How can I make a comfortable income from home

Presumably you are thinking of full time, so 9-5 or equivalent? In which case you will need childcare right up to the end of your working day, so as you will have that in place what stops you from working in an office or hybrid? This will open up so much more for you and although I'd say you'd be extremely unlikely to start on that salary you can work your way up....

I don’t think anyone thinks that’s what you START on. But what you aim for and how you get there! I don’t need to work for bills money, but I’d like to and it nice to have extra for luxuries, especially as your kids get older. I’d happily work for NMW if I had plan and it was a stepping stone, even if it was boring/frustrating/unrewarding/hard etc. But I’m not doing it that’s all there is because life is too short and it DOES have a massive impact on my ability to be there for my child and for us to have a good life. That’s worth considerably more than NMW to me. I have way more to offer a job and I expect more back. Even its potential. It needs to be part of something bigger to be worth it I expect a lot of people feel similarly. It doesn’t mean we expect to drop right into it.

I don’t think 50k per year part time is realistic unless you have specific qualifications in a well paid job. You could potentially find a WFH job with flexible times and do full time hours to earn this amount by working a bit when the children are in bed or on weekends.

One area that is a HUGE growth market is tutoring SEN students.

If you get a good qualification to teach children with dyslexia, you can earn up to £120 / £150 an hour. Not all of those tutors are qualified teachers. If you can get registered with the British Dyslexia Association, you can set whatever rate you want. And have a waiting list of clients.

Ex teacher, now online tutor and examiner. I'm self employed and earn between 40 & 50K and fit it around drop off / pick up / after school clubs etc. I could earn a lot more and have to turn students away.

But I've got years of experience, post grad qualifications and am trained in 2 different educational curriculums. I also have to work school holidays, some evenings (I try not to but...) and weekends.

Upside is if I have something on, I just cancel lessons. Downside is if I'm ill there is no sick pay.

Music tutors, or subject tutors such as maths or french etc

BUT you'd have to teach at least five lessons each day for at least five days each week at £40 ph to make that income.

If you're good then people would pay it. I pay £50 an hour for an hour's music lesson.

ETA - a music teacher friend slogs his guts out from 8am - 9pm every Saturday and Sunday to make the numbers work. (Because kids are obvs in school during the week)

this is so so true, I think a lot of people only see the moment they live in and they don’t think of the future effects, I stayed home for 5 years and took enough of a hit for that. It’s hard to go to work and come out with very little but it doesn’t last forever.

I work full time from home. It is very flexible, can nip out when I like for school runs. Though ai do some meetings from my car and have to use after school clubs too some days. apart from some international travel and client visits which are mandatory and then I havr to sort childcare while I am away. I earn about 85k. Most jobs are requiring back to office so I am staying put even though I could earn more.
I work in tech consultancy and have worked full time in this field for 25 years. I never stopped working full time and have two kids.
I think starting from scratch you arent going to find a 50k job that is wfh flexible hours. You have to build up to that. I would suggest freelance in something and go from there.
Flexible working is being reigned back in everywhere. I could earn double going back to the office so you are competing with people like me for flexible jobs who are overqualified and taking more junior roles for flexibility.

• 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.

I'm currently doing a intensive Business Administration course

This sounds a bit generic and unlikely to open doors job wise. Can you do a coding/developing course - makers academy? Have you got any higher level qualifications? Degree? I assume so if you are looking to earn £50k from part time work.

A 15 year gap on your cv is going to be a huge barrier. I'd take literally anything at all to get some more recent employment experience on my cv - care work, retail, anything.

I work part time, spread the hours across 5 days and use a little bit of wraparound care. I go into the office some days though. You will limit yourself significantly if you want 100% work from home & no childcare at all. You would probably need the equivalent of an £80k job to get £50k within school hours, and you'll still need childcare in the holidays.

This - ive been out of work for 10 years now and cannot get a job for love nor money, anywhere! (ideally money!)

I went back to work after 15 years on 50k, but I was earning 100k before I left previously and have niche qualifications. I did get back to 80k witin 18 months or so. I also had done stuff that wasn't work while I had been off.

I was able to work from home once established due to the role, but most employers want you in 2 days a week or so now.

You're not going to earn 50k as a TA or in admin.

I worked 37 years in a high level business admin/low level business manager role in a well known corporate. My salary when I left three years ago was about 44k. You are dreaming if you think you can get paid that, working from home after being out of the workforce for fifteen years. Maybe if you get a job and work for the next 15 years to build up to it.

I was also going to suggest this. SIL has gone into tutoring (her degree subject) after 15 years as a SAHM. She built up slowly by offering to tutor friend's DC for free and then has managed to spread her business by word of mouth, slowly increasing the rates she charges. A lot of this would be evenings and weekends though, so may not be suitable depending on your children - although she is also tutoring adults and home schooled children during the day.

If you don't have a degree, you might be able to market yourself working with primary age children.

Surely if you've managed not to work for 15 years with no income , then even 20/ 25 k will make quite a difference to your household . As others said it is unrealistic to expect to earn 50k without some niche qualification.

It’s the holy grail that most mums of young children are looking for but very few achieve.

But this lady has primary school children, so by the sounds of it she’s only been a SAHM for a few years, unless she has older children I guess?

I too think £50k FTE is going to be a stretch with limited experience and qualifications. especially as she doesn’t want to work in an office so training opportunities will be limited and most companies would want an inexperienced person in the office for a bit at the beginning to get to know the team and train (especially for an admin role).

How old are your children OP? You might have better luck doing something adhoc for now (supermarket work etc), until the children can make their own way to and from school.

Feet pics?

What do those jobs pay now?

admin and £50k don’t usually go together in the same job advert.

unless it a company secretary

why are you Doing the qualifications you have done / are doing?
perhaps be more targeted with those so you are not wasting your time?

Look at something like this
https://www.thecorporategovernanceinstitute.com/diploma-in-company-secretary-practice/

My admin earns that and WFH, but she also super technical in our industry, excellent skills, and current in her working practices.

I was out of the admin workforce for 5 years, and then covid hit. I have gone back for pretty much minimum wage. And i have NVQs etc
in business and admin.
I too would love to earn 50k but I don’t think it is attainable.

I make about 20k freelance working school hours only but this is after 15 years in my industry and has taken 3 years of building up my business to get here. I had alot of support from DH in the first year when I was barely making anything.

I think I could possibly stretch to getting 30k a year but I only changed £29 an hour and have to wait until people need me so that's probably top end doing what I currently do.

have a look on indeed jobs site and what they paying teaching assistants because you're wasting your time and money on training in those fields if you want to WFH and earn £50k a year. You'll be lucky to bring in much more than half that in an on-site job in those fields!

Also, sometimes we have to compromise earningsnfor flexibility. My work is full time but amazingly flexible with two days wfh, but i earn much less than your 50k goal. With my skills I could look elsewhere, but I've found that job fit, feeling happy about my work and having flexibility, are more important to me than those extra few grand.