Working From Home - Which Jobs Would Be Impossible?

[TheShellBeach]

Firefighter
Shelf stacker
Refuse Collector

I was just wondering if there are a lot of jobs which cannot be done from home.
I reckon there are loads.....................................

Anaesthetist would be a stretch.

I think you’d find it quicker to list those that can work from home.

I'm a nanny and I can't work from home.

Can't change a nappy on Zoom!

I'm a homebirth midwife and I can do parts of my job from home (updating bloods, organising appts, giving advice, updating notes) but most of it I can't 😁 in theory in a different health system I could have women come to me for the appts and to give birth but that's not our system here!

Train drivers, hgv and van drivers, delivery and taxi drivers. Mechanics, anyone operating machinery in their job - as pp said easier to list those which can be done from home.

Engineer (dh couldn't fix stuff from home)
Teaching properly (students could just switch off or not log on. )

Police Officer

Flight Attendant

Anaesthetist

Most jobs that aren't desk/computer based couldn't be done from home. So doctors, nurses, carers, teachers, builders, cleaners, drivers, gardeners, vets, zoo keepers, farmers, police, tour guides, chefs, waiters, bar staff, hairdressers...I could go on.

Bricklayer

Pilot - although this might be possible in the future when planes can be fully operated remotely.

I am only guessing here. Perhaps an actual pilot can answer this.

Prison officer
‘who’s this, mummy?’
’Jimmy ‘killer’ Mcbadman, don’t show him where the toolbox is’.

Ba ha ha.

I was a prison nurse and midwife years ago.

I could not have done that from home, now I come to think about it.

’Jimmy ‘killer’ Mcbadman, don’t show him where the toolbox is’.

..............and don't let him near the knife block in the kitchen.

Gravedigger if you live in a flat. Your neighbours below would quickly start to complain.

See also "Serial Killer".

Bramble picker
Plane driver

Barmaid/Barman

Waitress/Waiter

Mind you, you could open your own pub or restaurant at your house. Then you'd have your cake and eat it.
Literally.

Ship's Cap'n.

Presumably the Second Officer could WFH if he had a good view of the whole ship on his laptop.

I saw a video about bed bound disabled people in Japan having jobs as waiters/waitresses. They controlled robots remotely from their bed.

Bramble picker

Yum. I love brambles.

Wowsers.

They controlled robots remotely from their bed

But what happened if the robots accidentally spilled food or drinks on the customers? Who did the clearing up? Who apologised to the outraged customers?

Rugby players.

Online grocery shopping delivery driver.

I don't think the robots were the only "staff" there.