Farmer- Well I write the cheques. It's good to be in charge of your life as opposed to teaching where I was before.

Schtoppen - I use voice recognition software in my work occasionally, and the results can indeed be hilarious! Certainly livens things up when dealing with a particularly tedious text.

I'm another Mystery Shopper/Market Researcher, like it on the whole, but could do with earning more (cant we all), looking to get some more steady market research jobs that I can do each week.

I'm loving this thread!

I don't work anymore but when I worked from home I headed up the UK operations of a dating app whose HQ was in Paris.

Catinthecorner Constant content operates differently to most content sites. There's no bidding, you just write on whatever subject interests you, set your price and it goes into an online catalogue for buyers to browse. You can also apply to join writer teams where jobs are posted on a first come first served basis. I just joined a new team for drug and alcohol rehab content that pays 40 dollars for 500 words. The site takes a 35 percent cut though and they are bloody grammar nazis.

I don't unfortunately have a job I can do from home but a good friend is a translator (she does subtitling) and DH wfh quite often doing demand planning. Oh, and my best mate is a bid writer which she does from home apart from occasional meetings

What a good thread.

Now, can someone list which of these jobs I can do without any training or financial outlay?

Underwriter

Silence I had one last week that seemed like the script to a bad detective movie had been put through a shredder and reassembled. It was honestly the first time I wished that I could get away with sharing the documentation I work with. Of course, I would never break that confidence

Once I was finally finished, the report bore absolutely no resemblance to the gobbledygook I had at the start.

I'm a consultant - I'm mainly office based but can work anywhere that has decent broadband. I do a lot of site visits and if they don't take a full day I'll make up my hours from home. It's handy to have managers who trust you to get your work done, even if they don't physically see you sat at a desk. As long I do my hours, produce my work, and meet deadlines then it's not an issue.