Those of you who work from home...

Marketing consultant. Working from home requires a lot of self discipline and the ability to hold one sided conversations with household pets.
 
freelance secretary/PA, business development, 3rd sector funding, marketing and sales... you name it - i do a bit of it! jack of all trades.... yeah i'll stop there with that saying lol
 
Civil servant working for a quango. Not f/t wfh, but 2 days a week away from the City is better than nowt.

When I wfh f/t, I was a compliance auditor, so was at home whenever I wasn't whizzing about auditing & scaring people.

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Clerk to school governors, currently for 6 schools (all the meetings organisation, minutes etc, plus their legal adviser). Plus some odds and sods like running B+B's when the owners are away. Not hugely lucrative, but I can factor in time with horses every day, and work my diary around clinics!
 
Freelance secretary working for a strategy consultant, a well-known poet, an author and my husband's business; yard owner (it hardly merits the name as only 4 horses); weekday lodger; and, in the past, student lodgers from the two local universities. I was also going to do Cream Teas (wildly popular in this neck of the woods and nobody else does them locally) but an inheritance meant we could manage without. (My OH, a retired accountant, still works from home doing bookkeeping, VAT etc for small firms).

Give it a whirl. I have done it for 30 years, and what you save on travel, clothes, stress and time will amaze you. But, as someone else said, you must be disciplined - and in, my case, prepared to work odd hours. I could only fit my husband's work in by doing it overnight. Good luck!
 
Pharmaceutical consultant.
TBH I find WFH pretty boring and de-motivating, tend to go into office at least twice a week to get away from home working!!
 
Animal Health marketing and PR consultant/journalist. I love working from home, and don't miss commuting/office politics at all. Find it hard to switch off in the evenings/at weekends, but it gives me the flexibility to give myself time off during office hours, and make up for it later.
 
I am a clinical research associate. Basically monitoring sites that are taking part in clinical trials, checking the data they have entered is correct, that patients are eligible, being the main point of contact for hospitals. I love the flexibility, but also climb the walls abit! I'm lucky I have my horse to have an excuse to turn the laptop off and go out! I'm out a few days a week in London, Cambridge, norwich, poole and Scotland (not Scotland for much longer :-) )
 
I work in the pensions/investment business. Go in 3 days a week and work from home one day and one day off. Cuts down on commuting and gives me more time with the cuddies. Think I would need to go in at least a couple of days a week to catch up with folk/meetings etc.
 
Run the admin side of a family surveying business within a specific industry - working from home is good for fitting around horses etc but conversations with the dog can be limiting but I love the fact that if work is annoying me, I down tools, pick up the lead and off I go with the dog for walkies and then come back all refreshed.

I also live alone so I just make sure I go out a lot or have friends around in the evening or otherwise would be quite lonely.

Saying that am just off to Costa to meet a friend for lunch :):):)
 
Wash and repair rugs:D
only thing is when your busy like now:eek: (seems like every ones left it till last minute) you find your self putting rug in machine before you have break fast and can still be washing rugs till 9 at night but hey ho keeps the wolf from the door!!
 
business development. basically cold calling, marketing emails and spread sheet work. my employer provides the laptop and phone and i work from my spare room. I only do it part time so it enables me to still see to the dogs and horses.
 
Marketing manager for a restaurant chain. Only have to go to head office once a fortnight, spend a couple of days a week in restaurants. Extra bonus is I get to eat out a lot as part of my job. Downside is that I have put on half a stone as a result which is prooving a tad difficult to shift!
 
Development editor, copy editor, indexer. Echo LJN on subject of conversations with pets...

Good for flexibility re horses, pay's not great in my sector (academic, humanities) but is better in SMT work (scientific, medical, technical). Cash flow is always an issue. I have no financial backup so wouldn't want the commitment of paying for a horse at this point in my life.
 
Pensions drafting documents for a law firm. Been doing it from home 12 years. Takes dedication and being strict with timekeeping. Also have to like your own company!
 
I do all the admin for our business. Everything from answering the telephone, inputting orders, VAT, accounts, packaging up the products, ordering in the leather and various bits and bobs, organising staff orders, taking payments, advertising, product photography, cleaner, cook,, you name it and I do it!

Means on days like today, when I've done all the parcelling, posting, order updating and had lunch, I can nip up to the yard to ride.
 
I used to work from home as a freelance marketeer but then got a full time permanent job when the recession hit. Done that for nearly 4 years and sick to death of working for other people, so currently putting everything in place to hand my notice in at the end of the year and set up my own business again. This time I will be doing workshop facilitation for specific areas and of course, my marketing. Also looking at having a small caravan site on our field too.
 
I'm really envious of people who work from home and would love to but I'm not clever enough to do most of the jobs mentioned. :(

Did most of you start your jobs in offices and then transfer to home or were you employed at the start to work from home?
 
nancie said:
I'm really envious of people who work from home and would love to but I'm not clever enough to do most of the jobs mentioned. :(

Did most of you start your jobs in offices and then transfer to home or were you employed at the start to work from home?
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I actually did my degrees in horses and worked with horses abroad for a while, then when i moved back home decided i would rather have my own! So got a job as a clinical trials associate (my mum is in the industry too, so kinda owe it to her) working in the office and then in July i was promoted. You do have to be motivated, which is easier now i actually have stuff to do. It was 6 weeks training...then i was climbing the walls! But it is nice to go down the yard, go see friends etc to talk to people! But you also have to be able to turn off, when working from home it is easy to just keep going and not finish. You have to have the balance i think.
 
You don't have to be clever to do my job! Working from home is lovely, but can be lonely. It is also very easy to find yourself working well into the evening and unless you have a strict routine you will spend all day at your desk in your PJs surrounded by cold toast and tea :)
 
I'm admin/ PA/ glue that binds for my hubby's business. Answer phone, do paperwork, keep website up to date and that side of things mostly.

Don't work from home all the time though- more in winter as quieter.

Agree with having one sided conversations with the dog! But it does mean that I can fit work around horses better which is very useful in winter as I can do them while before it's dark, then just work later in the evenings (and can time dog walks around the rain showers!).
 
I'm a home based civil servant. I have to be very disciplined to make myself work rather than get sidetracked with the kids and horses etc (not housework though, that doesn't distract me at all - ever). There are times when I really have loads of work to do but have too much home stuff to do first.
 
I run 3 small websites from home - have a small unit I sublet which has much of the stock so do have to go there most days to pack stock.
Also do writing - current customers work include blogs for websites, newsletters, and rewriting content for a website
I also maintain and update another website with stock which includes product photography (which I also do for my own)
I also sometimes do a bit of sewing for someone else's business
OH is also self employed and I do his bookkeeping (but funily enough as mine is a lot harder & more involved, I sub mine out to another work at home mum)

Have a look at http://www.familyfriendlyworking.co.uk/ for help and ideas.
 
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