WFH job? What do you do?

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Embarrassing symptoms due to birth injury. Want to work from home. Please don’t ask about it. I just would like to know what options are available re wfh and people’s experiences. Thank you

Very broad depending on your skillset, but civil service. They are clamping down on it more now, but in my department at least it’s still very possible to WFH for health needs.

Much broader for a genuine health reason. We’d ask for occupational health recommendations and what was being done to manage the condition eg physio referral.

Some conditions can’t be managed. Fistula after 4th degree tear, for example, sometimes just is what it is. Bit unfair to tell op to try physio when you have no idea what the issue is.

Marketing was my last job, op; fully WFH but depends on your background and harder to bag an entry level role now due to AI. TBH the WFH jobs are harder to get because anyone in the country (or sometimes beyond) can apply. I also did AI training on the side (also WFH). Before that I worked in academic publishing and had a side gig on Fiverr copyediting translated medical papers. Both also WFH. Depends on your quals though.

I work in IT, we have customer support staff who also can work at home although I think they are mostly hybrid at the moment through choice.

What sort of field are you thinking of?

I work for a charity - all 200 of us are fully remote. This is my 2nd job in a charity after I had a career change five years ago and wasn’t able to commute. I did have to start one up from entry-level position but one internal promotion after two years and now my current role which I moved to a year ago means I’m now on a more reasonable salary and would never go back to an office role. my salary is still lower than it was, but I have l zero commuting costs, don’t have to pay for a dog Sitter (Flexible as so I can take him out for a walk at lunchtime) and also spend considerably less than I used to on lunchtime spending. Pm me if you want any more info or help

I'm an EA and work from home 4 days a week (sometimes like last week I do 5 days at home).

It's only in the last 18 months that they've cracked down on the actual office day (which meant people applied to be a homeworker).

Most places I'm looking at at the moment for jobs require people in 3-5 days though.

My neighbour is full time from home working for a Big 4 firm. She mentioned that UK firm employees have to go into the office 3 times a week, but employees for ‘global firm’ don’t have any requirement because they are all based around the world on different time zones and it just wouldn’t make sense.

I’d imagine she’s very well paid.

Local authority. In theory I'm meant to be in once a week but I have health issues and there's not enough space there generally so no one forces it.

I did have to go in full time for six weeks for training when I started though.

It Techical Sales. But also ask for help with the injury (been there) X

After a terrible illness I was off for 1.5 years and my boss in the NHS let me do triage instead of clinical work and I got paid the same. I think you can do things like smoking cessation work from home. Ask AI.

Tech project management, have a long career doing this within different industries, have done lots of office based and hybrid work but current role is full time wfh. What did you do before maternity leave?

Do you have any particular skills OP?

Data analyst

I would also love to know more about this if okay.

I have a Master's and a diploma (degree equivalent) I do WFH already but my salary is dire currently.

OP, a lot of EAP work is WFH, from admin to senior levels. May be worth a look.

I work in group insurance

We're in the office one day week, but it's optional

No idea what type of work you are looking for but if you're interested in the charity sector there are a lot of WFH roles available on charityjobs. You can filter to purely remote.

I’m a freelance grant application assessor for charitable foundations. The daily rate is good but it’s not consistent. You also need experience in the role to go freelance and if you were in house it would likely be hybrid rather than fully wfh.

Yes, this is a great starting point. There are usually loads of fully remote jobs on there and where I got both of mine.

I think the hardest part is not underselling yourself and understanding (& highlighting) your transferable skills. I didn’t have any direct experience of either the industry or the job, but After a month or so of floundering around thinking wtf have I done, I found my feet and then did very well.

Counselling. To fit completely within my DCs school hours.

I work in TV wfh. It’s intense work but not at all flexible, with a shift pattern including nights, evenings, early starts, weekends and bank holidays, timed to the minute.

I work for the local authority. I have to go in 2 days a week but those that have medical reasons why they cant are referred to the OT & can work from home full time if their health requires it & the OTs report confirms that as a necessary adaption.

It clearly depends on your experience etc but this site has been mentioned before, but I've never use them.
https://www.theworkfromhomehub.co.uk/jobs

I haven’t told her to manage the condition or try physio, she doesn’t want to share what the condition is, understandably. So it’s impossible to know if it’s permanent damage or whether something that could improve with time and the right treatment.

And the fact is, is that employers are far more likely to offer full WFH to someone with an occupational health recommendation to WFH than it is to find a job that is solely WFH. It depends what she was doing before maternity leave.

Accountant, self-employed. I'm tapering down now so do more bookkeeping + type work but there's plenty of it around.

I have had fully remote roles working for charities and freelancing for small businesses.

Usually marketing, communication, fundraising, copywriting and project management roles. I have also done PA type roles from home.

I am looking for my next remote role and as well as the above type of jobs I am looking at civil service jobs and local authority jobs.

One issue is that I am finding that many organisations that advertise their roles as 'remote' to attract applicants are really only offering hybrid roles so make sure you get it written in your contract that you are a remote worker..

I need to work part-time and remotely also due to long term health issues.