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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thank you, I will do some research! Did you get any outside training or certifications? Or was it learning on the job?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Sweet, thank you for being so detailed!

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