How to have an income from home??

[SevenTwoEight]

Would massively appreciate any advice or thoughts on how I could make an income please.
Have one child at school; need to do 845 drop off and 330 pick up. Child can’t do breakfast or after school club due to issues; school day is long enough for them.
Have one young baby at home with me. No regular childcare available from family. Too young currently for nursery. Even when old enough for nursery, any income would need to be enough to cover nursery fees and whatever £ amount leftover be enough to make it all worthwhile.
Can’t go out to work in evenings/night as need to feed the baby.
I have points in the day when baby naps when I’m free and I’m basically free 730pm onwards in the evening (but need to stay at home for the dream feed).
What on earth can I do at home in the evenings to get any level of income? Im happy to pretty much do anything.
Thank you for any ideas.

I am interested in this so will .

What kind of things are you good at, or interested in? Do you have any previous career history that would help?

Based off the limited info in your post it sounds like childcare is one of them. 😊 A lot of working mums really struggle to find childcare that works with longer shifts outside of the typical 9-6. Would you be in a position to do in-home childcare for shift workers? It would require you to be able to manage additional children as well as your own two though, which might not work if your youngest is still a very small baby?

Shorter stints of childcare, advertising babysitting in-home would also be useful for a lot of mums without villages. I've seen quite a few FB posts recently where mums on mat leave are looking for as hoc babysitters so they can go to appointments.

@Dancingcandlestick thank you so much. My career was in collaboration, which may sound bizarre, but basically getting similar companies to communicate with each other and create better services/more profit. Transferable skills, but not exactly a job I can do anymore.
Absolutely happy to do childcare, but like you mention, baby is very young still so probably not quite the right time but can keep it as an option for the future for sure.

Once your baby is old enough then would consultancy/freelance be an option?

Will the children's father be able to look after them at all?

I've had a very full time career working school hours then the rest when the children were in bed.

A ton of transferable skills in that! Do you have an aim of how much per hour you'd like to earn? That rules in or out a lot of work.

Invested in this thread as I was recently trying to brainstorm ways I can stay home when my mat leave is over. I can't think of anything for myself that'd work with my situation (or that I'm brave enough to do) but maybe some might spark ideas for you!

The most limiting part I found is I can't offer any work that requires calls while caring for children, and any calls I could do would be past business hours when they're in bed.

Dog-walking if your baby is fond of buggy naps. People are crazy about their pets these days.

Creating digital products and selling online is something a lot of people try. Canva Pro has a free two week trial, and existing templates that you can customise for invites / printables. You'd then sell the link on Etsy. Cons - over saturated market.

Copywriting is flexible & there's a lot of American companies hiring remotely. Cons - AI has bottomed out the payout on this.

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Selling baked goods is something I've toyed with the most as I love baking. You'd need the kitchen set-up & healthy & safety approved. I follow a local baker who only does drops for special occasions - Fathers Day, Teacher Appreciation, Halloween - and the same design for every cupcake or desert box. They sell out every time. My tiktok algorithm is full of people setting up baking businesses on mat leave but you'd wonder how many are really successful!

If you're any good at writing and can use ChatGPT (I know this is a rip off of creativity, sorry) Kindle Unlimited is a potential as well. Trashy romance novels have a huge market.

If you're willing to do courses, beauty treatments make big money. I'm half tempted to do an eyebrow & lash course.

Some companies hire remote customer service for online queries also. I haven't looked into this recently but I worked in a call centre in college & this was common then.

I registered as an ofsted registered childminder when my kids were small. A 6 week course and a pre- approval visit from ofsted to get started. I used to pick up extra kids from my kids school and look after littles during the day. It was awesome - I was able to pull my baby out of nursery and look after him myself until he went to school. It fit really well around my kids. Now they are older (10 and 12) I am working in a school

NHS 111 is 24/7 and always needs call handlers

Sounds as if you need to work evenings and weekends (with the dream feed ultimately being done by someone else). How about training as a driving instructor? Evenings and weekends are always in demand.

There's some ideas here on boosting income on the money saving expert site
Could you rent your driveway out, do childminding, be a virtual assistant, buy and sell online etc?
Good luck
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/boost-your-income/

Not when she’s looking after a baby!

If you just want some pin money in the next few months try matched betting. It's not long temmrm or sustainable, but you'll make about 4k from it if you do it well.

Hello - it might not be right while you have your baby at home but try this page on Facebook the person who runs it posts remote or hybrid jobs www.facebook.com/share/1Ny5PPEq9X/?mibextid=wwXIfr

I don’t think that’s appropriate work at all. OP needs something less life and death related!

Laundry and ironing service. I’m a domestic cleaner 3 days a week between 9:30 and 2:30 and then have a laundry and ironing service that I can do at home in the evenings and weekends.
weve now set up a wee summer house so I can do all the customer laundry that way but it’s been a great wee money maker and it’s not super difficult to do. We are £10 per load, wash dried and folded then £5 to collect etc
people in our community with additional needs or the elderly have said it’s a god send and we’ve built up regular weekly customers

Whatever you do, don’t fall for any MLMs or those courses where you write courses on selling courses.

Self employment is probably best as most employers won’t allow you to work whilst caring for children.

I have an Etsy shop but I’ve had it closed since Christmas as it’s too full on when I’ve got my daughter home (she’s home educated).

I’m opening an ironing business soon but not sure how easy that would be with a baby at home!

I work part time as a nurse and it just isn’t enough month . I pick up extra shifts when I can. How I supplement my income is by selling on eBay and vinted . Just my kids used clothes toys books etc. and stuff I no longer want . I make between £150-£500 approx a month . I know it’s not a huge amount but helps buy food

A few things I did, selling books online and at toddler groups/family events (I purchased children's books from the wholesalers and sold them on). I used Facebook groups as well. I rented out children's costumes and did parties (canvas painting). I know longer do this part from the costume hire.
If you are good on social media, you could offer social media management.
Sign upto Market Research, had some good response with that £80 an hour for sharing opinions.
I was good with Facebook groups and offer advertising packages which worked very well. I did leaflet distribution with the baby in the buggy - hard work though. None of the above is easy but it is a way. I have had some awful customers so making sure you have boundaries as some won't care you have kids. E.g I tell my clients it is a 3 week turnaround for leaflet delivery.
I also report empty houses for £20. I now host business zoom events and business workshops from home.
Other ideas, selling items online, baking and tutoring online. You could be a freelance consultant to businesses who need communication improvement (set up a profile on Linkedin) I find having various multiple income streams have helped me massively and to be there for my children and provide for them. I am a single parent as well. It is tough.

Yes I know that’s true definitely but she was looking for a few hours in the evening working from home which I know they do after a training period. Obviously would need to be when husband/partner there to look after the baby

Yes I know that’s true definitely but she was looking for a few hours in the evening working from home which I know they do after a training period. Obviously would need to be when husband/partner there to look after the baby

I recruit for fully remove admin roles. The demand is pretty high, we get about 80 applicants per role. We’re looking for:

Admin experience in an office environment
Admin experience working remotely - proof of being able to do so by references
Office365 word/excel/powerpoint/teams experience
Information on previous remote projects with references

Our requirements have had to increase in the last few years as we have so many applications. We need the above as a bare minimum. We get so many CVs from sweet people wanting to WFH but with zero previous so we have had to raise our minimum. I’d suggest anyone gets their quals on the above in order before applying or they won’t get an interview.

We get a lot of applications from people with small
children working from home who think we will actually teach these things. We need you to actually have them
before you apply. You also can’t WFH with small children in the house, even if you’re home the children need to be in childcare.

We had an applicant awhile ago who said she wanted this job because it’s from home so she wouldn’t have to pay for nursery. That’s never the case, if you’re working you can’t have a child in your care.

If you have a talent/eye for language & literature, and you have keyboard skills, you might look out for proof-reading and/or sub-editing work, which is easy to do remotely. It doesn't pay that highly, but it is "pick up and put down" work - within a deadline, of course - which could work together with your childcare commitments.

I do some editing work for people who are highly qualified in their field, but who's English is only 99% perfect when it needs to be 100% perfect. It's work I enjoy and I only do as much as I want to. However, a dear friend (no longer with us) ran a whole business based on checking the PhD theses of foreign students, which, apparently, had to be in English.
Might be worth a look?

You can become an English conversation tutor on Cambly - involves no planning but the pay is only $10.20/£7.50 an hour and most students are men from the Gulf countries. They pay weekly and you pay no tax on it until you reach £3k a year and do your own taxes at the end rather than upfront.

If you can retrain, working as a freelance bookkeeper is very flexible. You can set your own hours by limiting the number of clients you take on, and the work can be done at any time of day generally.

Etsy saved my life, was made redundant suddenly…a grand mortgage due that i couldnt pay and £10 to buy ??? to start up on etsy, ya dont need brains, ya need drive and determination and research,research looking for a niche product to sell… account quite easy to set up, its finding the right product, and its got to be competitive and affordable, my account was quiet the first few months now i,m 4 years in and for the first time in my life no money worries, look on ebay for wholesale joblot items,wouldnt do jewellry or bath,soap items as everyones doing it,take your time,research in bed/when the kids are asleep,you can do it xxx

Match betting. I earned about 11k in a year from it.