Term time only jobs or work from home jobs?

[greenleavesandgreentrees]

hello. Newly back on the job scene after kids and trying to figure out if there are options other than teaching that are term time only or solely work from home options? What careers do you lovely mums out there have that allow you to juggle everything and still earn a good salary? Have any of you started your own business? TIA

Join the Facebook group called The Work From Home Hub, sone good info and ideas

Teaching works well around term times.

Yes. But is really not family friendly.

Working in a university or in a local authority doing something related to schools. Neither is a great option at the moment through with redundancies in both sectors. And not the best money, lots of flexibility through.

If you are a LP with no help then WFH so you can manage some sickness and still work. You could find something that would allow for flexible hours do you can attend a school play/assembly.

Q trying to figure out if there are options other than teaching that are term time only

A Teaching works well around term times.

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I WFH in a flexible job. You still need to use childcare in school holidays and take time off when DC are sick generally but I don't have a commute and I am close to home of autistic DS needs me. If I need to pick DS up I can usually work at the weekend or later another day to make up the hours.

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I've worked for a university for nearly 12 years now and in that time have forged/progressed my career and had two children. I wfh half the week and am in the office the other half. I usually have childcare organised though even in school holidays. Although now my youngest is about to go into y2 am considering reducing holiday clubs to mornings only when I wfh as they become more used to entertaining themselves a bit.

I like that the flexibility works both ways, I work hard and put in extra time if needed and likewise they have been very understanding if I've needed to drop things for a sick child.

The pay isn't amazing but whilst the children are still primary school aged I wouldn't consider changing because I'm a single parent with an exh who doesn't pull his weight.

I used to be a teacher, and left when I had my own child. I did a few different things over the years to try to balance it all. Found the 'perfect' job a few years ago, in terms of hours, with the Civil Service. Part-time, term-time, flexi-hours, wfh. Perfect for me as single parent to a child with additional needs.

what is your skillset? Education? What did you do before?

I work in operations from home and manage my own time/workload/team.

Plenty of jobs offer hybrid/remote work, but you’ll still need childcare in holidays. It’s just more flexible. You can’t work and look after kids at the same time unless they are much older and are your own boss.

I have started working in the local college coffee shop. 9-2.30. Quite like it actually

I'm a lone parent, I used childcare, most people have to. I wfh 3 days a week though.

The term time only jobs are usually shit pay. I've only started getting better money since I've gone back full time, but my DS is 16 now so it's easier.

I do a combination of freelance development and writing for various charities and recently took a permanent, mid-senior role at a charity. In total I'll work three days a week but could increase the freelance if I wanted to. Super flexible and mostly WFH. I block out time to do the school run. As a teacher you have so many transferable skills.
I think my pay is probably equivalent to working UPS as a teacher.

What role is this? Exact role name if possible ?

There is no flexibility in a school/university term time job. Yes you only work 39 weeks pa and it's normally 8.30-4pm but if you need days off for children's illness or any other family event then there is no flexibility, all that is offered is unpaid leave. This is due to no money in education and staff in school cut to the bare bones.

Depends where you work clearly. I work for a university and lots of flexibility here, very easy to work from home at short notice if needed. Most students are only on site around 30 weeks a year and as entire courses are run remotely there is lots of demand for online meetings rather than in person support. Schools are obviously very different which is why I didn't recommend them!

Teaching assistant or learning support assistant..although money is dire

Are you able to share more information on the specific roles in the Civil Service or Universities? Or at least, the sort of roles! Thank you.

Careers advisor at an independent school

For the large majority, teaching is definitely not 8.30-4pm!

School office staff

I’d love to know what your role is with the Civil Service please?

I work full-time in a University - 2 days from home and 3 in office. There isn't really any flexibility with this and it is mosy definitely frowned upon if I ask to WFH more one week. Students might only be in 30ish weeks of the year but most support staff don't work term-time only and are in most of the year!