What Types of Jobs are Best Suited for Telecommuters?

upwardlyAndconstantly-Mobile asks: "I'm a systems engineer in the IT department of a bank. My wife is a PhD candidate looking to graduate in 4 years or so. Due to the nature of academia, she may need to move several times for post-docs and professor jobs once she gets her credentials. Her job opportunities may come from any number of cities or towns in the US or around the world. My current skill set ties me to only a handful of major cities, so I am trying to figure out the best path to prepare myself for being uprooted. Besides running something like Slashdot, what are the best tech jobs that are mobile? How many people have jobs that can actually be done from anywhere they can get email and web access? What's the best way to prepare for something like this? I have time to prepare, but what should I be doing? (I write this anonymously because I don't want my current employer reading it!)"

what are the best tech jobs that are mobile?

[ObviousGuy]

Technology journalist

Everything else requires a modicum of face to face interaction.

Hmm

[zapfie]

Telemarketing?

*ducks*

Systems security consultant

[KILNA]

Systems security consultant: You don't even have to be given access to the systems you need to remotely access!

Government work!

[i_want_you_to_throw_]

I am a contractor a military agency and we actually have dedicated telecommuting offices set up. Plus you have to murder someone to get fired from a government job. Serendipity!

Re:what are the best tech jobs that are mobile?

[Pathetic Coward]

Probably out of work, like other (former) tech journalists I know. The only story these days is the economy.

Re:Hmm

[k_stamour]

* Swings Again *

Porn

[SparafucileMan]

You can always publish online porn!

Last I checked the industry was worth 9 billion USD, plenty of upward mobility, you might say.

Work at Home Opportunities

[Waffle Iron]

People e-mail me tips every day about how I can work at home. I've never looked into it, but it sounds like there are dozens of ways that you can be self-employed and make thousands of dollars per week, with little or no investment required. I'm surprised you haven't seen these tips, everybody I know seems to get them. I'll forward them to you if you want.

Take some time off

[God_Retired]

Seriously. Four years from now, you will have worked your ass off putting your wife through the PhD program. Having to deal with a lot of shit and being the chief breadwinner. It'll be time for you to take a break. She's got a PhD now, so you can sit back, figure out which beer you like the best, maybe pick up some tennis or something. Trust me, you'll want a break. Then after a year or so announce that your skills are outdated and that you are going to go back and get your own PhD.

Re:Your best options are ...

[mikeplokta]

I guess that was a joke, but let's make sure everyone understands that attorney licensure isn't easily transportable across state lines.

In fact, I think there are regulations governing the transport of most toxic substances across state lines...