to ask what you do if you work from home?

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None of my friends work from home, so I'd love to pick your brains. I know it's the holy grail, but after 6 years at home with my DC I'm looking to get back into some kind of career. Previously worked for 15 years doing long hours in financial services (front office) and regulation. Not feasible anymore as I've moved to a small-ish city with few opportunities, and DH works away most of the week (I've no other support). Ideally I'd like something I could do at home in school hours, so about 20 hours a week. I'm relatively techy and good at report-writing. Any suggestions please? Just not sure where to even begin. Thanks

I'm a civil servant and work remotely 50% of the time. We actively encourage it now. So much so that when my Department creates new offices, they actually don't provide enough desks for everyone 😮

I've worked from home as an editor and coursebook writer. I worked in house before though. It was hard to get the right quantity of work so I had enough income but not swamped and working every evening.

I've gone back to university teaching though because the conditions are better and it's regular pay. I work 3 days a week 8.30 to 4.30. I much prefer this and using childcare than trying to fit around school hours.

Social media manager - well I trained, had a client for 3 weeks, found I was pregnant, felt too ill to work and haven't gone back to it. But it can work I'm sure!

Watching this thread with interest. So happy to see it works for some people.

I work customer support for the world largest online shop.... within that work from home world,there are managerial , supervisory, executive roles.

Oh yes madvixen - are you on the 7:10 ratio too? I thought it was ridiculous when I found out about my new office, but it's grown on me. I even quite like hotdesking

I would say..

WFH for someone else as an employee - very easy to end up working your arse off for bugger all - or with insanely strict conditions (like timed toilet breaks, if you are AFK for too long it tells your supervisor!).

WFH as a freelancer, self employed - you can make a decent living but it is generally slow to start off.

I do a variety of things, some of which would out me - but art, copy writing, illustration mostly pay the bills now.

Jezzifishie, that's the one. Although our new builds are apparently going to have even less. Hotdesking doesn't really bother me currently (I'm in the office by 6:30 on office days) but I can see how irritating it could be in other environments.

I work in central govt

I have 2 jobs but the 2nd is well paid and is WFH. It is an ops manager. I monitor/manage online systems, gathering data. I do sometimes have to attend meetings occasionally

Sorry posted too soon - I got the job through a connection I made at work

I work from home as a freelance contractor doing international lead generation, marketing and events for mainly the big Tech companies e.g. Apple, Google, IBM etc. I have set up a ltd company that I bill through.

Never have had to leave the house for work since 2006; which was about a year after I graduated. I was working in a totally unrelated field prior to starting to WFH.

I get projects by freelancing through marketing agencies. It’s not for the faint hearted though - feast or famine/3 buses analogy is often the case!

For me the good months even out any bad months and the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. However if you want job security or find it hard to generate your own business then freelancing is a tricky path.

I am starting my own business as I am now getting tired of the stresses of freelancing but I can always do as much or as little of my current “job” while i get it up and running. And can always return to it if I want. So it is extremely flexible (unfortunately in both directions!)

Good luck!

Sorry too long 😬!

Stealth I do a bit of that on the side.

Bit scared to say as it could out me in conjunction with other posts, but it's more of a non-departmental government body - we just call ourselves the Civil Service because it's easier

Belated thanks for sharing your roles - high heels that was not too long, was v interesting thanks!