AIBU- to ask if you work from home, what do you do?

[GrumpySprout]

As per the title really, if you work from home, what job do you do please?

As a bit of background, I worked in customer services for a tech company. I’m currently on maternity with my 8 week old son and have just found out I’ve been made redundant.

I’m not due off maternity until October, so have some time to look into possible career choices.

Thanks in advance!

I WFH supposedly part timr.
I'm a specialist auditor (posh name for translator) it used to be a civil service role but now I work for Capita
Used to be field based and WFH gets me 1/3 of what I used to earn.
It's not as good as I thought but it's the only work I can manage just now.

DH works from home running a small business - does tax, invoicing, communication with clients, reconciling bank accounts etc. Fits nicely around school hours.

Freelance translator. Not sure how a specialist auditor is related to translation

I'm an accountant for a fairly flexible company so I work from home two days a week with and option to increase.

That's my job title Prisu
I check things that are supposed to have been already checked.
Now I work for a private company they have us doing all sorts for different reasons.
I used to feel like I was doing a fairly important role but now we are just farmed out to anyone.
It's shit.

Civil service

I’m a lecturer and work from home when I’m not teaching - not through choice though. We are in an open plan offic and it is almost impossible to write lectures or do any marking or research because of the noise.

Civil service for both me and DH. Non operational roles. He does 2 days pw, me one pw, neither of us would be able to work from home full time as you're expected to be in the office some of the time for collaborative working, meetings, travel to our London offices etc.

Our children are in nursery as although we have flexi time our roles require us to be logged on during traditional office hours.

Different departments have different levels of technology which may or may not enable home working (my previous department had 5 laptops shared amongst the team and it was on managers whim who was allowed to take it home and when ). Inconsistent team cultures mean some managers or teams will be more accepting than others as some people are still not comfortable with home working as it's quite a new innovation in the public sector. So you would need to ask around or when applying whether the role allows for some working from home.

I get that The Queef, just not sure how it's a posh name for a translator...

I'm an author. Mostly I work from home but sometimes I take my laptop to one of the local cafes and work there if I need some human contact!

Well specialist in my case means I can only read/write one certain language I don't actually audit anything I'm hardly doing any translation now it's mostly private work.
They make it sound really important (it used to be) in reality I'm just a basic lacky.
One of my co-workers complains as well, she WFH same as me and is sick of it.

Social media manager

Running social media channels for small businesses. I retrained online

I work from home and go into the office one day a week. I work in financial services in a CAO type role. The role wasn't based at home at first, and I wouldn't have been allowed this working pattern at first, it's changed to be like that over time. I work in a global team so no point in my travelling to sit in an office when my teammates aren't based there. I go in once a week for meetings or to network with other members of the department. It's an absolute godsend, I save lots in travel costs, my environmental impact is lower, I get so much more done as I tend to work a bit longer and am not distracted by the open plan office noise, but the key thing is the work life balance. On days when I'm in the office my DD is asleep when I leave and getting ready for bed when I get home. I couldn't continue in my role if I was in the office full time.

I have an EBay business

I’m a blogger. Started as a hobby and as my blog grew I was lucky enough to quit my job. I now employ a small team too.

It’s great! Anyone can blog! I’ve trained people who are dyslexic, think they have nothing to blog about and my favourite are mums on maternity leave who start a blog and by the time mat leave is up they are making enough money to not have to go back to work.

I love it, but the trolls are relentless. Ive got threads dedicated to me on the likes of Tattle Life which can be shit.

I wouldn’t change it though.

Oh I also do matched betting and sell on eBay on the side.

I work for a regulator. Most of our staff are home based.

I work in an office and from home, I’m senior actuary in the insurance industry.

I bake
I’m a registered business, food hygiene certified etc.
I’ve found quite a niche little market so I’m not rushed off my feet, but the little bit of extra cash coming in is helpful. I can manage 2, maybe 3 big orders a week around my very young DCs.

I'm basically a glorified administrator for a national charity.

I can work from home full time if I choose or can go into any of our offices across the country.

I tend to split my week so I know what's going on elsewhere but I do choose when I'm at home or out. And I can change my mind at the last minute.

Publisher

I've always wanted to start a blog Peachy I think I may give it a go now on the back of your post!

Disappointing thread. I had high hopes it would be full of highly paid, highly flexible home based jobs that anyone could do without any training or creativity whatsoever.

There are different rules about being made redundant when you are on mat leave. Get some advice.

Also you can’t work from home with a baby. Unless you have a full time nanny and a large enough house that you can have an office in another part of the house and you and baby can’t see / hear each other.

I run/own a business with dh. He is home about 2 days a week and out on site the others. I am home all the time so can fit my work around the children, meetings friends etc.