To think there must be a way to earn £20k a year from home?

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I’m a qualified nurse. Qualified in 2016 and have had 3 jobs since then. Reason being ... I struggle socially, suspected ASD, can’t handle pressure or being around people all day - I just hate my job.
I only need to earn around £20k a year to contribute to the house. Surely there must be something I can do from home? I’m off work atm for the 3rd time this year with stress. I can’t keep doing what I’m doing.

Once you've made the first few £100 out of match betting it's very hard to continue to sustain serious earnings because if you're not extremely careful then the bookies will wise up to what you're doing and will stop sending you offers. It's not a full time career for most people. But if you do it right it's completely risk free. Check out oddsmonkey.

Get a sugardaddy or team up with Pablo Escobars relations and be a mule

Gwynne0, I have looked at that website and am still none the wiser. What exactly do you do? Apart from spending money to buy the instructions.

It's possible to earn that as a freelancer, but going self employed is a learning curve in its own right and you have to allow 6-12 months for your client base to grow to support a reliable wage at that level. The easiest way is to springboard off your existing skills - can you look for 1 to 1 work as a nurse, or a related job with reduced contact, such as overnight supervision?

If it's a social problem Botox etc will still involve meeting people and be without other colleagues for support.

My friend is a nurse and does lab work at the hospital. You could do blood test results, research projects etc. You can hide away in a back office for jobs like that.

Could you do CQC assessing? Out the house for a few days doing an inspection and then approx. 3 weeks working at home doing a report.

Online moderator?

OP did you graduate in 2016? The university where you studied will usually extend their careers service to their graduates free of charge so you can speak to them about career options.

In terms of dog walking, specialising may be the way to go. If you specify that you particularly care for a specific breed, say sight hounds (whippets, greyhounds etc) or toy dogs, you may find that people who have that specific breed are more interested than in a general dog walker.

Some health organisations offer telephone consultations that can be provided from home. It is usually a GP based service but I assume nursing advice could be offered. Although I expect that is not done at home, more likely call centre based.

Alternatively I would suggest working in primary care. GP nurses are scarce and jobs are usually very local as most GP surgeries are.

Gwynne0 messages have been deleted already I see. It’s a scam.

Move into the Pharma industry. Loads of home based roles for medical/nursing professionals. I earn 4x that, fully home based.

A relative of mine became a private nurse for a paraplegic man in his own home. She used to get £150 a night and it was fairly easy money according to her as he was asleep the whole time. This was more than 10 years ago so the money is probably a lot better now!

Don't be too sure about established dog walkers or cleaners! People chop and change all the time for all sorts of reasons.

Working from home, for yourself definitely wont be less stressful by the way. There's a lot of pressure to keep going as a PP said. You are responsible for getting up, getting work done - if you have to have time off it's completely at your own expense. Dealing with clients can be difficult and frustrating, so can dealing with the HMRC! I wouldn't recommend it for someone struggling with mental health/social anxiety. I've been pushed to my limits at times!

I think the stress levels are a personal thing. I have depression which is generally brought on by stress. I find the stress of employment far worse than the stress of self employment. I think for me it's a control thing. When I'm employed there's a lot that's beyond my control, principally bullying colleagues and inept managers. Sometimes it's the colleagues who are inept and the managers who bully. It can be a continual battle making sure you record everything, watch your back, manage your time despite all the stress. It's horrendous. I struggle to get up in the morning and I'm fighting off illness.

Self employment is stressful in a "shit where's the money coming from" way which I find easier to cope with because I can keep taking positive steps which I know will eventually help. I do have four or five distinct skill sets split across two business types that I can sell though so I can move things around and if one business drops, hope the other picks up! But I can happily kick myself out of bed at 6am because I know I need to get stuff done. And I don't have to deal with bullying arseholes.

A friend of mine who is a registered nurse retrained in filler and botox treatments and now works from home/as a mobile cosmetic nurse making excellent money.

Although very modest by the standards of a trained nurse, £20kp.a.is a fair bit given that minimum wage translates to about £12kp.a..

At the risk of stating the obvious, OP needs to avoid all pyramid schemes like the plague.

@anneofavonlee - yep, I was going to suggest some kind of private care role, though many such gigs won't be well paid.

What about working for healthcare at home or similar? Yes you'd still have patients but in their own homes. I've had nurses from there come out to do injections for me. You'd spend a proportion of your time in your car between patients.

My friend freelances writing as a ghostwriter for people. She gets paid anywhere from several hundred to £1k per book, and can knock out a few each month. But then she really is a good writer. If you have other skills you can do things like freelancing, or running your own shop, but things like the latter can take over a year to start taking off. There are ways of doing it, but it's not easy, and not for everyone, and requires a lot of time and input.

Would you consider something like adult fostering? Would you have the room?

CHC assessing seems to be lucrative, 1 hours meetings following a set structure then write a report at home. There seems to be a shift back into CCG lead assessing rather than agencies.
Specialising in aesthetics will require some social interaction but is quick money.
Consultancy for solicitor firms doing CHC appeals, most consultants I've met seem to to work from home for the majority of the time.
Have you considered working in pathology? Less people

Do a Botox course?

quickchat he must be talented though?

Sounds like a great job

@lovetherisingsun how can you write a few books each month? Generally curious, because the Nanowrimo thing usually results in a short novel (often low quality) and takes a month of intense writing. I keep meaning to do it.

I've done matched betting and don't think you can earn anything like £20k a year, or even at all. You could earn maybe £4k in the first month or two, if you had a big enough bank. I like the forums here for help.

There's Appen, working as a web search evalutator which when I did it (before it was Appen, it was Leapforce), it was around £14ph. And I work for AQA as a researcher, the pay is nothing like that though and they're not hiring right now.

I vote for the botox idea. I'd like some please and thank you.