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I hope this question is not offensive to anyone.
I just recently realized alot of people have started working from home and I would like to know how you accomplished this feat.
If I ever wanted to work again (and I really don't but may have to), I would like to work from home.
Would you share with us your type of job ?? Thanks ahead of time.
I work for an international company with a headquarters across the country from me. They have customers all over and require locally based people but not enough to really need an office. There are 8 of us in the area.
My son works in IT for a major bank. They require him to live near the office for when the bosses come to town to meet with employees. He has a company Blackberry and secure laptop.
Until I started working in an office environment again last year, I worked from home for about 5 years for two different pharma CROs. One had an office in NYC, the other had a few across the country and several overseas. But they needed people all over the country (many of whom also travelled at least 50%) and it kept their overhead down to allow people to work remotely instead of putting in dozens of small offices around the country.
Remote employees are very common in the pharma industry, especially at CROs, but many who do work from a home office are experienced, skilled employees in their fields. A lot of these companies will not hire someone brand new to the industry to "work from home".
My wife still works out of our home office. She is a consultant for a large company headquartered about 200 miles away. She also travels a good bit and, again, it is cheaper for the company to let her and many of her co-workers work from a home office when not on the road compared to either installing offices all around the country, or requiring them all to relocate to the company's HQ, where they would be paying for a lot of office space that would be largely unused due to all of the travel these people do.
Although I retired from my full-time position with a state agency after 32 years, they convinced me to come back as a part-time consultant (16-24 hours a week) working mostly from home, although I do go into the office a few days a month to meet with the director and/or to conduct training sessions. I mainly perform legal research, draft and edit regulations, and provide advice to co-workers and the general public via email. It works out for now - gives me a little extra money to supplement my pension.
Basically, you just have to pick a job that can be done remotely. For instance, you wouldn't want my job since I am hands on computer repair so it is not efficient for me to work from home. My company doesn't want me in a Geek Squad type van supporting the end users, so they have to come to me.
Most any job that involves a lot of paperwork, web design, creating presentations, conference calls, etc. can be done from home these days.
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