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Due to personal circumstances, I must now be able to work from home permanently. Further, I need something where I can work from approximately 3PM - 11PM or so. In addition, I need the workload to be such that I am not having to be glued to the computer all 8 hours. Instead, I would have a workload assigned to me that needs to be completed by a specific date. I would do the work in the 3PM-11PM time frame, for the most part, aside from if some family matter comes up requiring me to step away for 15, 30, 45 mins or even an hour plus to tend to unforeseen situations.
This rules out the remote work from home call center type jobs and perhaps other customer service related jobs.
Are there any real actual jobs of the kind that I have described above, with reputable employers?
Right now, I just care about having such flexibility and am willing to take a pay cut to allow for this. As long as I can make say $2K per month, that would get me by for now.
Are there any such jobs and if so where are the best places to start looking?
Are there any real actual jobs of the kind that I have described above, with reputable employers?
No. Not to the level of specificity you have described. Many remote jobs definitely allow for flexibility to step away for short periods of time (no different than being in an office and going to for a coffee break); however, trying to find something with those exact hours is going to be nearly impossible because you don't want customer service and can't step away.
The only thing I can think of is if you are paid based on your deliverable. Maybe a freelance technical writer or something of that sort.
You're basically making it very inflexible on any employer you potentially have. So having a regular job where you are paid to be in a role is unlikely.
The timing thing can be alleviated if you are on the east coast...and work for someone in Hawaii....
Currency trader. 24 hours a day. Choose your hours. Making a hundred or two hundred bucks a day will give you just what you need. You will need to purchase "information/news" flow, but that is available from many sources who might even spot you the links in exchange for your trade flow. Formally called soft dollars, but mostly these days you get it when you sign a trading arrangement. Leverage is huge, so you are in for a small investment. Risk is also huge, but you use stops and don't leave any positions open when you are not actually at your screen. If you have "street smarts" it helps, because you are going up against "brains" who, it turns out, are lousy traders.
As others have noted, I think the key question is what skills/knowledge you already have. I am an attorney, so I am most familiar wit that industry. I can think of jobs in the legal field that might fit that, but you'd need the skills to do them. Legal research for a firm like Westlaw, for example. Perhaps some types of paralegal work where you are processing things like permits more than interacting with clients. Perhaps proofreading? Transcription?
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