Work from home jobs for new 'ish' mums

[Mhmhb]

Hi, with the financial pressure upon us, I was wondering if there are any suitable wfh jobs.
As a family we're not in a difficult situation, husband works full time, and we've bought our house, pay mortgage, bills, groceries etc. And not much left to enjoy. Not eligible for UN and I wouldn't like to use either.
Now that my child is almost one, I hope to take her places, plan activities, play dates etc. But I'd like to do this with the extra money, looking for a part time income about 12 - 16 hours is more than enough.
Was previously working in Admin and I have plenty of experience, reckon their are jobs available which allow working with a baby at home?
Thank you

who will look after your baby while you work though? you will need childcare..

You can't work from home and look after a baby at the same time.

No job I've ever seen allows you to wfh at the same time as caring for a baby, at least as a regular thing. I wfh full time - but I'm expected to focus on my work, not a child. There were some exceptions during lockdowns but I think you need to look for something at times when there is someone else to mind the baby.

You reckon wrong

I had no option but to work from home with a baby, it's not practical at all and the boss was noticing that not 100% was going into the job mistakes etx I wouldn't recommend

I think it would be fairly difficult to wfh and look after a one year old at the same time, assuming your DH is home in the evenings though you could always work a couple of hours in the evenings or around nap times.
I haven't came across many wfh jobs that are that flexible with what hours you do but there must be something out there.

Is there anyone else in the house at the times you plan to work? You could try market research, many places offer payment by the call/questionnaire completed so you could make calls when she's napping or playing with someone else to distract her but calls are monitored and you'd likely be fired if you were distracted or you could hear a child in the background.

If you have a WFH agreement, it's usually in the contract that you're not also caring for young children at the same time.

Once established, employers might accept older primary upwards playing independently, watching TV etc upstairs, but it's very unlikely that an employer will allow you to be in sole charge of a baby/toddler at the same time as 'working', nor would you want to. I read about a few tragedies in the last couple of years, where children came to harm, because their parent was on a call and unable to give them their full attention.

Could you work around your DH's work, so he can look after the baby?

you wont even gt to interview stage but i suspect you won't reveal a kid in the equation...

You seem quite naive OP. If a job existed where people could stay at home with a baby and earn money wouldn't the majority of mothers be doing these jobs?

childminding? you could do that...

Childminder is an option although costly to set up. My friend is a copywriter and she chooses her own hours. So could do evenings. Some telesales jobs are from home with shift pattern .

You cant work with a baby at home unless you want to go down the MLM route, which is never advisable.

I think your best bet would be to start your own small business so that you can do it flexibly around nap times etc.

What about selling things on eBay? Can you make anything that you could sell on Etsy?

Alternatively could you do paid work in the evenings or at weekends when you've got childcare? Eg a shift or two a week in a local pub?

Clerking can be good. Clerk to governors in schools etc.

you will need to sort childcare. I wouldn't employ someone attempting to WFH with a child around. Ridiculous.

Could you get a job doing evenings/nights when your partner is home?

I know someone who did a night shift at Iceland 2 days a week when her DC were small

You need something that can be done outside of your husband’s working hours because wfh does not mean you do not need child care. I’ve been wfh since dd was born and she is now a teen. So has DH. The few times we had to do without child care were because of sickness or emergencies and work definitely suffered, but since they were isolated incidents that even in-office workers have to deal with it was tolerated.

Have you looked at the £10 a day thread OP? It has a good long list of thing you can do from home. I’ve been on clickworker before and get about £40 a day working on their micro tasks.

I love how people think WFH is some kind of cushy number.

very hard to wfh with a toddler- actually not too hard with a baby imo, but toddlers- nope.

I would look at perhaps a days work on the weekends if you husband isnt working.

if i was on the phone dealing with a company and i heard a kid in the background then i would actually complain to that company. no way can you do that

so unprofessional of employers if they resort to, and allow, this

if i was on the phone dealing with a company and i heard a kid in the background then i would actually complain to that company. no way can you do that really? i heard it a lot in the pandemic- but by all means try and get parents fired.

Lots of employers won’t mind- particularly if you look at tech and remote only companies, and are ok with being hired as a contractor/casually.

A family member in tech who hires people all over the world is completely fine with people looking after their kids in the work day, as long as the work gets done. Lots of them work during naps- or at night when a partner/spouse takes over, or they are in bed.

You will need to look for employers that market themselves as flexible tho

I love how people think WFH is some kind of cushy number well it's cushy is a sense that Im not paying the £14 a day train fare or the £79 a day nursery