Ideas for working from home

[Ladolcevida]

Hi
I have 2 children aged 3 and 9. I would like to set myself up working from home. I am well educated and worked in a range or organisations prior to having my children. I have a range of skills including Accountancy qual, languages and more. Do any of you have ideas for flexible home based work that earns more than pocket money?! Thank you!

Home based work is notoriously difficult to arrange because many of the companies advertising it are paying starvation wages.

If you can write to a professional standard, look on UpWork for jobs as a Virtual Assistant...but it's a long road towards earning an actual wage.

If working from home was easy lots of people would do it, most of the option are dodgy pyramid schemes or selling door to door like Avon. The most you can hope for is a few pounds a week doing online surveys

Matched betting

Oh please. Matched bloody betting. That's not a valid job!

It’s not a job but a perfectly valid way of making an income from home that is tax free and possible to make way more than a job from it.

If you hve an accountancy qualification, why not set yourself up to do book keeping?

A small business with not a lot of office space will let you work from home doing book keeping/accounts

There's been several threads on this recently.

To work from home in an actual career / job that pays decent money you need a skill set that people are willing to pay for.

Otherwise you are looking at MLM and won't make any money from it.

Look at the major corporates, BT, Microsoft, Cisco, HP etc. They offer flexible working in finance, management, sales, project management.

However you still need wrap around childcare on working days, As when at home you are working and expected to be flexible, travelling to offices for meetings, team get togethers, project kick offs etc but pretty standard week would be majority wfh.

Look at the companies that you have worked for before?

What are your child care arrangements for your children while you are working at home ?

You don’t need to work for someone else - you can work for yourself from home if you’re that way inclined. I’ve done it myself.

It sounds like you could do a range of things. Accountancy - books? Languages - tutoring? Both?

Tutoring can earn you at least £20 per hour, if not more. I used to tutor English from home. It was great :-)

Don’t forget about how much technology has opened working options as well. Skype is fab :-)

Gumtree has been my most useful advertising tool.

Good luck!

Thank you for all your comments. Agree that book keeping or tutoring are the obvious ones with my back ground. Elenacampana - you have made it happen and thank you for your encouragement.

What is this obsession with working from home!??? Is it code for I can’t be arsed to have to leave the house!!?? Why can’t ppl just apply for jobs and if that job has a benefit of allowing them to work from hone then brilliant...if not then GO to work

I recently emailed a local bookkeeper for help setting up my Quickbooks and she charges $160 per hour. I believe she's about $50 an hour for basic bookkeeping on a regular basis.

Worth looking into.

I wfh doing lots of digital and design things, but I do have over 25 years experience which helps.

This really highlights how we are not set up for working parents. No need for mean comments. Here we have a qualified person who needs to balance taking care of her children with earing a living.

We need to get better than suggest she does MLM

Are we reading the same thread? People have suggested bookkeeping, tutoring, looking at some large employers, VA jobs. I see no one here suggesting MLM.

Otherwise you are looking at MLM and won't make any money from it.

Right, because telling someone they won't make any money from doing MLM is absolutely suggesting it is something they should do.

Are the children going to be in school/nursery? Are you just looking for school time hours at home?

My last 2 jobs have been based from home as in my contract states place of work is my home address - though I am out maybe 3 says a week at customer meetings or team meetings, usually not all day. I am a technical support person for a software company and and support the sales guys who are out selling the software. I earn standard IT salary and they earn way, way more and are also based from home so if you have any IT or, even better, IT Sales skills that is something worth looking at. Worth noting though that these roles are senior roles for people who are already established in that industry and most people have worked full time since university age and done their time in 9-5 offices. Also not suitable for people with very young children really as you have to be able to cover potentially 9-5 on any given day so have to have wrap-around care available for primary school kids at a day or two's notice.

Search guardian or indeed with your skills and homeworking

You'll be suprised how many companies now offer it in a role, charities where people work remotely are on the rise too!

Charities are a good starting point with your skills set, there will most likely be some office time each month though
But do take heed that WFH does not mean you can do childcare whilst you work. I WFH 50_75% of the month and I can't manage the holidays without help even with some flexibility in when I work my hours. I have one child younger than your 2 and one child older.

I work from home and it provides amazing flexibility with regards to parenting. I can always manage the school run or pick up a sick child, but I still have to have child care for school holidays.

When dd was very young, I worked so few hours they could be done during naps, but that was still stressful.