Work from home jobs?

Avenged7Fold said:
you need to look at why you want to work from home. From your OP you seem to establish that you want to do it but don't know what exactly you want to do, which imo is the more important matter.
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true, the OPs reasons for working from home seem to just be that he's a bit fed up with his current job... I think finding something you enjoy is probably the most important step
 
I work in IT and can work from home if I need to, but I've probably only done it 3 or 4 times. I don't like being isolated from the rest of the dev team all day - it's frustrating to to rely on the phone instead of just swinging around in your chair to talk something out with someone.
 
I worked from home a fair bit in my old place mainly because the atmosphere in the office wasn't great, again it's an option at my new job if needs be as we only log into remote VMs in the office to work anyway so they can be accessed anywhere with a net connection but I've only done it once since being here when my bike broke down as it's a nice office to work in.

Working from home isn't all that it can feel very isolated and you can end up a bit cabin feverish as you basically always feel like you're at work, although it is nice to be sat on the sofa in your pants or out in the garden in the sun every now and again.
 
By working at home I don't necessarily mean all the time, working from a office or on location is not a problem, but really it is to get a idea of what type of jobs can be done from home.
Its just a Idea that appeals to me rather than being dead set that I must work from home.

Yeah I couldn't drop to £15k as that's about a 1/3 of what I'm currently on so going into a junior/trainee type role probably isn't feasible so I probably would have to look into evening classes to get a degree/qualification 1st part time whilst I try and stick it out in my current job.

Thanks for the input though, its definitely got me thinking, I'm due to return to work next week so would be great if I could go back with a Idea in mind of what I would like to do for some motivation.

Any other ideas keep em coming though.

My main hobbies are Bikes (MTB/road/bmx) Gaming & Cars, would be awesome to have a job doing something I love.
 
tom_e said:
I worked from home a fair bit in my old place mainly because the atmosphere in the office wasn't great, again it's an option at my new job if needs be as we only log into remote VMs in the office to work anyway so they can be accessed anywhere with a net connection but I've only done it once since being here when my bike broke down as it's a nice office to work in.

Working from home isn't all that it can feel very isolated and you can end up a bit cabin feverish as you basically always feel like you're at work, although it is nice to be sat on the sofa in your pants or out in the garden in the sun every now and again.
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Another good point here. When you work from here, you feel like you don't actually get home from work... not a nice feeling. A commute or some swap between work and home is needed imo. When I was meeting a deadline at Christmas (working from home) I felt like I was pretty much working 24/7.
 
I did work at home a while ago doing research. I enjoyed the work, but it can get lonely quickly being home alone.

My father is a project manager within the IT sector (really large scale stuff) and has been working at home for years. Honestly, I don't know how he does it. Occasional days home are nice, but he's there alone all day and I think that would ruin me.
 
perhaps some form of business analyst role using your experience from whatever domain you've got experience in?

or maybe look at project management

both will be better paid than starting at the bottom in support
 
BaNksY IV said:
By working at home I don't necessarily mean all the time, working from a office or on location is not a problem, but really it is to get a idea of what type of jobs can be done from home.
Its just a Idea that appeals to me rather than being dead set that I must work from home.

Yeah I couldn't drop to £15k as that's about a 1/3 of what I'm currently on so going into a junior/trainee type role probably isn't feasible so I probably would have to look into evening classes to get a degree/qualification 1st part time whilst I try and stick it out in my current job.

Thanks for the input though, its definitely got me thinking, I'm due to return to work next week so would be great if I could go back with a Idea in mind of what I would like to do for some motivation.

Any other ideas keep em coming though.

My main hobbies are Bikes (MTB/road/bmx) Gaming & Cars, would be awesome to have a job doing something I love.
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Don't do a job based on a hobby though, you'll ruin it. More often than not, a job is a job and you're not really going to want to do it every day regardless of what it is and you especially won't want to do more of what you did at work at home, and so it would no longer be a hobby.

If you were in the position to go to uni and do something completely different, I would. I know I wouldn't be a programmer if I had decent GCSEs and a-levels. Something almost the opposite in fact.
 
BaNksY IV said:
I was thinking of changing to a IT support type career
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Why?

No offense, but "IT Support" seems to be the go-to "I want a new job but I don't really know what".

At the bottom end (which is what you'll be going into with no experience), it will most probably be 90% resetting passwords, deploying images and explaining to users that their PC wont work if it's not actually switched on.

Unless you're in London (and even then you'd be pushing it), you're not going to go into any "IT Support" role with no experience at anywhere near £45k. As Dowie mentioned, your best bet might be trying to get onto a graduate scheme somewhere.
 
I work from home most of the time. Freelance copywriter. The majority of my jobs are remote projects involving teleconferencing on Skype, Google Hangouts and whatnot. Generally out and about only when I'm doing local self-marketing, research or consulting on-site.
 
if you get a few years experience as a general techie type, doing some form of IT monkey role elsewhere - get fairly familiar with linux/unix, databases, SQL etc..... bit of scripting - just general basic IT skills... be quite sharp, switched on etc.. you could probably convince a few vendors to take you on in a similar support role that they'd give to say computer science grads etc..

main thing is be visibly productive in your first role - if you're going for a BA type role then get **** hot at excel and word - lots of attention to detail with your specs, spend that extra bit of effort to make them stand out, make them clear and easy to follow - people will notice, developers will thank you for it. Re: Excel - get a book - anything by Walkenbach will do, get good at Excel, it is used everywhere and most people are naff at it... become a wizz at it and you can be very productive and can help others rather quickly - there is often some old excel sheet that could do with updating or some manager who is stuck with something - be the guy to fix that problem... Ditto to SQL.. people use it in an adhoc way without learning it - some people write half arsed queries but need help, be good at it, people will come to you - tis only a few moments of your time to show them a quick query - but again you then become the useful person... it all adds to your perceived value
 
I work from home. I do freelance DSP R&D in various fields (avionics/security/medical/wearables).

Worst thing about it is that I have nearly thirteen days worth of music on my HD but I'm pretty much bored of most of it.
 
Work from home here. UK Sales Manager for a packaging company based in Ireland.

Started about 2 months ago and slowly adjusting to it. I think I like it but can echo what others have said about feeling a bit Isolated and always being in the house.

When things settle down I will be getting out on the road a bit more which should break my days up.

One thing I do like is not having to rush around on the morning, not having to commute and I am sure in the winter it will be a god send not havng to travel 30min home in the pitch black after leaving home in the morning in darkness.

If you fancy something like this salary in the industry ranges from £20 - £45k depending on experience, plus car, laptop, phone and then comission on top.
 
Software developer. Full time at home. Used to commute daily to the city, for comparison.

To start with it was quite easy to completely lose the ability to track time. Sometimes even just remembering what day it is could catch me out. :)

Social side of things did take a bit of a nose dive. After-work drink in the sun etc. with colleagues or friends that also work nearby - all gone.

Being motivated to do other things got a bit harder, like going to the gym. Used to do that on the way home without problem, but it took a while to adjust and get on with it.

No problems anymore though, and whilst I knew the numbers, it never really clicked just how much time and money I was spending on commuting.
 
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I'm an accountant and I left the 9-5 office job and set up as self employed, working exclusively from home. I just found I worked at home, played from home, at times I didn't even leave the house for days!

After a while of this I was going nuts and climbing the walls, so I went out and got a part time PAYE job as well just to get me out of the house, for 'socialisation hours' :p
 
In IT and have done it a bit. I liked it, but wouldn't want to do it every day. Missed human interaction.

Depends what your working on though.

Apple I think have support jobs that are completely home based.
 
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I think one major thing that has been barely touched upon is the solidarity you have working from home. If you dont enjoy your current job and is leading you toward deppression, then there is some sort of social aspect missing from work. Having a mid-worklife crisis and switching careers and working from home wont help you and will probably make it harder to feel settled in any career.

If you don't like where you work, you don't necessarily have to change what field of work you do. Why not seek employment at a different firm in a similar job role?

You could keep a comfortable amount of income and fresh faces and a new work environment might be all you need. The people of the work place are just as important to your happiness as the work itself and the pay. When i started work i had a disgustingly low paying job, the work itself was terribly boring but the people made the job more fun than any other role i have done.
 
I work on the docks currently, as a crane co ordinator and a imv driver. So nothing transferable, before this i worked in shipping for about 7 years.

Thanks for all the info and advice guys.
 
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