Assuming you can stand staring at recipts and organizing them all day... book keeping or maybe medical billing code stuff.
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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!
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Awesome! I will definitely look into it.
Export Compliance can be a fully remote thing sometimes and could be worth looking into. I don’t think it’s something you go to school for necessarily. I lucked into a job doing DG compliance and laterally transferred within the company to export compliance.
Any kind of regulatory compliance work is pretty simple if you have the right thinking patterns for it. The hard part is getting your foot in the door for a job. One of my coworkers built up experience working a DG inspection desk for FedEx at the airport and leveraged that. Neither of us have college degrees
Thank you, I will do some research! Did you get any outside training or certifications? Or was it learning on the job?
Everything I’ve learned has been on the job. For DG I lucked into the job where I was taught the basics, then they paid for me to take an IATA instructor course where after that I trained new hires. I used the fact that I was a trainer to show I could learn the export stuff as well and they picked me up in a junior role. Export compliance is a little more obtuse than DG, all my training has been company made in house, and all the applicable laws are too scattered to give one or two references like I can with DG. My coworkers had no prior export experience for the most part, but they did have college degrees over me.
For international air DG, that knowledge is gated behind the IATA DGR, which is several hundred dollars. Their courses are pretty decent and provide access to the most current DGR for 1 year though.
For highway and rail, the 49 CFR is available online for free but it’s much harder to self teach yourself with it. The IATA DGR is laid out in a very friendly way to contrast.
Shipyards, rail yards, warehouses, airports especially, pretty much any place logistics happens Dangerous Goods are going to be moving and they need proper packaging, marking, and paperwork and everybody along the line has to be specifically trained and certified, so there are a lot of jobs related to a small skillset. Just writing the paperwork is a whole job that can be done remotely.
Sweet, thank you for being so detailed!
Statistics, actuarial or data sciences, or accounting. In that order I would reccomend. I went back to college at 32yo to get an actuarial sciences degree and had worked really good for me. My job is 3/2 home/office, good pay, full benefits. I'm in general insurance, regulatory relationships (making sure the company is following the law, at least in the accounting books) so I can still sleep at night.
If you go for any of those, start learning python now, it's going to give you a huge advantage in the future.
That gives me a lot of hope for myself! Thank you!