Are there really any good Work at Home Jobs?

My experience (at least in my field) is that they don't really exist. Most work from home jobs are for employees who had been working at the company before the pandemic and then those employers decided that they could continue working from home. I looked and looked and I am convinced that the jobs that they say are remote are just phishing scams. These are really good companies but I never receive any response and I am perfectly qualified for the position. I check every single box.

The biggest scam right now is they say the job is remote but when you quit your other job and then go the first day they mention that in fact, the job is not remote. Then you are stuck.

Fewer and fewer jobs are remote these days. Most companies are opting for a hybrid schedule.

Good at home jobs usually involve some kind of specialized training - like software coding, medical transcriptionist, medical coding. I have a friend that teaches English to overseas students but she already had a teaching degree.

My daughter in law works for Verizon from home. Prior to covid they were all in a call center, but now everyone is work from home.

My DIL worked for www.upwork.com/

It has been 6 years ago, but she worked for jobs she found on this site. She was then hired permanently for the company and still works from home.

As described to me--company posted the position and what was required and then she replied with "I'll do this for xx pay." Perhaps she was selected, perhaps not. Eventually she recognized companies for whom she wanted to work and they recognized her as someone whose work they liked. --As fast as the world changes now, the way that site works may have changed.

I work in IT for a hospital/health network.  Until the pandemic we had no work from home jobs.  Now much of our IT and support people (such as call centers) can work from home.  Many of our server and network people are work from home but many still have to go in or at least be able to get to our data centers.  However many project managers and application people are now entirely work from home and I have noticed a trend in that more are being hired that are not even living in our state…which you would have never seen 3 years ago.

So that was a long rambling response to say I think project managers, service centers, and application administrators are some jobs that are really good work from home jobs.

I think it depends on your field, experience, and the companies.

Little to no experience, maybe just a high school diploma? You might be able to do a customer service job from home. But you will need a good set up and probably experience in basically handling phone calls from all over. You might get lucky and can do data entry of some sort on a local level. A friend of mine does title searches/transfer for title companies and real estate locally.

Specialized training such as coders, medical coding, transcripts is a possibility but you may have to go in once in a while for training or whatever.

Other jobs are dependent on the industry. DH works from home because 99% of his job can be done on the computer. As long as he can access the company's servers, he can work pretty much anywhere. He goes into the office once every other week and out to job sites at least once a week. So it's not 100% work from home. He said a lot of engineering jobs that don't require a lab or building stuff (like mechanical engineering) are hybrid or remote. My sister's job with the government is hybrid now.

If anyone has good work-at-home PT temp work, let me know. I would love a summer PT job. One of my sons has a crazy practice schedule, and I still need to drive him for one more summer, so I can't really have a reg PT summer job, but I am ready to make a little extra money.

it's not really temp work but you can do it on your own hours Telus

My last two roles have been fully remote — I’m a marketing director in tech.

In my field, it seems like more than 60% of the jobs these days are remote or are hybrid (work 1-3 days in office and the rest remote).

So yes…there are a lot of good remote jobs, but it definitely depends on your industry.

I've worked fully remote for eight years - the first three in commercial lending for a national bank (that wasn't really remote-friendly but I'd worked there for 12 years and they were motivated to keep me). The past five years have been in various tech and tech-enabled companies. All three of the companies I've worked for in the tech world have been remote-only or remote-first.

Because I'm in tech, there are loads of remote work options available. However, they're not going to be as common in more traditional industries.

There are tons of great companies out there with remote work options, but there are also a lot of scams. I'd suggest she focuses on looking for the industry first, and then remote. By focusing on the remote aspect as her priority, she's getting funneled to the scammier openings.

I've been working fully remote for three years now. Currently, I handle the accounting responsibilities for two retail Insurance agencies. I even interviewed remotely. The insurance industry is really hurting for accounting professionals. I think, in general, accounting is a great industry for work at home positions.

I've been working from home as a Medical Coder since 2020.  I worked hard for my certification, and I already had 20+ years of insurance experience. 

If she has skills already she can capitalize on, that’s the way to go. I’m a (retired) marketing copywriter/copyeditor/proofreader, and there were always both in-person and WFH opportunities in those areas.

My ex has a remote job, for a govt contractor. It seems to be a good, legit job. I don’t think it was applied for expressly as remote though it has just evolved as such and plus he’s a disabled veteran so I think that factors into their decisions.

I hope your daughter can find something decent soon.

I also have heard about a recent active duty mil person working remote so it’s def not gluing obsolete!

But his company also says they don’t intend to really go back to corporate offices. But they were a lot of remote/office sharing before the pandemic too.