ThyCrossAwaits: Help? | Sputnikmusic

someone 02.01.24	I work from home for one of my jobs, but that's translation. What secrets are you seeking?
SomeCallMeTim 02.01.24	Are you working from home now or aiming for a work from home job? What is your profession? I work in tech (first as tech support, now R+D) and working from home is fairly normal for most at my company / in my field. It helps when all your managers and most of your team are in remote locations (have had managers as far as Alaska and Israel, I'm in New England for reference) so at that point it doesn't matter where you work as long as you can / do get the work done
ThyCrossAwaits 02.02.24	Looking for something I can do from home. Willing to learn or take training courses for the right subject, too.
Butkuiss 02.02.24	I work remotely for the most part - but I can’t really help much, as it’s a job I stumbled into with only a tangential relation to my actual qualification. I’m technically meant to be in three days a week, but given that my supervisor is in a city six hours away, his boss is in a city seven hours away, and my local office is all hot-desking, nobody really notices/checks. If you’re any good with spreadsheets/excel/powerBI, finding an analyst/business reporting job that lets you work remotely at least a couple days is at least an okay bet. Excel in particular has a very low barrier to entry. I’m not even that great with it, but I’ve become an “excel guy” because everyone else I work with would rather call me for a chat and ask me to do something for them than take ten minutes to google the function they’re looking for. In my experience targeting public sector and smaller businesses who may be more willing to give you flexible working in lieu of a bigger paycheck is probably a good strategy too; especially if you live in a low cost of living area (I am not from the states tho so I have no idea what South Dakota is like in this respect)
someone 02.02.24	I also do subtitles and help out with editing, so if you can learn that stuff and programs with it (the good one will cost ya, but for subs Aegisub is a fairly decent free software), there's work in that. That said, it's not the best paying stuff, unless you're manage to land a big company hire, who will often want you to come to an office, probably.
ThyCrossAwaits 02.02.24	I should've said all this earlier lol, I'm just not all here right now but I have a journalism degree and am exceedingly good with English, like copywriting, subtitles, proofreading, etc. I'm generally savvy with computers but am absolutely hopeless when it comes to coding; I've tried and it just sails over my head. I'd definitely take a bit of a pay cut to be able to be fully remote, but at a certain point it'd have to be part-time to be worth it I think. I'm also open to any ideas people might have on self-employment or starting a small business, even if it isn't a huge windfall a couple consistent sources of SOME income would be ideal right now.
someone 02.02.24	technically, if your computer is strong enough, you could contact some local or state game devs and ask to be their test player, but you'd have to have some at least basic knowledge of the ins and outs of developing a game, cause the feedback often requires suggestions or patching and improvements
kildare 02.02.24	Maybe try to get into teaching REALLY basic math. I'm talking stuff that's slightly beyond counting that a lot of kids missed in kindergarten. I taught remedial secondary math and was amazed at how many kids got stumped by basic concepts, concepts their parents should've taught them when they were around 4 or 5. Most didn't actually suck at math, they just had teachers and parents who hated "math" (seriously, is knowing how to use a ruler the same as Math?) and who simply didn't have the time to teach it properly. Then the kids got behind and frustrated and could never catch up, finally developing a phobia. (I personally maintain our system is DESIGNED to make as many kids fail at math as possible, then extracting tax money for remedial programs and creating the demand for expensive, unnecessary advanced certifications. But I'm a conspiracy theorist on this topic, so maybe ignore me). I don't know how'd you'd teach that stuff online though. And teaching even the basics does take some skill, just not math skills. More like you'd have to pick up the teaching techniques somewhere (I know of a book I can recommend), then try to recruit parents who (1.) want to help their kids but (2.) don't know how to start. Teaching the adults online wouldn't be quite as hard. And you wouldn't need certifications. Unless you hate teaching kids. Then it would be hell.