At risk of redundancy. Is it possible to do tutoring?

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As the title says, I’ve been placed at risk of redundancy and I’m trying to adjust to the idea that my career as an academic might come to an end soon.

Im a historian so I’m struggling to figure out what employment options there are for me—there’s nothing obvious. I work in late 20th-early 21st centuries/social justice areas.

I think some tutoring would be OK as I can work from home and part time. I can’t see much demand for tutoring in
history so I’m wondering whether there are other ways of doing it. I saw a job tutoring in university study sills a while ago, which could work.

Does anyone have experience of this kind of work? Or if there are other options I’ve missed? I’m in the middle of no where with no employment opportunities so any work would need to be remote. Ideally something I can do part time.

I did tutoring a few years ago as a side gig - it was fine... but might take awhile to build up enough work to replace a full time salary. The hours you can do can be more limited if your tutoring children/teenagers... weekends and afterschool.

Its not brilliant money, I stopped because I found I was having to do quite a lot of lesion prep thats not paid. Success depends on the subjects you do... you won't get many clients for certain subject. I was doing GCSE and A'Level Maths, Science and Geography.. I spread myself a bit thin by doing two many subjects in an effort to get more clients. The downside was I'd be often covering topics I was rusty on - so I'd be doing a lot of prep to relearn things ahead of sessions.

If I was going to do it again (and I might have too). I'd resist the tempation to do too many different things, stick to my strongest subject (the sort of thing I can do with minimal prep) and accept that it may take longer to build up (get word of mouth)

If your worried about your future the best time to start is now... do it as a side gig - see if anyone does take you up on it. If you can do a GCSE subject you will get more clients... even if its not what you teach at uni... its not impossible to get up to speed.. test it and see if it works... You may hate it. But if you start now and get made redundant in 6 months... you may have 5 or 6 clients by then to cushion the blow.

I'm looking at getting back into tutoring myself... given its interesting times in HE... just to give a bit of extra runway.