Does anyone work from home?

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If so, what job do you do? I'm in need on inspiration. You seem to hear of people working from home a lot but when searching for jobs there's very few aside from stuff like Avon and delivery drivers which isn't what I'm after.

I've always fancied the idea of working from home (due to a multitude of reasons, childcare only being one of them) but as a current nurse it is impossible so I'm looking for a career change and I'm completely at a loss. Any ideas?!

Do you mean that you want to care for children yourself whilst working from home? Surely not?

I work from home full time, haven't been into the office for over a year. It's great not having to leave the house in the morning, especially at this time of year.

I work for an insurance company.
My job is quite specialised so the company really has to let people work from home, they wouldn't be able to recruit enough people locally.

In my experience, you can't really search for a job where you can work from home. What I mean is, jobs won't be advertised as 'working from home', per se.

Yes, it is possible to find such a job, but most people who work from home do any old office-based job, and have negotiated the working from home bit. Either upfront, or once they've got their feet under the desk, and proved themselves.

Also, Nettle is right - you can't work from home and look after kids, for anything other than the odd day in an emergency. Not if you actually have a job to do.

Nettletheelf yeah. Part time. I live a while away from my family and my other half's family can't really help with child care

I'm an academic at university and work from home around 2 days a week - more during holidays though.
However, DS goes into childcare as my employer would not be happy to discover I was looking after my child while working. It would be the same as bringing him into the office!

When i worked in a previous team someone requested to work from home on a particular day because she had no childcare. It was refused on the basis of the organisation not being prepared to pay her to look after her own children.

PPs are right though ....most jobs won't advertise the working from home element. It's usually negotiated when you've got the job and they know they can trust you!

I work from home for a couple of different companies. One is called AQA, as a researcher, they are not taking on any longer though. Another one is Appen.

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I work from home as a software sales consultant. My job is quite specialised and is highly numerate. My company employs people with full flexible working - they don't care where you are so long as the job gets done. If you have a degree and you are numerate, you can do what I do but would mean also mean trying to get placements with top companies to get noticed. I think generally, you need to have a more specialised role or work in an industry like computing and software where it's more acceptable to work from home.

My partner is a Sales director and works from home full time when not visiting clients.

I work from home one day a week.. DD will still be going to nursery. It isn't a way of getting around childcare issues. The only thing it solves for us is that she doesn't have to have the commuting time factored into her day on a Friday.

I wfh twice a week but i'm not allowed to do childcare at the same time.

If you are a nurse I would join an agency and do shifts round dp's work, maybe twilights or split nights/fri or sat night.

I'm another one (academic) who sometimes works at home to help (not replace!) childcare - that is, the DC are still at nursery/afterschool club, and I use working at home to get in more working time that I would otherwise have to spend commuting and I spend less on childcare because I don't pay for commuting time. I also work at home when I have things I want to concentrate on because the office is too noisy. Having the flexibility to work at home does have its benefits, but you have to be strict with yourself about actually working, and not fussing about making tea and sorting out washing! I also worked as a freelance editor for 2 years and that really suited family life, but it gets lonely unless you have a good non-work social life, which you don't when you have kids!

I work from home 2/3 days a week as a project manager. It wasn't advertised as work from home but it's become doable.

You can't work from home to replace childcare - most work from home contracts will have a clause that you won't have children under a certain age in your care whilst you are working. It helps with picking DS up a bit earlier etc but he still has to go to a childcare provider.