Work from Home Skills
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- pinkfloyd
I'm looking to relocate to where property is cheaper, and would like to learn a marketable work from home skill related to web design. Can I get some pointers? Thanks
- monNom0
Wordpress security/recovery.
- prophetone2
PS Battle server hosting and maintenance.
- monNom1
enroll in the twitter troll army
- Miguex0
Find a studio or client that won't mind remote work and have them put you on a retainer.
- yup, that's me for like 3 years nowmoldero
- minus all that raining cashmoldero
- yusbklyndroobeki
- instrmntl-1
Dev Ops
- monospaced0
Learn to cook or prepare to have creature comforts because you won't be able to just run downstairs and grab something quick and keep working outside the city.
- zaq1
we use inVision with our remote designers and devs.
besides tools start your day with morning exercise outside of your house.
- omg0
keep the break room stocked.
- pinkfloyd1
qbn has not changed in the last 16 years
- we've just gotten older :) To add to the comments, i have a salaried design position that lets me work from home 3-4 days a week. They are out there.capn_ron
- nice!pinkfloyd
- Well pinky. What do expect from us?!?! Lolpango
- I have that too, capn ... I'm a work from home pro nowmonospaced
- Bennn0
i dream to work from home. im a loner type of person
- most people here arepinkfloyd
- i try to fin thé perfect job for an introvert and i dont find anything interestingBennn
- I loved working in the lab developing photos. didn't have to talk to people.pango
- I'm content being alone, and sometimes think I'm a loner type, but then surprise myself with how fun it is being really social.monospaced
- noneck0
Web design is a marketable work from home skill.
I'm learning that having some business sense is a lot more financially beneficial than being the best with your skillset. You'll earn more and work less as a mediocre web designer with some idea of how to earn money than you will as the best web designer in your city.
- yuekit1
It's 2017, anything you can do remotely is a work from home skill.
- whatthefunk0
Anyone have any success with this site, have heard good things https://www.flexjobs.com
- fourth0
I quit my FT job in November. When I came back from vacation in January I knew I didn't want to go back to a on-site FT job. So I guess that was the start of my freelance career- with no clients and a little cushion of savings.
Let me say its been fantastic. Half my clients are onsite which means I can get some free snacks, oodle at some legs and breastseseses, but I'm like a ghost. According to everyone I'm a "temp" and I'm completely free of any drama. No one talks to me. Just show up and the hot shots in marketing tell me what to do. I literally don't have to think.
The other half of my time I spend working at home. Its great for an introvert because fuck open office plans and endless meetings. The hard part is self control. Often to get 4-6 billable hours of work done, I spend a total of 10 hours on the computer doing god knows what. But I've become more efficient with each passing day.
The freedom is great. Screw asking for raises once a year and getting 1.5%. I literally raise my rate $5 per hour with each new gig. I do plan on having a whole month of the year off. Creative work is volatile. All it takes is one shitty designer on your team, or in management, or for your company to be bought out, or your project going under to create a work life of hell that you feel stuck in. As a contract worker I can just say "fuck that shit" and walk away from it into something new and exciting.
It's the future.
- fuck open office plans! who's fucking idea was that in the first place? clearly not someone who has to work around other humansmonospaced
- also, congrats .. I'm jealous, I'm too chicken to leave the salaried positionmonospaced
- the open office plan was the greatest ploy ever to save moneyfourth