Please help - I need a job I can do from home.

[meanieleanie]

Sorry to abuse AIBU in this way. I have found out I'm going to lose my job soon.

For various reasons, I really need to find something I can do from home but I have no idea where to start or what I could do but really need an income of about £1000 a month.

My skills/interests:-

I have a law degree but am not a solicitor
I am good with data analysis
I like beauty and fashion
I'm quite shy when I first meet people
New places scare me but I'm getting better
I lack confidence
I'm good at writing/grammar
I'm not good at tech stuff

Any ideas whatsoever for some kind of self employment I might be able to do from home?

@Watson - please could you PM me too. Thank you!

Me too please @WatsonCat

Right so Watson has worked hard to build up a business which she's doing well at...and the "pm me hun" crew are expecting her to share her secrets and methods, probably damaging her own business in the process?

Piper

In yours own words

Read the thread

WatsonCat

@MamaRaisingBoys feel free to PM me and I can tell you how I started up etc

piper, as you so kindly said earlier RTFT.

This is a thread specifically for sharing ideas and how to get into a job that OP can do from home.
Watson said if someone wanted more info she could PM them, and so people are naturally asking.

Not everyone of those will be suited to the idea, so why not share some insider knowledge ?

Not everyone is so insecure about their business succeeding that they need to shoot anyone interested in it down with a ‘don’t expect a hand hold or guidance, research yourself!’

Legal ombudsman has home based complaint reviewers

Whoop sorry @wonderandwander I cross posted there x

@Surfinbird

And she’s a copywriter!

I worked for itutor and they only needed a degree + an online TEFL certificate you can start teaching without one for the first while(they send you a list of acceptable online courses). Mine cost me £80 using Groupon.

@Mycatiskillingme

How many hours did you do?

I examine for the International Baccalaureate and also some GCSE and A Level. The IBO pays the best. It is very seasonal work though, and pretty full on while you´re doing it.

Mycat I've thought about trying them, but found it very hard to get info on their base rate pay levels? How many hours did you do and did it pay well? Also was the interview stage difficult?

I do all the admin/bookings for a local Pilates studio.

I WFH apart from the odd meeting at the studio with the owner one every couple of weeks.

I found it by just emailing him and asking if anything was going and it just so happened there was. I was a student at the studio already so he knew me a bit already.

Maybe worth contacting some local businesses to see if anyone is looking for any admin help?

Out of interest, @CherryPalvova what sector are you working in and what roles are your team undertaking?

@watsoncat I’m also really interested in hearing how you got set up, would you mind sending a PM when you get chance please ?

piper do you need a degree for this or would you be able to do copywriting without one ?

Anyone with advice for me - sorry for jumping on ! I'm a bitsa - my experience considers of bitsa this and bitsa that, mainly admin and I have been working for the same institution for the last 15 years. I feel working form home would enable me to have a better life balance. I do a bit of social media work in my current role and will be editing and producing quite a high profile newsletter soon. Am doing an open uni degree (history modules) currently and I find this has helped improve my writing a fair bit. I just don't know what to do next. My aim was to do a professional masters in something like marketing , but I do love doing my degree and the historical study side of it. So should I ..

Carry on with a Masters in History whilst gaining experience in content/digital marketing with the aim of using the two together at some point.

Just take the leap and do a Masters in Marketing.

I'm also scared to take the leap - I can always do admin stuff, no problem but being self employed means no pension, no sick pay etc

Any advice gratefully received!

I understand that proper official minute taking is a very sought after skill. Obviously you have to go out and visit companies / charities etc but if you're in an urban area you wouldn't have to go far.

VA?

Good luck op

@watsoncat could you please pm me too

@watsoncat if you don't mind could you pm me too? I would hugely appreciate it. thanks

I work with a training organisation. I assess/mark mainly on health and social care related courses, but there are a large range of courses available.

The work is classed as self employed and the monthly income fluctuates, but averages £ 1,000

See if there is any freelance going for legal editors at eg Lexis Nexis or Thomson's. Potentially a good fit with your law degree and being good and grammar etc.

With your background and taking into account your son, see if there's any legal jobs going in your diocese, churches are mostly listed so they employ legal services people, also finance staff but I've found everyone is so understanding when I drop everything and run to school, and often positions are part time. I get paid a good hourly rate too. There was no religious requirement btw - they employ people of other faiths even here

Interested to hear about teaching English online. I have an English degree and would be willing to do the CELTA course if it would guarantee an income. How reliable is the work though? I had a look at itutor but it seems to be an American agency? It asks for state registered tutors only to apply.

Poor Watson cat though! She gets clothes and sells them on ebay. It ain'r rocket science. Sell them for more than you buy them for and cover the postage costs and whatever you want for the time on top of it..... how hard can it be? Says she who hasn't done it... but then I can't be bothered so I give all my stuff to the charity shop... It is probably my stuff she is selling. Good luck to her,,, mind you it is probably pyramid selling scheme and half of them will be hooked in by tomorrow and sent 29.99 for a starter pack.... and that is how she makes her money!