What can I do from home with my skills?

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I'm looking for part-time work which I can do from home, preferably within school hours. I have an English degree which I've never used - I've always worked sales / customer service type jobs and was made redundant last year.

I have been doing some academic marking (essays and orals) for a friend - she prepares ESL students in another country for the exams they take to become English teachers. I've loved it but the upcoming academic year is not an exam one, so there's unlikely to be much work. This is the kind of thing I would love to find elsewhere.

Proofreading seems like an obvious choice but from what I read it's a saturated market and difficult to get into without specific experience.

Online English tutoring to Chinese children initially sounded interesting - you need a degree and a basic TEFL qualification which I could do online, but I'm not sure I'm cut out for acting like a children's TV presenter which seems to be what the companies look for.

Does anybody have any ideas?

A and GCSE English tuition online? Find an agency that offers it and have a chat with them?

Are you prepared to do some training? You could get into learning design/instructional design and create education content.

Could you tutor? It's a good wage, even if you had 2-3 students/week you'd bring in a decent side income and hopefully enjoy it. I have a friend that has 4 students/week and brings in 30/hour so 480/month if they each do an hour, but a couple do two. She really loves it. About 1/2 her students are adults trying to go back to get qualifications, she gives them a better rate and absolutely loves seeing reach dreams their younger selves could never have imagined would be possible.

I agree with your assessment of online teaching for those companies.

Another idea too is when covid allows there are places that have volunteer literacy teachers to help often very vulnerable people with learning difficulties that were never addressed, become literate. Nice way to give back but also may get you some experience.

Academic writing tutor? I had a 1:1 virtually with one yesterday as I'm doing a PT masters and it's been a while since I've done academic writing. He does 50 min sessions and said he has 20ish students a week.