To ask if you work or make a living online?

[Teaandsympathy]

And if so what is it that you do?

I really want to do something different. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time but not sure what to do. I like the idea of working for myself and doing something from home. I’m a professional so would like to think I have lots of transferable skills I could use but I’m stuck as to what I could do. When I start looking into it I get overwhelmed and get spammed on socials with mostly nonsense.

or do I need to get my head into the real work and just retrain/look for a new job?

Following op as feeling the same as you. But I think wfh isn't as common as it was in lockdow. And a lot of jobs are advertised as fully remote but after interviewing you will find they aren't at all

Marketing in-house. But I started off in an office, Covid made it much easier to wrangle fully online positions, they are more widely available now.

What do you do now? I have worked for a few fully remote companies happy to advise on different roles and entry points

I'm following. I work in marketing and can't find a remote role at all!

(I mean, I can but they have about 1000 applications and or they're fake / freelance or franchise virtual PA (but called marketing!) roles!)

I don't do this myself but my son was looking into a course on cyber security when his DJing / music production income was really low after lockdown - which took 3 months and was quite expensive but then you would be able to WFH . Others on here might know more about it

Freelance writing and editing. I love the flexibility but the work can be feast or famine.

@Alloveragain3 this sounds really interesting! How did you get into that? Do you think it’s something you can break into or would you need to do some sort of course/have contacts. I write loads for work but it’s soooo dull. Would be great to turn that to something a bit more interesting

Following as I want to change direction. I'm already self employed and wish to remain so, but my work is outside of the house and I desperately want a home based role (currently a carer)

It happened by mistake to be honest. A few magazines asked me to write short pieces on my area of interest and then I contacted a few other publications. I then set up a profile on Upwork and it sort of snowballed.

Once you're on the books, people tend to contact you when they need a new piece written.

I work in Information Security and fully remote, fully flexible, if I want to work 9-5 or split it and do evenings/weekends, whatever, as long as I get the job done.

I very very occasionally go into an office for a meeting or if we have an external audit but it's less than 5 times a year.

The courses are offered by a variety of education providers and are generally 12-14 week intense bootcamp style. I would say that they over promise a bit, some guarantee a job and seem to be telling people they'll be earning big straight away but that just isn't the case.there's no way I'm recruiting anyone to any role other than the most junior position if all they have is 14 weeks of theoretical knowledge. Once you pass 2 years experience the money does improve and quickly, it's a growth industry and one that pays well but there is an introductory period.

To answer a pp I’m a solicitor and already wfh but I’m finding it mind numbingly boring and soul destroying at the moment. I’m going to go back to the office one day a week after the summer holidays and see if that helps a bit with motivation but really I like wfh it’s the work I don’t like.

Head of marketing but for a tech start up. Already had a lot of flexibility to wfh pre Covid so start ups are a great place to find remote roles.

Well consultancy would be an option, alternatively if you wanted an aligned but different field Privacy is another area where I'm seeing a lot more focus in organisations. If you were willing to train in something like CIPP and familiarise yourself with Global privacy frameworks - U.K. and EU GDPR, CCPA, PIPL and so on, then you could become a DPO and there's opportunities there for virtual DPO/consultant roles. Generally European companies prefer for a DPo to be based within the European Economic Area so lots of America based companies with EU clients hire virtual DPOs based in the EEA to meet that requirement.

How about in-house legal team for a tech company/start up?