I’ve had the opportunity to work from home a few times, and I’d like to continue. Not a permanent option for me however.

50 is fast approaching and I’m finally finishing my degree but it’s not really remote work related/capable. I’m looking for something I can work towards to have options. If nothing else, a second career option for after retirement.

I’ve had some programming classes and others and something like that is of interest but I’ll need more experience.

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I’ve had the opportunity to work from home a few times, and I’d like to continue. Not a permanent option for me however.

50 is fast approaching and I’m finally finishing my degree but it’s not really remote work related/capable. I’m looking for something I can work towards to have options. If nothing else, a second career option for after retirement.

I’ve had some programming classes and others and something like that is of interest but I’ll need more experience.

Learn SQL (pronounced “sequel”). Specifically look at a career as a T-SQL Database Administrator. Completely able to work from home, and pay is good. T-SQL is what most refer to as SQL.

I have worked with many in the past and most were remote workers. The company I used to work for, had a few SQL developers that were remote employees.

I'm on the road locally a lot, selling final expense insurance. I answer to no one, do what I want, when I want, but I treat it like a real 9-5 job. It has a 90% washout rate in the first year, but, if you make it past year one, you'll never be poor, will always have a good income, can never get laid off and, after some time, will have a healthy residual income in direct deposits before you get out of bed each day.

Being happy in a career means aptitude and interest. Your local community college should have some simple tests to take at limited cost. It is also helpful to look at what the Department of Labor projects as job needs in the future. Only a few years ago, Pharmacists were in demand. Until recently with the pandemic they had trouble finding work. Retail pharmacies quit hiring.

For programming, python is in high demand and also a fairly friendly language to learn. Amazon's AWS certification is another skill in very high demand and Amazon provides both free developer accounts and extensive resources to learn.

Jobs in Tech / Software often have remote positions.

I've worked from home for almost 10 years now (at two different SaaS software companies) -- positions in account management, project management / implementation (what I do), software development, and sales are quite often extremely flexible with remote / work-from-home.

Thanks all. I’ve had introductory Python courses, I’ll check out SQL as well.

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Just to note, in larger IT departments there can be a big difference between a SQL Database Administrator and a SQL Developer.

Just do incall only.

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Just to note, in larger IT departments there can be a big difference between a SQL Database Administrator and a SQL Developer.

Correct. I should have been clearer in my answer.

At Harbor our DBA was onsite because he preferred to work at work, and he lived a couple minutes away. If something ever came up, he could easily work from home and it made no difference.

We had a team of SQL Developers and many of them were remote employees. Never met in person, lived across the country, but readily available via a Skype meeting and always willing to help. The East Coast employees did have a bummer schedule, as they had to work 8-5 Pacific time.

Our IT dept is only 3 people (1 being me) so we split responsibility, more or less split hardware, software & dev, with some crossover.
I'm predominantly software/application, and 90% of my job can be done from anywhere.

From March to about October we were fully remote.

I do some computer imaging, so that usually requires being on site, unless we have the machines shipped to our homes.

I only do a small amount of SQL but enjoy it, mostly writing views for reports for our accounting & scheduling systems.

Our company is also really flexible. Right now I'm in the car at the pediatrician office & just have to keep an eye on email (also comanage the helpdesk) until I get back home.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:I only do a small amount of SQL but enjoy it, mostly writing views for reports for our accounting & scheduling systems.

This is the one thing I miss about working at Harbor. I wrote a lot in sql and most if it was reporting, or extracting the one little piece if data from the incredible amount of saved data. It was something that I really loved and I was pretty good at it.

The company I work for now, uses MySQL. It’s not the same at T-Sql and I just don’t have the need for the data that I needed in the past. That and there just isn’t the same amount of data. At my last job, everything was electronic and everything done was recorded in a table or a trans log.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:I only do a small amount of SQL but enjoy it, mostly writing views for reports for our accounting & scheduling systems.

This is the one thing I miss about working at Harbor. I wrote a lot in sql and most if it was reporting, or extracting the one little piece if data from the incredible amount of saved data. It was something that I really loved and I was pretty good at it.

The company I work for now, uses MySQL. It’s not the same at T-Sql and I just don’t have the need for the data that I needed in the past. That and there just isn’t the same amount of data. At my last job, everything was electronic and everything done was recorded in a table or a trans log.

I enjoy playing in SQL, but like I said, the majority is just aggregating data for reports & not really much coding/dev work.

Thank you.

The language you learn first doesn't matter unless you may want to line it up with a local IT shop, small business, or other market of interest. When I voluntarily switched from Perl to Python some years back for my personal "utility" type programming in Linx to help automate and support my daily job responsibilities, I thought it would be a great teaching language, and since then it turned out to be just that. The difference between Python and other teaching languages in the past is that it was recognized as an extemely flexible and powerful tool for industry and business, which was not always true of previous teaching languages. Thus it is very flexible and powerful given the tons of libraries that have been developed for it over the years in all sorts of disciplines, hence its current popularity (all free btw). At some point in the future it will be replaced by another language, as good as it is, as all great languages have been replaced over the decades.

So, Python is an excellent choice if you want to learn about programming to any depth. If you're really serious about it, unless you're a computer progidy, a bs degreee in computer science, math, physics, or engineering would best prepare you for that type of work. On the other hand if this will be a second career for you so to speak, you wouldn't need to go throught all that just to have fun and make some money, if you can find a demand for what you can bring to the table. If you can combine that with your work experience, that would make it even better money, since adults with work experience bring tons more value to the table other things being equal.

So if you're one of those people who love this stuff, I guarantee you will like Python - a lot. And as you stated, IT is most definitely and entirely appropriate for remote working over the wire. These days it's almost seamless, for all practical purposes. My employer won't let me work at the office because of covid, though I prefer to work there than at home. Figure that.

My brother went to take classes for Medical Coder and works at home. The test is very hard and usually takes about 2 or 3 times to pass it. My brother was able to pass it on his first try. He makes good money working from home and is in demand from many companies wanting him to work for them. He has a friend that also went to the same class and passed the test the 3rd time he took it. Also works from home and loves the flexibility he has. I hope this helps. God Bless !!!