Work from home?

[Duetsche_Doggen]

Does anyone here work from home? Do you mind telling me what you do?

I'm still "young" but I've been considering working from home, my current boss is driving me insane........

 

[Smart_Family]

If I ever finish my school work, I'll be doing medical transcription from home.

 

[northernmastiff]

I work from home. I have for 6 years. I am a freelance ghostwriter, journalist and author. Welcome to Sirena Van Schaik's Website My husband also works from home. He is a toy sculptor. He does 35mm up to 6 inch toys that the companies mass produce. Flickr: james_vanschaik's Photostream

 

[northernmastiff]

My husband has worked from home for 14 years.

 

[voidecho]

In general I work at my office at work, but my bosses are pretty flexible and I can do 90% of my job from my house, so I work flex hours or from home quite a bit now. Mostly because my commute sucks.

I'm a Controller. I manage Accounting Managers and Accountants, but I have to be pretty hands on with my job. Working Controller more than delegating.

 

[Duetsche_Doggen]

Wow, that's pretty neat. Wish I could get creative like that, lol!

Voidecho, must be nice, techincally we *could* do our jobs remotely but.....you know how politics can be...

 

[Robtouw]

In my past employment I worked as a private contractor on Ft Bragg doing Vaccine Research. If you followed the news/court rulings about mandatory small pox and anthrax vaccines for the military years ago you saw my stats! I loved working from home. I was rehabing horses as well and would set my lap top up in the paddock and spread hay around my area so that the new horses could adjust to me and become comfortable with my presence before I started working them. Pres. Obama cut my funding and the dream ended. But if you can do it, I recommend working from home, you are more relaxes and more productive!

 

[BIgdog]

I"m still in school

 

[CeeCee]

In my past employment I worked as a private contractor on Ft Bragg doing Vaccine Research. If you followed the news/court rulings about mandatory small pox and anthrax vaccines for the military years ago you saw my stats! I loved working from home. I was rehabing horses as well and would set my lap top up in the paddock and spread hay around my area so that the new horses could adjust to me and become comfortable with my presence before I started working them. Pres. Obama cut my funding and the dream ended. But if you can do it, I recommend working from home, you are more relaxes and more productive!

Here! Here! On the relaxed and productive!

I'm a software Trainer and I do the vast majority of my training online so I can work from a home office. I had to teach the dogs "Quiet. Working" so they wouldn't bark when I'm on the phone. (Now I just need to teach the cats to stop walking across the keyboard!)

 

[Duetsche_Doggen]

In my past employment I worked as a private contractor on Ft Bragg doing Vaccine Research. If you followed the news/court rulings about mandatory small pox and anthrax vaccines for the military years ago you saw my stats! I loved working from home. I was rehabing horses as well and would set my lap top up in the paddock and spread hay around my area so that the new horses could adjust to me and become comfortable with my presence before I started working them. Pres. Obama cut my funding and the dream ended. But if you can do it, I recommend working from home, you are more relaxes and more productive!

Rob that sucks....I'm sorry that happened.

I would LOVE to work from home but I need to find something that has money flowing every month. I know job security sucks being a contractor, but I know for the time being I get a steady paycheck every month. I've been looking at some part time gigs online, its a nice dream that's for sure.

 

[Kujo]

I work from home. I'm the administrative office manager for a company called VersiTouch. We provide software for Point Of Sale touch screen terminals at Bars and Restaurants.

My day consists of a lot of phone calls (technical support) and processing paperwork that comes in from our technicians. I dispatch technicians to customers who need onsite support. I also program menus, or reprogram menus that have been screwed up over years of people making changes to their menu.

It's a great gig and I have a wonderful boss that made this possible for me. Plus I get to work in my PJs, keep the house tidy, and spend time with Kujo


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[jersey girl]

At my last job 90% of the workforce did work from home. I had reported to the corporate office, but I was able to work from home pretty often. I worked for a medical transcription company and was an HR Manager. For people that work from home 100% of the time it certainly has it's perks...you spend less on a professional wardrobe, less wear on your car, less gas etc. One common complaint I did hear from my employees was that they did miss face to face interaction with other people, and at times they felt isolated from the rest of the company. Everything we did was email, conference calls and web based meetings. i think there are more perks than negatives personally.

 

[DennasMom]

I work from home - when I'm not out of state on business travel.

I have a MS in Mechanical Engineering and worked for other people (mostly one consulting company) for 13 years... then went out on my own as an independent consultant 6 years ago (Tina Toburen's Energy Efficiency Enterprises). When home, I do a lot of spreadsheet work, analysis and report writing, with a little software development. I also plan on doing some webinar training, hopefully starting next year. I'd like to cut down on the travel - which isn't bad, it averages one week per month (M-F), but even that can get to be too much when I'd rather be home with the family and Denna.

Those sculptures that Northern's hubby does are WAY COOL!!!
I don't think my husband and I can both work from home, though... when he takes time off to work on the "to do" list (remodeling), I never get any work done. LOL.

 

[JacksTheDog]

wow I wish I could work from home but the Canadian Armed Forces do not accommodate.

those sculptures are impressive!

 

[Duetsche_Doggen]

You guys are so lucky!

Jersey Girl, I'd be just fine, lol I don't like personal interaction much, though it doesn't show on the job. But I would be more than happy to talk to cyber people, lol.

 

[Tiger12490]

Im thinking of making my major computer or software programming idk if your looking into fields but those jobs have a ton of work at home options

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[Duetsche_Doggen]

I am in IT, ( field tech) but being a contractor there's no such things as perks, lol. I know some techs that could work from home but that was few and far inbetween

 

[LauraR]

I process workman's comp claims and have the capability to work from home if I wanted to. All of the computer programs we use are web based, so all you really need is a home computer and internet access. However, at the present moment, I am choosing not to. Part of the work from home bit is that you have to designate one computer as your work station and install all of the medical programs on it. While those programs are opened up, they put a block on basically everything except Microsoft Office. This is an effort to protect HIPPA laws but it can be a little irritating on a home computer. Especially since these programs occasionally malfunction and continue the block after you have logged off and closed out of the program. In addition to that, we keep all of our medical records in our office and faxes can only be sent and received from their secure line. I would be able to accomplish quite a bit at home, but you can only take it so far and I much prefer to be in the office.

 

[LauraR]

I work from home. I have for 6 years. I am a freelance ghostwriter, journalist and author. Welcome to Sirena Van Schaik's Website

That is so cool! I am probably going to p.m. you later about this.

 

[Kelly]

I work from home. I work for a shipping company, and most of the staff is in the offices, but due to personal circumstances, they've made allowances for me. it's one of those jobs that really, everyone could do from home but they dont. I handle the intermodal moves for shipping containers that discharge in Norfolk, Houston and new Orleans. I love it. I hire truckers and set up containers to move on the rail.

Mostly all phone and email work.