If you routinely work from home and pull in £32K plus, what do you do?

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I’m a carer for someone who can no longer be left unsupervised. I need to maintain my earnings. Give me ideas, please!

Civil servant here too and don't get chance for lunch 4 out 5 days (5th day is booked out and a call with a work friend) that includes booking a lunch break in my calendar every day.
Regularly start at 7/7.30 and finish at 5/6.30. On back to back calls and none stop. Working remotely hasn't been positive for myself or many many of my colleagues unfortunately.

We are both accountants working for conpanies. DH is on the phone All The Time. I'm not on the phone so much but I have deadlines to meet and other people need me to do my bit so they can then do their bit. As others say, it's not the kind of job you could do as and when it suits.

I WFH and only do my contracted hours but am definitely working in that time. I wouldn't be able to provide care too

Do you claim attendance allowance?

I home schooled my kids during the lockdowns whilst working remotely and it was horrendous, thankfully I had a pre teen and teen but they were ignored whilst I worked or I dealt with them whilst doing several other things at the same time.
Whilst I'm on calls, I'm working on other items, emails, work etc.
It's very very difficult

You want to do two full time jobs ? With WFH ? And you want one to be paid above average ?

I'm a PA in the pharmaceutical industry, it pays well. You absolutely couldn't do it while caring for somebody though, I homeschooled 2x primary DC and worked full time the whole time, it was worse than hell and my DC fortunately are brilliant!

Analyst for a global maintenance organisation, it’s a very fast paced environment which requires attention to detail, wouldn’t be able to care for anyone, fortunately my DC are secondary and didn’t need my help in lockdown.

I have been working from home since March - earn just over £34K for four days as a lecturer. No way I could do it with caring responsibilities. I teach live about 50% of the time (not right now as we are at the end of the semester) then have student meetings, planning, marking, general admin, plus staff meetings to do on top.

My computer beeps non-stop with Teams messages to the point I have a Pavlovian response to that Microsoft advert on TV!

I work for a charity and I'm on £35k (Pro rata) , its not full-on as some other roles that have been described here but I still need to get my work done, meet project deadlines, deliver training, attend meetings with partners. Some days I don't really step away from the laptop at all between 9am and 5pm. Somedays I manage a short walk at lunchtime so there is some flexibility. There's no way I could do my job properly and care for someone. During lockdown when I had children at home it was almost impossible, but at that time there was no alternative. As lockdown eases I'll soon be expected to attend meetings in person and sometimes visit the office.

You could read through a ton of posts from people telling you how busy their WFH jobs are and how they never get a minute to themselves blah blah.

Or you could short circuit all that and ask yourself:

1. What qualifications and experience do I have?

1. Is it realistic for me to change careers?

1. How likely is it that I will land a job paying > £32k where I can care full time simultaneously? (Spoiler: not very)

Used to work as a Senior Web Architect - £250k

Husband earns more than that, but has a PhD in a very specific area and would def. not be able to be a carer as well, I am a sahm because his job is so intense.

Civil service. DWP

What do you do now?

Surely they must meet a criteria for formal care to be provided by the local authority if they are unsafe to be unsupervised?

The other option is go into a higher paid job and hire a carer. Or a higher paid job if possible part time and pay a carer part time.

Data Analyst. But I need 100% concentration to do the job and certainly couldn't be a carer at the same time. Even having my independent teenagers in the same room doing their own thing would be too distracting.

OP, look into whether you would be able to claim the carer's element of Universal Credit rather than Carer's Allowance as it has different eligibility rules - I've known people who didn't qualify for Carer's Allowance but did qualify for Universal Credit Carer's element

Civil servant.

I'm a chartered accountant (employed not self employed). I earn around 55k but I've always wfh for almost 20 yrs. my workload can be insane and until recently when dd went to high school and DS started walking to and from primary (yr4) I had solid wraparound in place 8-5.30.

Lockdown and schools closing almost killed me.

@Ugzbugz

Corporate bullshit....

What kind of care would your loved one need? Some of these responses are very harsh. Many of us will end up being carers at some stage in our lives.

The civil service is very flexible and you could for instance do 2.5 days over five to allow time for caring. Perhaps in addition you could buy support in eg carers, cleaner etc.

As pp said there may be the option to get direct payments so you don't have to change your job or lose hours. Have you spoken to the social worker?

I don’t know why posters are leaping into the thread to name their profession, their salary and how very very busy they are.

Ignoring the OP’s question in favour of talking about themselves.

How likely is it that the OP can become a chartered accountant overnight? Or a solicitor? We know nothing about her qualifications and skills. The chances of her being in those professions already are low, and she’s unlikely to have three years available to study on a training contract. Those responses are unhelpful.

I'm an IT Service Delivery Manager. But there's no way I could do the job and care for someone else too. My dad recently had a heart bypass, and I worked from his house so I could help him. I managed it, but it was difficult and I knew it was only for a few weeks and my boss knew so cut me some slack.