Work from home jobs?

amigafan2003 said:
Matched betting.
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How much are you making with that in a typical month? I dabbled a bit (and have more than enough spare cash to manage as many offers as I can in a month while waiting for them to settle), but it just seemed a rather poor return for the time spent.

Though that's bearing in mind that I'm working on projects or marketing during the day, then matched betting in the evening when I could be playing games or something instead, haha.
 
I work for myself from home, and it has it's positives and negatives.

Being moderately established in my industry means that I can pick and choose which clients I work with and which mandates I work on. There's lots of flexibility (I took around 4 months off in the last year), and if you want to have a lie in until 11am then it's certain an option! The company is stable and my personal cash spending has dropped massively, so I'm able to be selective over the work I chose and how much to take on.

On the other hand, it can be very boring and with no one to cover your work, you can end up being plagued by responsibilities whilst on holiday. I have to interact with people as part of my job, so I can always pick up the phone and speak to someone, but I do definitely miss an office environment and going to lunch/drinks with colleagues.

Also, as I'm not a terribly active person I've put on about a stone and a half in just over two years! :eek:
 
Pestilence said:
How much are you making with that in a typical month? I dabbled a bit (and have more than enough spare cash to manage as many offers as I can in a month while waiting for them to settle), but it just seemed a rather poor return for the time spent.

Though that's bearing in mind that I'm working on projects or marketing during the day, then matched betting in the evening when I could be playing games or something instead, haha.
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£1700 but I've got a few new accounts coming online soon so hope to have that up to around £2500.

As matched betting income is tax free, £1700 a month = £26k as a salary and £2500 a month = £40k as a salary.
 
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BaNksY IV said:
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.
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how about this 1 year part time course - I reckon this should be sufficient to give you the skills for an entry level Business Analyst or Project Management role - especially if you've got some industry specific experience to go with it...

https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/G400-13

tis 60 credits at third year undergrad level... though it looks fairly vocational rather than academic so should just be a case of putting the effort in to get through the material
 
I manage a VOIP voice network, most of the work I do can be done at home, but our management wants us in the office at least a portion of the week so I work from home on a Thursday & Friday.
 
The gf has been offered a job from home. It's quite specialised so they were struggling for good candidates and they then emailed her asking her to apply. The salary range was 24-30k either working from an office or from home. She took some convincing by me to go to interview with the demand of home based and the full 30k but they accepted with the compromise of 28k. She has no formal quals, just 4 yrs or so experience in the job. Any requirement to leave the house = all expenses paid of course.

So yeah, not blinding money but OK for North of the South and working from home. You can find work from home that pays well, but most poignantly you have to ask yourself what is most important to your requirements/social setup/life etc.

For us it's perfect as we earn a good combined wage and she has the flexibility should I be posted elsewhere in the country/world.
 
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I have worked from home for many years, for me it works fine, but its certainly not for everyone.
Some people can feel isolated, non motivated, easily distracted. If any of these fall into your character it may not be for you, but you never really know until you try it.
 
I couldn't work from home, too many distractions from any actually working. I'd have an awesome garden though.

My ideal job would be working from 8pm until morning - I'd be able to actually see my daughter for more than an hour of ratty tiredness Mon-Friday, not to mention the school run
 
Craig321 said:
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.
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While a bit of downtime on a commute can be theraputic, I don't regard it as necessary and much prefer WFH to my 5hr daily commute. Rushing to get a train is just as stressful as getting an earful from the missus about how "YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE FINISHED WORK 5 MINUTES AGO, COME AND HELP ME!".

A good option if you want a switch between work/home is to have a bath after finishing work IMO, gives you a period of relaxation to collect your thoughts before returning to 'home life'.

Overall I think a good balance is a mix of office and home work which is flexible enough that you have less commute time, able to be at home if required etc but also that presence in the office, building relationships etc.
 
IT here (3rd line support) I work from home when I need to but generally go into the office. More atmosphere, get more done, have some laughs.

I also cover out of hours though which is done from home
 
HangTime said:
While a bit of downtime on a commute can be theraputic, I don't regard it as necessary and much prefer WFH to my 5hr daily commute. Rushing to get a train is just as stressful as getting an earful from the missus about how "YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE FINISHED WORK 5 MINUTES AGO, COME AND HELP ME!".

A good option if you want a switch between work/home is to have a bath after finishing work IMO, gives you a period of relaxation to collect your thoughts before returning to 'home life'.

Overall I think a good balance is a mix of office and home work which is flexible enough that you have less commute time, able to be at home if required etc but also that presence in the office, building relationships etc.
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Yup - when I used to work at HP and did the odd day at home that's exactly what I did. Also, the laptop got switched off and work mobile also got switched off and both got put under the stairs so there was no temptation to "quickly log in to check emails" and extend the working day.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Yup - in addition to doing a degree.



Matched betting.
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You really come across badly. How long until you mention your Westfield or your retirement. Why don't you decide whether you are retired or if you work from home? Perhaps we could talk about unions.


In answer to the op, I do work from home unless I am travelling or have meetings in London. I have worked that way for 11 years and it works quite well for me.

I am an economist/advisor in a real estate niche. I had a lot of experience before starting to work from home. Planning a career around working from home would be ill-advised.
 
Used to work in IT and worked from home a bit, but only because my bosses were in the US and didn't know where I was half the time.

Now work for myself in a completely different field and just work from home. No bosses, no phonecalls, just me and my thoughts.
 
if I was doing it all again...I would look at a career in data and analytics...a good IT degree is a great foundation for that...Open University has some cracking courses too...

http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/qualifications/q36

I've used https://www.khanacademy.org/ to brush up some key math and IT skills

learned a lot from https://www.edx.org/ ... free university level courses...loved Harvard's intro to Computer science (CS50)

If you can complete some of those courses, you'll get a sense of how well work from home suits you...

A better way to spend a few weekend evening than in the pub...now if only that were also true for PC gaming...sigh...my life would be much more productive
 
Skidder said:
You really come across badly. How long until you mention your Westfield or your retirement. Why don't you decide whether you are retired or if you work from home? Perhaps we could talk about unions.


In answer to the op, I do work from home unless I am travelling or have meetings in London. I have worked that way for 11 years and it works quite well for me.

I am an economist/advisor in a real estate niche. I had a lot of experience before starting to work from home. Planning a career around working from home would be ill-advised.
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You can be retired and still work btw - what about those old blokes you see in Asda who have a one day a week job just to get out of the house and socialise. They are still reired, even though they have a "job".

Definition.

Retired.

Adjective

1. withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession:
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Just to clarify:-

I am retired - my profression was a software engineer. I have "retired" from that profession and never intend to or need to work again in order to gain a reliable source of income.
I am also a full time student doing a degree.
I do have a source of income that involves me working from home, but I do not NEED that work nor do I rely on it - it's more of a hobby - but that does not negate the "retired" aspect.

Happy now?


BTW, did I mention I have a Westfield?
 
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