Learning to code suggestions

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Is there a market for individual “jobs” to do from home on an irregular schedule?

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Yes, there are freelancing sites like upwork and such where you can work "gigs". But you'd be competing with people overseas who are both better and cheaper than you. It's tough to break in.

If you think this is really something you want to do, do like FuzzyBear said and find a problem in need of a solution in a domain that you already know, like construction. Surely you've used lots of industry-specific software... how would you improve the tools you've used, or what tools did you need that seemingly don't exist? It could be related to estimating/costing, or time/material tracking, or maybe something to do with vendor management, or whatever.

Or ask people that you know if there are pain points in their life that could be solved with software. Or maybe you have a hobby that could benefit from better software tools.

It's impossible to start from scratch and immediately generate a living income. You will have to build out several projects, not just to learn, but also to build a portfolio and, maybe more importantly, confidence in the fact that you can build things.