Work from home jobs

I'm a comp sci major looking for a job I can do from home. I know programming is the ultimate work from home job but my attempts to advance past scripting languages have failed hard. Can I just do scripting for a living (Lua & bash)? My question for you is: >Aside from programming, what tech jobs let you work from home? >Do you/have you worked remotely? What was your job? >Do you have any advice for people looking to work from home?

Let me tell you about me: I'm a devops person (official titles are sysadmin and software engineer) working in a remarkably small company. The size of the company means there are many things to be taken care of by anybody, so you end up having many responsibilities, but people still develop their "domain" they are mainly responsible for, and for me it was the server infrastructure. You have to keep in mind that in this company the servers are only part of the stack, we also have android apps (also kind of my area), raspberries pis, microcontrollers and relays. I don't want to talk too much what it is the company actually does since I feel it is a little off topic. Now to your questions: >1 office work, I imagine, but I have no idea >2 yes, particularly with the pandemic stuff going on and my boss being a careful person; although it wasn't always this way, initially I had to go to the office. It's the same thing I'm seeing with a friend who just started a job, usually they want you in the office initially just to observe you >3 Of course there are jobs that advertise themselves as being remote from the start, but I haven't seen any. If you try to get one that doesn't advertise the remote aspect, I suggest you maybe ask if they can imagine you working from home. Being in a smaller company helps, since they often can't afford people leaving so much, so you can usually impose something on your boss, or differently phrased, your boss will be interested in keeping you there. It also depends on your responsibilities, obviously it's nonsensical to work from home if your responsibilities require you to be there. Many things cannot be done remotely where I work, but my incidentally, mine can. The main reason I wanted to answer though is to answer you first question about scripting. Yes and no, I wonder where you would even find someone advertising a bash job, but there certainly are sysadmin jobs that basically lend themselves to you scripting everything. My boss didn't really understand what bash is, he just wanted someone to take care of the servers and other things. Whether you will be able to do scripting exclusively, I don't really think so, it would certainly help you to just learn a couple other things. Good luck lain

i highly recommend work for a small-medium company, you can put yourself in a position where they cant get rid of you, i enter like a web development and now everything go thought me, if my boss need me to make a video publicizing the service i do, if need to organize the rest of programmers i do, make a meeting, control the process. without enter in to much detail if your are smart enough can earn more than in a big company, work less and be more secure, btw not english speaker here if something sounds weird you know

Learn about project management (agile methodologies and that stuff) and you can enter a tech company as a product manager/owner. From my experience is a field that non comp sci engineers get into, so your background alone might play an advantage even if you can't program You can also go towards testing or support, where not much coding knowledge is actually needed, those require certain additional soft skills though My advice is that if you like programming don't give up on it, once you're hired catching up isn't that hard even if you don't have a lot of guidance. Most companies out there aren't making state of the art comp sci you know. If you want something non tech then the other job that is easy to do remote is the soul crushing art of digital marketing (Running campaigns with Google, FB, Amazon tools and whatever). It's not hard, but it might make you reevaluate what is the meaning of it all eventually. Those tools can be customized and automated to a certain degree, so sometimes they seek people with a comp sci/programming knowledge. My advice would be to keep the work environment separate from the battlestation if possible, and not forgetting to exercise and drink water, etc.

you can get pretty far in game dev if you only know lua, but that is a great way to kill yourself with stress. Bash scripting is more generally useful and you can probably be a sysadmin. But that kind of job usually does have actual on-site duties. Also you might want to try picking up powershell, since a lot of places still use windows internally. Also consider learning make -- lots of programmers view it with dread but it's really not that bad, and you can quickly make yourself invaluable as "the guy who can make the build work". That's what I did. >have you worked remotely? Yeah right now I work remotely. I ssh or mosh into work machines to work and do a weekly staff meeting. It's super chill just because my boss doesn't care what I do, I work 1-2 hours a day on average but I get paid for 20 hours a week B)

>>53498 >>53508 >>53552 >>53554 Thanks for the great advice lain!

>>53554 >you can get pretty far in game dev if you only know lua, but that is a great way to kill yourself with stress. How are you going to make money with that? And yes its a great way to end your life in a miserable manner, but if i atleast could make some money off that i could atleast buy some booze.

>>53496 >Aside from programming, what tech jobs let you work from home? Pretty much all involve programming, but electronics industry is another non cs industry where you can work from home, data analytics, business analytics etc are another and you can get by with python and sql (both pretty easy to learn) >Do you/have you worked remotely? What was your job? Yes I have been for the past 6 months in a fortune 500 co. as a design engineering intern. Mostly bash scripting and modifying c programs. Easy stuff >Do you have any advice for people looking to work from home? Not much as i myself am figuring soykaf out,but if you want easy job, decent pay etc go into analytics

>>53496 >Can I just do scripting for a living No. The closes thing to that is to become a sysadmin, however, I don't think you can work from home as a sysadmin.

>>53496 I work in cybersecurity (blue team) and I kept telling my manager how much I like scripting and every time I saw a place where scripting could improve our processes by automating repetitive tasks I suggested it and offered to write the script (Powershell, Python, BASH). Eventually they started coming to me when they had scripting tasks that needed doing and now I'm basically the "scripting guy" on the team. As long as you work for a reasonable employer at a company that actually has a need for your skills, you can dig out a niche for yourself regardless of what your job title is. Idk anything about Lua, the benefits of Powershell and BASH is that they are native to operating systems, so if your company uses Windows they have Powershell and if they use Linux they have BASH. There is no need to beg them to let you install a compiler or an interpreter or whatever. Fortunately they did let me install the Python interpreter when Powershell wasn't cutting it.

>>54332 I should clarify that in spite of this niche I am by no means doing nothign but writing scripts all day, as >>54089 said I don't think there's any position that is purely scripting. Also I work from home except for 1 day per month.

>>53606 >How are you going to make money with that? I dunno, the game industry these days is pretty fuarrrked. Make an indy game or something and hope it gets big I guess. Most of the AAA shops have their own weird internal architecture/scripting langs and they just want you to know C++.