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Most things computer based, provided you have a feel for it. If you are interested in Business Intelligence, you can learn to work with Microsoft Fabric and there are plenty of companies in the data field that are hiring, offering traineeships etc. Same goes for the more technical data engineering, software development, etc.
Source: am WFH data engineer.
I want to mention this disclaimer, though: right now, at least in tech roles, it's currently very difficult to actually land one of these jobs. Listings are getting hundreds of applicants per hour on some occasions. There's a lot of competition because of recent return to office mandates and layoffs, and it might be awhile before that changes.
I had thought of this area of work. Not averse to learning something tech related (although you wouldn't be able to tell going by the 3 times I've started and abandoned a programming course in my life), I just worry that being both a noob and almost 40 would count against me finding actual work. Plus, going by the other commenter, seems like a tough market right now.
On a side note, programming is something I would love to do in my downtime, to be able to finally make my game(s) lol.
I got my first job in programming at 35 a few years back.
Oh cool, that's definitely encouraging, thanks.
I should probably add that I don't have a relevant degree and I've since been promoted, so it can go okay!