How can I make a comfortable income from home

I could not see any either and I agree with @NiftyBlueRobin

What are your key skills and work history?

Maybe I’ve missed something but where is the ‘incendiary language’?

Certainly, we’re allowed to agree to disagree.
I just don’t think the way to address the use of incendiary language is to use more.

@Kitte321 I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree with the spirit of some of the comments on this thread, as I don't agree with you that the motive of most has been to manage the OP's expectations objectively. A woman should be able to come to a forum to ask for work advice without being called entitled, delusional, audacious, to name just a few of the accusations waged at OP. She literally just wanted to hear what other women are doing to make decent money, and many have taken that as a personal attack for some reason.

My comment about the porn and prostitution posts belonging on an incel forum was specific to those posts, and I think that was perfectly clear. I find the fact that you're ignoring the emotive, angry language used by many posters and claiming that they're just being realists rather disingenuous, personally. But we're allowed to have different opinions.

Maybe OP could do that then! 😂

I could earn twice that by threatening to take my clothes off unless people pay me.

It’s probably the most realistic way to get £50k a year from home during school hours.

There is choice. The only situation where there is a lack of choice (IMO) is the deeply dissatisfactory situation surrounding early years provisions for those with severe SEN.
But even that (in most cases) more readily resolves at school age.
There is the child care element of UC, free hours (I do know the issues here which I have referred to). In the vast majority of cases there is choice. Having children, and the timing of that, is also a choice.

Completely agree. The suggestion to try porn or prostitution just sums up the spirit of this thread. My mind is blown!

You have a level 2 TA qualification and want a U3 teacher salary?

But being a SAHM isn’t a choice for so many women who end up doing it. It might start as a temporary option but you can easily get trapped in it. Please please look at all the research on this.

This response badly mischaracterises what many people are actually saying, and in doing so it sidesteps two uncomfortable but relevant truths.
First, in many cases being a SAHM is a choice, choices have trade-offs. Pointing out those trade-offs is not “bitterness,” “contempt,” or some vendetta against women who stayed home; it’s a basic acknowledgement of how labour markets work. Time out of the workforce has consequences for skills, networks, and perceived value. That reality exists whether anyone “enjoys” stating it or not.
Second, market forces are not a moral judgement. They are indifferent. After a long absence from paid employment, it is simply not realistic to expect to re-enter the workforce at a high level without substantial retraining, recent experience, or a highly specialised background. Saying this is not the same as declaring someone “amounts to nothing” or deserves to struggle. It’s managing expectations in line with economic reality, not trying to be cruel.
Accusations that posters are “revelling in put-downs” or acting out some grievance against SAHMs conveniently shut down any honest discussion. Discomfort is being reframed as oppression. Hard truths are being recast as misogyny.
As for the more extreme or inappropriate comments (e.g. references to porn or prostitution), those can and should be condemned. They are not representative of the broader point being made, and using them to smear all criticism as incel-adjacent is disingenuous.

No one is saying the OP owes anyone an apology for being a SAHM. But nor is she entitled to have the economic consequences of that choice ignored. Asking for career advice necessarily invites honest answers, including answers she may not like. Acknowledging limits imposed by time away from the workforce is not punishment, resentment, or cruelty; it’s realism.
Pretending otherwise doesn’t empower women. It sets them up for disappointment.

@AmIHumanOrAmIAYeti Thank you. I've already shared my suggestions with the OP upthread, and have acknowledged that it's reasonable for people to manage her expectations. I also felt the need to acknowledge that the OP doesn't deserve the bitterness, nastiness and accusations that she's been levelled with by many posters here, and I hope she sees that and realises that not all of us are rooting against her.

OP if you're reading this, once again best of luck.

@NiftyBlueRobin a noble post. Presumably you have links to part time, WFH jobs that pay the best part of £40 an hour without any experience or qualifications required? Now would be the time to share them.

I completely agree @AliceRose1971

No wonder the OP hasn't returned, why would she when so many posters are obviously taking pleasure in telling her she'll amount to nothing better than a minimum wage worker because she had the audacity to be a SAHM, and banging on about 'entitlement'? Many on here, though they're denying it, clearly resent women who make different choices to them and want to see them suffer for doing so (note all the 'well I toiled in the workforce for years and SACRIFICED; if I had to struggle and suffer then all other women have to too! Otherwise it's not fair on ME' type posts).

Note also the multiple people who have made jabs about how the OP may want to consider porn or prostitution, comments which wouldn't look out of place on an incel forum. But sure, all these posters are doing is simply managing the OP's expectations in an objective manner, they're not revelling in it or enjoying the put downs at all. /s

The bitterness and contempt expressed for women who are perceived to have had it easier than them is so sadly misplaced; the OP is not responsible for the hardships experienced by working mothers, nor does she owe anyone an apology for being a SAHM. The OP has not insulted or thrown judgement at anyone, she has asked for advice on career options, that is it.

I don’t think that every SAHM makes the same choice. Not every woman that stays at home does it as an active choice. Then comparing them unfavourably to women that worked through the hard years and sacrificed by going to work. Maybe that SAHM was on her own for weeks on end and had zero support due to a million different scenarios - a few of which I mentioned in my original post. People always assume that a SAHM is having it easy but that’s not true. You could work full time and be home at 5:30 if you’re not in a big commute and still have a very supportive husband or family around you and have an easy life. you can also be a SAHM with a partner that works away for weeks and months on end and have no family support around. You can’t compare it to so to make that kind of assumption that just because you stayed at home your life was easy and just because you went to work your life with hard when your children were young that’s not actually true. I do find that when women take that line and they make it just black-and-white that it affects other women negatively. Even simple things like having a positive healthy relationship compared to somebody who has a negative potentially abusive relationship makes a very big difference in how hard life is for someone regardless of whether they were working or not on top of that. I think that if this particular poster wants to go back to work and own £50,000 a year we should all support her in that. Being out of the work force does not mean she has no skills

I think you’ve pinpointed the issue, that is for so many women it’s not a ‘choice’. Though it might look like it from the outside it’s normally responding to circumstances. One person above mentioned how they’d prioritised working by throwing money at childcare to keep working, but that’s assumes that all families have money to throw at childcare. Many many don’t. They get pushed out of work and it can then be v hard to get back in, in part due to lack of childcare and supportive employers, but also the cultural view of mothers who take careers ‘breaks’.

Lots of economic studies coming out about this and it is a huge social and economic crisis. This is an old article but still relevant:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/nov/05/motherhood-penalty-has-driven-quarter-of-a-million-women-out-of-jobs-says-report

All that lost potential of these women! It’s a scandal. We have so many skill shortages in the UK. Why not funding for retraining women re entering the workforce? We should be ambitious for these women. They have a lot to give.

If you read my two posts you will see that I have, and never would, suggest that being a SAHM is not a completely valid choice. It just comes with sacrifices (as does being a working parent).

Same here. I’ve only had 2 years away from working and I can’t find anything, I’ve been looking for a year. I’m really frightened for the future now. Not expecting anything anywhere near 50k, I’d settle for NMW.

I’m another one who think the OP has had a bit of a pile-on. Yes 50k is unrealistic, but she was only looking for advice. OP, I wish you well in your efforts to reenter the workforce. Counselling is something which might tick some of your flexibility boxes - there might be some Level 2/Level 3 courses available for free at a local FE college so you could explore without initial cost if it’s something you’d interested in pursuing further. Good luck xx

This, I was made redundant in 2024 and as a skilled professional who has always worked full time, the jobs market is hell! It's important that stay at home mothers realise they will be looking at low to unskilled minimum wage work once they've sat unemployed for years! I'm a H&S practitioner on £30.5k full time, my partner is a Senior IT Network Engineer for the NHS on about £40k! Just to give reality to the mothers that have nothing to offer but think £50k for unskilled part time work is a fair ask!

It's ok people on here staring I want this income or people chiming ij that they get 50k and 60k working mainly at home but nobody is discussing what these jobs are, what skills, qualifications or experience anyone has to command such extensive salaries - what is it you do that hope to do part time for £50k as it sounds a bit of a fantasy to me.

I don’t see any anti-mum sentiment on this thread. I see people thinking OP is unrealistic and entitled to expect to be paid fifty grand for a part-time job (so around eighty grand equivalent salary) when she has no qualifications or experience or work history. Thats fair - most of us don’t earn anywhere near that after slaving away for decades.

You know not all families are the same. Some women have husbands that work away for weeks at a time - they might not have any support so working becomes untenable. Maybe they have a child with additional needs or a health condition that would require lots of hospital appointments. Maybe they did try to make it work and due to a whole host of the above work was just not possible. I know plenty of women pushed out of work once they had children. Thankfully it looks like the job market has changed in this regard but it wasn’t always like that. Finally some women have lots of kids so have young ones for many years. It’s good to see those women looking to get back to work and thrive again.