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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] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not in the US, so my advice isn't very applicable. I think the job market is very different over there than it is where I'm from in Australia.

Still, might help you to know I worked my way into a full time WFH job with very little skills or relevant qualification. Full luck, I'm sure, but I applied for a data admin job and then worked my way into a more specialized role within the company. They can't get me back into the office now, I'm too entrenched.

Good luck with your search, finding a company that offers it isn't nearly as hard as landing the gig.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Adding to this, data science + AI might be your best bet. Even as companies might want to go "full AI", they still need people to manage the data that gets fed to AI, not to mention make sense of its outputs.

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

I will do some research! Thank you!