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Most common flexible careers

Most common flexible careers

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Most common flexible careers

- Time for a pop quiz. Golf instructor, ophthalmologist, high school guidance counselor, forensic veterinarian. What do all of these jobs have in common? They can all be done remotely. No, really, each of these jobs was recently listed on FlexJobs, and each one offers remote work and flexible work options, like part-time hours, temporary assignments, and flexible schedules. That's pretty amazing when you think that just 10 years ago, most work was still done in an office or on-site during set hours. Today, the data clearly shows that more career fields are becoming flexible and sometimes in vary creative ways. Flexible careers now include education, project management, science, and engineering. And people are usually surprised to find out that medical and health is consistently the top career field for flexible work. Year over year, there are more flexible jobs in medical and health than any other field. Jobs like a nurse, case manager, social worker, medical transcriptionist, and…

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