To find a job that suits your lifestyle..............

[Rainbow1901]

I've been thinking about this as I was made redundant last year and now semi-retired, I am at home looking after one grandchild for three days a week and two others after school a couple of days a week. This leaves me free a couple of days a week and a few hours in the evenings which I would quite happily work from home if only I could find something that is flexible enough.
When you look on Indeed and similar - they want full time or rigid part-time which wouldn't work for me. But having experienced the ineptitude of some businesses and departments over the past year would love a job that lets me investigate and update business records, do a little research, just working in the background to make someone else job easier and more efficient say the DWP or pensions, or even using my financial background to reconcile purchase and sales ledgers to get money back into businesses who are too busy with day to day stuff. Or do Health and Safety checks cos I have a NEBOSH qualification too.
I can dream............................. Any suggestions? But randomly throwing it out there - because someone might have the answer!! 🙂

Could you start your own business doing one of the things you enjoy? Small businesses would probably be very grateful for someone to come in and review H&S.

Our industry is crying out for fire door inspectors. You can do a FIRAS qualification, which is definitely less taxing than the NEBOSH. Because we need access from working people to their front doors, evening work would be an advantage rather than a disadvantage!

Yes I was going to say can you approach businesses or put an advert in local magazine.

Set up your own Consultancy - as long as you feel you can market and sell your services.
I did it for years but panicked during Covid and went into employment. It was ok and paid holidays were nice but I left last month and went back into Consulting. I am earning more and working less, much happier not being pulled into unnecessary meetings and dealing with corporate bullshit.
I did have a good network though and was pretty confident I could find work quickly

Echoing the point made by LBOCS2 –

Due to the overhaul of fire-related legislations and the “golden thread” created since Grenfell, fire protection and smoke extraction related jobs have exploded over the least couple of years and will no doubt continue.

Good luck!