Would you work remotely if you could?

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I do not have any special skills or talents & am not great with technology. I'm afraid the only jobs I'm really capable of doing are unskilled laborer things like custodial & it's impossible to do those types of jobs when your physically away so I never considered working remotely as an option.

I've been thinking more and more about working from home. What kind of freelance work are we talking about?

seems the elect sort who can work from home, doesn't understand the people not part of that elect group. and the people who lack the smarts to work from home don't understand those who do have such smarts.

When I worked in an office I had opportunities to work from home and I turned it down. One, my poor executive function means I would never have gotten anything started, let alone finished. Two, my thinking is pretty black and white on service for pay. If my salary is broken down to an hourly rate, times eight hours a day, then I feel I must work for that full eight hours. I found a lot of the work from home types felt, no matter how their pay was calculated, if they got one task done in four hours, they deserved the full days pay, not that they should have asked for more work to do for the other four hours.

^^^i have to admit i agree with your cohorts in terms of doing 8 hours' worth of work in 4 hours, that they earned the remaining 4 hours off, as "comp time."

Since I began reading the forums on Upwork, I have found that some of the successful freelancers think in terms of being paid for a specific work product (like a document, a website, an edited video, or a computer program) rather than thinking in terms of being paid for their time. So they accept the agreed-upon amount of money even if delivering the work product takes them only 5 minutes.

This is a little different than what others have described on this thread, but at my job I get to work remotely one day a week. Not having to commute all the way across town for a day in the middle of the week really helps keep the stress down!