To return to maths tutoring after a long gap

[Neome]

In the past I taught and tutored maths over a wide age and ability range but for a variety of family reasons stopped all teaching over 10 years ago. I have studied even more maths since, just for the love of it, and took a break from the OU MSc when DS was born prematurely.

He's now heading towards school age and my current working pattern, which involves us being away from home regularly, will become impossible.

WIBU to deliver flyers/put up ads locally offering maths tutoring from (my) home?

I feel nervous when I think about going back to tutoring because of associated bad memories of the family situation when I stopped but it was a long time ago and had nothing to do with my love of maths or of teaching.

Unfortunately I don't have a PGCE (I had to defer at the last minute and the course closed before I could return) so supply teaching has never been an option.

Would only tutoring on set evenings be workable, assuming the money stacked up? Or do people expect weekends and any evening they like?

You can do whatever you want, however the less flexible you are when you're starting out the longer it will take to get established. If you're good and you've had pupils from all the local schools, chances are you'll be able to fill whatever slots you decide to make available pretty my easily. It does take a bit of work to get to that point.

Exam times all bets are off-I worked every evening until 9pm, Saturday mornings plus lots of daytimes too (a level pupils with timetable gaps abs GCSE people on study leave). I don't go away for Easter or half term because there's so much work on. It's fine to take a random evening/weekend off as long as you're generally reliable.