What job could I do where I take my baby?!

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I have 3 kids, oldest 2 at school and the youngest is 11 months. I would like to find something I could do no more than 10 hours a week, ideally where I could take my baby too. Any ideas?! I know it's probably an impossibility but thought the collective knowledge of Mumsnet many have a job I hadn't thought of!

Someone already said it. Set up a pet sitting service. Charge for going in to feed dogs and cats and for having hamsters etc in your house. Charge more for bank holidays.

You could train to do baby massage classes, baby exercise classes or mum and pushchair runs etc I looked at doing these types of jobs at one point in time but my circumstances changed and i ended up needing to get a full-time job.

I did data entry for a while to get back into work after having my son. They gave me a big stack of questionnaires and a deadline, I tapped in the answers and sent the papers back. It paid around £16 an hour and I just fitted the work in around naps, bedtime, etc.

I set up as self employed about a year ago and found bits of admin work on people per hour. I used to do it in the evenings or at nap time. If you don't want many hours then it could work for you. Other than that, do you have any skills that you could turn into something?

How about a virtual PA?

Do you enjoy fitness? I go to a post natal fitness class where the instructor brings her baby with her.

The obvious answers are jobs involving childcare. You can't seriously expect to work in an office/shop/supermarket/cafe/pub etc and take your child with you.

Nor will you get a job WFH whilst also caring for your DC. There is no way you can do both.

There's a company in the paper today who have made headlines because they allow babies in the office - it's a small child-related business and the CEO has just had a baby, and one of the other staff members has a slightly older baby. Now that the CEO is returning to work, she'd bringing her 9 month old in to try "co-working" - there was lots of expert opinion on whether or not it would work.

There won't be many places that will let you. Even when I had a full-time job that was mostly remote, they would not allow you to be doing childcare during the work - it's distracting.

You could perhaps apply to somewhere that has an on-site creche? But they don't tend to be free, just subsidised.

The lady that delivers the free newspaper here does it whilst pushing her baby in a pushchair. That said she is happy to leave said pushchair on the pavement and go and deliver to a good few houses before coming back for the baby which I can't say seems a very good idea!!!!

A friend of mine used to clean pubs in the morning and take her small one (around a year old) with her.
Needs must and all that. It was a small family run local pub and they understood her plight.
This was possibly 15 years ago now though.

Thanks so much everyone. Some really good ideas. I love the pet feeding idea and also the virtual admin / pa I could look into. Although data entry is probably quite dry, I actually find that sort of thing strangely relaxing as I love admin and making things really organised.

Has anyone done mystery shopping? It's not regular I guess though.