Working from home advice

I was going to suggest transcription. We use a firm called dictatenow at work. If you can type and operate a foot pedal then you set. You just have to type out from audio. I am not sure if you can work in legal without some legal knowledge and certs though. Its not exciting work either and have to work with word templates. Maybe there exists something like that but for accounting like some sort of data entry job for accounting.
 
D.P. said:
Software engineering. There is a massive lack of good candidates. I get head hunted all the time, just these last 2-weeks I had fly-out offers from Google, Amazon and Oracle. Our company is struggling massively to hire enough good programmers.


Doing that from home is a little harder but I did that currently.
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Oh? I just finished an academic university position. Programming, involving lots of maths and physics essentially. Want to find a nice programming job now :D. Preferably one involving C++, graphics (I like it because of the maths) and CUDA.

Feel I am not finding much opportunity, but then I guess Leeds is hardly the place to be and London is. Lots of C# around here which I also know (with Winforms and WPF - more from hobby, interest and personal development), but then as I said, I prefer C++ and graphics.
 
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Google home based jobs.. there are plenty of different type. From dealing with data, admin type to sales.

I enjoy working from my ejaculatorium (home).
 
unless you're going to be self employed/freelance then you might have to be available for a normal working week of more like 8 hours rather than 6 and a lot of places tend to prefer it if people work for them first before allowing people to work from home - you might find that those sorts of role also require you to come into the office on occasions for meetings etc..

if you've got all that free time and you've not got any real skills/education then perhaps address that first - at the moment, unless there is some valuable skill set that you've missed in your first post, I don't see why anyone would be inclined to employ you to do anything other than menial work? Can you write code? Can you audit a company? Get some skills/education.
 
dowie said:
unless you're going to be self employed/freelance then you might have to be available for a normal working week of more like 8 hours rather than 6 and a lot of places tend to prefer it if people work for them first before allowing people to work from home - you might find that those sorts of role also require you to come into the office on occasions for meetings etc..

if you've got all that free time and you've not got any real skills/education then perhaps address that first - at the moment, unless there is some valuable skill set that you've missed in your first post, I don't see why anyone would be inclined to employ you to do anything other than menial work? Can you write code? Can you audit a company? Get some skills/education.
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Yes, I know your right. I have no real skills as such.

As you say, I really should start looking at learning a trade. Accountancy looks good to me. I know a few people who I would stand a good chance of working for. I will also,look at web design. I know it's a flooded market, but where there's a will, there's a way.
 
robfosters said:
That's a shame. I did quite a lot of work with Dreamweaver and Flash a while back and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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If you're handy with Flash it can be a good little earner. My wife is a freelance web designer, but she specializes in pretty advanced Flash content. You have to remember, everybody with a copy of Dreamweaver is a "web designer", so if you have a genuine skill above standard content you can set yourself apart. Otherwise, yeah, the web design field is completely saturated.
 
Scotty123 said:
Oh? I just finished an academic university position. Programming, involving lots of maths and physics essentially. Want to find a nice programming job now :D. Preferably one involving C++, graphics (I like it because of the maths) and CUDA.

Feel I am not finding much opportunity, but then I guess Leeds is hardly the place to be and London is. Lots of C# around here which I also know (with Winforms and WPF - more from hobby, interest and personal development), but then as I said, I prefer C++ and graphics.
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If you are good at C++ and have strong Math skills then you should easily find a good job, but yes, you will have to move out of Leeds. Should easily get a 60K + job in London or SE, and if you are willing to move abroad you should be able to get more like 80K.


Jobs involving graphics are more sparse but the math background should help you in loads of fields.
 
robfosters said:
Yes, I know your right. I have no real skills as such.

As you say, I really should start looking at learning a trade. Accountancy looks good to me. I know a few people who I would stand a good chance of working for. I will also,look at web design. I know it's a flooded market, but where there's a will, there's a way.
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I am doubtful that someone who is home bound could have much success in accountancy, because you'll need to attend meetings and so forth. Plus, there is a big time investment in getting qualified.

If you're considering going this route, maybe try become a qualified bookeeper? You could get up to speed on that in a month or two and try find a couple of clients. This will minimise your commitment (financially and time wise) and give you a chance to see if its the sort of thing you could do.

Did you go to Uni? If not, consider an OU degree in something you could make use of it. Coding or whatever.
 
Thompson_NCL said:
I am doubtful that someone who is home bound could have much success in accountancy, because you'll need to attend meetings and so forth. Plus, there is a big time investment in getting qualified.

If you're considering going this route, maybe try become a qualified bookeeper? You could get up to speed on that in a month or two and try find a couple of clients. This will minimise your commitment (financially and time wise) and give you a chance to see if its the sort of thing you could do.

Did you go to Uni? If not, consider an OU degree in something you could make use of it. Coding or whatever.
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I wont be home bound forever though. I tried the OU. It takes far too long. I could only manage one module at a time and the degrees then take 6 years!
 
Perhaps I should forget about actual learning and work while I'm in my current situation and follow a passion.

Since I was a child, I've loved writing. Non-fiction, stories, scripts, I've got countless ideas that I've had over the years and never developed. Maybe I should take some more interest in that. I'd like to be like Edrof, writing scary ghost stories and the like and earning some supplemental income from them.

Any tips Edrof?
 
robfosters said:
I have no further education but have work experience in the diplomatic service, both in political, consular and some minor accountancy matters. Without meaning to be immodest, I am quite intelligent.
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Rather off-topic, but I'd love to find out more about your time in the Diplomatic Service. I'm applying for the Diplomatic Service Fast Stream soon. :)
 
Chives said:
Rather off-topic, but I'd love to find out more about your time in the Diplomatic Service. I'm applying for the Diplomatic Service Fast Stream soon. :)
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It's been a while since I was there, but I'm sure not too much has changed. What do you want to know? Ask away.
 
robfosters said:
Perhaps I should forget about actual learning and work while I'm in my current situation and follow a passion.

Since I was a child, I've loved writing. Non-fiction, stories, scripts, I've got countless ideas that I've had over the years and never developed. Maybe I should take some more interest in that. I'd like to be like Edrof, writing scary ghost stories and the like and earning some supplemental income from them.

Any tips Edrof?
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you can do that too - but I wouldn't make it your main effort - if you've got nothing else to do then now is probably the best time to get some skills, you can't expect an easy work from home job to just fall on your plate or that because you like writing then maybe you can earn a living from it
 
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