An example that I can think of is Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), which requires a relatively short online course (for a fee, of course) and entails teaching basic english to kids from non english countries online. I’ve usually known of older and elderly people doing this but I don’t think that’s a requirement or anything lol. As far as know, the only requirements are high school English and the teaching English course.
Are there any other of these sorts of online jobs that maybe require a short course, and at least potentially bring in enough to pay for the groceries?
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Haha yeah I hadn’t considered that. I guess there’s always the various lines of work that involve doing something in front of the camera, if you’re that kind of person for that job (I have actually honestly considered trying something like onlyfans in the past lol, but lurking in certain creator spaces on Reddit definitely dispelled the myth of easy money in that for me, seems like giving a lot of yourself for not a lot of reward unless you’re one of the lucky few that blow up in popularity).
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No, no, you have a point there.
I know. It means that I do not seriously recommend this.
Most things computer based, provided you have a feel for it. If you are interested in Business Intelligence, you can learn to work with Microsoft Fabric and there are plenty of companies in the data field that are hiring, offering traineeships etc. Same goes for the more technical data engineering, software development, etc.
Source: am WFH data engineer.
I had thought of this area of work. Not averse to learning something tech related (although you wouldn’t be able to tell going by the 3 times I’ve started and abandoned a programming course in my life), I just worry that being both a noob and almost 40 would count against me finding actual work. Plus, going by the other commenter, seems like a tough market right now.
On a side note, programming is something I would love to do in my downtime, to be able to finally make my game(s) lol.
I got my first job in programming at 35 a few years back.
I want to mention this disclaimer, though: right now, at least in tech roles, it’s currently very difficult to actually land one of these jobs. Listings are getting hundreds of applicants per hour on some occasions. There’s a lot of competition because of recent return to office mandates and layoffs, and it might be awhile before that changes.
