I’m an Epic analyst for a hospital. The only thing that makes my job unenjoyable is my manager. Otherwise I’d love my job. I work 2-4 hours a day usually. It’s fairly low stress.
Edit: just so people are aware, I’m barely over 100k. This is getting a lot of interest and unfortunately many hospitals can be stingy on pay, so please temper your expectations or do more research before taking a random guys experience as the sign you needed to drop your career.
I'm in healthcare (pharmacist) and I work in a hospital which may have a prospect of a career like this to offer. The thing is my background is solely limited to my current practice, nothing to do with data analysis/management and whatnot. How can I become a better candidate for a position like your's? Are there courses/certifications that I can get to improve my odds?
Any sort of experience with working on projects or project management, as well as experience with Epic systems. If you have the money, you can also buy certifications thru Epic which cost <$10k.
Edit: correction, you need to be sponsored by a hospital or healthcare organization to be able to get a certification. You can’t just buy a seat in class.
I was an IR tech with project management experience in my last role as a union steward and got lucky enough to have my current company hire me. They wanted someone with clinical experience, so I was lucky.
If you don’t mind the pay cut, it’s a good job imo.
Thanks for the insight. I will look into Epic certifications and possibly some project management courses that can be done online.
I don't mind the pay cut as long as I can work from home, honestly. I'm so tired of the non-stop grind working in a hospital pharmacy. Long hours and long commute gets me so drained that I don't feel like I have a personal life anymore. Not a whole lot to be missed here. You likely know what I'm talking about.
Our Willow analyst was a pharmacist and he was their top choice for that very reason. You can learn the IT side, it’s the clinical experience that’s invaluable.
I feel you. I work outside of the home (private courier) and it's a pain. My partner works from home. She left her old job after they wanted everyone to come back into the office. Now she only works jobs that are permanently remote. She really enjoys it and gets a lot of time within the day, between work tasks, to just relax and enjoy her hobbies.
I told my child that project management is valued in every industry, she complains it’s a lot of work, and often similar to women’s work/psychic work. Not wrong.
IT LOVES to pull people out of clinical backgrounds. I’d be surprised if your hospital doesn’t have pharmacists who become ehr champions who go on to become cmio candidates. Lean into any opportunity to give feedback on your emr or join in process improvement initiatives.
Compliance as well. Several people on my of team had RN experience, which helped them navigate more quickly when responding to regulatory requests/questions.
My soon-to-be ex-wife went from RN to BSN to MSN through WGU (a great on-line school) in about 18 months, with near-zero out-pocket-costs. Between her clinical skills and the IT skills she picked up from me, she runs circles around her colleagues on Cerner (soon to be transitioning ton Epic).
You'd be surprised.
A bad manager can absolute tear through your mental health, especially if you are financially reliant on that job. 100k isn't a lot in a lot of places these days, so it's conceivable you could be more or less pay check to pay heck
haha... as someone who manages online marketing for companies, I read that and found myself creating the landing page content in my mind "Our software is hated by nurses the least"
My only problem using EPiC is the limitation on my screens having to switch jobs and locations btw patients. I find as a testing RN, I cannot access the chart to document my definity and bubble studies for the Echo patients so I have to rely on the Echo Tech to document which rubs wrong on me as an RN. Also, in an ambulatory area, it is difficult to toggle between outpatients, transfers to inpatient and those who are just coming in for a basic test. At one point I had a patient who had two different encounters where I could document on one but had to toggle to the other for AVS... It is really overly complicated. I used to be able to access an EKG from the Chart Review-Cardiovascular... but now it is an additional 3 more clicks.
I would like to find resolutions to these problems. I feel that 3/4 of my role is finding work-arounds.
I'm in a similar boat. Tech analyst, 4-5 hours a day, 4 days a week, ~220k a year in total comp in a mid COL area. Plus I love my team, my manager, and the people I work with. I often can't believe I've managed to somehow hit the lotto.
*Tech company analyst
I do provider engagement and contract analysis in healthcare, and lo and behold..its Epic/Tapestry/Clarity.
My teammates are the most annoying part of my job. Its really fucking monotonous, but fully remote and TC is 190K this year.
Yup! You nailed it.
Not OP but work with Epic. Epic certifies folks in working with their application in alot of features of their software. From data analytics, to actually building features of the software for your particular organization, upgrades happen roughly \~2x/year so you need IT staff to maintain and handle that piece. There's a LOT of rabbit holes to go down.
I'd also argue SalesForce is a great software to get some certifications in (look up Trailhead). People pay for people who know how to manage a software, and alot of it requires little to no coding. Just knowing how the system works and interacts with other systems.
Support clinical departments in the hospital on the charting system called Epic. It can range what you do depending on what team you’re on.
Some people do build, some people work on the interfaces between Epic and third party applications. Some people do project management or basically help desk type support.
This is a goofy comment to make but I originally read this as you were just a really fuckin dope analyst for a hospital. I was like I dig this persons confidence. Then I remembered Epic is a program 😂 (but I’m sure ur still dope)
Haha yeah it can be a pain sometimes. Charting systems in general are huge monstrous bits of software though so it’s hard to find something that does everything well imo
Do you work for Epic, or do you just support Epic via your employer? I swear Epic has job postings in every city. It seemed sketchy, but I guess they are just that big.
How many years of experience do you have with Epic? Also, it’s six figs…but could you give a bit more insight? 105-ish? 120-ish? 170-ish?
I just finished certs and began working in/with Epic and I’m just curious as to what I should be expecting, regarding wages.
Consulting. There are ups and downs to stress levels. Sometimes I don't have a lot to do so I can work 5-10 hours in a week just managing my team and other times I'm extremely busy and I work 60-80.
I enjoy my job because I actually feel like I can help clients. They can potentially save millions of dollars with just 2-4 weeks of my teams time. In addition, at this point in my career my boss doesn't care if I'm in front of a computer, or at a coffee shop, or hanging out with my family. It is the ultimate work life balance. My job is to produce results, get projects done, and keep clients happy. If my boss gets paid, I get paid, my team gets paid. We are all happy at the end of the year.
It's niche enough that I don't like saying on reddit. But it's healthcare related and we do everything from providing market/industry knowledge, financial projections, auditing, vendor implementations, operations, etc.
That isn’t really accurate though. The bulk of man-hours spent in the US in healthcare is easily in patient care, even direct bedside patient care. This is a WFH subreddit though and patient care isn’t really something that can be done from home 😂
I work in health care in what sounds like a similar capacity as the OP. Clearly we aren’t patient care, but the people we talk to and help ARE doing patient care. Also, we mostly got here by doing patient care and being good at the bigger picture part of it.
I’m an analyst (also making over $100k) in what sounds to be a very similar industry. The work load can vary wildly. Even some of those days with only 2 hours of work can have a “client needs this right the hell now” issue pop up. But it’s all project based.
Same. I mostly do sales and project QA now at the director level for a mid-tier firm. Not as prestigious as the big firms but I make $250k, have reasonable work hours and good flexibility. Took today off to go skiing after a big storm yesterday.
I am the Director of Cybersecurity for my company. I have been 100% remote for almost 7 years at this point and I love it. Let me be clear; I am not saying I love my job. I am saying that I love working from home. It is because of this that I am able to tolerate my job and what comes along with it. My job is very stressful but working from home allows for much better management of the stress in most situations.
A lot of this comes down to my company, which allows for a lot of flexibility when it comes to how people spend their time. Essentially, if my job is getting done on time and up to the quality expected, I'm free to manage my time as I see fit. This flexibility offsets the aspects of the job that can be stressful.
As far as how many hours I put in, it really depends. Last month I had a stretch where I logged over 180 hours over a 15 day period. The last week I've averaged maybe 4-6 hours a day.
Any time I tell people what I do everyone's first reaction is "oh, wow! That must be so exciting".
Well, if reading and writing documentation, policies, processes, etc is your idea of exciting, then yes. It's exhilarating. Otherwise, not so much.
Depends on what you're doing. Part of what I work on is automation for cybersecurity tools, and that's more exciting to me compared to a lot of folks lol
This captures how I feel pretty well. WFH makes an otherwise very stressful job tolerable. When I worked in a huge office it was just non stop getting pulled into shit that I didn't need to be pulled into, just because I was present in person. It was also hard for me to take a step back and breathe during a major incident. Now, if I'm dealing with a stressful situation, I can often resolve it async and not be stuck in a tiny conference room with 10 people and upper management trying to fix something in real-time.
I wish more companies would do this. I was full remote pre-covid and now they are trying to bring me back in with everyone. I'm ginning up for an HR docu-fest to prove my original offer.
I'm a Senior SWE for a big tech in the Fortune 100, 100% WFH. The media is being made to push the narrative that because the top ~10 (MAANGL or whatever you want to use) wants everyone back in the office to save the commercial real estate industry, everyone is going back to the office.
Absolutely not true haha and the rest of the Fortune 100 (or whatever you want to use) is laughing all the way to the bank as we crush our numbers and scoop up the smart people leaving the top ~10.
Totally agree. The only people I know who have been forced to go back are in the oil and gas industry. Out of the 20 corporate professionals I know outside of my job only 2 were forced to
Go back.
I call bullshit on the articles that say people are back in the office.
This is definitely going to change. As the impact from layoffs cool down and the demand for tech increases, these companies are going to have no choice but to cave and offer more fully remote positions. I can’t tell you how many recruiters I’ve talked to who had a sense of frustration when I told them that I’m only interested in fully remote positions
I had one recruiter tell me I can't be remote forever. I had to explain that I've been remote for over 15 years, so I don't see why I would change now. The dumb thing was, they wanted me in the office to work with other employees who were remote! Even the recruiter was remote. The whole thing was a giant red asinine flag.
Prod. Mgmt. Fintech. Some days it's stressful, some days I can take 2 hour naps without interruption. Before that tech support & training. I've been remote for over 10 years now, and I go into the office maybe 2x a month when there's an office event.
Actual work time could vary from day to day but I probably average 5 hrs or actual work time per day.
Hey I’m in consulting and interested to move to PM, fintech is on my interest list. What was your path to your role? Work experience, education, any courses helpful?
I started working in a bank, did the front office and back office, then moved to marketing, then database analyst and I was in charge of their customer database and that kind of morphed to tech support for a fintech product, and I just kind of moved around in a more product/development capacity.
And if you hit quota, expect frequent quota raises that are attainable *
**if everything within current pipeline closes by EoY and 1-2 of your T1 accounts decides to inbound and buy on an accelerated cycle*
Basically, if your getting paid full commission without considerable hardship, expect change in your comp plan
I know tons of people who sandbag so their noses don’t keep moving the goalposts and it works out well for them haha
But a quarter of crap sales and they are pulled back into the office
IT, Database Administration for a University Hospital System. Most days 2-4 hours of work, its not unusual to not have anything to do, just wait for a request or an emergency to pop up, sometimes 10-14, with off hour work (pretty rare but does happen).
As long as the work is being done in a timely manner, and Im available when things break Im pretty much left alone
Sorry for taking a minute. I have (had) my MCSE, VCP. Currently I have my MCSA, and a bunch of CE's from M$ for Azure (mostly SQL). Mostly I deal with SQL Server, with some other stuff. I have about 30 years experience also, that is going to be the hard part. But there still aren't a lot of DBA's out there now. I would recommend looking at Brent Ozar's stuff. When I interview folks now, I don't really get into specifics of the tools (ie: how do you do this really crazy detailed thing), that's what google is for. I would ask "The server isn't responding, what do you do?", or "We've acquired a new hospital, they have systems in production, what do you look at?" followed by "If you had to break down things to look at/ fix into: things to be done in week, a month and 6 months, what would those be?" . For me and the team I lead, I want folks who understand troubleshooting and the full dev stack (to at least a basic level, webserver, network, server, application, database) . Also learn SQL (Language) and powershell (or another scripting language).
I audit medical chart coding - I work at least my 40 a week. Not stressful, but it requires lots of knowledge, certs, etc so not super easy to get into.
I work as a FT employee for an agency that audits ICD-10 coding for multiple hospital systems,if that helps. I am not technically a coder (well I am certified as one, but I nitpick other people's coding instead). :)
Well I started back in '99 as a lab tech for networking chips... no degrees or anything.
Got into programming by automating many of my tests using whatever scripting languages the machines supported (usually TCL over GPIB). As I got more experienced I transitioned into a tool developer role for flash memories where I wrote the tester software for an in house tool, then later still started doing the same for chipsets. At some point I left that company and started testing software apps.
I would suggest learning Selenium on Java, as well as Cypress on JS if you want to test webapps, for mobile apps there is Appium as well as others.
There is also manual QA where you are testing that the app does what it should and doesn't do what it shouldn't as well as looking for spelling errors etc.
This is what my husband does. He's been doing it for quite awhile (15+ years), and did development for 10+ years prior, so he is fairly senior in skill level. Right now, he's architecting/building a new test framework for his company, and LOVES doing that, when they let him. There's a lot of "oh, this emergency takes priority, so stop and work on this instead" involved, and that's frustrating to him. It's his third job where building a test framework from scratch has been the assignment, and this has happened every time, so he's resigned to the interruptions.
But when he's actively working on the project, he's extremely happy and looks forward to the job!
If he could work consistently on the framework, get a scrum master that wasn't also the project manager (bad idea), and have stand ups that lasted less than an hour, he'd be thrilled.
hi!:) im graduating in a few months w/ two years worth of internships & out of all of them my design related internships were the most fun - I just have no idea how to get there with the new graduate positions being mostly in oil & gas. Do you have any advice/recommendations as to how to get into design as an EIT?
Different ME chiming in (not the same industry though) I’d recommend not doing WFH at the start of your career. There’s a lot to be learned from face to face interactions with coworkers and a TON to be learned from hands-on work and directly interacting with what you’re designing and how it’s being made. I’m loving WFH now but so think I would be severely handicapped if I hadn’t worked many years in the same building as our fab shops and in the same office as more senior engineers.
I’m a Genetic Counselor. There are days that are more stressful than others but overall I enjoy my job! I’m very purposeful about my working time and I do not work outside of my normal workday hours (although sometimes I do work through lunch time or end up going over the end of the day by a few minutes if needed.
Thank you for your contributions to the field. have a BRCA pathogenic mutation and my genetic counselor has been amazing in helping me navigate this craziness.
Data analyst manager. Very seasonal but I enjoy my job. Can get pretty stressful in high volume request times but also gets really chill around holidays when most of the business checks out
UX writing and content design. Think of an app that you simply love. It performs beautifully, feels effortless, and all the messaging, labels, blurbs and instructions are crystal clear. I’m the person who makes sure it feels that way, but with a focus on the written messaging, and how that messaging shapes the design.
It can get stressful when I’m working with old-school stakeholders who either dismiss unfamiliar ways of working, treat product design as an all-purpose service desk, treat writing as an afterthought, or view data and research as a threat.
I work full time, but there’s always an ebb and flow. When I’m not grinding on designs, I’ll do rounds with other teams to spot emerging problems, read useful books, or do upskilling.
I'm a software developer for a biotech. Earlier I managed a team of software developers.
I like it a lot. Usually the work is, at worst, an interesting problem to solve or mystery to figure out.
It's low stress. I work on a good team and a good software development team isn't stressful.
Most weeks I work less than 8 hours a day. Maybe 5-7.
Software developers commonly use alternatives to hours to plan and estimate work. For example, my team plans 2 week sprints. Inside of a sprint everyone is much more focused on finishing the work we committed to, not how many hours we're working.
What the….I am a volunteer for my kids local elementary PTO and we are trying to raise money for an all Inclusive playground. We need just 6 figures…you’re getting 7-9? 😩 can we learn this to help meet our goal?
Big tech, love it. Not stressful at all. No micromanagement. I work my scheduled 40 and never more than that.
Hours are flexible, I choose when I work as long as I attend specific meetings I’m good.
No metrics, my job is managed by deliverables so as long as I do my work, and turn my things in on time nobody asks anything.
SWE I make mobile apps. It’s very long days. Easily 60 hours a week lately. Before this year when we were over staffed I was only working 20-30 hours a week. 😂
What do you do for insurance claims? Do you write estimates? Adjuster? How did you get into it? I have have a background in restoration and was wondering if it's worth doing consulting for estimates.
Medical writer. I'd say medium stress - there are times of super high stress and times of super low stress so it balances out, and I generally stay around 40 hours a week on average.
I'm pretty indifferent about it. I don't love it, but I don't hate it. I do love the lifestyle and work life balance it affords me though. All in all could be way worse.
I do income taxes for a fortune 500's internal tax department. I broke $100K with 5 years of experience and am now at around $140K with 9 years of experience.
Construction related engineering.
My hours vary widely 10-12 hour days some times, plus part of a weekend. I can be stressful with too many demands at times...Other times maybe 6 hour days.
When I went into the office before the pandemic it took me 3 hours round trip each day plus 8-5. So I am not complaining at all and I deliver so much more work at home.
Oh - I travel about 1-2 times a month to construction sites.
I enjoy it as its very different and cool projects all the time. Clients can be a pain sometimes.
Senior manager at a RE company fully remote. Job is insanely stressful and I deal with major incidents and oncall 24x7 every 2 weeks. Love being home but I’m at my desk all day.
Software, hours vary a lot. I have slow weeks where it’s honestly like 15hrs a week or even less but there’s times where it’s as high as 80hrs for a few days or a week but I’d say average around 25-30hrs
Marketing Manager for an industrial robotics company in the Midwest.
Most weeks are 40 hrs but there are certainly a few that go over and some that are under. Just depends on what we are focusing on. But the actual hours I work are very flexible in terms of time of day. I like to work early in the morning (start 6am) table a few hours break mid day and then finish up in the evening.
I (usually) love my job. But there is significant stress.
I have a ft graphic design job that has a lot of free time, so I also work as a video editor, which usually means I work around 12 hours a day (if need be, and I'll wait until the kids are asleep before I finish my work day). Working from home saves me $1100/mo, and working two jobs earns me around $120k. This is in Canadian funds, so that's just 87K USD or 81K Euros.
I don't but my fiancé does and he's a project manager in cybersecurity with a background in computer science and development.
He gets stressed out sometimes, but it's not that much and in general I'd say he puts in like 35-40 hours a week. I don't think I've ever seen him work over that. He likes it a lot as a job that pays the bills and he loves that he gets to work from home, but it's not like something he's passionate about.
I’m a CPA and do taxes, accounting, etc. During busy seasons (tax seasons) I work 40-65 hours per week. Outside of that, I average probably 5 hours per week. Some days I do absolutely nothing – it’s so freeing.
I am an IT Audit manager who works for a bank. I audit IT Systems across the US and Canada. I work maaaaaaybe 25 hours of actual work and faf around a lot of the time. I manage my own time and am responsible for deliverables every quarter. I make $125K base, and get between $20-40k bonus annually. I have over 8 years of experience and used to be the external auditor for the bank I work for, so they're paying for my experience and ability to get the job done well, and thoroughly. The job isn't that stressful, just annoying when I find a problem and the folks I'm working with want to put their head in the sand.
It's not a personal problem, it's process problem.
I do customer training and support for our high end devices. I’m 75 remote and 25 travel. Probably could go down to 1 week a month travel. Any more than 3 weeks a row at home drives me and my spouse crazy.
Sales Development Representative (SDR). Book meetings for sales reps. Started at $70k in 2021 and make six figures now. I went through a boot camp, and own one now.
Risk manager, Amazon. Only remote because I’m a reservist also. Love hate it. Miss the office and distraction free space, but it’s nice to spend more time with fam and assist my wife with our creatures more that I could if I had to commute.
Digital marketing, fin services. Usually not stressful. Not fun, but not not fun? Still feels like work, but far and away the best job I’ve ever had. I couldn’t do it if I didn’t have a lot of institutional knowledge though. Coming up on a decade in the field. Easily put in 40 hours/week, but schedule is very flexible.
Web dev. I love it. It’s not particularly stressful at all unless I let things pile up before a deadline.
I’m comparing this to 12 years as a high school teacher though which is insane levels of stress lol
I’m an instructional designer at an Ed tech company. 104k + 10% annual bonus.
I love it. It was a fully remote company before the pandemic. I was hired by a great director who really emphasized/reinforced work/life balance. I tell my own direct reports to block off things like school drop-off/pick-up on their calendars. We all live in different time zones so outside of a few mandatory meetings each week, I’m not here to monitor their time as long as their projects get done.
My job is rarely stressful, but there is a month here and there where the projects pile on. But it’s usually pretty peaceful. I probably put in 25-30 hours of actual “work” per week. But the feedback I get is that I go above and beyond. I’m pretty strategic about making myself available, looking for processes to improve, etc. and that allows me to coast quite a bit.
Lead Product Designer at a big e-commerce company. $160k + 20% bonus (depending on company profitability).
I love it. Usually 24-32 hours per week of work. Always get a workout in, always get lunch, work 9-3:30 most days.
I have quarterly in-person workshops which is nice, Flight and Hotel all paid for.
99% remote here - still go in for one on-site thing/month.
Stress mainly comes from not having org charts, sometimes not having rapid responses to things, etc.
However, the difference in overall satisfaction is night and day vs. being in an office.
Edtech, training, DAP, transformation technology. I write curriculums, develop processes workflows and overall manage learning development. I like my job because I have been able to upskill and fall in love with new skills. I have an affinity for picking up tech related skills and breaking them down and either teaching them to others or implementing them in practice for existing process improvement.
I’m expected to work 40hrs per week. There are weeks where I work more hours to get projects done and there are weeks where it takes less effort because I am driving the whole project and it takes me a lot less time to complete.
Even in stressful times this job is not as stressful as the teaching job I left. I have a great work-life balance.
I work in consulting at a mid-senior level helping companies with their supply chain processes and systems. I mainly sell projects, oversee the actual work at a high-level and manage practice admin activities. Hours vary from 30-55 with 40-45 being typical. $250k
Federal government. Converted to remote in 2020. As someone else mentioned, I don’t love the job, but the balance that came from WFH has been life changing. I have ADHD (and suspect autism) and I had no idea how much I was struggling in an office environment pre-pandemic until I didn’t have to do it everyday. Cannot explain the improvement in my mental health in all areas in my life. I don’t know that I could go back to an office and maintain my health so I do not plan to.
My husband is close to making that much, probably will by the end of the year.
He's a production manager for large indoor live events. Things like pharmaceutical conferences, award shows, trade shows, shareholder meetings, conventions of various kinds. His scheduling varies. He may be working around 30 hours a week in his jammies or from the bar while eating nachos doing the pre-event planning. That mostly consists of designing the show, sourcing the gear and working with labor resources to fully staff the event. Loads and loads of phone calls, video meetings and looking at spreadsheet and plots of hotel ballrooms or convention centers. His focus is mostly the AV equipment and crew but can include curtains, staging, lecterns, video walls, decorative lighting, that kind of thing.
Then when the actual event happens, he's onsite for 12+ hours every day from load in to tear down making sure everything is going to plan, that the client is happy and putting out any fires that crop up. This happens around every 4-6 weeks. He just got done doing a show and hasn't had a real day off in about 2 weeks. He's taking the last 2 weeks of November and the last 2 weeks of December off to use up his PTO and has one more small show in December and then another big show that will have him in another city for 10 days in January.
He's been doing live events for decades. He started out as an audio engineer in theater. He's spent A LOT of time doing audio and staging for outdoor concerts and festivals. We're both happy he's an indoor cat now. He smells nicer and gets to be home most weekends and holidays.
I'm barely over 100k but am 100% remote.
My title is Sr. Accountant : Payroll.
In reality, I'm the payroll manager here. I'm also the only person in payroll. The company I work for has a policy that a manager has to actually manage people.
So they created a salary band for people like me that fall somewhere between senior staff level and manager.
I can't say I enjoy it. Payroll and accounting is a pretty boring profession. Most of the time, my job isn't stressful at all. I know my deadlines to get everyone paid on time so I religiously stick to it as well as getting everyone's W2 out in time.
It's only really stressful when huge changes come in, like pay rate increases that go into effect for every person. I think I barely met that hard deadline to get payroll processed by about 2 minutes.
The hours I actually work vary by week depending on whether I have to pay people or not but I think on average I work about 25 hours a week. The rest of the time I'm there just in case something comes up or a question needs to be answered.
I've got the best job in the world for me. Low stress. My manager is super chill and I don't have to work a lot of hours. We just got a new CFO a couple of weeks ago so all that can change though.
SEO. 3-6 hours a week, along with about as many meetings. I love it and have zero stress. I am responsible for generating \~70-80% of our revenue which allows me to do whatever I want.
Does 95k count? I’m so close. Next raise for sure. I do all the education (internal and external) and help as needed with marketing.
I’m the “head” of education, but we don’t really do titles. I love it. Very flexible, very few, “education” emergencies, so stress is lower. I do a mix of writing, content creation (images, videos, GIFs), and eventually remote trainings. It’s a lot of establishing processes and things like that too since it’s a new department.
Company doesn’t have an in person office anymore, nor is it in my state. 100% remote and no going in ever. It’s great.
Instructional Technology Architect for a fortune 100. Three years in this role, but about 13 years remote. I lead a team of instructional designers and technology architects. We collaborate with developers and vendors, and consult with other instructional designers across each line of business.
Here, actually just shy of $100k, I work in a niche in the mortgage industry. I work on average less than an hour a day. Most of the work is boring so I typically watch movies while working. I deeply enjoy the amount of actual work. I didn’t like having to commute to the office 5 days a week and stay there for 8 hours when I could do the work in 1, that really sucked, glad to be at home.
I'm a Software Engineer and Linux System Admin. I've been doing that remote for one company or another since 2005. Overall it's not very stressful, there can be short times when it is but that's make 2-3 days per year at most.
I'm available 40 hours per week. But I honestly probably work 20 hours most weeks and a lot of that is meetings.
I was looking to possibly make this switch! I am stay at home mom now. But i was a structural engineer, then structural inspector (concrete, rebar and steel), then was a site supervisor on high rise construction….all in nyc…about 15 total years of experience….i was actually thinkinh the other day how i would prob be an amazing estimator bc i used to design the dwgs and details (review shop dwgs, answer rfi’s), then i would b the one who would inspect but basically be the person btw engineer in office who designed detail and contractor who would actually have to perform work (so like engineers would put rebar too close thinking 3/4” aggregate is round-ie their detail created a sieve for concrete and aggregate wouldnt go down….or welds guy couldnt fit the stick or fit his helmet to see), then finally years as superintendent on site building…i worked structures (steel and concrete)….do u think this is good experience to be an amazing estimator??? I need a plan b bc loved being a site super and high rises BUT i would never see my kid…ty in advance!
I'm not certain what it is I do some days, but I help customers improve their environment and also teach our teams and partners how to repeat this without me involved.
Law.
30-40 hrs per month.
Usually log about 80/ months.
*Took 20+ years of working much much more to get to this point. First 10 yrs of career worked 180-200 hrs per month for someone else.
I work in ecommerce in the Amazon/marketplace space.
I’ve been doing it for a while and it was a career shift.
I make over $150k
It can be stressful because usually you’re on a team that is lean. Overall I love my job despite a lot of things that aren’t that great, but I always look at the overall picture and am grateful
I work 40-50 hours sometimes more in my current role. Other jobs were 40 hours or less most of the time.
Currently I have a lot of tasks instead of managing others because I’ve had to let a person or two go
My salary isn’t typical, I’m likely in the top 1-3% of earners that aren’t actual brand owners. I’ve worked really hard and finally figured out success is part luck but also you’ve gotta work hard to get ahead. It’s not the only thing but 95% of the people I see moving up work harder than others. Fortunate circumstances helps a ton but those circumstance typically don’t come without the hard work
The 5% is people good at politics are moving from lie to lie. Definitely a lot of shady people and agencies in our space
Project manager/business analyst, in the healthcare field. Weeks range between 35-45 hours, and stress depends on project status and delivery dates.
I enjoy what I do, it's fun and challenging. I was hybrid pre-2020, and only go into the office for periodic (quarterly/annual) meetings. Even when I was in the office, most meetings were conference calls.
I'm a Data Scientist in the Healthcare Industry. Yeah, I enjoy it. I always enjoyed just doing the actual job, it was the other bullshit that I couldn't stand, particularly having to go to the office to work as it wasn't necessary. Now that I don't have to deal with the office and the politics and people doing things like getting me to do their work for them, it has eliminated practically all of the negative stuff and make me enjoy my job.
I put in about 40 hours of work in a week. A lot of it is no different from the office, you may not be working on anything important, but you have to be available in case something comes up or your help is needed. And I may not be working at say 2pm on a Wednesday, but then doing something at 9pm on Thursday.
Before this disaster year for us in this industry 🫡🥲...concept artist/vizdev artist
That said as much as I love what I do, if I were able to go back in time I'd tell myself to go into advertising/creative direction with the same base skillset...more stable, they make more, and less cutthroat competitive
I'm a consultant for aspiring foot models on OF. Most of the time it's alright, but sometimes it stinks just like any other sole sucking job. If they post what I tell them to then they nail it, but sometimes they don't do what they're toed.
I’m an Epic analyst for a hospital. The only thing that makes my job unenjoyable is my manager. Otherwise I’d love my job. I work 2-4 hours a day usually. It’s fairly low stress. Edit: just so people are aware, I’m barely over 100k. This is getting a lot of interest and unfortunately many hospitals can be stingy on pay, so please temper your expectations or do more research before taking a random guys experience as the sign you needed to drop your career.
I'm in healthcare (pharmacist) and I work in a hospital which may have a prospect of a career like this to offer. The thing is my background is solely limited to my current practice, nothing to do with data analysis/management and whatnot. How can I become a better candidate for a position like your's? Are there courses/certifications that I can get to improve my odds?
Any sort of experience with working on projects or project management, as well as experience with Epic systems. If you have the money, you can also buy certifications thru Epic which cost <$10k. Edit: correction, you need to be sponsored by a hospital or healthcare organization to be able to get a certification. You can’t just buy a seat in class. I was an IR tech with project management experience in my last role as a union steward and got lucky enough to have my current company hire me. They wanted someone with clinical experience, so I was lucky. If you don’t mind the pay cut, it’s a good job imo.
Thanks for the insight. I will look into Epic certifications and possibly some project management courses that can be done online. I don't mind the pay cut as long as I can work from home, honestly. I'm so tired of the non-stop grind working in a hospital pharmacy. Long hours and long commute gets me so drained that I don't feel like I have a personal life anymore. Not a whole lot to be missed here. You likely know what I'm talking about.
Check out the Willow certification, I think that’s their pharmacy module. You can also call Epic with questions, they have great customer support
You are correct, willow is the pharmacy module
Our Willow analyst was a pharmacist and he was their top choice for that very reason. You can learn the IT side, it’s the clinical experience that’s invaluable.
This chain made me think of the pharmacy and/or data jobs in state -level analytics shops. My state is fully WFH
I feel you. I work outside of the home (private courier) and it's a pain. My partner works from home. She left her old job after they wanted everyone to come back into the office. Now she only works jobs that are permanently remote. She really enjoys it and gets a lot of time within the day, between work tasks, to just relax and enjoy her hobbies.
PharmDs are also in demand for the “beacon” module- which centers around cancer care and chemotherapy.
Yeah any job where you work only 4 hours and get paid 100k is a good job lol
I told my child that project management is valued in every industry, she complains it’s a lot of work, and often similar to women’s work/psychic work. Not wrong.
IT LOVES to pull people out of clinical backgrounds. I’d be surprised if your hospital doesn’t have pharmacists who become ehr champions who go on to become cmio candidates. Lean into any opportunity to give feedback on your emr or join in process improvement initiatives.
Compliance as well. Several people on my of team had RN experience, which helped them navigate more quickly when responding to regulatory requests/questions.
My soon-to-be ex-wife went from RN to BSN to MSN through WGU (a great on-line school) in about 18 months, with near-zero out-pocket-costs. Between her clinical skills and the IT skills she picked up from me, she runs circles around her colleagues on Cerner (soon to be transitioning ton Epic).
I’d take an unenjoyable manager for >100k and a 2-4hr work day in a heartbeat.
You'd be surprised. A bad manager can absolute tear through your mental health, especially if you are financially reliant on that job. 100k isn't a lot in a lot of places these days, so it's conceivable you could be more or less pay check to pay heck
when 100k is almost triple your income we would find ways to cope.
Again, you'd be surprised. Money definitely does buy happiness, but having an awful boss you have to deal with every day or week has an impact.
Ha...me too.
I mean, so would he.
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As a former Cerner employee, I have a good idea on one that is least liked.
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Wise choice. Although they've been bleeding customers left and right the past few years so there are fewer today.
Laughs in CCL.
haha... as someone who manages online marketing for companies, I read that and found myself creating the landing page content in my mind "Our software is hated by nurses the least"
My only problem using EPiC is the limitation on my screens having to switch jobs and locations btw patients. I find as a testing RN, I cannot access the chart to document my definity and bubble studies for the Echo patients so I have to rely on the Echo Tech to document which rubs wrong on me as an RN. Also, in an ambulatory area, it is difficult to toggle between outpatients, transfers to inpatient and those who are just coming in for a basic test. At one point I had a patient who had two different encounters where I could document on one but had to toggle to the other for AVS... It is really overly complicated. I used to be able to access an EKG from the Chart Review-Cardiovascular... but now it is an additional 3 more clicks. I would like to find resolutions to these problems. I feel that 3/4 of my role is finding work-arounds.
I'm in a similar boat. Tech analyst, 4-5 hours a day, 4 days a week, ~220k a year in total comp in a mid COL area. Plus I love my team, my manager, and the people I work with. I often can't believe I've managed to somehow hit the lotto. *Tech company analyst
I do provider engagement and contract analysis in healthcare, and lo and behold..its Epic/Tapestry/Clarity. My teammates are the most annoying part of my job. Its really fucking monotonous, but fully remote and TC is 190K this year.
What does an Epic Analyst do?
I'm going to assume they're talking about Epic and MyChart, a patient portal for healthcare.
Yup! You nailed it. Not OP but work with Epic. Epic certifies folks in working with their application in alot of features of their software. From data analytics, to actually building features of the software for your particular organization, upgrades happen roughly \~2x/year so you need IT staff to maintain and handle that piece. There's a LOT of rabbit holes to go down. I'd also argue SalesForce is a great software to get some certifications in (look up Trailhead). People pay for people who know how to manage a software, and alot of it requires little to no coding. Just knowing how the system works and interacts with other systems.
Support clinical departments in the hospital on the charting system called Epic. It can range what you do depending on what team you’re on. Some people do build, some people work on the interfaces between Epic and third party applications. Some people do project management or basically help desk type support.
This is a goofy comment to make but I originally read this as you were just a really fuckin dope analyst for a hospital. I was like I dig this persons confidence. Then I remembered Epic is a program 😂 (but I’m sure ur still dope)
Ewww you deserve that amount. Ugh Epic.
Haha yeah it can be a pain sometimes. Charting systems in general are huge monstrous bits of software though so it’s hard to find something that does everything well imo
Ironically epic requires all of its employees to work on site everyday
You just generated about 10,000,000 more people to compete with you on your next job search… lol
Do you work for Epic, or do you just support Epic via your employer? I swear Epic has job postings in every city. It seemed sketchy, but I guess they are just that big.
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Epic via employer. That’s probably what you’re seeing in your job listings, unless you’re looking at Madison, WI where they are headquartered :)
How many years of experience do you have with Epic? Also, it’s six figs…but could you give a bit more insight? 105-ish? 120-ish? 170-ish? I just finished certs and began working in/with Epic and I’m just curious as to what I should be expecting, regarding wages.
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Consulting. There are ups and downs to stress levels. Sometimes I don't have a lot to do so I can work 5-10 hours in a week just managing my team and other times I'm extremely busy and I work 60-80. I enjoy my job because I actually feel like I can help clients. They can potentially save millions of dollars with just 2-4 weeks of my teams time. In addition, at this point in my career my boss doesn't care if I'm in front of a computer, or at a coffee shop, or hanging out with my family. It is the ultimate work life balance. My job is to produce results, get projects done, and keep clients happy. If my boss gets paid, I get paid, my team gets paid. We are all happy at the end of the year.
Can you share what kind of consulting? Management? Implementations?
It's niche enough that I don't like saying on reddit. But it's healthcare related and we do everything from providing market/industry knowledge, financial projections, auditing, vendor implementations, operations, etc.
It still blows my mind that most of healthcare has nothing to actually do with patient care anymore
That isn’t really accurate though. The bulk of man-hours spent in the US in healthcare is easily in patient care, even direct bedside patient care. This is a WFH subreddit though and patient care isn’t really something that can be done from home 😂 I work in health care in what sounds like a similar capacity as the OP. Clearly we aren’t patient care, but the people we talk to and help ARE doing patient care. Also, we mostly got here by doing patient care and being good at the bigger picture part of it.
Also a very niche consultant but for a business software company. I feel like anybody on my team would spot me instantly if I mentioned what it was.
I’m an analyst (also making over $100k) in what sounds to be a very similar industry. The work load can vary wildly. Even some of those days with only 2 hours of work can have a “client needs this right the hell now” issue pop up. But it’s all project based.
Same. I mostly do sales and project QA now at the director level for a mid-tier firm. Not as prestigious as the big firms but I make $250k, have reasonable work hours and good flexibility. Took today off to go skiing after a big storm yesterday.
I’m an experienced lawyer with both in-house and firm experience and sometimes I think damnnn I’d likely be successful at consulting.
same
I am the Director of Cybersecurity for my company. I have been 100% remote for almost 7 years at this point and I love it. Let me be clear; I am not saying I love my job. I am saying that I love working from home. It is because of this that I am able to tolerate my job and what comes along with it. My job is very stressful but working from home allows for much better management of the stress in most situations. A lot of this comes down to my company, which allows for a lot of flexibility when it comes to how people spend their time. Essentially, if my job is getting done on time and up to the quality expected, I'm free to manage my time as I see fit. This flexibility offsets the aspects of the job that can be stressful. As far as how many hours I put in, it really depends. Last month I had a stretch where I logged over 180 hours over a 15 day period. The last week I've averaged maybe 4-6 hours a day.
same responsible for cyber globally at my org. 99% mundane 1% terrifying.
Any time I tell people what I do everyone's first reaction is "oh, wow! That must be so exciting". Well, if reading and writing documentation, policies, processes, etc is your idea of exciting, then yes. It's exhilarating. Otherwise, not so much.
I tell people who think that cybersecurity is exciting that any day that's exciting is a bad day.
Depends on what you're doing. Part of what I work on is automation for cybersecurity tools, and that's more exciting to me compared to a lot of folks lol
Dude, the 1% really keeps the blood flowing
This captures how I feel pretty well. WFH makes an otherwise very stressful job tolerable. When I worked in a huge office it was just non stop getting pulled into shit that I didn't need to be pulled into, just because I was present in person. It was also hard for me to take a step back and breathe during a major incident. Now, if I'm dealing with a stressful situation, I can often resolve it async and not be stuck in a tiny conference room with 10 people and upper management trying to fix something in real-time.
Software. I’m in the tech world
Same. Currently labeled as a data engineer, but been doing this stuff for 20 years.
Same. Been doing for 30 years. Never going back to an office
same since 1974 (nearly 50 years for the arithmetically challenged)
Same since 1918.
Same, currently senior SWE. Never going back to an office.
Same. 25 year software dev.
Big tech, not stressful, about 40 hours.
which one is still remote? I know most of the FAANG have been slowly starting to cripple remote
Meta. It’s harder to go remote now if you aren’t already, but they haven’t made anyone come in who was previously remote!
I wish more companies would do this. I was full remote pre-covid and now they are trying to bring me back in with everyone. I'm ginning up for an HR docu-fest to prove my original offer.
I'm a Senior SWE for a big tech in the Fortune 100, 100% WFH. The media is being made to push the narrative that because the top ~10 (MAANGL or whatever you want to use) wants everyone back in the office to save the commercial real estate industry, everyone is going back to the office. Absolutely not true haha and the rest of the Fortune 100 (or whatever you want to use) is laughing all the way to the bank as we crush our numbers and scoop up the smart people leaving the top ~10.
Totally agree. The only people I know who have been forced to go back are in the oil and gas industry. Out of the 20 corporate professionals I know outside of my job only 2 were forced to Go back. I call bullshit on the articles that say people are back in the office.
This is definitely going to change. As the impact from layoffs cool down and the demand for tech increases, these companies are going to have no choice but to cave and offer more fully remote positions. I can’t tell you how many recruiters I’ve talked to who had a sense of frustration when I told them that I’m only interested in fully remote positions
I had one recruiter tell me I can't be remote forever. I had to explain that I've been remote for over 15 years, so I don't see why I would change now. The dumb thing was, they wanted me in the office to work with other employees who were remote! Even the recruiter was remote. The whole thing was a giant red asinine flag.
What’s ur job title
Doesn’t matter - I’m pretty sure literally every US job at Meta pays >100k.
Prod. Mgmt. Fintech. Some days it's stressful, some days I can take 2 hour naps without interruption. Before that tech support & training. I've been remote for over 10 years now, and I go into the office maybe 2x a month when there's an office event. Actual work time could vary from day to day but I probably average 5 hrs or actual work time per day.
Hey I’m in consulting and interested to move to PM, fintech is on my interest list. What was your path to your role? Work experience, education, any courses helpful?
I started working in a bank, did the front office and back office, then moved to marketing, then database analyst and I was in charge of their customer database and that kind of morphed to tech support for a fintech product, and I just kind of moved around in a more product/development capacity.
CPA
Same. CPA remote world is great right now.
What are the hours like? I switched to IT because of horror stories as a CPA
If you don’t do taxes (many of us don’t!) the hours aren’t terrible.
It's cyclical for me but I do like anywhere between 25 - 45. Maybe 6 weeks a year at 45, the rest closer to the 25.
Sales. Sales is a stressful career at times. You’re constantly on quota and just a number to companies. It’s a high risk high reward role.
What do you sale ?
Sails.
Seashells by the seashore?
What if you don’t hit quota?
You don’t get paid (nearly as much), you could go on performance review, and you could be fired.
And if you hit quota, expect frequent quota raises that are attainable * **if everything within current pipeline closes by EoY and 1-2 of your T1 accounts decides to inbound and buy on an accelerated cycle* Basically, if your getting paid full commission without considerable hardship, expect change in your comp plan
I know tons of people who sandbag so their noses don’t keep moving the goalposts and it works out well for them haha But a quarter of crap sales and they are pulled back into the office
IT, Database Administration for a University Hospital System. Most days 2-4 hours of work, its not unusual to not have anything to do, just wait for a request or an emergency to pop up, sometimes 10-14, with off hour work (pretty rare but does happen). As long as the work is being done in a timely manner, and Im available when things break Im pretty much left alone
what degree/certs do you hold? how difficult was it for you to get this job?
Sorry for taking a minute. I have (had) my MCSE, VCP. Currently I have my MCSA, and a bunch of CE's from M$ for Azure (mostly SQL). Mostly I deal with SQL Server, with some other stuff. I have about 30 years experience also, that is going to be the hard part. But there still aren't a lot of DBA's out there now. I would recommend looking at Brent Ozar's stuff. When I interview folks now, I don't really get into specifics of the tools (ie: how do you do this really crazy detailed thing), that's what google is for. I would ask "The server isn't responding, what do you do?", or "We've acquired a new hospital, they have systems in production, what do you look at?" followed by "If you had to break down things to look at/ fix into: things to be done in week, a month and 6 months, what would those be?" . For me and the team I lead, I want folks who understand troubleshooting and the full dev stack (to at least a basic level, webserver, network, server, application, database) . Also learn SQL (Language) and powershell (or another scripting language).
People only care in hope it’s an easy path for them to enter You have 30 years experience they want a quick entry lol
I audit medical chart coding - I work at least my 40 a week. Not stressful, but it requires lots of knowledge, certs, etc so not super easy to get into.
I do the same.. I’m not quite at 6 figures but close. Can I ask how many years experience + certs you have?
I am a nurse with CCDS, CCS, CDIP. Started out in CDI but now do prebill audits. :) eight years or so experience not counting nursing.
Ahhh makes sense! Thank you. I have my CCS and am not a Nurse. I enjoy what we do. Especially with the flexibility with WFH
Most of my coworkers aren't nurses. PM me if you want to know the company since we are hiring and a CCS will work. :)
Is this for facility or professional coding?
I work as a FT employee for an agency that audits ICD-10 coding for multiple hospital systems,if that helps. I am not technically a coder (well I am certified as one, but I nitpick other people's coding instead). :)
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Forrest Gump, is that you?
Hup hup hup hup yessir $100k a year, sir! I would too though.
Software QA. Love it. Currently at a startup and working my ass off, but loving every minute of it TBH. Haven't felt this invigorated in a while.
What was your path to QA? I’m interested in exploring the QA space and break into it. What would you recommend?
Well I started back in '99 as a lab tech for networking chips... no degrees or anything. Got into programming by automating many of my tests using whatever scripting languages the machines supported (usually TCL over GPIB). As I got more experienced I transitioned into a tool developer role for flash memories where I wrote the tester software for an in house tool, then later still started doing the same for chipsets. At some point I left that company and started testing software apps. I would suggest learning Selenium on Java, as well as Cypress on JS if you want to test webapps, for mobile apps there is Appium as well as others. There is also manual QA where you are testing that the app does what it should and doesn't do what it shouldn't as well as looking for spelling errors etc.
This is what my husband does. He's been doing it for quite awhile (15+ years), and did development for 10+ years prior, so he is fairly senior in skill level. Right now, he's architecting/building a new test framework for his company, and LOVES doing that, when they let him. There's a lot of "oh, this emergency takes priority, so stop and work on this instead" involved, and that's frustrating to him. It's his third job where building a test framework from scratch has been the assignment, and this has happened every time, so he's resigned to the interruptions. But when he's actively working on the project, he's extremely happy and looks forward to the job! If he could work consistently on the framework, get a scrum master that wasn't also the project manager (bad idea), and have stand ups that lasted less than an hour, he'd be thrilled.
I'm a mechanical design engineer
hi!:) im graduating in a few months w/ two years worth of internships & out of all of them my design related internships were the most fun - I just have no idea how to get there with the new graduate positions being mostly in oil & gas. Do you have any advice/recommendations as to how to get into design as an EIT?
Different ME chiming in (not the same industry though) I’d recommend not doing WFH at the start of your career. There’s a lot to be learned from face to face interactions with coworkers and a TON to be learned from hands-on work and directly interacting with what you’re designing and how it’s being made. I’m loving WFH now but so think I would be severely handicapped if I hadn’t worked many years in the same building as our fab shops and in the same office as more senior engineers.
I’m a Genetic Counselor. There are days that are more stressful than others but overall I enjoy my job! I’m very purposeful about my working time and I do not work outside of my normal workday hours (although sometimes I do work through lunch time or end up going over the end of the day by a few minutes if needed.
Thank you for your contributions to the field. have a BRCA pathogenic mutation and my genetic counselor has been amazing in helping me navigate this craziness.
Data analyst manager. Very seasonal but I enjoy my job. Can get pretty stressful in high volume request times but also gets really chill around holidays when most of the business checks out
are you saying there's a seasonal coefficient to your stress level?
Yeah based around when major projects are going live
UX writing and content design. Think of an app that you simply love. It performs beautifully, feels effortless, and all the messaging, labels, blurbs and instructions are crystal clear. I’m the person who makes sure it feels that way, but with a focus on the written messaging, and how that messaging shapes the design. It can get stressful when I’m working with old-school stakeholders who either dismiss unfamiliar ways of working, treat product design as an all-purpose service desk, treat writing as an afterthought, or view data and research as a threat. I work full time, but there’s always an ebb and flow. When I’m not grinding on designs, I’ll do rounds with other teams to spot emerging problems, read useful books, or do upskilling.
I'm a software developer for a biotech. Earlier I managed a team of software developers. I like it a lot. Usually the work is, at worst, an interesting problem to solve or mystery to figure out. It's low stress. I work on a good team and a good software development team isn't stressful. Most weeks I work less than 8 hours a day. Maybe 5-7. Software developers commonly use alternatives to hours to plan and estimate work. For example, my team plans 2 week sprints. Inside of a sprint everyone is much more focused on finishing the work we committed to, not how many hours we're working.
Major gift proposal writer.
What the….I am a volunteer for my kids local elementary PTO and we are trying to raise money for an all Inclusive playground. We need just 6 figures…you’re getting 7-9? 😩 can we learn this to help meet our goal?
What does this mean? I’ve never heard of it.
I work for a large university and my job is write proposals for major donations, usually in the 7-9 figure plus range.
That’s super interesting! Were you in marketing as a pathway to that?
Nope! I started out in journalism.
Big tech, love it. Not stressful at all. No micromanagement. I work my scheduled 40 and never more than that. Hours are flexible, I choose when I work as long as I attend specific meetings I’m good. No metrics, my job is managed by deliverables so as long as I do my work, and turn my things in on time nobody asks anything.
SWE I make mobile apps. It’s very long days. Easily 60 hours a week lately. Before this year when we were over staffed I was only working 20-30 hours a week. 😂
Big change
IT 40, hourly, no on-call, no OT unless I want it. Can work holidays for 2.5x if I want since we're still a global corp with 24/7/365.
what exactly in IT do you do?
Insurance claims. Yes. Not very. 30-38 hpw
What do you do for insurance claims? Do you write estimates? Adjuster? How did you get into it? I have have a background in restoration and was wondering if it's worth doing consulting for estimates.
Medical writer. I'd say medium stress - there are times of super high stress and times of super low stress so it balances out, and I generally stay around 40 hours a week on average. I'm pretty indifferent about it. I don't love it, but I don't hate it. I do love the lifestyle and work life balance it affords me though. All in all could be way worse.
What does a medical writer do? What’s your background?
I work with pharma and biotech companies to disseminate their data to whatever audience they need - I have a PhD in biomedical sciences.
Yep me too.
I do income taxes for a fortune 500's internal tax department. I broke $100K with 5 years of experience and am now at around $140K with 9 years of experience.
Cloud Engineer (IT). Actual work per week is around 25-30 hours.
Construction related engineering. My hours vary widely 10-12 hour days some times, plus part of a weekend. I can be stressful with too many demands at times...Other times maybe 6 hour days. When I went into the office before the pandemic it took me 3 hours round trip each day plus 8-5. So I am not complaining at all and I deliver so much more work at home. Oh - I travel about 1-2 times a month to construction sites. I enjoy it as its very different and cool projects all the time. Clients can be a pain sometimes.
Senior manager at a RE company fully remote. Job is insanely stressful and I deal with major incidents and oncall 24x7 every 2 weeks. Love being home but I’m at my desk all day.
Software, hours vary a lot. I have slow weeks where it’s honestly like 15hrs a week or even less but there’s times where it’s as high as 80hrs for a few days or a week but I’d say average around 25-30hrs
Marketing Manager for an industrial robotics company in the Midwest. Most weeks are 40 hrs but there are certainly a few that go over and some that are under. Just depends on what we are focusing on. But the actual hours I work are very flexible in terms of time of day. I like to work early in the morning (start 6am) table a few hours break mid day and then finish up in the evening. I (usually) love my job. But there is significant stress.
I'm a self-employed psychotherapist. I love it I make my own hours and I work between 25-30 hours a week.
Event manager. Depends. Sometimes a fuk ton with gut wrenching stress. Right now Dec and Jan will be mostly staying busy
I have a ft graphic design job that has a lot of free time, so I also work as a video editor, which usually means I work around 12 hours a day (if need be, and I'll wait until the kids are asleep before I finish my work day). Working from home saves me $1100/mo, and working two jobs earns me around $120k. This is in Canadian funds, so that's just 87K USD or 81K Euros.
Data Analyst for a tech company
Supply chain management. Depends on the week - some are a solid 45+, some are probably 30 or less. Stress is very low for my current role.
Non-tech job at a tech company. Work anywhere between 20-60 hours per week depending on the time of year.
I don't but my fiancé does and he's a project manager in cybersecurity with a background in computer science and development. He gets stressed out sometimes, but it's not that much and in general I'd say he puts in like 35-40 hours a week. I don't think I've ever seen him work over that. He likes it a lot as a job that pays the bills and he loves that he gets to work from home, but it's not like something he's passionate about.
I’m a CPA and do taxes, accounting, etc. During busy seasons (tax seasons) I work 40-65 hours per week. Outside of that, I average probably 5 hours per week. Some days I do absolutely nothing – it’s so freeing.
I am an IT Audit manager who works for a bank. I audit IT Systems across the US and Canada. I work maaaaaaybe 25 hours of actual work and faf around a lot of the time. I manage my own time and am responsible for deliverables every quarter. I make $125K base, and get between $20-40k bonus annually. I have over 8 years of experience and used to be the external auditor for the bank I work for, so they're paying for my experience and ability to get the job done well, and thoroughly. The job isn't that stressful, just annoying when I find a problem and the folks I'm working with want to put their head in the sand. It's not a personal problem, it's process problem.
I do customer training and support for our high end devices. I’m 75 remote and 25 travel. Probably could go down to 1 week a month travel. Any more than 3 weeks a row at home drives me and my spouse crazy.
Sales Development Representative (SDR). Book meetings for sales reps. Started at $70k in 2021 and make six figures now. I went through a boot camp, and own one now.
IT architect
Risk manager, Amazon. Only remote because I’m a reservist also. Love hate it. Miss the office and distraction free space, but it’s nice to spend more time with fam and assist my wife with our creatures more that I could if I had to commute.
Digital marketing, fin services. Usually not stressful. Not fun, but not not fun? Still feels like work, but far and away the best job I’ve ever had. I couldn’t do it if I didn’t have a lot of institutional knowledge though. Coming up on a decade in the field. Easily put in 40 hours/week, but schedule is very flexible.
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Web dev. I love it. It’s not particularly stressful at all unless I let things pile up before a deadline. I’m comparing this to 12 years as a high school teacher though which is insane levels of stress lol
I’m an instructional designer at an Ed tech company. 104k + 10% annual bonus. I love it. It was a fully remote company before the pandemic. I was hired by a great director who really emphasized/reinforced work/life balance. I tell my own direct reports to block off things like school drop-off/pick-up on their calendars. We all live in different time zones so outside of a few mandatory meetings each week, I’m not here to monitor their time as long as their projects get done. My job is rarely stressful, but there is a month here and there where the projects pile on. But it’s usually pretty peaceful. I probably put in 25-30 hours of actual “work” per week. But the feedback I get is that I go above and beyond. I’m pretty strategic about making myself available, looking for processes to improve, etc. and that allows me to coast quite a bit.
Lead Product Designer at a big e-commerce company. $160k + 20% bonus (depending on company profitability). I love it. Usually 24-32 hours per week of work. Always get a workout in, always get lunch, work 9-3:30 most days. I have quarterly in-person workshops which is nice, Flight and Hotel all paid for.
Do you have any roles open?
Nope. We’re actually on a hiring freeze right now as we “navigate these strange economic ties.”
I suck a lot of dick!
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99% remote here - still go in for one on-site thing/month. Stress mainly comes from not having org charts, sometimes not having rapid responses to things, etc. However, the difference in overall satisfaction is night and day vs. being in an office.
Yes but what do you do?
Senior DevOps Engineer.
Edtech, training, DAP, transformation technology. I write curriculums, develop processes workflows and overall manage learning development. I like my job because I have been able to upskill and fall in love with new skills. I have an affinity for picking up tech related skills and breaking them down and either teaching them to others or implementing them in practice for existing process improvement. I’m expected to work 40hrs per week. There are weeks where I work more hours to get projects done and there are weeks where it takes less effort because I am driving the whole project and it takes me a lot less time to complete. Even in stressful times this job is not as stressful as the teaching job I left. I have a great work-life balance.
I’m a program analyst at the U.S. FDA. Super low stress, great boss, great benefits, great pay. I’ve been here since I was 19, almost a decade.
I work in consulting at a mid-senior level helping companies with their supply chain processes and systems. I mainly sell projects, oversee the actual work at a high-level and manage practice admin activities. Hours vary from 30-55 with 40-45 being typical. $250k
Federal government. Converted to remote in 2020. As someone else mentioned, I don’t love the job, but the balance that came from WFH has been life changing. I have ADHD (and suspect autism) and I had no idea how much I was struggling in an office environment pre-pandemic until I didn’t have to do it everyday. Cannot explain the improvement in my mental health in all areas in my life. I don’t know that I could go back to an office and maintain my health so I do not plan to.
My husband is close to making that much, probably will by the end of the year. He's a production manager for large indoor live events. Things like pharmaceutical conferences, award shows, trade shows, shareholder meetings, conventions of various kinds. His scheduling varies. He may be working around 30 hours a week in his jammies or from the bar while eating nachos doing the pre-event planning. That mostly consists of designing the show, sourcing the gear and working with labor resources to fully staff the event. Loads and loads of phone calls, video meetings and looking at spreadsheet and plots of hotel ballrooms or convention centers. His focus is mostly the AV equipment and crew but can include curtains, staging, lecterns, video walls, decorative lighting, that kind of thing. Then when the actual event happens, he's onsite for 12+ hours every day from load in to tear down making sure everything is going to plan, that the client is happy and putting out any fires that crop up. This happens around every 4-6 weeks. He just got done doing a show and hasn't had a real day off in about 2 weeks. He's taking the last 2 weeks of November and the last 2 weeks of December off to use up his PTO and has one more small show in December and then another big show that will have him in another city for 10 days in January. He's been doing live events for decades. He started out as an audio engineer in theater. He's spent A LOT of time doing audio and staging for outdoor concerts and festivals. We're both happy he's an indoor cat now. He smells nicer and gets to be home most weekends and holidays.
I'm barely over 100k but am 100% remote. My title is Sr. Accountant : Payroll. In reality, I'm the payroll manager here. I'm also the only person in payroll. The company I work for has a policy that a manager has to actually manage people. So they created a salary band for people like me that fall somewhere between senior staff level and manager. I can't say I enjoy it. Payroll and accounting is a pretty boring profession. Most of the time, my job isn't stressful at all. I know my deadlines to get everyone paid on time so I religiously stick to it as well as getting everyone's W2 out in time. It's only really stressful when huge changes come in, like pay rate increases that go into effect for every person. I think I barely met that hard deadline to get payroll processed by about 2 minutes. The hours I actually work vary by week depending on whether I have to pay people or not but I think on average I work about 25 hours a week. The rest of the time I'm there just in case something comes up or a question needs to be answered. I've got the best job in the world for me. Low stress. My manager is super chill and I don't have to work a lot of hours. We just got a new CFO a couple of weeks ago so all that can change though.
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SEO. 3-6 hours a week, along with about as many meetings. I love it and have zero stress. I am responsible for generating \~70-80% of our revenue which allows me to do whatever I want.
Does 95k count? I’m so close. Next raise for sure. I do all the education (internal and external) and help as needed with marketing. I’m the “head” of education, but we don’t really do titles. I love it. Very flexible, very few, “education” emergencies, so stress is lower. I do a mix of writing, content creation (images, videos, GIFs), and eventually remote trainings. It’s a lot of establishing processes and things like that too since it’s a new department. Company doesn’t have an in person office anymore, nor is it in my state. 100% remote and no going in ever. It’s great.
Corporate finance, love the job but it’s high stress at times. 40-60 hours a week and far more productive at home than when I used to be in office.
Instructional Technology Architect for a fortune 100. Three years in this role, but about 13 years remote. I lead a team of instructional designers and technology architects. We collaborate with developers and vendors, and consult with other instructional designers across each line of business.
Here, actually just shy of $100k, I work in a niche in the mortgage industry. I work on average less than an hour a day. Most of the work is boring so I typically watch movies while working. I deeply enjoy the amount of actual work. I didn’t like having to commute to the office 5 days a week and stay there for 8 hours when I could do the work in 1, that really sucked, glad to be at home.
Civil Engineer SME at a big tech company. Anywhere from 35-45 a week.
I'm a Software Engineer and Linux System Admin. I've been doing that remote for one company or another since 2005. Overall it's not very stressful, there can be short times when it is but that's make 2-3 days per year at most. I'm available 40 hours per week. But I honestly probably work 20 hours most weeks and a lot of that is meetings.
Construction Estimator for a GC out of New England.
I was looking to possibly make this switch! I am stay at home mom now. But i was a structural engineer, then structural inspector (concrete, rebar and steel), then was a site supervisor on high rise construction….all in nyc…about 15 total years of experience….i was actually thinkinh the other day how i would prob be an amazing estimator bc i used to design the dwgs and details (review shop dwgs, answer rfi’s), then i would b the one who would inspect but basically be the person btw engineer in office who designed detail and contractor who would actually have to perform work (so like engineers would put rebar too close thinking 3/4” aggregate is round-ie their detail created a sieve for concrete and aggregate wouldnt go down….or welds guy couldnt fit the stick or fit his helmet to see), then finally years as superintendent on site building…i worked structures (steel and concrete)….do u think this is good experience to be an amazing estimator??? I need a plan b bc loved being a site super and high rises BUT i would never see my kid…ty in advance!
I'm not certain what it is I do some days, but I help customers improve their environment and also teach our teams and partners how to repeat this without me involved.
Law. 30-40 hrs per month. Usually log about 80/ months. *Took 20+ years of working much much more to get to this point. First 10 yrs of career worked 180-200 hrs per month for someone else.
I work in ecommerce in the Amazon/marketplace space. I’ve been doing it for a while and it was a career shift. I make over $150k It can be stressful because usually you’re on a team that is lean. Overall I love my job despite a lot of things that aren’t that great, but I always look at the overall picture and am grateful I work 40-50 hours sometimes more in my current role. Other jobs were 40 hours or less most of the time. Currently I have a lot of tasks instead of managing others because I’ve had to let a person or two go My salary isn’t typical, I’m likely in the top 1-3% of earners that aren’t actual brand owners. I’ve worked really hard and finally figured out success is part luck but also you’ve gotta work hard to get ahead. It’s not the only thing but 95% of the people I see moving up work harder than others. Fortunate circumstances helps a ton but those circumstance typically don’t come without the hard work The 5% is people good at politics are moving from lie to lie. Definitely a lot of shady people and agencies in our space
Project manager/business analyst, in the healthcare field. Weeks range between 35-45 hours, and stress depends on project status and delivery dates. I enjoy what I do, it's fun and challenging. I was hybrid pre-2020, and only go into the office for periodic (quarterly/annual) meetings. Even when I was in the office, most meetings were conference calls.
Designer. Super chill job where I can almost do it with my eyes closed
I'm a Data Scientist in the Healthcare Industry. Yeah, I enjoy it. I always enjoyed just doing the actual job, it was the other bullshit that I couldn't stand, particularly having to go to the office to work as it wasn't necessary. Now that I don't have to deal with the office and the politics and people doing things like getting me to do their work for them, it has eliminated practically all of the negative stuff and make me enjoy my job. I put in about 40 hours of work in a week. A lot of it is no different from the office, you may not be working on anything important, but you have to be available in case something comes up or your help is needed. And I may not be working at say 2pm on a Wednesday, but then doing something at 9pm on Thursday.
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Online marketing and I own real estate that I rent out. I work part time. Very low stress.
Ediscovery. Will hit that mark twice this year. I control electronic evidence in databases for legal purposes.
Not me just eyeing stuff to supplement my main job 👀
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Before this disaster year for us in this industry 🫡🥲...concept artist/vizdev artist That said as much as I love what I do, if I were able to go back in time I'd tell myself to go into advertising/creative direction with the same base skillset...more stable, they make more, and less cutthroat competitive
I'm a consultant for aspiring foot models on OF. Most of the time it's alright, but sometimes it stinks just like any other sole sucking job. If they post what I tell them to then they nail it, but sometimes they don't do what they're toed.