What can I study that would pretty much guarantee a job st the end of it?

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I don’t really mind what it is, doesn’t need to be a ‘career’ or even that well paid, just something g that means I have a decent chance of employment at the end of it!

I have decent GCSEs and a’levels. Went to work rather than university which I definitely regret now. I have been a sahm for 7 years. Prior to that I worked in HR for a few years and also have admin and customer service experience. My children are 4 and 7 now and the youngest will be going to school next year so time to start thinking about jobs and it seems like studying something would be a good idea to get my brain back in to gear but I have no idea what I want to do!

Accountancy? Especially as all sorts of different companies have in house accountants, you don't necessarily have to work for a specific accountancy firm

nursing

health visiting
midwifery

Social care

Teaching

Radiography
Environmental Health.

Should add it needs to be something g that doesn’t need a degree as I don’t have one!

Plumbing.

And ideally something that I could study over the course of a year

Health care assistant. You will always always always get work. No degree required though you do have to do a course. Work in hospitals, nursing homes and home help. Of those probably I'd choose nursing homes, the people are stable, and there are plenty of hoists and plenty of help.

It is wiping bums and washing people, but if you've got kids you're already used to it. And you build lovely relationships with the people you care for and become like family.

Audiology

Bookkeeping

A trade like plumber , electrician, tiler, painter/ decorator, heating engineer, gardener?

Good trades round here are booked up months in advance.

Trouble is i expect it needs to be something that fits in with family life, and nhs careers don’t necessarily do that! I spent 26 years in nursing, now I’m retraining as a TA in a pre prep school. School hours and all the holidays it fits in nicely with my family.

Audio Engineering

Something logistics/supply chain related

Quantity surveying

My sil who previously worked in a building society then took time off has carved out a very good career as a school administrator in a private school. With multi academy trusts there are a fair few jobs across finance, curriculum and other areas. I would brush up your ICT skills.

I agree with accountant or bookkeeper. My friends are never short of work, even when they’re made redundant/lost jobs they’ve got back on the horse pretty quickly.

Teaching assistant? School hours and term time off.

School secretary?

A job with school hours and term time only is certainly the dream! I imagine they’re incredibly hard to get though

CIPD qualification and go back to working in HR?

It depends what kind of money you want to earn when you’re qualified. I’m doing my early years diploma as an apprenticeship, I won’t be exactly earning a fortune when I qualify but the pay off is the school holidays.

I'd go for a trade. Gas fitter, electrician, etc. I wouldn't limit yourself by looking for something suited to school hours only unless you are a single parent. It's quite limiting and you are in a vulnerable position if your relationship ever breaks down.

Bookkeeping will be obsolete in a few years with the advent of self-service apps. Proper accountancy less so but boring unless you love numbers.

If you were going to go for a trade, I think painting & decorating would be a good one.
The immediate lay-out for equipment would be small, it's a manageable job for a lone woman to do, you could build your client base on women looking for female tradespeople, it's flexible to a certain extent.... more so than gas or plumbing, you wouldn't need to offer emergency call outs as for example a plumber would.

Sadly, as I think they’d be very useful careers, I don’t think I’d be cut out for a trade type job at all.