Introvert seeking a fully remote job - what can I do?

[careerchange2022]

I'm almost 40 and am looking for a career change.

I'm very shy, introverted and don't have a lot of confidence and as such, a job that is fully WFH and doesn't involve much interaction with people would be ideal for me.

I'd really like to end up on a salary of £50-£60k in the next 10 years, although that might be ambitious.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Since you know how to use an apostrophe, see my sub editor suggestion up thread!

It’s interesting that your only goal is around how much you want to earn and working from home. You don’t lost any aspirations for what you would like to achieve or succeed at and how you would gain job satisfaction.
I mean this as gently as possible, I wouldn’t hire you with that attitude for a B2 admin position within the NHS.
think about what you can do for a company, not how they fit in with an arbitrary and unrealistic target you have set yourself.
degrees don’t mean much unless they are in a specific, relevant field.

My DWs company of almost 10k people is almost fully remote! Look at your skills, think about what you may want to do then train or apply for those jobs.
Virtual assistants get paid well, though are freelance…

I will repeat what I said earlier. I have been in accountancy for thirty years, strong interpersonal skills are required, we do not hide in cupboards and not speak to people. I also would not want a trainee WFH full time and not wishing to speak to people, I don’t think you would get the job with those desires, companies invest a lot of time and often money on trainee accountants.

Full time WFH is not the norm either, hybrid working is the norm now. I am signed up to various job boards which I browse out of curiosity and I do not recall seeing a fully WFH role since the pandemic, even then they usually said temporary.

Get creative and sell on Etsy. That's what I did.

Almost every sub-editor I know is out of work, it’s a profession that barely exists anymore. To earn £60k OP would need to be a chief sub, anyway. And they’re not often 100% remote.

@Treetops292

What are you selling on Etsy that offers a salary of 60k? I mean it’s overpriced but there’s overpriced then there’s that.

SEO? Marketing?

We know (from the eye poppingly large amount of money invested) that the Metaverse is going to be huge. Get on there and set up a stream or site telling everything what is on there and where to find it, commenting, goving news/updates, gosdip etc. if you are first, you will be big. Five years from now you will be huge.

I should take my own advice really 😁

It sounds like the type of job I'm looking for may not actually exist!

I think you might be right. You say you are very shy, and introverted and don’t want much interaction with others, you have no experience and your only drivers are wanting to WFH and earn 50-60k within 19 years. I can’t think of any jobs like that! The people I know WFH on that kind of money have years of experience/qualifications behind them and are either v sociable or are SO techy that they don’t need to be, ie without them, the whole system falls apart!

I think working on your confidence is the I first step, then looking at getting you back out and earning into the workplace.

Is your desire to WFH just to avoid interacting with people, or do you actually need to be located in your home?

If it’s just the former, here’s a wildcard suggestion. My brother is a train driver. The main thing he likes about his job is that he doesn’t have to interact with people much - he’s on his own driving trains all day then goes home. It’s well paid and has an excellent pension. Competitive to get into, and the training is hard, but he did it in his forties after doing a lot of research into how to get into it and applying applying applying. Eventually he got in, and he’s been doing it for several years now and is very pleased he made the career change.

it’s fairly technical but he got a lower grade than you in maths GCSE and his degree was in an arts subject.

Another accountant here, I work in the NHS earning just over what you hope to achieve in 10 years, and I'm in back to back meetings and presenting for the vast majority of the day. My actual 'work' has to get done in the evenings.

I actually came on to the thread to say clinical coder. The ones that I have met at our Trust are pretty much all introverts. They are in huge demand, and are paid very well once qualified. Most of our coders are contractors as we struggle to recruit substantively.

I will not be able to carry on my career at the level I'm at for the long haul. Clinical coding is what I plan to go to once I want to take it a little steadier.

Get some in-demand IT qualifications and you can set your price.

As an ex clinician plotting to learn to code, that would be right up my alley! How do you plan to transition? Are there specific courses or qualifications you think would be useful? (programming languages and so on). Do you use agencies? What sort of length contracts do people work on?

Apologies for all questions, but it had stupidly not occurred to me I could do that. (I don’t know why! NHS IT has always driven me insane)

Clinical coding isn't IT. It's reading through medical notes and assigning codes (from WHO) for the diagnoses and procedures. These codes are then used to get payment from the nhs for care given. They are also used in research and to plan hospital capacity each year. All the covid stats originate from clinical coders for example.

Proof reader or translator if you can do languages.
you won’t get paid that highly I don’t think but you can do it remotely

How many do you actually know? Because as an ex-journalist I know quite a few and they don’t seem to struggle for work. You would need to work for a very specialist publication or national title to earn the sort of money the OP is looking for though.

This is targeted towards apprentices but has good basic information a out thd role and requirements

www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/clinical-coder-v1-0

You can try copywriting, being self-employed and getting jobs via Fiverr or Upwork.

Software dev, accountancy, or data, can be an option, there are bootcamps specifically for women.

Check here for info on the Government site, Makers, Firebrand, etc.

Good luck!