What jobs can I do from home?

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Live abroad but moving back in two years. I'm not proficient enough with the language to get a job here.
Does anyone work online, if so, what do you do, what can I do?
Have even considered getting my feet out, but they're trotters 🤣

My husband charges £75/h. He has 25 years of teaching experience at secondary schools and universities in the UK and Scandinavia. Of course he plans lesson for each student and handles assessment so not only 55 minutes of teaching.
He holds a PhD in mathematics and a master’s degree in physics.
Tutoring isn't his day job but the demand is high enough if he wanted to work full time from home.

DS charges $35/h for ESL and his Scandinavian second language. He is currently a university student. He doesn't do a lot of preparation or assesments but he keeps track of each student's progression.

I charge £40/h on the rare occasions I tutor the subject of my first university degree from a Scandinavian university. I studied classical languages and Hebrew so demand isn't exactly high but enjoyable.

Don’t go near agencies. They take a cut. I worked for a tutoring company to get a feel for how the business worked. I set my own rates now and work on referrals. Depending on your target market £50 an hour is achievable. Personally I charge between £30-£40 an hour depending on whether I’m teaching KS3, GCSE or A-level. I pay out for insurance, the classroom software I use online and a handling fee for my payment system.

A colleague does proof reading from home part time. He did a course of some sort, but doesn't have a teaching background. I think he mainly reviews secondary and uni papers now. I don't know much about it, but maybe something else to consider.

But how do you get the students?

It isn't regular work but voice acting via the mandy website is excellent. It's just your voice, loads of remote adverts go up daily for like radio ads etc and often a fair few hundred quid per ad. Ai can help you build your portfolio:)

You handle your own marketing.
A significant portion comes from recommendations by students and their families you have tutored.
We have never used agencies. The first year or two are the toughest I would say.

You have to be good at the job and work hard on selling yourself if you want remote teaching as a full time job from start. It builds over time.

Hours can be anti social as most pupils are in school 9-4. You can have homeschooled pupils in the day or pupils living in other time zones.

I have a network of other reliable, qualified tutors and we recommend each other. Parents recommend me to friends.

Yesterday I attended a flute lesson with our youngest dc who happily mentioned that we were going to dinner at her first music teacher after the lesson. I became very good friends with her.

"This first music teacher" teaches music for 0–3-year-olds at the local church as well as piano students.

The flute teacher asked, "Oh, which church her name??" We replied and she said "Oh, we were in the same program together something, something music education blah blah blah.".

Our youngest dc just wanted to learn the flute not the piano but everyone knows everyone in a certain area.

The same flute teacher also mentioned X dc's dad tutors math for a student who was looking for help. And my dh had a pupil that way.

I asked the local church music director for advice on a flute teacher for dc. He teaches organ play and singing and of course he knew a good flute teacher. He came to me then his friend's daughter needed help with Latin.

Tutoring is a small world.

Why would you get a highly paid fully wfh job in a field in which you have zero experience or qualifications?

You can potentially do what used to be classed as call centre type work. (Outbound social or market research, recruitment, sales, fundraising/ inbound customer service etc). A lot of that is now offered as home based. But make sure it's all above board and not commission only.

But it isn't especially highly paid in most cases to begin with. You could progress within those type firms though?

Btw the flute music teacher tutors from home.
So another thing to do but of course you deal with people in your home.