These mystery part time jobs perfect for in school hours don’t exist where I live. Big city, plenty of places to work you’d think, but every job listing (part time or otherwise) demands flexibility, weekend hours, shift work. I don’t see how a single parent without access to childcare would work those jobs or squeeze them in around school hours.
As for starting a business as self employed, do people understand how hard that would be to navigate on UC while building up a client base? Or even just finding the start up costs for something small, even a cleaning business? Transport costs to get to multiple clients? The examples of self employed positions someone posted above are so out of reach for the majority that it’s a joke to suggest them. Childminding? Well that’s cheap and easy to set up, isn’t it! Vague working from home jobs? What jobs? Care assistant work that doesn’t require travel, access to a car, or long shifts? (As an aside, every care assistant or HCA position advertised round here wants own transport, flexibility and full day shifts).
People just don’t seem to be able to consider that not everyone is the same as them ie some people don’t have the experience, qualifications, money, family support, etc that they do when they make these random suggestions.