I want to be done with manual labor. How do I become one of those people that does their work on a laptop on a tropical island? Every day I just want to die. Please help.
Get your foot in the door with a tech job with the helpdesk and learn to code while doing that then get a coding job at the company.
Who’s gonna tell em’?
Technically if you just want that asap there are support roles at a lot of companies that are essentially this.
They’re shit but they are remote and doing support responses. There’s a lot of this type of role in videogame companies, server management companies, etc. Experience is often entry-level so none needed, just general knowledge in the topic or industry involved, maybe some tech background if it’s in any tech companies, really minor stuff that can very easily be lied about on the hobby or self employed side.
Interesting. You seem like you know your stuff, how much would something like that pay?
Entry level support here in the UK is basically at or around minimum wage rising to anywhere between £13k-18k depending on how shitty the company is, speaking in terms of annual salaries. I can’t speak for the US unfortunately but I’m pretty sure shit there isn’t very different.
As for finding them though… Harder. A lot simply do not need to advertise because they get applications all the time and can simply dip into their pile of applications. Looking around for any tech-sector companies with support teams and seeing if they’ve got anything currently listed on their site, or just dropping them stuff. A lot of people in the server industry in particular actually start in the support roles before filtering to more technical roles like sysops and sys admins.
Other comments are better than this one, but consider college. Although you can probably just learn everything you need to on your own, the 4 years there will make you actually grind out learning and finish AND you’ll have the piece of paper that remote jobs occasionally require.
Comp sci is, like, the standard go to for remote work so you could start off with 2 years at an in state college to keep loans down. Dont be afraid to apply for scholarships, all of them, to keep loans down.
I have a 4 year degree and Im working for the government right now because I did federal internships for 3 years in the summers between semesters. Its remote right now, and I have to say I dont miss the office and I really like being able to roll out of bed and work and having the freedom to cut it short without begging a supervisor - just leave lol. It’s also nice cause I can just visit family on work days now that everybody’s finished vaccinating. Definitely reccomend remote work if you can get it.
It makes me wish we had socialism so bad. This is only partially unalienated labour, cant wait for the day we have purely unalienated labour for everyone so we can all share this even if people prefer to do manual labour.
This is in no way am exhaustive list, but:
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There are some sales jobs that are fully remote. More with COVID. Sales requires basically nothing except a willingness to talk to people nicely in the hopes that they buy or continue to buy a company’s crap.
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“Learn to code” yeah it’s bullshit as the solution, placing the burden of economic crisis and exploitation on individual workers to become “marketable”, but when it comes to interpersonal recommendations it is a very good way to get what you want. You can also learn sysadmin type stuff, homelab things, data mining, and so on, not just FAANG developer jobs. Basically anything related to tech benefits from having some level of familiarity with these things, meaning you can look into a lot of different kinds of jobs. Maybe you end up liking research so you do ux/UI. Maybe you like independent work and prefer smaller scale (cloud) sysadmin things. Maybe you like bridging design work and application so you become a translational front end dev. Maybe you like complete independence so you become a contractor that builds websites for restaurants, etc. Basically, you have a lot of options in this direction.
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Several goverent jobs are remote right now, including city and state jobs. Many will be easier to acquire with some coding knowledge.
