How can I make a comfortable income from home

And hours of work non flexibility

Ok, so you must realise you won't get an actual job with that experience, part time hours and that salary.

Beware of all the influencer/social media/get rich easy rubbish out there. They lie. If it were that simple, we'd all be doing it.

The only way is to start a proper small business - but that's a ton of hard work for at least 5 years and with no guarantee of success. Most fail. It doesn't sound as though that's what you'd be interested in either.

You need to get real.

You're joking right?

50k for an admin role and you've been out of the workforce for 15yrs? WFH around school hours?!

A job opportunity earning £50k exclusively wfh after 15 years out of the workforce would be a miracle. I’d look for a job which allows wfh 3 days a week and start from there.

Have you thought about being a childminder? A bit different from admin but had the potential to have a good income from the government funded rates

Maybe that kind of salary is possible in London but not for someone that hasn’t been in that field for 15yrs.

I think you’ll need to lower your salary expectations. I’m a fully qualified accountant and my full time equivalent is under £50k. I work part time to enable myself to be there for my kids before and after school. I work equivalent to 3 full days and earn just over £28k.

Are you wanting something that you can leave to pick up the kids up from school then work with them at home? Some employers wouldn’t be happy with that arrangement (dependant on the age of the children ofcourse).

sorry I quoted you by mistake. I was supposed to quote OP 🤦🏾‍♀️

I have a PhD. and do postgraduate private tutoring, fully remote. I charge £50-£80 per hour. Sometimes more depending on the level of support needed. Do you have any specialist knowledge you could use in that way?

Yeah I am very aware of this tbh I meant a company that offers wfh even as a hybrid. I have to be on site 2-3 days a week now too. But the flexi time helps as I can still do drop off on those days. It helps I have a really cool boss, she gets it as she is in the same position.

Not really. I work for an insurance company. We are hybrid. The majority of insurance companies in my sector are also hybrid. Some have gone fully back to the office.

WFH jobs are becoming increasingly rare. Which most companies going to hybrid which requires office attendance. Some companies have gone fully back to the office. My company for example hired 100% homeworkers 3 years. It hasn’t gone well and they won’t be offering it again.

I hate to pile on as well, but ‘admin’ and £50k aren’t often (ever) seen on a job vacancy ad. particularly as you want to work around school hours so only really available part time, unless it’s a super flexible place that allows you to log back on in the evenings. These are the dream roles, not the run of the mill.

There’s potential for you to get an admin role and work your way up after some experience back in the workforce and as you gain your qualifications. Things have changed massively in the last few years, let alone the last 15.

Sorry but you sound wildly unrealistic and somewhat entitled. Who on earth do you imagine is going to pay you £50k for working flexibly around your children, from home, when you haven’t worked in years and have some basic admin qualifications. I don’t mean to be unkind but it sounds like you’re living in cloud cuckoo land.

You quite often see these posts from women who have decided the time is right to step back into paid work after a long time out but clearly aren’t willing to sacrifice any time with their kids or not be able to keep up with the housework so the idea of commuting to a workplace or using childcare is absurd. And of course it needs to make a massive difference to the family finances so needs to be at least triple NMW 🙄 I want to be supportive of people trying to get back into the workplace but honestly, it’s like they’ve been on another planet. The world doesn’t owe you a massively paid, flexible and convenient career which doesn’t have any impact on your family life and the people that have those unicorn jobs have usually obtained them by staying in the workplace and working their arses off while juggling nursery bills etc. If people could take years out and the just sashay back into a decently paid and flexible job that could
play second fiddle to their kids, then everyone bloody would!

Honestly, the entitlement is next level.

I think your salary expectations are unrealistic (even if you mean 50k pro-rata adjusted down for part time hours).

I have a friend who worked as a "virtual PA" school hours 3 days a week until her daughter was at secondary. That was quite a good fit though I dont think she was on more than 30k pro rota and she had at least 15 years office admin experience.

You could possibly look into becoming a claims handler for an insurer. I know a lot of people who work in insurance and it's mainly WFH and going into the office once a fortnight for the team meeting. Quite flexible and not expected to work more than contracted hours. But again not well paid.

If you want to earn more you probably need a particular skill/qualification/experience.

Remote working is becoming harder to find.

The job maket right now is absolutely dire so many people are looking for work
I’ve been searching and it’s not easy. Have to lower expectations etc I can’t see you getting 50k in this market.

I think you need to be realistic given how long it's been since you worked. You could look for an administration job that allows flexibility / WFH but unlikely to be anywhere near £50k. The job market is very competitive at the moment, you'll be up against people with far more experience, and more recent.

I run a business and have several administrators, all of whom we need to work in our office for at least 60% of the time and we pay between £35-40K depending on experience. I wouldn't be employing anyone who has not been in work for 15 years at all.

Yes I am for real, no I don’t rely on anyone else except my dh. He does his share of drop off and collections. He also has flexi time but not as much wfh as he is in a supervisory role (not main management though) and he is on over 70k. We work for the same organisation.

If you've been out of work for 15 years I think it will be harder to hit that £50k per annum that you've mentioned. I'm nowhere near £50k and I HAVE been working for the last 15 years. What's the equivalent salary for the role you had 15 years ago? In my sector, in arts administration it would've been £17k 15 years ago and about £26k now for full time. Sounds like your version of comfortable is different. If you're not working at all now, surely anything will be worth your while.

Anyone on mn who doesn't earn more than 30k! Is everyone posting 50 - 60K wfh and revolve round primary age kids for real. Nobody seems to say struggling to make ends meet, relying on others to look after kids and also get uc. Or do these type of folk not use mn.
Just an observation really

I think you need to be realistic, based on your updates you have admin experience and experience as A TA, and you want to earn £50k a year working from home around primary school children and with a good work/life balance.

• Would you be able to work full time hours?
• What has your last 5 yrs work experience looked like?
• Do you have any qualifications or specialist skills?

I earn very very well and work from home, but it’s in a specialist role, at a company I’ve worked for for 16 yrs so I’ve built up a huge amount of goodwill and as a result I can flex my hours however I like and everyone knows I’ll get shit done so they don’t bother me about it.

Part time, home based admin roles you’d be looking at close to NMW so no where near £50k and to get into that salary bracket you’d need to be offering a skill or experience set that is niche or highly valued.

Buisness Admin jobs are available fully remote but in my experience not well paid (25-28k). You would do better getting some specific skills, ie data or project management. There is then scope to earn more. Look on Charity Job or the work from home hub for ideas of roles

I think you will struggle with anywhere near that, especially WFH, after 15 years out of the jobforce.

Yes. I await an influx.

This is what I would say too. I am hybrid though I pick when I go in - there's no stated requirement, so I go maybe 4-6 times a month depending on what's going on but even then it's planned around school runs. I am FT but nobody bats an eyelid that I do all the school runs etc.