Any jobs from home during school hours?

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I know I shouldn’t post this here and I might get lynched but hey, desperate times and all that. I’ve NC’d for this too, sistine chapel, penis beaker etc.

I can’t find a job. I have a child who is now at school but it’s a rural school with no wraparound care (no breakfast or afterschool club) and no local childminders due to the location. I’ve tried everything to find childcare but I can’t. I’ve looked for jobs locally during school hours and there aren’t any and online stuff but the hours are inflexible or needing qualifications I don’t have.

What can I do?! We’re okay financially at the moment but I want to work, I want my own money and independence. DHs wage is okay and he doesn’t withhold money from me, I have access to it all but I feel very guilty every day about not contributing and about any spending and I spent all my personal savings on house renovations so if anything happened and I had to leave him there’s only joint savings wrapped up in an ISA I can’t get to. I’ve started having nightmares about realising we have no money and I’ve spent it all even though this has never happened and I’m quite careful, I think it’s the guilt.

I look every day but it’s been months and nothing. Not even Tesco or Sainsburys in the town nearby have jobs. And the school isn’t hiring unfortunately.
Does anyone know of work I can do during school hours from home? Not MLMs obviously, I don’t want Tropic or Avon thank you. I’m not massively qualified in anything but have experience in admin stuff. I used to work in retail and then had an office job. Just part time for now would be good.

Thank you.

These are the current WFH vacancies from the company I work for, I work full time from home. Most of the company is completely WFH. They're a really good company to work for.

https://www.tp.com/en-gb/locations/uk/careers/

Thank you I will look

Do you have any digital marketing/SEO/ Social media skills? Lots of digital roles are remote. Have a look at the organisation Digital Mums for training.

I actually did a digital marketing course last year in the hope of finding a job and still haven’t got one - I’ve been told competition is very fierce and it’s all new to me.

My friend started an ironing and cleaning business (just her working) and had lots of work - she doesn’t live rurally though.

Living rural and with PPs idea in mind have you considered dog walking or equestrian services like clipping, rug washing? Cleaning, pub jobs, pet taxi, driving instructor…

I couldn’t do pub hours as DH works away around but country. What’s a pet taxi?! I have thought about dog walker but there are a lot around, we are very close to a large town. But I have thoughht about it a lot. Maybe I should just get insured and see. I know nothing about horses!!

If you’re rural enough not to have Uber and you became the only driver you would rake it in. And pick your own hours. You would just have to pay out for the license in council areas and your CRB check.

How rural is rural? Are there schools nearish with wraparound? TBH I’d find it easier to move schools to one with wraparound provision so that you have greater flexibility to work. We have families at our school who don’t go to their local school and come to ours instead, because it’s got reliable wraparound care.

I also thought that the government had mandated all schools to have wraparound provision by next year, but I could be misremembering.

Uber doesn’t exist in my part of the country yet. Not sure if it’s coming at some point.

Try the Work from Home hub on Facebook.

I do some work from home for Telus. It’s minimum wage but you can literally do it whenever you want! If you google Telus assessor or analyst for UK it should come up. It’s pretty boring but they do pay on time and it’s good for extra cash.

It’s nearish to a town but I hadn’t considered moving him schools but I guess we could do this. I’ll have a look at things.

Thanks I’ll look

How do you get the U.K. roles to come up? They all seem to be US based. I tried looking on location but none in England.

https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs?keywords=Administrator&workplace=remote

What do other parents at your school do. There must be options , every single child in the school won’t have a Stay at home parent

have you considered becoming the childcare? Take a first aid course and a couple of online childcare related courses, and do before /after school childcare and holiday childcare

No UK jobs unless you’re Welsh speaking! I’ll keep an eye on it though. Thank you

I don't know many but the few I’ve asked are stay at home parents, have relatives round to look after the kids or have remote jobs I’m not qualified for.

I could I guess! I have no experience or qualifications of working with children, but I suppose I could learn!

Does this one work? Edited - No, just checked. 🙄You need to type in united kingdom into the countries search.

https://www.tp.com/careers/job-opportunities/?workfromhome=True&search=uk

I also thought that the government had mandated all schools to have wraparound provision by next year, but I could be misremembering.

They are suggesting schools offer 30 minutes 'free' childcare for parents before school by the end of this government. BUT, they are only funding schools 60p per child per day which isn't enough to pay food plus staffing, so lots of the early adopters have pulled out. I wouldn't guarantee this will be in place unless the funding offered changes.

It will let me scroll to it but then nothing happens or shows up! So frustrating.

Edit - have now got it to work but only one vacancy but will keep the page saved. Thanks :)

Yeah keep looking as when they do come up I think they have lots of spaces!
Try this one. When I joined it was for a Maps analyst but today I was doing music tasks. I haven’t done maps for ages now. So I’d take the description with a pinch of salt.

https://jobs.telusdigital.com/en_US/careers/PipelineDetail/Media-Search-Analyst-English-UK/21542

Could you set yourself up as a childminder to do before and after school pick-ups for your child’s school, if there’s nobody there providing that derive currently?

You could also run holiday clubs for the children you look after on chosen weeks.