If you WFH full time - what do you do and do you enjoy it?

[Aria20]

Those who WFH either pre pandemic or post but are fully remote, not hybrid. What do you do?

I have one year left of my psychology degree and think I'd like to work from home - reasons mainly flexibility and being at home after school for the children - even if I'm still working that's fine. I have 3 children who in September will all be in different schools in different directions so logistically going to be a bit of pain to work around. The older 2 are at/will be at secondary so will get buses, the youngest will be starting reception so I am hoping to be able to do school runs - 10 min walk. But of course this leaves school holidays and with three different sets of term dates and inset days this makes finding a flexible job hard! Also have a young dog who I'd have to arrange daycare/walks for if I work out of the home.

My DH works long hours in a high stress, high earning job so is not around to help pick up the slack. We don't need me to work but I'd like to earn some money even if it's just for holidays/extras. I have worked in education settings but before having children I worked in property law - this was 13 years ago though so no recent experience. The psychology degree was partly for interest and to gain a degree to hopefully enhance my employability and pay opportunities. I'd ideally like to utilise some things I've learnt on the degree, however, I'm not sure what a psychology graduate can do from home?? Any suggestions?

A senior lecturer who mainly wrote new programmes. Mostly wfh with odd day on campus.

Bookkeeping/finance. I don't like /seriously dislike working from home all the time. I choose to go into the office at least 3 days.

I work in transport planning and would recommend it - lots of jobs now largely/fully WFH, can be public or private sector, and the work is interesting. With a psychology degree you could work in policy development/scheme design (how to achieve carbon reductions and road pricing are big areas right now for example), or in behaviour change (trying to persuade people to travel more sustainably), or on the research or customer side. Lots of analytical/modelling jobs if that's your thing. We need more women and non-engineers!

@BiscuitTinClarabel those are some interesting ideas I had never thought of using the degree in that way. Thank you, I will look into those. I just feel like I don't know where to start so this thread has been helpful.

I work on local government and lots of councils seem to be keen on working from home. I work in finance for adult social care.

IT Consultant - love it!

OP are you intending to get after school and holiday childcare for your reception age child?

If not then you will need to look for term time and school hours only work, not just wfh. Which is a lot more limiting. Maybe school counsellor, there aren’t many of these posts though. Or Ed Psych as a pp suggested? Something self employed would work, as long as you can get enough business in term time hours.

As a pp says, just because a job is wfh doesn’t always mean you can do the school run (eg there may be a meeting scheduled then) and certainly doesn’t mean you can do it with a 5 yr old around after school or in the holidays…

there are usually remote jobs at all levels on this site

www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs?workplace=remote&radius=20&workplace=remote

Full time remote, my office is miles away from home and was hired during the pandemic. The office is open now and those who are local go in but are mostly hybrid, whereas I'll be WFH indefinitely.

I'm middle management in software.

@minipie yes I'd use after school club and would definitely sort out school holidays too - I meant though I'd be at home when the older wines get home and I'd be able to pick up from after school club as it's only on until 5.30 so if I was working in an office with a commute it wouldn't be feasible

Engagement manager for a software company. Love my job, hate WFH.

I WFH permanently and full time. Not naming what I do because people I work with are on here.

I enjoy the flexibility. I enjoy being left alone to work in peace. But I do miss being around other people. I also started this job WFH when everyone else had worked together in an office. So it was strange coming into a team like that. Its good if people you work with are proactive about reaching out to each other, managers reaching out to their team etc. My team isn't and as a result it can feel isolating sometimes.

How can you be a nurse working at home?

@Annonnimoouse42 I do regularly look on there but I never see anything entry level all seem to be looking for experienced managers or fundraisers which I've no experience in...I'd be happy to get experience and work my way up, just need a foot in the door!

stratforduponavon · Today 16:50
i thought that as well??

Psychology grads often go into HR. Lots of wfh roles at higher levels, but I think 100% entry level jobs (in most fields) are rare..

Having said that, we've just taken on 4 grad HR trainees and they are only in the office once a month in theory, and less in practice. We are public sector so might be worth exploring that.

100% wfh entry level...

Great! Try www.womenintransport.com/ or tps.org.uk/ (transport planning society) for some ideas and a jobs browse if it's sparked your interest. Honestly, it's not at all what I would have thought I wanted to do, but I got into the transport sector by accident nearly 20 years ago and love it!

Having asked how a nurse can work from home... one of our practise nurses does this at the surgery. And very ineffective she is too. Calls missed because she has over run on previous appointments. She then misses you, you call back and she is onto the next call.

This nurse also witholds her number and I know some people (not me!) who dont like to take calls from an unknown number but as long as she is hiding a home and being inefficient that's OK.

I worked for a company who were known to have people working from home well before it became a thing.. they did it because it saved them allocating a desk to the employee. The skiving that went on was shocking. Of course some will say line managers should resolve this but they were often not UK based, or potentially doing all sorts themselves. We are talking about 25 years ago...

The more senior positions it was much much more difficult to hide but some of the admin staff really took advantgage. With the endless reorganisations plus the change after change of line manager it meant that it was never really addressed.

WFH really saved my mental health when I could. I'd be willing to sacrifice a high(er) salary for flexibility/WFH.

Arent some companies offering WFH but at a lower salary because of the cost savings to the employee? People were up in arms.

I have been in an office and wfh and after 30 years I believe companies need to be really careful who they allow to do this.

@stratforduponavon I'd happily be on less salary to reflect not needing to pay for commute and saving those hours each end of the day too!

Digital Marketer, DH is an auditor. We both wfh.

Marketing is quite easy to get into (IME).

@Aria20 lots of roles not just NHS have moved over to at least agile working if not mostly or ft at home. Just check the nhs jobs site and always call to speak to the recruiting manager and ask the question

Accountant. My life is infinitely better for wfh. I do a lot of unpaid overtime but don't begrudge it because it's in my 'old' 3 hours round trip commute instead.
I am now job hunting and finding it difficult to find a replacement ft wfh job though which is making it tough to leave.