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?

I do Governance Risk & Compliance.

i started as a call centre agent taking orders for a catalogue and moved through Supervisor > Team Leader > Team Manager > Call centre manager. Then moved companies and went into IT Service Desk management which led me to ISO20000 compliance and I volunteered to be the lead in maintaining certification for that. That led me to learning about ISO27001 and I implemented that and got the company certified. I developed a team structure around Governance, Risk & Compliance, got it all approved and budgeted, recruited some people to the team and implemented ISO9001, 14001, 22301, cyber essentials and SOC2 T2.

So now I’m part of the Senior leadership team, head up GRC function, WFH, set my own hours and my salary is more than 4 times what it was 10 yrs ago. I never finished Uni had to leave part way through 2nd year due to personal circumstances, have no professional qualifications and do all my self-learning through books, free online courses, conferences/networking and doing stuff till I figure it out.

Why get a TA qualification if you want £50k working from home? The two don't add up.

A 50k role will have managerial level responsibilities.

It's not midwifery.

For a salary of that size, you need to pursue a career based around your training and skillset, and consider using wrap around childcare.

I'm a nurse, and I do project work for NHS England developing services and undertaking research. I have an awful lot of flexibility in my role and a good salary, but it took me many years of work and training to get here.

Not every 50k role is managerial no…

Not at all.

When I took early retirement 3yrs ago, my salary was £45k and the same role is now paying £50k.
Definitely not a management role, just a specialism which required training & experience.

During COVID we were WFH quite successfully and it was the unnecessary return to the office that made me decide to leave.

@Statsquestion2 @Nourishinghandcream in what industries or sectors please?

I'm not sure I've seen many officer roles in the public / non profit sector that are 50k and not managerial, possibly if you started on a lower salary and work up a pay spine.

In any case OP would have to train and get experience- by the time OP gets to 50k, the desired salary is actually 70k etc. due to inflation.

I earn well over £50k and don't have any managerial responsibilities! Private sector, masters degree, professional qualification, 20yrs+ experience in a STEM based technical role.

Whether the OP comes back or not, this post should be read by all parents deciding whether or not to SAH.

Same 👍

On the contrary, I agree with @TillyTrifle Bit of a harsh with her words, but I largely agree. Some people work very hard in the workplace, and get trained, and acquire extra qualifications, and work their way up the career ladder, and after 10 years in the job they are often still not on the £50K a year the OP is demanding.

Society does not 'f'ing hate mothers,' but expecting to be a stay-at-home-mum for 15 years, and then drop straight into a £50K a year job with fuck-all experience in it, (or qualifications) is farcical. Stay at home mums contribute to society, and they do a valuable job raising the next generation, but it's just insulting to people who have been constantly in the workplace for 2 or 3 decades, racking up experience and qualifications, to suggest a stay at home mum of 15 years should just walk into a £50K a year job.

Whilst I don't want to berate stay at home mums, I have to say once the children are at school, it is NOT a hard life. It's an easy life for many, and I think those who are able to do it should count themselves very lucky. Many women have to pretty much do everything they do, AND go to work!

And I have every right to say a stay at home mum is an easy life once the children are at school. I have been a stay at home mum (was for 9-10 years,) a part time working mum, and a full time working mum. I can honestly say being a stay at home mum (once the kids were at school) was an easy life.

As has been said though, I was quite glad to start earning my own money again. You make yourself very vulnerable if you are a stay at home mum indefinitely/for many years.

With you, my full time wage before having my son and going to part time was 27k

But you weren’t a working mum to primary aged children. Sounds like you were at secondary age, which is a very different prospect.

You (and others here) sound quite angry about mums, women, working women, sahm. Each choice comes with pros and cons. The poster was asking for job ideas. As I said she will need to adjust her salary expectations but I’m amazed at the anger from ‘working mums’ towards her (how dare she!), the resentment is interesting.

The poster may be out of touch but the massive angry reaction is something else entirely. And I think it’s good old internalised misogyny. I’d explore why you’re so outraged by her ‘entitlement’.

I know so many working mums are utterly on their knees trying to do it all. Work
cultures that don’t acknowledge what having children really entails. Children often pay the price. Children who never have a parent at a play or sports day. Parents feel crap
about themselves.

Anyway, I hope the Op finds something that works for her.

Yes that's a hugh wage for 15 years not working and a recent TA course. You could use it work as a TA so it fits in with school times?

She only sound angry at someone who thinks that there are lots of 50k a year jobs for someone with no experiences or skills but those of normal life

So, you haven’t worked for 15 years in a job, and not updated your skills, but want to earn 50k for term time school hours?

To be honest you are either being unreasonable and unrealistic or you are looking for information about how to get into sex work?

Well that would be my guess?

Calling this internalised misogyny completely misses the reality many working mothers live with.
There are countless women who spent their children’s early years exhausted and split in two. Racing between drop-off, pick-up, and work, not out of choice or false consciousness, but to keep their skills relevant, protect their earning power, and continue contributing to family finances. Many do it precisely so they can stay on the greasy pole long enough to earn a modicum of flexibility later on.
To ignore that struggle, or to suggest it was unnecessary because £50k, genuinely flexible jobs are supposedly abundant, is wildly unrealistic and deeply insulating.

Learn clinical coding and work remotely. 🙂

You are right with everything you say. I have to say I get annoyed with women who stay at home, unmarried and often smugly say they couldn’t possibly leave their children in childcare at a young age, partner supports all of it and then partner leaves. I have two friends who have done this.

MN is full of them wondering where it all when wrong.

Based on this, in your shoes I'd set up a business as a self employed PA. Reach out to any contacts you have for remote PA work/typing etc and advertise. I dont know them off the top of my head but have heard of companies you can log on and get work from. Websites like fiver too might help.

We literally threw money at childcare to enable me to work full time. Now have a good pension, am working part time at mid 60’s which is my choice.

I have two relatives who have done the opposite. Now stuck in relationships they don’t want to be in but financially are tied to someone they don’t really want to be with.

What courses and companies would you recommend

Get real. If it was possible to make £50k per year working from home around small children and with limited relevant experience, we’d all be doing it. Clearly we aren’t all doing it, so there’s your answer.

I suspect the OP won’t come back but where on earth has she got the idea that £50k is the salary she is aiming for.

Sadly it’s an example where when you leave the workplace you lose touch with reality. If I was interviewing someone like this it would be clear early on that she is out of touch, would need significant training and support and harshly I would just look for someone more in touch with the real world