I’m looking for advice on how to find a WFH/remote-only job that works well with the nomadic sitter lifestyle. I have a college degree and am highly professional, reliable, and organzied. But I have been a SAHM and/or homemaker most of my adult life so my resume looks pathetic on the surface. I have worked in professional marketing and offices in the past, but I can’t commit to a brick and mortar location job at this time. While I LOVE sitting full-time, my days are too quiet and long and I’d like to find something exciting and productive to do with my time. Open to PT, FT, temp, permanent, but flexible enough to allow me time-off to “commute” (up to 2 hours) to my new sit once every few weeks. Ideas? Recommendations?
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If you have a long work gap, you’d probably be served by brushing up on your skills by taking online courses and/or doing some volunteering, so you can strengthen your case and potentially build work samples. You might also check out temp agencies and sites like Upwork, which offer short-term gigs. It’s typically toughest to get your first job and the bar is lower for temp work or gigs.
It also can help to tap your network and let people know you’re looking. Folks who know you are more likely to give you a break. And according to LinkedIn, your secondary network — people who aren’t the closest to you — are most likely to refer jobs (though LinkedIn presumably collected data on people who’ve been working consistently).
In some industries, there also are “returnships” for people (usually women) with work gaps from caring for children. You might google and look into those.
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It also might be useful for you to join networking groups. You can find many online, including on Facebook. Among such groups, like Women in Marketing, you’ll see posts from people who’ve been job hunting for a long time. There have been a lot of layoffs and other job reductions in the field over the past year+, so a good number of folks have struggled. There’s more well qualified talent on the market than in many years, many seeking remote work. But of course some folks are still getting hired and such groups can offer a lot of tips and camaraderie.
And I’d suggest managing your expectations. It’s not likely you’re qualified for “exciting” roles now, though you can certainly work toward them. Of course, what’s exciting is subjective.
I’ve done a lot of hiring for remote work based in the U.S. and U.K. and would say that the competition is stiff. (I lead teams that focus on content, social media, community and PR/comms.) There are way more applicants for telecommuting roles than for onsite openings. And for good telecommuting jobs, hiring mgrs who know how to build successful teams look for more than core skills, because strong communications and the ability to build rapport and trust remotely and to manage time and prioritize typically are in greater demand with telecommuting.
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Depending on what you studied or are willing to study you could be a zoom therapist or dietician. Mine of both of those are strictly only on zoom.
I’m a writer so that’s easy to do anywhere. Most of my friends do remote tech work. You might be able to do task rabbit. Not sure if you can change the location on there though. I know with Lyft you have to do it in your state so not sure if task rabbit is like that too since it’s not driving. I’m not sure if there are chains of temp agencies where you can have your account with them and then apply for temp positions every where but worth looking into.
In movie travelers always get beach jobs and work at resorts and stuff and idk how that happens haha
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There are quite a few facebook groups for Nomadic Workers, scroll through them and pick a one you like the vibe of.
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Hi @kandk
If you have some marketing skills you can advertise these on sites like fiverr and peopleperhour. You’d be doing one of tasks or ongoing tasks around your skillset.