Jobs with no WFH?

[Zippidydoodaa]

I hate hate hate wfh and have had enough of it.

What jobs have no working from home??

I am happy to go back to uni but the uni near me is small so limited options 😅

Teaching, nursing, police, retail, hospitality...

Midwife, lifeguard, firefighter

I'd start by thinking about what you're interested in/ what type of work you'd like to do...

Something in healthcare? Nurse/ midwife/ doctor???

Builder or some sort of trade

Surveyor (although presumably some WFH writing up reports)

Gardener

I’m a receptionist so don’t work from home , wouldn’t want to

A lot of office type jobs are happy for you to attend the office five days a week. We have a mandated 3 day attendance policy but they’d be fine with it if you came in for all 5. You’d just have to be prepared for it to be quiet on Fridays.

I’ve thought about secondary teaching but everyone on here really slates it? Tbh it’s the only thing I can see myself doing though!

The other complication is that my mortgage will renew in 4 years and I took 4x my current salary of £43,750 😅

teachers do hours and hours of working at home

Yeah my current place says “the office is open just go in” but if it’s empty it’s so pointless.

I haven’t been able to find a firm that is suitable for me in terms of flexible working, hence drastic career change!

Secondary teaching ;) It's not too bad.

Childcare, nanny, nursery

I think being in the office is becoming more common again. My job in marketing requires me to be in 2 days a week together with the rest of the marketing team, but I could be there on all 5 days if I wanted, and there would be other people in on those days.

The other complication is that my mortgage will renew in 4 years and I took 4x my current salary of £43,750

You probably should have put that in your opening post.

As others have said, there are literally thousands of jobs where people can't work from home, but what you really want as your main criteria is a job where you can earn £45K plus.
Then you are talking about having qualifications and experience - so, even if you did re-train as a teacher, you would be starting on about £30K, which won't help when you need to re-mortgage.

If you have a degree many grad programs don't care what kind of degree or when it was gained you could have a look at that avenue.

Railway signaller

Prison service.

A probationer in Scotland will start on £32k from January 2024. Jumping to £38,655 for their first year and £40,848 for their second year, which isn’t too bad really. It took about 7 years and a lot of exams for me to get to my current salary!

But then I have to pay a years worth of living expenses while I’m studying which I can do but it was meant to be used to pay down the mortgage.

Ahh it’s so difficult.

What subject are you thinking of teaching?

I did economics at uni and currently work in accountancy so would teach business studies. Whether or not my council need business studies teachers is another matter though!!

@Zippidydoodaa you had me very confused there. I don't like wfh either.

Have you looked at other organisations in your current field? You may well find others with more of an office culture

I think it depends on your boss. Mine thinks if you wfh you aren’t working. 😳

I would suggest trying another firm. Office attendance at mine is pretty good Monday-Thursday now. Friday's are quite quiet still, but better than they were.

Anything public facing or factory I would say , avoid admin / call centre / office type work .

I do the accounts for a small business and have always gone into the office, including right through Covid.