To think there are no real, enjoyable ‘work from home’ jobs?

[AnneTwackie]

I’d like to reduce my hours and do something different working from home. Everything I see looks like a scam.
Tell me your happy/horror stories.

[StealthPolarBear]

I'm a civil servant. I don't wfh formally but do more often than not. I love the work and work life balance even though I do many more hours than I'm contracted to do. If I insisted I could be formally home based.

[GhostHoward]

(my job is definitely not "highly paid", but I earn a good few pounds more an hour, than NLW, with a huge amount of flexibility, so I'm happy).

[speakout]

MsTSwift

Same here. I started out looking to make a little bit extra to help with family finances- now earn considerably more than my OH- who has a "proper" job.

[StealthPolarBear]

" I wouldn’t though, I don’t focus well on work when I’m at home and find I’m much more productive in my office"
Once you wfh a lot though you quickly get over this. I'm now much more productive at home than in the office. However my colleagues are in lots of different locations so we are set up to work like that.

[skippy67]

I work in the civil service. I can have 3 wfh days a week, and have the flexibility to choose which days of the week to wfh.

[Dancingbea]

I can wfh. But I enjoy seeing my colleagues and our ability to come up with stuff, problem solve etc is much better when we are all physically together

[MsTSwift]

I have an extremely heavy cold and feel rubbish today so after completing my work In the morning I had a nap before my final client. Can’t do that in an office

[Wrongdissection]

I have a proper wfh job and have just been offered another one that wasn’t advertised as home based but as the organisation want me and I don’t live in London where they are based they have said I can wfh.

[SarahAndQuack]

I love my job. Like a PP I'm an academic but I WTF about 95% of the time, and the other 5% involves me attending seminars. It's one of the major reasons I stay in this job.

[speakout]

I think work can become a lot more "integrated" when you work from home.
I work every day, some of it just trawling through online sources looking for inspiration, or walking and taking photographs in the forest.
My work is may hobby- in a creative field, so very difficult to distinguish where the lines lies between work/not work.
Some tasks are repetitive and certainly feel like work, dealing with admin, emails etc.
My day is varied and I do get out a bit, even if it is just visiting shops for supplies, post office etc- but even then I will combine that with a trip to tesco, before coming back home to work.

Self motivation is never a problem with me. I enjoy being productive, and it is satisfying to earn money.

[Casino218]

I'm a university lecturer. I work from home 1-2 days a week. Enjoyable? I'm not sure what you mean. I wouldn't use that terminology. I'm doing a range of different types of activities that I can do at my dining table on the laptop instead of going into the office. There aren't any horror stories - except the day my laptop wouldn't connect to the vpn!

[ittooshallpass]

Most people I know who work from home were offered it as a perk after a long period of service and excelling at a company*
*
Not true. I work from home and have done from the beginning of this job. I work for a global company. The team are scattered around the world. We 'meet' every other day via Skype. I love my job and don't miss commuting at all.

[FruityWidow]

I work from home full time for a company from in a admin/coordinator type role. The entire company works remotely and most are based all over the UK with occasional meetings in London. I also work self employed on a per job basis as a VA but this is only a few extra hours per month on top of my corporate role. I'd like to eventually move to fully self employed but I'd need to reduce my hours to give me time to do that.
Suits me perfectly as I live on a narrowboat so we're on the move every couple of weeks.

[CaptainNelson]

I'm self-employed and wfh in a professional field. I had about 15 years' experience in the field before going freelance. I've never had to look for work since then, and it's worked well with the kids. It can be stressful when there's a lot of work/deadlines and the kids need your attention or time, but on the other hand I don't think I could work in an office again now. I'm lucky now in that I have a regular team that I work with and we support each other, which is the main difficult side of home working (isolation).

[Metalhead]

A lot of office based jobs these days offer at least some days per week working from home.

[PhDone]

Another academic here (researcher) and I also work one day a week from home.
although the other 4 days I work in London which is 200 miles from home... So it's not a brilliant deal! But I'll hopefully move to 2 days from home at some point.

[katkit]

What are these magical jobs? I’m crying out for one.

[adviceneededon]

NHS Senior management, work from home 3 days per week. It is most certainly a perk however, and one that could be removed at any time. In my previous role, a new medical director was appointed and he scrapped all working from home. So I have no illusions that this will carry on forever...I'll just enjoy it while I can.

[ArabellaDoreenFig]

Can people NC and specify their jobs/what they do?

It’s all a bit vague, and I’m a nosy sod, who can’t get to sleep and wouldn’t mind some job plan Bs !

[speakout]

which is the main difficult side of home working (isolation).

Is it? For me it's one of the perks.

Being forced to spend hours a week crammed into an office with people you don't choose to be with.
Working from home alone is liberating.
I choose my social contacts.

[Deliqueen]

My husband works for a charity from home. Very flexible which is great for family life and very common in charity roles.

[TowerRingInferno]

Dh works from home as a lawyer in a very niche sector. Small company with people all around the world who all work from home. They video conference at a set time each day and do their own work at whatever time suits them for the rest of the day.

[Mammylamb]

I work in IT. Home working is very common. In our dept there are workers who work at home full time, part time, and for most of
The rest of us we work at home when we need / want to.

[Wrongdissection]

My current wfh role is affiliated to the NHS.

The one I have been offered is with a professional regulator.

[MsTSwift]

On the rare occasions I get persuaded to do a day or so a week locuming in an office I am reminded why I love wfh!

The people I would be sharing offices with are dull and petty as those tend to be the types doing the work I do (except me of course I’m marvellous ). Friends that enjoy office working work in creative type jobs with interesting people