TOP REMOTE JOBS ON THE RISE IN 2024
Professional Development
If you currently work remotely, you already know how much flexibility it can bring to your life. Imagine saying goodbye to your daily commute so that you can work from home, allowing more time for connection with family and pets. Or, maybe you’re interested in traveling the world, which you can now accomplish without putting work on hold. Whatever your life plan is, remote work options are here to help you achieve it by freeing you up to be anywhere, anytime.
So, what kind of work can you expect to be taking on? You’d be right to assume that a computer will play an essential role in it so that you can communicate and collaborate with others despite any distance between you. Beyond that, there’s a fairly wide variety of work that can be well-suited for a variety of skill sets. Let’s take a look at a few of the top options for 2024!
Software Developer
It’s all in the name: as a software developer, you’d be in charge of designing computer programs and applications. If you’re familiar with coding languages like Java, Python, and C++, and you enjoy being creative and solving problems, you just might make a perfect software developer. Along with designing the programs, you’ll also be responsible for testing and maintaining the software, which means you’ll have a deep enough knowledge of your particular program to help others use it effectively.
This industry is booming, too. Back in 2022, it was predicted to grow 25% by 2032, so it’s currently expanding, and you don’t need to worry about that growth stopping any time soon.
Data Scientist
Data scientists use the data they receive to understand and explain events happening around them, and to help groups and organizations make better, more informed decisions. It’s a challenge, but it also puts you in touch with the world around you on a very detailed level. Those who are analytically inclined will do well in this field because the first step is to find any patterns and trends that you can in the data you are given. It’s important to have great problem-solving skills as well. After finding patterns in your data, it will be up to you to give your recommendations to other teams in the workplace.
You’ll have to crunch a lot of numbers and analyze a ton of patterns, but it’s worth it: the average annual salary of a data scientist in the United States is $108,659. Job opportunities in this field are also expected to grow by 36% in the next 10 years according to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics. Glassdoor reports that the average salary for a data scientist in the US is $125,242/year.
Translator
Remote work gives us the opportunity to connect on a global level, and communicating effectively with each other despite language barriers is more important than ever. As you can imagine, this puts translators in high demand. A translator can work on a wide variety of different projects, such as testing websites, translating documents, and proofreading content. This is a crucial step towards making sure a company’s content is landing effectively all over the world.
You’ll need to speak at least two languages, of course, and the more languages you are proficient in, the better! The marketplace is now as wide as the world is, so the more you can spread your information in different languages, the more effective your company or project will be at achieving goals.
Writer
Always a popular option, the field of remote writing shows no signs of slowing down. Although finding a specific writing job can sometimes be difficult, there will always be something out there to do in the field. The internet has an insatiable hunger for content, and every one of those articles that we read each day was written by someone! Content writing is a great way to develop your skills as a writer, and can also help you build up a portfolio. Once your portfolio is filling up and you can choose only your favorite work to present, you can use this to apply to more specific journalism jobs or blogs that suit your interests and writing style. With a remote job like this, 2024 is bound to be interesting! Based on the variety of topics that you’ll be writing about, combined with your responsibilities to edit and fact-check your work, remote writers can expect to be busy and stimulated all year long.
Career Coach
An interesting option for anyone who wants to be their own boss and help others achieve their dreams in 2024 is career coaching. If you believe that you can positively impact people’s professional lives with your ideas, energy, and experience, this may be a perfect fit for you. Career coaching can be hard to define because your approach and technique may change case-by-case. Ultimately, it might be best to start out by trying to attract one or two clients that you can gain some confidence and experience with. From there, you can expand with a few methods in mind to cater to whoever may come to you.
Currently, anybody can be a coach, so you might find it helpful to get a few extra credentials to help you stand out from the crowd. There are coaching certification programs, like the Strong Interest Inventory program from Myers-Briggs, which officially certifies you to give career direction and insight. Again, a program like that isn’t compulsory, but it can help give you and your clients confidence that you know what you’re doing!
Looking at the list of job titles above, it’s interesting to see how remote work will be accomplished in such a wide variety of fields in the coming year. Our perspective on the workplace has totally changed, and we’re entering 2024 freer than ever. Although it’s often based on the computer, you don’t have to be a computer whiz to find a good remote work fit for you…but if you are a computer whiz, there are plenty of great options too. Do some research and see which one of these booming jobs might be most natural for your work style and personality, and have some fun bringing freedom to your 2024!