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I have worked from home for just over 5 years and intend to continue for the rest of my career. I think it would be a good idea to share careers and jobs that can be done from home, bonus points if these jobs pay enough for a woman to make a decent life for herself.
I work in the insurance claims industry as an auditor. My work is 100% from home. Our claims adjusters are also WFH; they use video calls to look at home/auto damages. Everyone from call center employees to upper management works from their home. Insurance claims is a good field to get into if you need or want to work from home.
Who else works from home and what do you do?
After working from home then going back to the office, as an autistic person, the office is not sustainable for me and I am never going back. RTO is not only misogynist it is 100% ableist.
I'm currently not working so I'd love to hear of some remote jobs that hire quickly!!
I am a programmer in the beginning of my career at a tech company. I love my job, and I love working from home. It gives me the flexibility and more energy so that I’m able to do other stuff outside of my career. I’ve got a very involved hobby that I occasionally make money from freelancing for, so I have the time and energy to do that and also to socialize outside of work.
It comes with negatives too: hard to build connections to job hop and get intel on office politics, can't learn by observing seniors doing their job, hard to learn about industry jobs and connections in other departments, easy to become isolated, missing out on visibility/ social credit. Best to have some kind of combination of both.
One bonus of WFH that hasn't been mentioned - you can get a second job.
I am a developer (programming). Fully work from home, in my own company. It's marvellous. I don't even have a boss, no men around me to bother me. Highly recommend. I do have clients, of course. Every single person I deal with in this profession is male (except for helpdesk of course, they have women there to do the service work). Although the only person who has actually seen me is my mentor. To the rest of them I am only a name. (Which is a good thing, because when they do not see me, their reptile brain doesn't turn into porn-mode. Or the old "you don't look like a developer"). I am currently a trainee with my mentor, so he deals the most with the clients, but sometimes they bring work to me directly. It's been highly professional so far, and they have been happy with my work. I love my job.
I used to do stuff for Covid. I loved it. Now it’s ended and I’m always looking for opportunities for at home jobs. I never want to work irl again. Too much office drama
I work as an IT project manager for a commercial insurance company and also 💯 remote WFH! I love it.
I definitely think people should be able to work from home, but it’s not something I personally aspire towards. It definitely depends what kind of work you do and what kind of workload your boss expects - e.g. you must be available after hours simply because you work from home or minimising sick/maternity leave because you can work from home even if you are sick or with a newborn. Working from home does not make you immune to toxic workplaces. Since I’m more extroverted and love the city, my ideal workplace is a female-dominant one with a healthy, balanced culture in the city. I haven’t worked from home yet, but did finished law school during the pandemic and it definitely ruined my chances at making new friends on campus and I got very easily depressed/agitated/bored. However, my friends work from home and say it’s good.
did you have to get an insurance license or did anyone sponsor it. also is it young people friendly (20) i work in tech so no experience in tht field