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Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, lemme know if so.
So I've had a rough last couple of years. Moved to California for a job that a friend offered me that didn't end up working out well for me. Ended up in some pretty decent debt, destroyed my credit, I was smoking way too much as an escape and a ended up a bit depressed. Recently I've moved back home and I am living with my parents as a 30 something year old, got off the pot and back on the right kind of meds that work well for me. Right now I'm back working in the restaurant industry and not super happy with it, but it's a decent place, the bosses are relatively chill and the pay is OK for where I'm living now.
What I'd like to do is any decent paying career that would let me do the majority of my work from home. Now that I'm in a stable situation and medicated I wouldn't mind going back to school to accomplish this. My hometown has a pretty good/cheap community college that would be easy for me to enroll in.
So my question is, in this economy what should I look into? I thought about graphic design, but from what I've read the job market is flooded and it probably wouldn't be that great of an idea for someone with next to zero experience. I have considered coding, but I'm worried that the market there is flooded as well and it probably won't get any better with the rise of AI.
Anyone have a career they're actually happy in? Any ideas at all would be great. Thank you in advance for your advice!

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[โ€“] D61@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Assuming you can stand staring at recipts and organizing them all day... book keeping or maybe medical billing code stuff.

My sister does something related to medical billing and gets to work from home more often than she has to go into the office, so I kokda have a foot in the door alread lol. I will definitely check it out!