if you run your own business from home

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What (very roughly) do you do?

Obviously lots of people work for other people from home, and separately lots of people run their own businesses involving a workplace like a restaurant or shop, or being mostly onsite with clients as a tradesperson or self employed consultant or providing a service like cleaning and that's quite different as it's not working from home, it's just the trading address and where you do your accounts.

I always think MLM (which we all know doesn't actually make any money for anyone but the founders) or crafting and selling homemade things (which surely can't make enough to live on) when people say they run their own business from home to be around for the children, but this must be wrong!

Childminder is the only other business I can think of which a lot of people do from home - but I think most childminders say "I'm a childminder" not "I run my own business from home" - perhaps I'm wrong and it's a euphemism for anonymity, which is understandable.

Just very approximately in general terms what sort of profitable businesses do you do, if you run your own business from home?

A friend of mine has a cattery in her (quite large) back garden.

A neighbour is a professional dog walker.

I’m a headhunter. Most of my work is done on email and calls. I travel into central London once or twice a week to meet candidates and clients.

Cattery makes sense! I suppose with a dog walker or as a head hunter as a sole trader there's a technical difference between being self employed and running a business... I suppose I am forgetting all the occupations which I'd have thought of as a self employed XYZ but would equally or more accurately be referred to as running a n XYZ business.

Catering.

Ah yes, catering makes sense too! Illegal where I live unless you have an entirely seperate catering kitchen, but obviously not in the UK!

Digital marketing, building websites and graphic design. Entirely from home although I occasionally go to meetings with clients.

Make and sell glass art.

Events organiser.

I started off with just cleaning (other peoples homes obviously ) but I now do ironing and laundry from my own home.

Current have a business where husband is a contractor. But will be both doing from home writing technical manuals for components that go on aircrafts. I'm still learning the programme as it will be a great side income for me while still being available for my daughter and my part time work as a youth worker does not pay great but I can still do the work alongside the manual work

I sell on Amazon using FBA. I sell around 100 items a day so make a reasonable living.

Two businesses run from home, of sorts. A large scale agri-contracting business and a start-up marquee hire business.

My mum is a couture dressmaker and works in the second bedroom of their house. It has a separate entrance so clients don’t go in the rest of the house. It meant I had the box bedroom as a kid though!

I'm a voiceover artist. Work about 6hrs a week atm with toddler DS who I also look after full time (I.e no nursery/childcare for him) and make about £20k a year. Mainly due to the years I put in before DS was born though. Took me a good few years before I made any proper money doing it and I was already a trained actor in the industry.

Software developer

This is a fab thread! I want to start making art prints to sell but just need to dedicate the time and energy outside of full time work. Also interested in amazon selling

I write CVs for a living and do mock interviews with people by phone.