Is there a good job portal to look for Work From Home jobs? Because I can't seem to find any job portals that cater to remote work/work from home jobs easily.

I've spent about two weeks during my free time looking at possible ways one can explore work from home options and it seems like the best way to work remotely or from home, is if you apply to companies outside of Malaysia.

For those of you who do a have full time job working from home, what are some of the occupations can a person with good soft skills attempt? I use the word soft skills here because a majority of my work experiences requires communication and face-to-face talking, rather than something technical like IT, Coding, Digital Marketing etc.

Do you guys think that Malaysia has a lot of work from home opportunities, but we're just lacking the right avenue to explore these areas?

Basically everyone dreams of that 'work from home' kind of job but in reality, it is difficult but it depends on what kind of work you are expecting from 'home office'. There are tonnes of freelancers websites where clients go to and post job offers and you get the chance to apply and send proposals. These websites do charge a fee (at least 20% from the what you will earn). These jobs vary from translation to web-designing to engineering sketches etc.

The company I used to work for (software engineering company) did offer one of its workers the chance to work at home, which is home office, because he mainly does programming and coding. So he brings the company's laptop to a different city, which is 7 hours away and he would be at the company every 2 weeks, depending on what discussion needed to be done with the bosses.

Non technical work from home jobs = creative design (web, print, video) or writing (proposals, resumes, LinkedIn profiles, translation)

If you have a bit more technical background, your writing options expand a bit more eg. engineering/development manuals/translations, legal, business, regulatory stuff.

Go to Upwork and do your homework. You'll be competing for jobs globally, against people from around the world. If you're good you can survive, or it could be a supplemental income only. Why limit yourself to Malaysia....

So to reply the both of you, I've actually signed up for websites like freelancer.com, upwork.com, the standard freelance gigs. I was there for a few days and I had a bad experience using the web. Because I ended receiving jobs that were scams in nature and I immediately unsubscribed from it. Thing is, I've noticed even Malaysian job portals can't filter scam-based job ads. Current, I've paid a small fee to use websites that are exclusively designed for remote work. It's an American based website that charges a sum per month, and I figured I'd subscribe to the website for a month and see what I'd get out of it.

Hence, the question, what roles could I take on. So far, I believe the only good role out there if we're looking at full term employment is remote customer service i.e.: live chat.

On the side line though, I am working as a freelance translator and am hoping to get in to freelance transcribing. That should bring up my financial/spending power up to Malaysia's minimum standard wage.

got 1 my friend start with solid job, after become senior he work on new company. but the old one still keep in touch and get few free lance project. as for now he quit 2nd company and get freelance job from both. in malaysia i dont think you can find work from home job that easy.

to become freelancer you need to be senior first, so if you really want to work from home, start as normal salary man, get good and try to find more friends / promote your self to become freelancer in the future

This post has been edited by EarendurFefalas: Aug 11 2018, 01:53 PM

oversea website, i did it before, but its freelance, if it, coding and etc very damn easy to get, payment is good because in USD. try to find international one, they paid by paypal

Aside from coding, what other jobs have you seen so far that can be done from home and internationally ah?

Regional sales, i report to singapore office but i work from home and travel to overseas every month(covering asia pacific)

I would say stop limiting your job search to "work from home". Even small companies nowadays (startup) can offer you such flexibility if you're not required to be in the office to do your work.

My first official job was doing an in-house marketing/branding for a Singaporean company based in PJ handling 7 countries (APAC). I was working regular office hours until my local marketing manager left and I had to report directly to Singapore which invalidate the needs for me to be in the office everyday.(travel to office and overseas once or twice a month for meetings)

4 years later (earlier this year) I accepted a new job offer doing Corp Comms and Awareness for an international bank with the thoughts of working in an office environment again. Turns out my whole team was working from home as well. I got lucky again. (only in the office for weekly meeting etc)


So yes you usually can work from home in a regional kinda job where maybe your boss will be in Singapore or some other countries and you are working with those other countries most of the time.

Oh, I've tried that actually. I started out with startups to look for remote working options and couldn't find any. My previous job was based from home 70% of the time, whereas the other 30% I just had to walk in to deal with clients and events whenever needed. It was a very meritocratic job in that as long as you got the work done, you are free to do whatever you want for the day as long as no clients are around. Unfortunately, that company shut down two months ago and the management was undergoing a rebranding, some of us got laid off, including me.

Work from home jobs generally require self discipline and you are appraised based on your perfromance. So if something isn't quite showing itself, I'm sure they'll discuss said matter with you.

thats the benefit of working at home. If you are super productive and efficient, settled 4 hours job within 2 hours and go play lol.

They just don't. for me it's just the matter of you being able to be reached at all times.(even after normal working hours cos of the timezone diff)
As long as I'm replying emails, taking calls and delivering whatever they're requesting, they wont even care if you're still in your boxer or shopping malls with your scandal.

So in a way, flexible working hours might actually ate up more of your time than regular normal working hours but you are still free to do whatever in between if you're disciplined enough.

And yes, back then I've dialed in a video call in my formal shirt with no pants at home and even pause my DOTA match halfway just to reply to a so called urgent email.

dota can pause so long?

hi, go and register yourself at those website such as freelancer.com or if you are very creative you can sell what ever skill you have at fiverr.

in my company, we have 12 days work from home a year

it is not bad

Fiverr, be your own boss

Work from home job is nice.. But sometimes u might loss focus