How can I make a comfortable income from home

[Sweetly1]

Hi Ladies I want to find out what ladies are doing to make a comfortable income around their primary school children and still have time for family? Kindly advise?

Where does anyone who hasn’t worked for 15 years get these ridiculous salary expectations from? Sadly I think it’s because they haven’t worked that they have these daft ideas and sense of entitlement as to what they are worth.

interested to know why you bothered to train as a TA if that’s your salary expectation?!

May be try getting several different income streams for flexibility? One could be exam invigilator, tutoring perhaps, part time in a retail store, do market research.

Surely your best bet is being a teaching assistant. How do you think you can get &50k working from home when your previous experience was business admin?

People need to think outside the box. Cynthia Payne made a fair bit of income, and she didn't even do the work herself.

God, imagine the HR though.

You are going to be highly unlikely to find a job in administration paying 50k a year after taking time off and not working for a while.

Its often actually much harder to achieve flexibility if you gave up work at any point. Good jobs are not often advertised with flexible or part-time hours, but often people can achieve it when theyve been in the job for a few years then request a more flexible pattern when returning from a maternity leave.

I don't know anyone who got their well paid, part-time hours job by applying for it as a pt role.... They all previously held the post as a full time role and requested reduced hours after having children.

I work from home in medical admin. We have no office we are all remote. Have done for over 9 years. Couldn't go back to a regular office these days or even a 1-2 day a week expectation in an office. I like being exclusively from home.

There's always tiktok.......

If I were to go down to 5 hours a day, I would make around 50K in my current job, which is WFH. The difference is I work in a specialised profession and have never stopped working (except for maternity leave). To get 50K after a 15 year break and no current skills is a pipe dream.

Looked at this thread hoping for suggestions that meet OP’s requirements ha!
What I have noticed is 2 family members do have no issue at all getting work but in the accounts field - last time getting offered several roles when changing jobs - so this seems less impacted than general admin by the few jobs around and low pay.
The more basic qualified one gets jobs around £30k FTE though and most are now moving back to more time in the office. The accounts practice manager gets well over £50k but full time, visiting clients and office based with some flexibility to wfh including out of hours when required. Neither have had 15 years out and both have relevant qualifications and experience.
Will caveat these wages are oop norf so maybe different where you are, a bit higher maybe.
Anyway that is a long winded way of suggesting looking at accountancy or accounts tech or similar type training - though it won’t drag in the cash/wfh for a while it is a bit more similar to admin and it is also something you could teach if you moved on from TA.
I am really not sure business admin is so useful any more, or at least not without other skills to support it - I look around for general admin roles to do p/t now I’m old, after stepping out of my previous management roles (still not £50k) and they’re hard to find at all - especially p/t or wfh - and I’ve spent a lot of the last 40 years in varying offices and never had issues previously picking up such work easily when wanting to do so.
Guess you could try the civil service but you’d have to probably go in at senior management or with say tax qualifications to start on such a wage - but there’s potential flexibility and (a decreasing) availability of wfh.
I will keep checking in to ensure I’ve not missed anything I really shouldn’t have overlooked in the job market!

You're not going to earn £50k working part time from home with no experience or qualifications.

Sell Younique makeup, hun.

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OnlyFans is probably your best bet. You’d need to do some pretty weird stuff to make that sort of money though.

Completely agree with this. I spent about 5-6 years earning very little after nursery fees and transport were paid, but it was all about keeping my foot in the door in the workplace, keeping myself current, positioning myself treading water so that I was ready to kick start my career once the kids were school age.

And the result of this? A 50k, very flexible job, 60% of the time spent wfh.

It is surprisingly easy to lose touch with reality when you've been out of work with a while. Years ago, DH was struggling with his MH, quit his job and decided he needed a career change. His sister, who hasn't worked in years attempted to be helpful by sending him job adverts for things like a marketing consultant or qualified accountant for £90k+. He explained to her more than once that these types of jobs require years of experience and high level qualifications but she was adamant that because he has a degree and a high IQ he should just be able to waltz into any job he wanted.

Yep, I've made some bad decisions in my life but trekking into and out of London during the toddler years, bringing home basically nothing once childcare and travel were paid, was not one of them and I'm so glad I did it now!

Very unrealistic.

Perhaps the oldest profession in the world might achieve that level for part-time work.

So I wrote that I’m freelance in the property industry. More detail, without being too outing, is: first degree building surveying, second degree green building. I advise people on altering and adapting their buildings.

At the time I felt I was doing everything badly, juggling children, work and study and couldn't see an end in sight. Now I have a 50k job, fully wfh, flexible, great career prospects and lovely independent teenagers.

I know someone who took 20 years out of the work place to raise her children. She had just got back in and is unskilled at NMW.

I am so grateful I struggled through.My marriage has ended and I am the main breadwinner. I would be really stuck if I hadn't kept going. I feel much safer knowing that I have the money and professional reputation to provide for my DC and be there when they need me.

You're not going to earn £50K working part time if you haven't worked for 15 years. You're definitely not going to earn £50K as a teaching assistant even full time.

If you want to work in business administration you should probably brush up on your grammar/proofreading.

But mama, she’s not asking for boss babes she’s asking for ladies and what ladies do from their lady home kindly. Maybe you need some essential oils?

Never going to happen. You’ve not worked in 15 years. I have fully qualified accountants with years of experience fighting for full time remote jobs at 60-70k.
The banks are great for remote working, but you’d be lucky to get a job on 25k with your lack of experience.

I have my own consultancy business - earn between 100 and 120k work full time and from home with occasional travel. DS is in after school care until 4.15pm 2 days per week, otherwise it's 3pm pick up. DH also wfh so we juggle. I do an 8 hour day but often either get up at 5am to get my 8hrs in or do a couple in the evening. Not ideal but I love my work and I love that I can do every drop off and pick up.

Business administration is a worthwhile career to get into, if it includes project management, budget control, quality control, not the mundane tasks that will be run through AI.

unfortunately if your goal is a comfortable job wfh, you'll be overtaken by the bright young grads and apprentices who will be front and centre in the office, getting in front of the big bosses and making a name for themselves .

the only way to fix this is to change your attitude to your career. You either pursue the route you're current studying towards or you will have to sacrifice the big money £50k and go for a call centre role which may be shifts and sometimes offered as a hybrid role. You'll have to make that choice. No way will hard stretched businesses in 2026 pay £50k for someone who disappears after their induction and is only seen on MS Teams.