to ask which careers will be most sustainable in the future?

[Greengrotbag]

I'm looking for a new career after being a SAHM for 5 years, and previously in financial services (front office and latterly risk management - good money, but long hours and not workable with my family). I'm desperately brainstorming new careers, ideally something I could do mainly from home and not completely full-time. However, I'm conscious some careers have been shown to be much more sustainable in the last year. Or maybe there are careers that are going to grow a lot now? Any ideas, I'd love some pointers. I wish there was something I loved, but I don't seem to have a vocation. Thanks :)

If you worked in financial services and risk management, I’d consider working in the responsible investment/environmental side of things. It’s a growing area with financial institutions stepping up to play their part in fighting climate change, the biggest risk facing us.

Hairdressers
Barbers
Teachers
Early child care
Driving instructors
Police, firefighters, doctors etc
Delivery personnel
Process servers
Solicitors, barristers
Speech writers

Depends what experience/ qualifications u have?
To respond to someone's comment anything can be outsourced really I work for a bank a lot of our jobs are. They do it every now and then.
How about something like teaching that's definitely future proof I

Some great suggestions on here, but I feel they’re not all hitting the OPs requirements in terms of offering the level of flexibility to fit around her family.

Are these things that can all be done part time from home? How do you even start a new part time career, when most large firms with have headcount for 1FTE and the hiring managers will expect to employ 1FTE and unlikely to say, oh sure, no problem come and do 70% of the role I am hiring for. It appears to be much easier to get that flexibility once already with a company, then requesting a flexible working agreement.
Following to see if anyone can offer advice on finding and securing a flexible role after a career break, in the finance/tech industry, for example.

physiotherapist - so many back problems, people living longer

Deliveries, medical, food shop work, emergency services, armed services, emergency maintenance gas/ electric.

Online education - learning technology and learning design. I'm contacted daily with job opportunities and there were plenty around pre-Covid too.

Everything @daisychain01 listed.

The only thing you can be certain of is the pace of change will increase, so be in jobs which support/ deliver change. Project and programme mgmt just one example...

@daisychain01 Please may I ask if you have recruitment contacts for those areas? I have experience in all but two of those areas, but I am struggling to know who to contact for a new job - the experience has come from using them within different sectors, and volunteer work, rather than being involved directly with any of those roles full time.

I would love to speak to a recruiter about how to tailor my CV etc and see what opportunities there are as going blind is not working!

Medicine. Teaching. IT

Thanks very much. Really interesting ideas. It's hard to know how to get started in some of them though, wfh and from scratch. I'll do some research. The role of a PMO interests me - I'd heard about that type of role recently and think it might meet some of my skills. If anyone has further information on getting into that area I'd be very interested please. Thanks!

In tech sector, maybe something like this:
supermums.org/
If you can fund the initial costs of training.

[quote Peachered]@daisychain01 Please may I ask if you have recruitment contacts for those areas? I have experience in all but two of those areas, but I am struggling to know who to contact for a new job - the experience has come from using them within different sectors, and volunteer work, rather than being involved directly with any of those roles full time.

I would love to speak to a recruiter about how to tailor my CV etc and see what opportunities there are as going blind is not working![/quote]
You could try browsing on a site like Indeed.com and CWJobs, as you'll be able to filter on the key words and home-in on recruitment companies who want those skills for their clients.

You could also look on LinkedIn which is nowadays a great resource for finding new jobs.

For any of those roles you'd need to demonstrate any tangible deliverables and the benefits you've realised from the skills you have. This would get your foot in the door and from there you could explore opportunities from within. There is also the option to secure contract roles to build up your experience and specialist skills.

@Cornishmumofone I am in learning and development and looking for work. Can you please let me know if there are any specific HR agencies or companies who are recruiting?

I left a corporate role a couple of years ago after retraining as a psychotherapist, never looked back and there’s definitely a increasing need for counselling and psychotherapy

@reearry Try www.instinct.co.uk They specialise in learning recruitment and contact me frequently with relevant roles. Also are you on the ALT mailing list? www.alt.ac.uk

Many thanks, I'll take a look at those sites.

Electrician self-employed. Serious shortage, choose your own hours & good money.

Care assistants.

Many other jobs will be automated. Many office based jobs will be offshored to cheaper countries.

Healthcare but pick any of the Allied Health Professional roles:
Occupational therapy, Dietitian, Speech and Language, Audiologist etc etc

Better hours than nursing.

@Cornishmumofone thanks so much for the links!

Horticulture, garden design and gardening services is another theme I thought of.

You can do an HNC or similar, if you want to offer a more technical service (and take on general gardening jobs while you're studying) so it won't involve many years of study to run it as a business.