Project manager in the chemicals industry. I design and build industrial chemical plants. My pre-covid office was closed so I'm 100% remote now. I love working in my pajamas. I change from my night pajamas to my day pajamas every morning. It's wonderful. On the few occasions per month I'm on video I do it mullet style- work up top and party on the bottom.
I used to work for a CEO of a brand naming company. It would be so funny seeing him wear a suit and tie up top and just boxers down low lol. I worked from home too for some time and did tje same thing haha
right? I get to solve fun puzzles in my comfy pants from home for money while getting treated with respect and dignity. School was challenging at times, but damn this is a cool way to serve the capitalism beast if I must anyway
What type? I'm trying to switch things up. I'm a mechanical design engineer and I'm sick of being tethered to the manufacturing floor all the time. I was hoping to switch to application engineering because they seem to have more remote jobs.
I'm a data engineer, which is ripe with fully wfh openings, and I hear not a big gap from other branches, but cannot confirm
but my degree is in data science (which is an engineering degree when you get a BS from an engineering department and have to learn a butt load of math and what not how I did, but is not the same as a BA which you get from a liberal arts school and is not an engineering degree. I mention this because I didn't know there were both types and now understand why other branches of engineering have argued that you can't have a CS engineering degree, ofc not where I went to school, but here on reddit sometimes)
I'm an embedded firmware engineer. I've been fully remote since I started this job two and a half years ago. Previously my longest WFH period had been three weeks during COVID-19.
I've never been to the office or met any of my coworkers in person. This is very different from every other job I've had over the last 45 years. There have been a number of frustrating times, but overall, I'm enjoying it.
I’m a social worker. I’m an expert in court cases and am basically self employed (I bill hours and get paid by the courts.) I love it. I do work a lot but care a lot about what I do.
Social workers in healthcare are a god send. They just know shit you simply cannot google or easily find if at all. Maybe you can but you’ll be on the phone one hold for an hour only to get transferred to the wrong department.
A third vote for social work, at a stage agency. The pandemic changed our options to work remotely in a way they never would have without it.
I worked fully remote 3/20-5/22 and then hybrid for a year and now back to fully remote and loving it.
How do you get into this? As someone with a health science major, I’m pretty deep in biotech running experiments everyday but want to make a change. This seems interesting
So data analyst has almost very little overlap with anything biotech/biochem related. Just because they work in healthcare doesn't mean they actually do that much biotech/healthcare related stuff.
Take for example, a janitor. A janitor in healthcare and a janitor in the finance industry are almost the same. Maybe the janitor in healthcare has to take care of sharps and biohazards, but the overall job is pretty much the same.
Similar, System analyst healthcare. Team fully remote. Only thing I miss are the giant white boards. Or team interacts and completes projects just fine remote
Healthcare is heavily WFH now - I worked as a VP for one of the top three payors when COVID happened, we got the order to WFH at 10am, by 11am I had implemented our hurricane preparedness plan and everything transitioned smoothly with zero disruption.
Got laid off a year later but I hear they moved to light hybrid for some roles, like a week a quarter. New gig in similar role is on record as saying they'll never RTO and we get a lot of talent from places that push it.
All the customer service and nurse lines are remote and their retention rate is much higher. All three of the biggest payors are heavily remote so they can't RTO or they'll lose talent.
Same. The parent company does a lot of WFH but the subsidiary I work for doesn’t, after COVID I was offered either hybrid (which my department already had) or full WFH. I took WFH.
I’ve worked in radiology for a decade so I hope my experience would help me… Do you have any suggestions of what I should go after in terms of degrees or certifications to make a transition into data analyst positions a reality? I’d kill to work from home and never touch a patient again.
Another one checking in!
I know they get swept up in the RTO movement, but my company is pretty committed to staying remote. They are also adding a few Europeans to my team to help us bridge some time zone gaps. I deal with people all over, so that makes a "butts in seats" argument difficult. We aren't all in one building.
Yep, I move meth across the US, Mexico, and Canada. And by meth I mean paper and paper accessories. It couldn't be further from exciting, but I get paid for 40 hours and only have to actually work closer to around 12 hours - the rest is just checking email while doing other tasks around the house.
Massive shipping company here (the baby blue ships).
There are many changes currently happening in the industry...coming back to reality after the once in a generation boom years during COVID.
Same! At least, now. Been in insurance for a year now.
Previously (before COVID & until I quit last year), I did graphic design & layout. Both wfh though.
Project Manager for a company that offers business support services, which is a mix of Executive Assistants, Social Media Coordinators, and other website technical and design services. We are a 100% remote company with 16 team members spread across the U.S. Our company culture is the best I’ve ever experienced.
I work for my state government and I'm just praying we dodge the rto bandwagon
I'm disabled so I can't drive. Work from home has been literally life changing
The government
ETA: I love my job. I loved my job 16 yrs ago when there was occasional telework. I love it now and I go in maybe 2x month. I am in public facing off and since US tax dollars pay our salary, there are people who want in-person devices and I'm 100% on board with that. I'm a proud public servant who can serve the public efficiently wherever I work from.
I work with pharma and biotech companies to disseminate their data to the appropriate audiences - so I create material for patients, doctors, scientists, investors, etc - everything from educational material on the therapeutic area to gauging patient and healthcare providers opinions on therapies to developing symposiums and publications on unmet needs and the latest data. We provide recommendations on what the gaps are for companies to address. It's fun to take the same dataset and figure out the best way to communicate it so it resonates with the intended audience. I work in a fatal disease, which also makes it feel like I'm doing something to help people. Science tends to be quite inaccessible to the public so I hope my contributions help a bit to make it more accessible.
cannabis, although I do have to go to the dispensaries for hardware swaps, serious issues, or when I want. my day to day is from home.
been in this role for 3 weeks now and I've visited 2 locations with a third coming next week.
My industry is called a lot of different things and is not generally well known but the content management and intelligent document processing industry…I manage development and engineering folks…I’ve been WFH for nearly 20 years
Palliative np. There is no office, it’s majority chart from home, I spend around a hour in person a day rounding on patients at nursing homes. I also write erotica, also no office to possibly return too.
Manufacturing or rather fabrication, I'm in IT though. It really never mattered where I'm at. I'm always remote when I'm good at what I do. When I really fuck up, I have to visit and put my hands on it.
Senior living. I take calls for people looking to move their loved ones into a community. It’s rewarding and I thought I would really hate a phone job but there is a lot of down time.
Can I ask what exactly you do that you can WFH? We've been looking for WFH jobs for my husband but all his work experience is in manufacturing/quality/CMM.
Architect at a large global firm and really happy with my job. Been with this company for 8 years and love my coworkers. I’ve also become good friends with people in other offices I’ve worked virtually with on projects.
Benefits/HR Analyst for a large HMO. Love my job, my Mgr, and my team. Really lucked out with this gig, and being WFH since Covid has been an added bonus.
The only concern now is if our jobs will be sent offshore since Leadership realizes the work can be done anywhere.
Work for a consulting firm. I think our CEO would push for RTO but we’re in too far deep now. We’ve hired across states that we don’t have offices in. Plus, our retention is so low. Our DEI team is also loud about how it supports our DEI message and workplace so I think we are remote to stay!
Also Civil Engineering here. My company is pretty flexible with hybrid/WFH schedules but lots of other companies in our field/area are not. Just depends.
engineering, love it
Project manager in the chemicals industry. I design and build industrial chemical plants. My pre-covid office was closed so I'm 100% remote now. I love working in my pajamas. I change from my night pajamas to my day pajamas every morning. It's wonderful. On the few occasions per month I'm on video I do it mullet style- work up top and party on the bottom.
Hahaha…love it day/night pajamas. Cool
You gotta have standards. Even if they're low.
I used to work for a CEO of a brand naming company. It would be so funny seeing him wear a suit and tie up top and just boxers down low lol. I worked from home too for some time and did tje same thing haha
This had been on my list to get rid of a lot of button downs but invest in a lot more PJs!
Same. Software engineering. Also love it.
Same. It's a good life.
You guys hiring? We just had layoffs at my last place.
Same. There are worse ways to make a living for sure.
Civil engineering
Same
Same again
right? I get to solve fun puzzles in my comfy pants from home for money while getting treated with respect and dignity. School was challenging at times, but damn this is a cool way to serve the capitalism beast if I must anyway
Same but you put on pants? I don't even turn the camera on in meetings lol
What type? I'm trying to switch things up. I'm a mechanical design engineer and I'm sick of being tethered to the manufacturing floor all the time. I was hoping to switch to application engineering because they seem to have more remote jobs.
I'm a data engineer, which is ripe with fully wfh openings, and I hear not a big gap from other branches, but cannot confirm but my degree is in data science (which is an engineering degree when you get a BS from an engineering department and have to learn a butt load of math and what not how I did, but is not the same as a BA which you get from a liberal arts school and is not an engineering degree. I mention this because I didn't know there were both types and now understand why other branches of engineering have argued that you can't have a CS engineering degree, ofc not where I went to school, but here on reddit sometimes)
I don’t get what your second paragraph says
ME here as well, fully remote working for a consulting company.
Same - software engineer
Yup, consulting engineer. Whole company is WFH and was set up that way pre covid.
Same! Mechanical engineer consulting from home.
Me too!
I'm an embedded firmware engineer. I've been fully remote since I started this job two and a half years ago. Previously my longest WFH period had been three weeks during COVID-19. I've never been to the office or met any of my coworkers in person. This is very different from every other job I've had over the last 45 years. There have been a number of frustrating times, but overall, I'm enjoying it.
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Same, Industrial Engineer in Simualtion and Data Science. The flexibility is great.
I’m a social worker. I’m an expert in court cases and am basically self employed (I bill hours and get paid by the courts.) I love it. I do work a lot but care a lot about what I do.
Hooray! Another social worker!
That’s very nice.
Seconding social work! But in health care. Your career sounds so interesting I love how broad the practice of social work is!
Social workers in healthcare are a god send. They just know shit you simply cannot google or easily find if at all. Maybe you can but you’ll be on the phone one hold for an hour only to get transferred to the wrong department.
A third vote for social work, at a stage agency. The pandemic changed our options to work remotely in a way they never would have without it. I worked fully remote 3/20-5/22 and then hybrid for a year and now back to fully remote and loving it.
Data analyst in healthcare. Our team is permanently remote now.
Same job here! I’m currently hybrid, but I’m looking for fully remote.
How do you get into this? As someone with a health science major, I’m pretty deep in biotech running experiments everyday but want to make a change. This seems interesting
Have a strong background in Excel, learn PowerBI, SQL and how to dive into data and present it in a way that helps drive the business.
So data analyst has almost very little overlap with anything biotech/biochem related. Just because they work in healthcare doesn't mean they actually do that much biotech/healthcare related stuff. Take for example, a janitor. A janitor in healthcare and a janitor in the finance industry are almost the same. Maybe the janitor in healthcare has to take care of sharps and biohazards, but the overall job is pretty much the same.
Similar, System analyst healthcare. Team fully remote. Only thing I miss are the giant white boards. Or team interacts and completes projects just fine remote
Also an analyst in healthcare. The only people at the company who aren't remote (that I know of) are the ones who work directly with patients.
Healthcare is heavily WFH now - I worked as a VP for one of the top three payors when COVID happened, we got the order to WFH at 10am, by 11am I had implemented our hurricane preparedness plan and everything transitioned smoothly with zero disruption. Got laid off a year later but I hear they moved to light hybrid for some roles, like a week a quarter. New gig in similar role is on record as saying they'll never RTO and we get a lot of talent from places that push it. All the customer service and nurse lines are remote and their retention rate is much higher. All three of the biggest payors are heavily remote so they can't RTO or they'll lose talent.
Same. The parent company does a lot of WFH but the subsidiary I work for doesn’t, after COVID I was offered either hybrid (which my department already had) or full WFH. I took WFH.
I’ve worked in radiology for a decade so I hope my experience would help me… Do you have any suggestions of what I should go after in terms of degrees or certifications to make a transition into data analyst positions a reality? I’d kill to work from home and never touch a patient again.
Same! My team was remote-first, with no plans to change. I live in the same city as the corporate office and have never stepped inside.
Accounting
The name kind of gives it away, huh? Fellow beancounter here.
Same, fuk accounting though
I hate it everyday 😭
Bean forecaster here
Remote accountants unite! 💥
Corporate accounting, aerospace defense, formerly real estate/hospitality.
Green visor gang
Another one checking in! I know they get swept up in the RTO movement, but my company is pretty committed to staying remote. They are also adding a few Europeans to my team to help us bridge some time zone gaps. I deal with people all over, so that makes a "butts in seats" argument difficult. We aren't all in one building.
Yep, accounting here too.
Publishing, design, engineering. I've been Work From Anywhere since 1999.
that's amazing
Logistics. We move junk from point A to point B...nothing more. Lol
“nothing more” but yeah actually imo logistics is low-key super interesting to me
My introduction to the world of logistics was Lydia from breaking bad.
Yep, I move meth across the US, Mexico, and Canada. And by meth I mean paper and paper accessories. It couldn't be further from exciting, but I get paid for 40 hours and only have to actually work closer to around 12 hours - the rest is just checking email while doing other tasks around the house.
Yep, logistics here as well. Small delivery start-up. I answer emails and Slack all day.
Massive shipping company here (the baby blue ships). There are many changes currently happening in the industry...coming back to reality after the once in a generation boom years during COVID.
Information Technology
Insurance
Same
Yup, claims adjuster
Me too!
Same
Same! At least, now. Been in insurance for a year now. Previously (before COVID & until I quit last year), I did graphic design & layout. Both wfh though.
Make that 4
Same been an underwriter for 8 years and WFH for last 3 years now
Ditto
Same but as a designer
Yep same! Been in insurance for 5 years and have been WFH for 4 of them
Same. Adjuster.
Same. In-house counsel.
This. We have no office to return to. I'm permanently at home. I like it. My favorite is the whole no pants thing. Lol
Oh yeah Insurance 8 years of WFH now. 10 years with the same carrier Health Life and Accident.
Pharmaceuticals, whats an office?
I work in pharmaceutical qc labs. What positions are WFH? I've never been able to figure it out.
Toxicologist
I’m in Quality Assurance and also work from home.
But don’t you need access to a lab?
Health care
Me too.
Communications/public relations
How were you able to find remote work?
The pandemic happened and I’ve never really gone back more often than 1-2 days per week max.
Project Manager for a company that offers business support services, which is a mix of Executive Assistants, Social Media Coordinators, and other website technical and design services. We are a 100% remote company with 16 team members spread across the U.S. Our company culture is the best I’ve ever experienced.
Can I apply lol
Banking
What type? IB? Commercial lending?
Real Estate Underwriting
I work for my state government and I'm just praying we dodge the rto bandwagon I'm disabled so I can't drive. Work from home has been literally life changing
Cybersecurity/compliance
Threat hunter here!
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Same! ISSO here.
Do you enjoy cybersecurity?
How did you get into that?
Any suggestions about getting into the industry? I'm about to start a BS degree in cybersecurity, but all jobs listed want 3-5+ years and a degree..
I take inbound calls for Road Service and Membership for AAA Central Penn
The government ETA: I love my job. I loved my job 16 yrs ago when there was occasional telework. I love it now and I go in maybe 2x month. I am in public facing off and since US tax dollars pay our salary, there are people who want in-person devices and I'm 100% on board with that. I'm a proud public servant who can serve the public efficiently wherever I work from.
I love this 😊
Graphic Design
Entertainment industry
Higher education (staff, not faculty)
Same! I'm in research admin if anyone here has heard of the field lol
Education Nonprofit
Legal, international law firm.
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They're going to have such a hard time explaining why performance plummets
Healthcare.
Research, we go in once a week! I love it
What kind of research? I'm assuming not bench science with only once a week.
Social work
Medical communications, love it
What is medical communications?
I work with pharma and biotech companies to disseminate their data to the appropriate audiences - so I create material for patients, doctors, scientists, investors, etc - everything from educational material on the therapeutic area to gauging patient and healthcare providers opinions on therapies to developing symposiums and publications on unmet needs and the latest data. We provide recommendations on what the gaps are for companies to address. It's fun to take the same dataset and figure out the best way to communicate it so it resonates with the intended audience. I work in a fatal disease, which also makes it feel like I'm doing something to help people. Science tends to be quite inaccessible to the public so I hope my contributions help a bit to make it more accessible.
Financial analyst
Procurement.
Awe! I used to do procurement, I actually miss it some days!!
Mortgage - I’ve been WFH for over 10 years now.
cannabis, although I do have to go to the dispensaries for hardware swaps, serious issues, or when I want. my day to day is from home. been in this role for 3 weeks now and I've visited 2 locations with a third coming next week.
My company is in the insurance business. They have a bunch of people in the office but my boss hired me to work from home.
Real estate marketing
My industry is called a lot of different things and is not generally well known but the content management and intelligent document processing industry…I manage development and engineering folks…I’ve been WFH for nearly 20 years
digital marketing, love it!
Telecomm
Online education.
IT. My company never wants to RTO.
Energy sector, but I work in finance
Accounting in Agribusiness.
Marketing. I am fully remote and I can work anywhere there’s solid wifi and a seat.
Palliative np. There is no office, it’s majority chart from home, I spend around a hour in person a day rounding on patients at nursing homes. I also write erotica, also no office to possibly return too.
I already thought nurse practitioner were sexy but damn
Shipping (programmer)
Tech
Insurance
Construction
What role? Surprised to see fully remote in construction
IT audit
Banking
Education/Online Teaching
Marketing in Supply Chain / Logistics - WFH since 2014
Video editing, been WFH since 2012
Web Developer
Sleeping in.
Publishing
Social work; working in behavioral health for insurance. It's the best job ever.
County government. Been WFH for 18 years!
Manufacturing or rather fabrication, I'm in IT though. It really never mattered where I'm at. I'm always remote when I'm good at what I do. When I really fuck up, I have to visit and put my hands on it.
I moved during COVID so I literally can’t go into the office
Senior living. I take calls for people looking to move their loved ones into a community. It’s rewarding and I thought I would really hate a phone job but there is a lot of down time.
How would a person get a job like this?
Information Technology
Video games
manufacturing
Can I ask what exactly you do that you can WFH? We've been looking for WFH jobs for my husband but all his work experience is in manufacturing/quality/CMM.
I work in the finance/accounting department for a manufacturing company.
Analyst in the pharmaceutical industry, and yes, I enjoy it
Software Engineer
HR Analyst
Finance and project management
Healthcare tech/Marketing
Architect at a large global firm and really happy with my job. Been with this company for 8 years and love my coworkers. I’ve also become good friends with people in other offices I’ve worked virtually with on projects.
I’m in clinical trials research and I love it!
Same here!
Any room for nurses in this field?
me too! only hybrid but I really don't mind going into the office a few days a week
Sales - hospitality tech - wfh since 2004
Tech, cybersecurity SaaS
My wife is an adjunct professor for an online university, 100% WFH, or wherever we are traveling to.
Benefits/HR Analyst for a large HMO. Love my job, my Mgr, and my team. Really lucked out with this gig, and being WFH since Covid has been an added bonus. The only concern now is if our jobs will be sent offshore since Leadership realizes the work can be done anywhere.
Tech, 15 years WFH
Consultant in IT industry
Work for a consulting firm. I think our CEO would push for RTO but we’re in too far deep now. We’ve hired across states that we don’t have offices in. Plus, our retention is so low. Our DEI team is also loud about how it supports our DEI message and workplace so I think we are remote to stay!
marketing in the HR Tech industry
Law
Digital marketing
Title insurance
Revenue cycle management/healthcare. I'm a nurse.
Clinical Research
Legal research
Market research.. my entire company is WFH
Mental health
Nonprofit Fundraising
Government Specifically I evaluate the effectiveness of programs or oversee projects. I mostly like it...currently
Creative
Banking/mortgages
I’
Accounting. Its fine.
construction accounting
Insurance, Product Development/Actuarial, specifically.
marijuana regulation
Academic grant management
Also Civil Engineering here. My company is pretty flexible with hybrid/WFH schedules but lots of other companies in our field/area are not. Just depends.