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??

Trouble with retail work is that there are very few places that only want shelf stackers and you may find yourself just dealing with the public again; face to face arguments and rudeness and not even being paid very much for the privilege.

Most supermarkets need you to be able to take over a till if they are shorthanded, and unless you are doing the overnight shift, even shelf stacking is going to mean you need to deal with people.

@vacantgob working in a school at the moment is like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. It is very rewarding working with children but so much pressure to fill in the gaps in their learning and rebuild their mental health on top of all the usual expectations of school in non Covid times. The TAs where I work are paid hourly but have been requested to come in early (for no extra pay) to settle the children this week and they also end up staying past their hours. They also have responsibility for the children’s progress in a focus area shared with the teacher (for example reading or phonics) and have been used last minute to cover a class if the teacher is off. I don’t think this is unusual nowadays. To get the most out of being a TA for you, you need to have a passion for working with children.

[quote EveryDayIsADuvetDay]@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.[/quote]
It was a total spur of the moment thing! I was forced out of my old retail job with MH issues, and after loads of online searching, I couldn't find anything so I took up dog-walking! I'm self-employed and set up as a sole trader via HMRC - you don't need any qualifications or anything, though I do have my canine first aid and you'll need insurance, though you can get it for as little as £5 a month.

I make about £300 a week working about 20 hours, which is about 3 hours on weekdays, plus I do an hour group walk Saturday and Sunday mornings. Groups will earn you more money but you need to make sure you pick dogs that you can control and that will get on. Solos are easier but you need to do much more of them to earn the money!

Hope that helps @EveryDayIsADuvetDay - if you have any questions I'll do my best to answer them!

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thanks @vanillandhoney - I looked at it a while ago when I wanted a complete change of what I was doing, but agency roles I saw all involved taking out huge groups of dogs, which sounded like hard work and not a lot of fun for the dogs.
It's something that would fit in alongside other part time work, I'll definitely look into doing it on a self employed basis; now might be a good time with people starting to go back to work.

@EveryDayIsADuvetDay

thanks *@vanillandhoney* - I looked at it a while ago when I wanted a complete change of what I was doing, but agency roles I saw all involved taking out huge groups of dogs, which sounded like hard work and not a lot of fun for the dogs. It's something that would fit in alongside other part time work, I'll definitely look into doing it on a self employed basis; now might be a good time with people starting to go back to work.

No worries!

I've been super busy since mid-August - lots of people heading back to work and in need of a walker, as well as people who've gotten dogs/puppies over lockdown and now have to think through the logistics of leaving them.

I don't do big groups - four is my max but generally it's three, which can still earn me £30 an hour. Tomorrow I have four pairs, so £80 for four hours work, which isn't too bad considering I used to earn about £60 a day for nine hours, and I had a commute on top.

A lot of the "work" is figuring out which dogs will fit together, and it can be tough going out in shit weather too. But I absolutely love my job - I'm meeting two new dogs tonight and I'm ridiculously excited about it

It's really easy for me to say it now.
But you should have refused to see the patient and left for your appointment and rebooked them, or ended the appointment after 10 minutes and rebooked them.
I know it's really easy for me to say this but much more difficult in practice.
Are you able to sit and talk with your manager about what happened?
Do you think it would make a difference to your working conditions?
If not then just quit, otherwise it is worth looking into how you can improve your working conditions.
Is going part time an option? Or doing less hours?

OP. At least the MLM’s haven’t surfaced yet.

TBH I would have a think about what kind of thing you want to do instead, because you could end up quitting your job and fall into something else you equally hate, and the current job market just doesn’t lend itself to people changing jobs frequently ATM.

I’m in a similar position except I’m unemployed and visually impaired so e.g. supermarket work/dog walking etc are not jobs I can pursue, and there is very little admin etc work around. So if there was a way to earn that kind of money I would have jumped on it by now.

Foster carer?
Nanny (if you are prepared to go to the house of the parents each day)?

I work from home but am a lawyer so that is not that easy to get not into unless you do 2 years post grad studying/exams and then find a 2 year training contract so for those with a non law degree it's about 4 years although you will be paid in the last 2 years of those at at least minimum wage up to about £40k in London. I know quite a few doctors who moved into law including personal injury law and their existing skills are quite useful to some law firms. Nurses could be similar because knowledge of the care sector and nursing can be very useful for some law firms with a particular client base.

Practice nurses have it a lot easier than any other nursing staff out there!

Nurse friend of mine went from working in a surgery to working for a company that sent nurses out to do the paperwork on people applying for health insurance. Do you drive ? Don’t know name of company but sure it would come up on google type search