By Rachel Puryear

People tend to think of success in a linear fashion – with someone progressing and advancing in a gradual state, climbing the proverbial corporate ladder, and moving to a higher paid position with a more prestigious-sounding job title every so often.

However, it often doesn’t work like that in real life – even some of the most successful people have had plenty of ups and downs, setbacks, and times in their life when they started over. It’s normal.

Are you looking to start over and reboot your career, and also want to go remote? Maybe you want to leave a career that’s unsatisfying or feels like a dead end. Maybe you’ve had health challenges, and are looking to return to the workforce with something more flexible.

Maybe you’ve been a caregiver for children and/or elders, and are now navigating the challenges of work cultures that are definitely not accommodating to those who sacrifice so much for family (if this is you, I salute you – as I’ve been there myself).

Rebooting your career comes with a unique set of challenges. One must navigate something new, learn new cultures and customs, build new skills, meet new people, develop new habits, and more.

But it can definitely be done. In fact, many successful people have started over at least once in their lives.

Accordingly, here are some great remote income and career ideas, for people now rebooting their careers:

Consulting

Your life experience and hard-earned wisdom probably contains a lot of information and knowledge that’s valuable to a lot of people. Think you don’t have expertise in anything? Think again – people make money doing consulting of all kinds, and chances are, plenty of people out there would gladly pay you for what you already know. You don’t have to know more than everyone else – just more than the average person.

Consulting lends itself well to freelancing, but plenty of companies also look for consulting roles in fields like HR, managements, financial matters, and more.

Consulting can also pay well, depending upon your own expertise, and how long you’ve been at it. Many consultants start in the high five figures salary ranges, but many seasoned ones earn hundreds of dollars per hour and more.

Consulting will always be in demand, too.

Consulting is great for extraverts and introverts. Extraverts will enjoy working with people, and many introverts will appreciate working with individuals and small groups of people at a time.

Coaching

You’ve been around the block at this point in your life, and are primed to help someone else who needs some support, too. Whereas consulting helps you impart helpful knowledge, coaching is all about encouragement and helping people remain accountable to their own goals.

You can be a coach for all kinds of things – business, fitness, relationships, personal development, are just a few big things – but you can become a coach in whatever you’re passionate about, and want to help others achieve in, as well.

Coaching lends itself very well to freelancing, and many big companies also hire coaches for regular roles as well as contractors.

Coaching pay ranges widely, but successful and experienced coaches can command high hourly rates, and earn six figures or more.

Coaching is currently in high demand, and the industry is growing rapidly. People are increasingly interested in being their best, personal wellness on lots of different levels, and are increasingly willing to turn to coaches to help them out.

Coaching is great for both introverts and extraverts – with introverts often working one on one and with small groups, and extraverts getting lots of human interaction.

Teaching and Tutoring

Education and learning is important to opening up new opportunities in life. As such, there are lots of opportunities to teach and tutor others online. You can work with children, adults, or both. You can teach and tutor in a wide variety of subjects, depending upon your own knowledge. You don’t necessarily need to have an advanced degree, but it does help to have more education of your own.

Teaching and tutoring works well with freelancing – Elevate K-12 is one example of a site looking for freelancers, and sites like FlexJobs and ZipRecruiter also list regular positions.

In the United States, online teachers typically make between $10-40 per hour, and online tutors typically make between $25-80 per hour.

Online teaching and tutoring is in very high demand these days, as it offers lots of flexibility, and a diverse array of subject matters available.

Teaching large groups is great for extraverts, while introverts might prefer tutoring individuals or small groups.

Online Courses and Workshops

Chances are, you know something that could be pretty valuable to others out there, and something that people would be interested in learning more about.

This is the type of thing where you can build your own business, and brand. By making your own online courses, for an up-front investment of some time and effort, you can get a return by way of passive income for the longer term.

There is a wide variety in what people make doing this. Some people don’t make anything, and that is a risk. Others make huge amounts of money, and continue to do so for many years. And there’s also everything in between.

Online courses are in increasing demand, as university educations are increasingly expensive and don’t tend to make nearly as much financial sense as they used to, and taking classes remotely offers plenty of convenience and flexibility that many people need, as well.

Creating online courses can be great for both extraverts, who may especially enjoy the interactive nature of doing workshops; as well as introverts, who will likely enjoy doing a lot of the work by themselves.

Video Channels, Blogging, Podcasts

This is a classic route to building one’s own business online, and developing income on one’s own terms, often doing something that they love.

This takes time to start making money at, but doing it consistently and with regular fresh content will help build your audience over time.

Once your audience is large enough, you can then start monetizing your content. This is how you build your business from scratch.

Your own knowledge and life experience can be tapped here – your brand can be based upon whatever it is you can bring to the world, and chances are there are plenty of people out there who will want to hear about it.

How much you make at this depends upon how well you monetize it, though it will take time, and won’t happen overnight. Some people don’t make anything, some make a little, some make huge amounts of money over time.

This is great for both introverts and extraverts. We tend to think of outgoing types as being best in front of the camera, for instance, but that’s also a great way for many introverts to share their messages with the world – through the digital buffer. Some of the most successful channels and blogs are made by both introverts and extraverts alike.

Digital Products

Creating digital products like books, videos, paid websites, apps, and materials can also give you passive income. And unlike with physical products, the cost of producing digital products is minimal.

You can use your life experience and knowledge to create products that can help, or entertain, others, and sell them. The sky is the limit with these.

You can use apps like Canva to help you design them.

This would be building your own business.

How much you make depends upon how much you market and sell your products. Plus, passive income is always great.

Introverts and extraverts alike can do well and succeed at this. Introverts do especially well at working on their own, while extraverts can really excel at marketing – so maybe even joining forces would help them both.

Freelance Writing

If you are articulate, a strong communicator, and have a knack for words, you could earn income providing writing services remotely. There are plenty of possibilities – helping people write their own books, copywriting, marketing, technical writing, and so many more possibilities.

Freelance writing offers tremendous flexibility, and you can largely create your own schedule for this.

When you’re starting out, you can likely expect to make about $15-30 an hour as a freelance writer, depending upon the type of writing and your skill level. However, with experience and establishing a strong portfolio, you can make a lot more – and highly successful writers can make a great deal of money, sometimes in excess of $100 an hour, and maybe much more for the top ones.

Writing is in high demand these days, as more of the world moves online, and many businesses and individuals would rather delegate such tasks – especially since plenty of people are not good writers themselves, and need the help.

Freelance writing is especially good work for introverts.

Language Interpretation and Translation

Do you speak more than one language fluently? If so, you could use those skills to earn money remotely as a language interpreter or translator. Note: In the industry, those who verbally translate spoken language in real time are called “interpreters”, while those who translate written language are called “translators”.

You may need a certification for some language interpretation and translation roles. This will definitely be the case in certain industries, such as interpretation and translation in legal and medical settings.

Language interpretation and translation lends itself very well to freelancing, as well as to regular roles.

Pay for interpreters and translators tends to be in the mid to high five figures working full time, although this can vary depending upon what languages you’re offering services in (relatively rare languages can command higher pay), as well as industry (the ones that require certifications, for instance, can command higher pay).

Language interpreters and translators are in very high demand, and growth is projected to continue to increase, in our increasingly global and connected world.

Extraverts will likely enjoy being at the center of conversations as interpreters, while introverts will likely appreciate the quiet and more solitary nature of translation.

Transcription

If you’re a fast typist, can focus for extended periods of time, and are highly detail oriented, you could do well as a transcriptionist. Transcriptionists typically listen to recorded audio, and then type it out into a written transcript. However, there are also caption writers, who may transcribe what is being spoken live, for closed captioning.

Transcription lends itself very well to freelancing.

Pay for transcriptionists tends to start at around $0.60 to $1.10 per audio minute, and can move up from there with more experience. Furthermore, transcriptionists for certain industries (like medical and legal) can make even more.

Transcriptionists are in demand, and are still needed, as human transcriptionists are more accurate than AI, which anyone who’s ever had an embarrassing autocorrect should know.

Transcription is especially great for introverts.

Data Entry

Data entry may not be the sexiest or most exciting line of work out there, but it is stable, low stress, and plentiful.

Data entry can be done through freelancing, or can be an important part of many regular roles such as being a virtual assistant.

Pay for data entry work tends to range from about $15-25 per hour.

Data entry is currently in demand, and projected to grow over the next several years.

Data entry is great for introverts in particular.

Surveys

You can make money online doing paid surveys. This is more of a way to supplement income and earn a little (emphasis on “a little”) extra cash on the side; rather than a full time income. Besides, there isn’t growth potential with this.

However, it’s very easy and low-pressure, and it can be a way to fill in moments while you’re waiting in line, or have a little extra time between events, for instance.

These would be micro gigs.

Pay tends to range from about $0.50 to $5 per survey, but some can pay more – with the higher paying ones needing more time, and requiring more complexity.

There are websites where you can find paid surveys, including: SwagBucks, Inbox Dollars, Pinecone Research, and HeyCash.

Surveys are likely good for both extraverts – who enjoy self expression, and introverts – as surveys are generally done solo and on your own time.

Virtual Assistant

If you like playing a supporting role, helping people, and are well organized, you could do well as a virtual assistant. More and more businesses are hiring remote virtual assistants, in order to save on office space and overhead costs.

Virtual assistants are often hired by companies in regular roles, but they can also freelance their services to small businesses. Websites like ZipRecruiter and FlexJobs have plenty of posts for virtual assistants.

Pay for virtual assistants tends to start at around $10-20 an hour, and range from $20-30 and even upwards for more experienced virtual assistants, although that can also vary by industry and experience level.

Virtual assistants are in increasing demand, and are always needed.

Virtual assistant is a particularly great position for extraverts.

AI Trainer

The world is increasingly influenced by, and depending upon, artificial intelligence. Many worry about losing their jobs to AI, and that’s a valid concern. However, others argue that not only does AI not take away everyone’s jobs, but that it’s actually creating demand for new jobs.

If you want to make AI more profitable for you, consider becoming an AI trainer. AI needs humans to make it work better and continue to improve.

No particular skills or education are needed to be an AI trainer, although some assignments will have their own requirements (like language fluency – though opportunities are available in many languages).

This kind of work is generally gigs and small assignments. See websites like Appen and CrowdGen for possible opportunities.

Pay tends to be about $30 an hour, though this can vary.

This kind of work is in high demand, and is widely expected to continue growing in the future.

This kind of work is probably best suited for introverts.

Customer Service Rep

If you enjoy helping people solve problems and have a can-do attitude, consider working as a customer service representative. Just about every company needs some of these underrated folks.

Many customer service positions hire entry level workers, although some experience will also be helpful. However, experience in working with people, and in handling challenging situations, will be easily transferrable to this type of work. See websites like ZipRecruiter and Modsquad for possible opportunities.

Companies typically hire for these positions, so there will likely be some consistency and predictability in terms of work schedules.

Pay tends to be about $15-20 an hour, though this can vary.

This kind of work is probably best suited for extraverts.

Website Tester

Ever get frustrated and leave a website due to glitches? Companies want to make sure that doesn’t happen on their websites, and so they hire website testers to root out those glitches for them.

No particular experience is needed to become a website tester. See websites like testbirds.com, utest.com, usertesting.com, and bugcrowd.com to get started.

This kind of work is typically gigs and small assignments.

Pay tends to be about $3 to $30 per test, though this can vary.

This kind of work might be better for introverts, although extraverts may enjoy aspects of expressing themselves.

Voice Artist

Have you ever been told that you have a great voice? Maybe yours is soothing, deep, commanding, sexy, or just unique. If so, you could try your hand – or your vocal cords – as a voice artist. Voice artists may provide voice overs, record audio books, voice characters, help make commercials, and more.

Experience or training is not necessarily needed, but you will get more and better-paying assignments once you have more jobs under your proverbial belt. Voice artists are usually self-employed, and must build up their own careers. See voices.com to get started.

Pay varies widely. You might expect to make about $12 an hour or so when you’re first starting out, but many more experienced voice artists can make from about $40 to $200 an hour, and the most successful ones can even make over six figures, and thousands of dollars per assignment.

Voice over work can be great for both introverts and extraverts.

Graphic Designer

Are you creative, and enjoy drawing and making designs? If so, you could earn income as a graphic designer, and help companies design logos, websites, and more materials in order to best market themselves.

Graphic design lends itself particularly well to freelancing. See websites like Upwork and Dribbble (that is their correct spelling) to get started. You might also want to check out Amazon’s Merch on Demand program.

Pay for graphic designers can vary widely. Beginners will likely start at around $15 an hour, but pay tends to range from around that to well over six figures, and highly skilled designers with strong portfolios and who are well known can make lots of money.

This type of work can be great for both introverts and extraverts. It’s a mix of both time spent working alone, and also time spent interacting with others.

Content Moderator

These folks monitor activity on social media and other websites. Sometimes they get it right, and sometimes they get it wrong, but they do play an important role in addressing potentially problematic behavior online.

No particular education or skills are required to be a content moderator, although more opportunities tend to open up as you get more experience with it.

This type of work could be contractor work, and sometimes large companies will also hire them. See websites like remote.co and Modsquad to get started.

Pay tends to be about $15-28 per hour.

This kind of work could be good for both introverts and extraverts. Extraverts will likely enjoy interacting with different people, while introverts will likely appreciate those interactions tending to be more indirect.

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