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.

I taught for the OU and all the work was from home. We tutored via an online system where we the students and I could share a ‘white board’ and all the marking was done on the computer. It was part time and very satisfying.

I tried for a long time to find a work from home job. But there were none really. Unless it's your own business selling crafts etc. Or a specialised role where you needed certain qualifications. Just earning £100 a week would make a huge difference for me. But there was nothing. I hope you can find something, and if you do... please let me know!

@cantwatchthis have you looked at teachers pay teachers?

I work in a professional service area, and after being an employee for over 20 years, set up my own business, converted the garage into an office and work from home 2-3 days a week and in various clients offices the rest of the time.

I love it and it has given me great freedom as a single parent, to be able to work around school hours and sickness etc. It can also be very stressful though and you do of course need qualifications in this line of work.

I have been following this thread as I am self-employed but really need to up my salary. At the moment I do merchandising and price checking on a freelance basis (some set jobs every week), mystery shopping, matched betting and website moderating but tbh I am really not earning enough and it needs to change. For various reasons I cannot work full time in an office job or similar at the moment and I honestly think that the roles I could apply for would all be minimum wage. Something does need to change though, we are moving house soon but after that I am considering doing a copy writing course. I did start a Journalism course when DS2 was a baby but couldn't finish it. I also had a blog for a year, have saved quite a lot of the material so feel that it could perhaps work. Any advice from anyone in a similar position would be welcome.

Monsterrehab23 that sounds ideal, I am looking for something similar, I am in HR previously do they have a recruitment website? 👍

I work from home about 3/4 of the time. Often it’s about establishing yourself in a job and then proving you can do it effectively from home, then for subsequent jobs you can discuss the possibility at recruitment based on your track record.

I work from home 3 days a week. I’m a lawyer and work on documents / decisions about cases which I can do anywhere.

I have meetings on the other two days or telephone meetings.

You can’t care for children at the same tome though, that’s not allowed (unless it’s an older, fairly self sufficient child - 9/10 + -who’s off sick or something)

I'm in network marketing.. health and wellness and dont recommend it at all, long hours of not earning, I have a few regular customers so I make maybe £50 a month 😅 I enjoy my other job tho, as a nominee director I'm pretty much checking paperwork, signing and dating it and posting it to the relevant person, takes maybe 2hours a week and getting a decent amount for it a month, I enjoy it because finding a job, getting to interviews and having to declare epilepsy is soul destroying, it's a real pita being a hazard 🙈🙈🙈 having no one else to help with school runs also doesn't help! tis just me

Another translator here. Wouldn't have it any other way.

I find it a bit boring to be honest and the temptations to do other things get in the way of working. I do one day a week. Could do more but like being around people and the commute in my car is about 30 mins each way. I never set off before 9 though and leave about 4.45 so always miss the real rush hour.

My friend does dog minding/walking and if you love dogs there is no better job. She earns around £200 a week doing this and can still sort her kids out so ideal really.

I find it a bit boring to be honest and the temptations to do other things get in the way of working.c

Perhaps that is more a feature of your personality than working from home per se.
I have worked only from home for 15 years and love it.

2 of my team WFH full time and the rest of them, including me, work 1 day a week from home. It’s perfectly doable and these are all proper jobs on proper salaries

I find it a bit boring to be honest and the temptations to do other things get in the way of working. I do one day a week

Me too, I love 1 day from home but unless I’m extremely busy I find more than 1 day hard going. Full time from home wouldn’t work for me even though I’m on the phone / zoom to my team all day long

I work part-time as an office manager in a factory - but the rest of my time shortly will be taken up as a WFH transcriber. Used to work as an audio transcriber so am looking forward to it.

Bloody love working from home! I tried going back into an office environment and felt like a caged bird. I quit after 2 weeks.

It helps that my husband also WFH so I'm not in the house on my own all day long. But WFH doesn't have to mean actual 'home'.. I can go to coffee shops/park etc.. anywhere I can get an internet connection. My most extreme was St Anne's beach!

I would be very reluctant to go back to the workplace.

I work from home in a call centre looking after accounts. No experience needed to start. Well paid and flexible.

Lots of companies are work from home, amazon, apple, ebay etc.

It was a wild wet day today and I was so glad I wasnt commuting on the bus but was working away listening to the radio with my cuppa and my pyjamas.

i work in retail on bare minimum and im just about scraping by applied for a full time 9-4 job working with aviva (no weekends ) sounds perfect dbs checks done contract drawn up (not signed) when i read 35 hours over 7 days 8-630, called to confirm these were the right hours and I can work anywhere between 8am and 630pm mon-fri and 8am- 12 on saturday the job was 3x my current salary and would have changed my life but had to decline as I cant work randomly changing shifts my lo is 2 and i have no parents that dont live 2 hours away and an ex partner who works from 1-10 almost every day theyve wasted my time and there own by lying about the hours gutted is an understatement but there is something out there waiting for me.

I work from home. I used to run a cleaning round, but I decided to convert it and take on Ironing work instead.
I spent about £400 getting good quality Iron, board, fan and abit of advertising.
I earns between £10 and £12 an hour, but you have to take out cost of fuel and electricity plus equipment doesnt last forever.
However, I choose my own hours, take in as much or little as suits me. I can make appts and do school run. Take holidays when suits me and doing my accounts is simple enough.
It's hard work essentially, but it really works for me!

I’d love to wfh....I have Hyacinth Bouquet x Maggie Thatcher as a boss.... it’s my 2020 goal to be self employed and wfh. Need to bring home close to salary as possible but it’s so-able with my small business/kids parties etc

I’d love to be able to wfh. Wether it be some form of online support or call centre I wouldn’t be bothered. But where do you even start to look for these sort of jobs. If anyone can give me some real info on where to even start to look It would be very muchly appreciated. I’m stuck at home all day and night, I don’t sleep much so even night hours wouldn’t be an issue. Help please. Thanks

I also work from home going a 'real job'. As my NC suggests I am a voiceover artist. It's brilliant, work when I want, takes no time at all and everything is online and done in my pajamas!

I've just had DS2 and I earned £240 the day I came out of hospital doing a VO job that took me 20 mins to do.
I probably work 8 hrs a week and earn £40k+ before tax. I love it!