Are you tired of having a boss breathing down your neck? Or just fancy more of the freedom awarded by working from home? If that sounds like you, take a look at our options to change that.
Teaching
There are lots of opportunities to teach beyond the usual high school or university lecturer that takes years of education. If you’re looking for a change, you might want to look at teaching.
The good thing here is that you aren’t confined to the arts, maths and literature that are mandatory at school. If your skill is carpentry, a foreign language, an instrument, or knitting, you can take it on the road. Even teaching someone to cook and clean and do their budget is possible.
There is the usual way of going door to door or hosting a class, which might have to be the case for ideas like art and music lessons, but if you have a skill that can be taught remotely, embrace the video call option.
Even better, create courses in all your knowledge going as basic or in-depth as you know, and teach people who are simply curious.
Personal training
If you’re interested in staying active in your career, you might want to look into personal training. You can gain your personal trainer qualifications and help out people looking to get healthier.
The best part about this is that you can take on as many or as few clients as you like, and if you can even specialize in other niches in fitness to raise your prices. Look into nutrition, postpartum fitness, fitness with long conditions, and fitness for mental health, for example. Even better, you can make a good side business creating fitness and diet regimes for customers to follow who maybe don’t want to pay for a personal trainer.
Personal assisting
If you are the organized type, there is such a thing as the freelance personal assistant. All these higher-up London types need someone to sort their calendar and transfer them through to calls, and even pick out a tie for them. But in the age of the internet, a lot of that doesn’t require a physical presence. They’ll have to choose their own tie.
In the meantime, you can handle everything from your laptop in your remote location, even if that’s at home.
Accounting
If you are good with money, you can look into accounting. Accounting is often recommended as a small business’ first hire. Why? Because you pay for yourself. Accountants can find savings hiding in tiny spaces, which businesses can use to pay you.
If you have a point of pride for being a bargain hunter, being a freelance accountant is a good idea. You can take on multiple clients and find where they are not being thrifty enough. Since a lot of small businesses are outsourcing their accounting, because it’s a headache at the very least, you’re bound to have lots of options.
Marketing
Yes, even marketing can be taken freelance, mainly with the concept of affiliate marketing. If you were to start an affiliate blog, you could showcase various items on your blog which have an affiliate link embedded in the text. For every person that clicks that link, sending them to the target website, you gain a commission. The idea is to drive traffic to the site of the product or brand, which should hopefully turn into sales. Whether it does or not, as long as your viewers click it, you get paid.
The perk here is that it’s actually good money. You can make an average minimum wage from two posts a month. That’s got to be around 3 hours of work, if we’re being generous.