To ask what you do if you work from home?

[Birdyfly]

Just that really... I'm in a job ATM but I'm miserable. They really don't treat me well and haven't done so since my miscarriage.. that's another (long) story. Plus I'm underpaid compared to my colleague.
I really fancy working from home but out of interest, would like to know what other people do as a job working from home.

Thanks :)

Do you mean working at home all week or the occasional couple of days working from home?

None of my direct colleagues work from home all week but most do 2 days a week working from home (accountancy)

I work in sales and work from home 3 days a week

Market Research.

I’m a support tutor for an accountancy college. Work from home full time

Yeah sorry I do mean working from home all week! My current employer could let me work from home (as my colleague regularly does) but apparently I'm not "allowed" to. It's ridiculous where I work ATM so really need to just get out lol

I work part time and part of the time is at home (trhe paperwork side). I renovate properties.
My friend has a soft furnishing business from home- mainly blinds and curtains. But she wouldn't survive on her earnings alone (she's married).
I know a guy who does computer software development from homeand earns pretty good money.
Another friend teaches English for a remote learning university that mainly has military students.
Freelance journalist. Freelance PR.

@MirandaWest that's interesting! I currently do similar. How do you find it from home? My employers believes I can't do such job from home as it's a face-to-face job... Hmm..

Systems support

I'm a freelance writer/ journalist. I have to go to meetings/ to interview people occasionally, but I do that during school hours. It's great - I organise my own time, I get to go to the gym/ an exercise class most days, there's zero commuting time and school is a 10 minute walk away..... I should add that while I have achieved this blissful state of affairs now, I worked incredibly hard to get to a place where I could be freelance.

@Birdyfly I’ve been doing it nearly 5 years now - overall there’s a team of around 20 and we all work from home. Is quite nice when we have meetings though and see each other in person!

I trained as an accountant and worked in practice for a few years, then had children and mostly stopped and then got into this.

Writing, general admin and audio transcription.

Business development for a tech company- work from home 100% of the time.

A bit outing
But my DH is a Global Head of Legal working 4 out of 5 days from home.
It's massively helpful in many ways - especially as my children are old enough to be plonked in front of the telly if I need to run an errand or take one to a club but not the other.
Downside though - he works very long hours and never switches off

I'm a software engineer. My current role allows me to WFH when required but there are a number of remote roles available in the sector. Especially working for London based firms. Sometimes you get London based wages too.

I'm a regional officer for a grant-making organisation. I have to visit the head office now and again and I go out to visit the charities that we give grants to so I'm not at home all the time but I can organise my own time etc and fit my visits and work around my home life to a certain extent

Freelance marketing in tech sector

Wow there's quite a variety here! Thanks for sharing :) Lots of food for thought.

Full time from home working in environmental / endangered species.

Another software engineer here, or, rather, a manager of engineering teams because my hands on work is sadly fading as I rise up the ladder (definitely not a good thing); the specific sector is outing but it's safety critical (akin to aviation or transportation systems monitoring, that area). Although, some weeks I'm expected to travel a lot, some weeks 1 or 2 days, then WFH three weeks in a row, it's never the same but I like the variety.

I studied post graduate qualifications but did a STEM undergrad; the environment suites my introverted, Aspie nature.

And I prefer working with men (there are no women in my team's), they're easier for me, less complicated in terms of understanding emotional stuff. I did a stint at working on female dominated projects for a bit (higher education), I really didn't get on well there and found it immensely stressful.

Software developer, but everyone works from home full time in the company including the non tech roles.

@MarsBarAddictionJunkie your preferences sound very similar to mine :)

Systems support in education. I have to travel overnight every six weeks or so but the rest of the time I’m WFH.

Editor and translator.

I’m a writer, legal. It’s fab around the kids but quite lonely. Not for Everyone but works for us a treat. I get to do all the drop offs and pick ups which is awesome. Also choose my own hours and holidays. Perfect when kids are little.

I’m a management accountant. I took a pay cut for this job and it took some getting used to working from home/not being part of a team but i can literally choose my hours which is amazing with young kids