How can I make a comfortable income from home

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.

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.

Oh god don’t try and make a CV out of so called SAHM skills. Not only is it really cringey, but none of it has any applicability in a proper grown up workplace. No dealing with toddler tantrums is not conflict resolution Ffs. Those applications go straight into the bin after the recruiters have had a good laugh.

ive been involved in recruiting lots of staff in the NHS and as we get hundreds of applications for each role we can afford to ditch any applications from people who have been out of the workplace for more than a few months.

OP keep an eye out for school admin/reception roles. Obviously wouldn’t be wfh but you’d have the right hours. Either that or start your own business. I’m in the same situation and I have just started a home help business x

I think 15 years out of the workplace is only one way to couch it - there was a great post yesterday where someone rewrote her SAHM role as a job and skills and it was really very good.

I too think 50k is going to be a lot though unless you have a serious specialisation. I did think of remote concierge jobs though - combination of admin and organisation, but again with a bit of a specialism you might struggle.

It sounds like OP is maybe going through a divorce and has turned around after 15 years of being a SAHM and realised that her lifestyle is quite expensive. Assuming this is real.

Very unrealistic.

Perhaps the oldest profession in the world might achieve that level for part-time work.

Hi Ladies I want to find out what ladies are doing to make a comfortable income around their primary school children and still have time for family? Kindly advise?

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These sorts of threads are like a klaxon going off to the MLM huns.

My experience is working in administration my last job was working as a Business administrator for social services 15 years ago. I recently did a teaching assistant level 2 course and I'm currently doing a intensive Business Administration course

Yep, I've made some bad decisions in my life but trekking into and out of London during the toddler years, bringing home basically nothing once childcare and travel were paid, was not one of them and I'm so glad I did it now!

The thing that is frustrating about these threads is the way people are so vague. I know people don’t want to be identified. I know I am very out of touch (worked in health, pre kids, which is a world of its own) job adverts are the same. They give no clues as to what people actually DO, so I’ve no idea if I could do them. I run a business, so I’m not clueless. I’ve had a professional job and got two degrees, so I’m not stupid and I feel like I could aim higher than customer service. But aim for what? It feels very exclusive and I need a map and interpreter. I think that’s what people are asking.

I would honestly pay good money to have a kind of graduate recruitment thing for post kid-mums or have someone explain to me how to decode things like what phrases like “niche business administrator’ or ‘freelancer in a creative profession’ actually do. I know what the words mean, but they don’t convey any useful information to me. I don’t mean to pick on those people and I don’t want to pressure anyone to say, but it still leaves me at a complete loss - how the fuck do I find out? They’re like cryptic crossword clues. They make sense when they’re explained, but they don’t give me any tools to decipher any more of them. The whole business seems like another language. Perhaps that means I’m deeply unsuited to them, but we’ll never know if unless I find an interpreter!

I’m considering being a climbing arborist. That seems FAR easier to get to grips with from where I’m standing. And if I’ve go to start at the bottom anyway, why not? 😂

• 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!*

This 😂 high five to all the working mums on here who pretty much paid to work when the kids were tiny and the nursery bill + train fare came to more than the wage. Its hard and you get NO rest but you come out a few years down the line in the plum senior job with flexibility and good pay and its SO worth it.

Where does anyone who hasn’t worked for 15 years get these ridiculous salary expectations from? Sadly I think it’s because they haven’t worked that they have these daft ideas and sense of entitlement as to what they are worth.

• 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!*

This 😂 high five to all the working mums on here who pretty much paid to work when the kids were tiny and the nursery bill + train fare came to more than the wage. Its hard and you get NO rest but you come out a few years down the line in the plum senior job with flexibility and good pay and its SO worth it.

50k per year