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If you are able to work from home

147 replies

Beansprout30 · 29/04/2020 23:04

Can I ask what you do for a living? I’m school admin and I’m able to do most of my job from a laptop but I can’t get my head around how many jobs can be done from home?!

OP posts:
HoppyHop · 30/04/2020 00:35

Operations Manager in Construction industry. I WFH anyway so no change here (apart from home ed)

biglouis123 · 30/04/2020 00:47

Self employed seller on several online sites dealing in vintage fashion. Before that was an academic so worked extensively from home. Not doing anything different except treating incoming stock with caution and leaving 3 days before opening anything with shiny surfaces.

Donkeytail · 30/04/2020 00:50

I'm self employed. I own an ecommerce store.

TheClitterati · 30/04/2020 00:57

Music biz business affairs. WFH over 2 years now.

Glitteryone · 30/04/2020 00:59

Recruitment - I’ve worked from home, full time for years now.

I’d hate to go back to travelling for work.

IJumpedAboardAPirateShip · 30/04/2020 03:19

I’m a voice director, mainly in audiobooks and as they’ve managed to move most of my gigs to actors in home studios I zoom/Skype direct in remotely. Used to doing this when I work in performers in different time zones so am used to it but I miss the face to face and going into the studios

Waves at @NCParanoia we’re in the same industry!

QueenOfPain · 30/04/2020 03:34

I’m a nurse, wfh doing telephone triage at the moment. Have temporarily dropped the face to face parts of my job as the amount of patients we were seeing in the dept has reduced dramatically, so a lot less staff needed in house. So thankfully my employers sent everyone who could be put to work from home, home with a PC.

PhilCornwall1 · 30/04/2020 05:43

I work for a software and services company and I normally provide technical consultancy to clients in the Social Housing sector for software implementations, specifically for data and systems integration. I'm not doing so much of that at the moment, but as I'm also a programmer, I'm currently tasked on writing some specific software that's needed.

If I don't do client site visits I WFH, so not a huge amount has changed, apart from my wife is working opposite me in the dining room now. We are 6 weeks in to that and not had one cross word. More than anything we are actually having quite a laugh.

BritWifeinUSA · 30/04/2020 05:48

Senior account manager in aviation. Have always worked from home full-time. Even before all this.

BelfastNonBlonde · 30/04/2020 05:50

Solicitor (no court work)

Peccary · 30/04/2020 05:55

Another scientist in a senior role. I write plans and reports, analyse data, research etc. Up until a couple of years ago I was lab based so in every day. In non lockdown times I'm in most days as my manager is anti WFH, hoping that will change now! I currently go in once a week to help my team out (we are doing Covid related work do busier than ever)

sittingonacornflake · 30/04/2020 06:12

I'm a lawyer. For the poster that asked there are loads of different routes in. I completed a 3 year law degree then a fast track course alongside working with the chartered institute of legal executives. I work in civil litigation so it's a lot of drafting legal documents, providing advice to clients, negotiations, preparing for court hearings (I don't do these myself). Really easy to do at home. We can sign docs electronically via docusign and prepare court bundles electronically on pdfdocs.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 30/04/2020 06:20

I work at a jobcenter in Denmark. I cant do much which is frustrating. All my clients have been excused from active jobhunting so other than administrative tidying up there isnt much I can do.

pandarific · 30/04/2020 06:33

Sales role in a digital company. Easily done from home, though I miss the buzz of the office.

AgentJohnson · 30/04/2020 06:34

I d source and plan activities for a community theatre. I’ve heard that I will hopefully go back to work in September, so now I have the time to plan for the coming season.

speakout · 30/04/2020 06:35

I work from home anyway.
I run a small craft making business and sell online.

MindyStClaire · 30/04/2020 06:50

Another lecturer here. It was strange to teach online, but other than that all of my job can be done from home anyway. I'm pregnant and was starting to struggle with the commute so was moving more to wfh anyway (usually I like to go to the office). As someone else said, the problem now is the two year old rather than work itself. Agree about the incredible flexibility in this job, I was in industry beforehand and am eternally grateful I'm not still in my old job ATM.

I'm also very very glad I'll be on maternity leave for the next academic year!

For the person who asked, my route in was a bit more unusual. Bsc and MSc (5 years) followed by working and getting a professional qualification (8 years). No PhD for me, I was hired to teach on a degree relating to my profession, so I'm trying to do one part-time.

GnomeDePlume · 30/04/2020 06:59

Accoutant in industry. My job is a mix of planning and reporting. Busier than ever on the planning side ATM as we try to work out what the results will be for the whole year.

Always have worked from home when the opportunity presented.

I am qualified though many of my colleagues arent.

UnderLockdown · 30/04/2020 07:00

I am a tax director for a company- I was working at home half the time Pre COVID 19

UnderLockdown · 30/04/2020 07:03

I have a degree and two post graduate qualifications

BarbaraofSeville · 30/04/2020 07:19

I'm a safety consultant. Can do quite a lot at home, clients send things to review, get an opinion on etc and we deal with a certain sector entirely remotely anyway.

But normally we do make site visits and do face to face training so obviously not doing that at the moment. A lot of our clients are currently closed but then others are busier than ever as we work across a number of sectors.

When this is all over, my ideal mix would be 2 days in the office, 2 days at home and I normally average one day a week doing site work anyway. I don't think I'd want to be totally home based as it's a very social workplace and it's nice to be able to chat with colleagues in person.

20NCn1nja · 30/04/2020 07:34

9-5 - No

Qualifications - Yes

Office closed due to virus
24x7x365 Engineering role
12 hour shifts, combination of days & nights

Home42 · 30/04/2020 07:52

Medicines regulation, I worked from home pre-corona for the last 10 years!

zscaler · 30/04/2020 07:59

I’m a solicitor in litigation. Since the courts have basically kicked anything which isn’t urgent into the long grass and are dealing with the rest by telephone, my entire job can be done from home.

Forrandomposts · 30/04/2020 08:06

I'm in Higher Education Policy

I don’t know what half of these jobs are though, like, what is it you all do ? Does it require a soul crushing 3 year qualification? Does it take 8+ hours of your life, five days a week?

5 days a week yes, hours flexible. Yesterday 12, today maybe 6. Who knows. I spend most days researching, writing, analyzing data etc. Normally I would be far more out and about at events, meetings, report launches etc.