To think there must be a way I can make £600 a month from home??

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I am a qualified nurse and I hate it. Staff get treated like shit from both “colleagues” and patients. Yesterday I had a “straw that broke the camels back” moment.

I got to work at 8am. Switched on my computer to see that someone had “popped” a 45 minute appointment into a 10 minute slot at the end of my shift. I was on shift until 12pm, this appointment was “popped” into the 11:50am slot.

I called the manager and said I couldn’t do it it as I had a GP appointment at 12:45pm. It was the only appointment I could get. I was told “well there is nothing I can do about it, you’ll just have to do your best”. I missed my appointment. Now I can’t get another one for at least 3 weeks. I feel like an absolute clown. There I am ensuring that patients get their appointments and when it comes to my health I’m told “tough shit”.

I have anxiety, ADD and Autism. I’m really not coping anymore. Last week a patient went ape shit at me as HE’D misplaced something and apparently I should have foreseen this and stopped it happening. My heart is just not in this. I’m tired, I’m annoyed, I’m getting bitter.

I don’t feel like my mental state is compatible with working with the public. I only need to make £600-£700 a month. Surely there is something I can do from home that would make this much??

I would have just said back 'I need to go to the appointment' and let the chair know at the start of the meeting or excused myself and left the meeting at the appropriate time. If you cave they push and push and push you.

Where are you OP

Private nursing might be an option, either working in a private hospital or for an agency. If you are in London many Arab families hire private nurses when their loved one is in hospital, so grandma will be in a private hospital, cared for my the nurses who work in the hospital, their will be a maid to help dress and wash and a private nurse to do, well, not much but any nursing the hospital staff are not doing. You might change the odd drip.

I have relatives who are or were nurses, one worked in a prison another for Rolls Royce, the factory that builds aircraft engines, one owned an old people's home, you have to have a qualified nurse to use the name 'nursing home'.

Assessors for the DWP are usually nurses, the Blood service needs nurses, GP surgeries also need nurses.

It would be such a shame to not use your skills.

You could also tutor, possibly from home. I've done a few years supply teaching and mostly I spent my time teaching the BTEC unit 'Anatomy and Physiology' because so many colleges / schools don't have people to teach it.

Why does it need to be from home? Whereabouts in the country are you?

@vacantgob you know you need a qualification fro that right? We might be badly paid but we do need to be qualified 🤨.

@LadyCatStark I think it depends on the LA and the school. Not always a prerequisite - I know a couple of TAs that got the jobs straight from other professions.

Be very clear that the person booking in a 45 min appointment to a 10 min slot was utterly failing the care of that patient. Demand control of your diary rather than an apparently untrained member of staff.

Do you have space for a treatment room at home? Could you train in Profhilo? Botox if you can do a prescribers course too.

There might be some expert witness work available for nurses?

Acting as a virtual PA.

Working for pharmaceutical or insurance companies might be possible from home?

I don’t know if any 111 calls can be taken at home?

Oh - Botox is the best idea. You’d probably earn a fortune for minimal work.

Botox is a terrible idea! If you hate working with the public and have anxiety becoming self-employed and leaving yourself open to litigation is a shocking idea. Imagine the complaints you'd had to deal with if something went wrong.

If you start at 8 and have appointments are you some sort of practice nurse/ANP? Would you consider ward work? A couple of bank shifts a week would get you that sort of money and you wouldn't be committed to a ward/manager, without having to retrain.

I was also going to say expert witness or medico-legal work, if that suits your skills?

A friend of mine was a nurse for many years. She now works for an insurance company assessing medical claims. She still has the odd bad day but nothing like when she was working for the NHS. She loves that it's 9-5, Monday to Friday with Christmas and bank holidays off.

Could you not just do NHSP/other agency? Pick when you want to work, for better pay.

Hi

You could be a claims handler for a private health insurance company with your medical knowledge.

[quote LadyCatStark]@vacantgob you know you need a qualification fro that right? We might be badly paid but we do need to be qualified 🤨.[/quote]
What qualification do you need to be a TA? My sister is one and certainly has no qualification. Nor should they expect one considering she is paid minimum wage

I'm a TA with a child with SEN and don't have a TA qual 🤔

Have you looked into tutoring online?

I would Datix that and also put in a call to your Union rep. Totally unacceptable way to run a clinic. Plus if it puts your own health at risk they are health and safety issues. But also, put it all in an email to your manager (whom you spoke to on the day and said you had to suck it up). Create the paper trail. Copy in others who might need to be alerted how poorly things are being run. Phrases like "just to confirm that I was asked to do xyz on abc", "I was unhappy at how this was handled as it compromises my health and essentially forces me to do unpaid overtime". Don't take it lying down. There is no need.

But probably, look to move. Right or wrong you will piss people off and cultures are hard to shift. Shouldn't have happened to you though.

Is Bank work an option? You could just pick up shifts that suit you. I don't think you'd need work stupid hours to make £600 a month.

Part-time retail would also pay you that kind of money, but you'd probably need to be willing to commit to at least one weekend day each week, plus an evening if you do supermarket work.

There's also call-centre work going on at the moment - lots of that is working from home. Or you could do something totally different - I do dog walking work about 20 hours per week and bring home £1200 a month roughly from that. I mostly work mornings and I'm done by lunchtime the vast majority of the time.

I know a qualified nurse who does 'aesthetics' treatments from home, think lip fillers and botox. Makes quite a bit of money from it as far as I can see.

@MrsPerfect12

Does it have to be from home? You could make £600 PM working in Tesco.

Many supermarkets are only doing 15 hr contracts now and you have to hope there is overtime available. Not a hope of clearing £600 a month if no overtime.

I earn just over £800 a month working 22 hours a week as an online shopper for a supermarket

The hours are unsociable but it does leave me the rest of the day to do things with plus having a quick kip in the day time when kids are at school

@vanillandhoney - how did you get into dog walking? are you self employed, or working through an agency?
Sorry, a bit off topic, but it's something I'd love to do.

Retail/supermarket jobs are going to be flooded with applicants right now. I sent a picker job that had just been listed to a relative who is being made redundant, and by the time he'd clicked on the link the next day, the job had been taken down. There's about to be 7000 ex-M&S staff on the job market, which is why I think you'd be better off doing something using your nursing skills which are highly in demand.

HMRC are taking on and so are lots of the communication companies and financial call centres.
There's quite a bit when you look, especially if you look at nearest city or large town.