I'm intrigued..what do you all do.......?

[lilly72]

As a relatively new Mumsnetter and Mum I am hooked on this website..I have posted twice on here about certain difficulties I was having and the advice given has been great. I am intrigued to know what you all do other than being Mums...what are your paid employments?

I have just started back to work 3 mornings as an accounts assistant for Volkswagen...anyone else...?

HI Lilly,

I'm a SAHM mostly and freelance copywriter sometimes, used to run a market stall settling retro things as well. Will pick this up again later - the stock is stored in the loft.

At a crossroads careerwise. Not sure what I want to do next. I used to be the main breadwinner and will have to pick up those reigns of responsibiilty again soon.

Trying to make the most of this breather, (writing/exercising/decorating/seeing aged relatives and old friends etc) while enjoying being with my two children, and not worrying too much about the future.

I am now a SAHM but was an investment manager, then retrained as a secondary school teacher in Biology - you would have thought I would know better than to get pregnant!!!

lou33, I have the chapterhouse course too and didn't even start it. I got it 7 years ago, ds2 immediately came down with chickenpox, and when he was better I got flu, and 8 weeks after that I couldn't even look at it and still can't....I wonder if they'd let me do it now?

WWW and sis, I think anais is the pro pedant! Imagine if you could get paid for it...anyway what I do get paid for is 2 short days a week on the local Primary Times, pulling interesting, absorbing and preferably free family activities off the internet for the What's On column. Also do a very skimmy amateur proof-read on it and produce some invoices and answer the phone and help myself to boss's wife's home-made cakes at coffee time (I work in their house).

Im a SAHM but soon to return to secondary school teaching on a pt basis. Also manage a holiday home and do the graphics input on dh's websites. Oh, and we are renovating our old house too, painting or polyfilling in any spare time. No wonder I cant find the time to go to the gym.

I am a SAHM, actually I prefer to call myself 'retired' as I have no intention of returning to work, if at all possible!! I keep busy with voluntary work - running a toddler group, fund-raising, meals on wheels, driving, church stuff, writing ........... & keeping my DH happy so that he will keep on working !!!

Can someone explain in plain english what 'broadband' is? I do know it is something to do with computers (I think!!).

SAHM, ex-office manager for waste disposal company (yes it was a rubbish job). Currently looking for p/t work to fit around dh's f/t hours.

Lindy - Broadband is a dedicated 24/7 connection to the internet, whilst still having access to your phone line for actual phone calls

I'm a health and safety inspector and work f/t. Before that was a policewoman, worked f/t until ds was born and then p/t. Left that because the shifts were horrendous and dh was getting p**d off having to look after 3 kids on his own 3 weekends out of 4.

Ah, poor thing, bless.
(Sorry)

droile
d'you mean him ir me?

Him. See Husband responsibilities thread. No offence Gillymac, I'm just being a bitter and twisted old nag and I couldn't resist it.

I'm a SAHM too with a dedicated phone line especially for Mumsnet! Started as a furniture designer, and ended up being a Project manager for a graphics firm in the Big Smoke.

Now search out houses to feature in interiors mags, but frankly, would struggle to cover cost of Christmas pressies on what I'm earning!

PS Anyone know of a house that I could feature??

You could do a before and after on our house, but you'd have to come back for the 'after' in about a 100 years at the rate our improvements are proceeding.

fms - when my Mum has finished doing up her house you could feature it. It is going to be GORGEOUS! Of course, at the minute, she has no stairs!!

I am a soon to be redundant (Carlton/Granada merger) Television Presentation Director - working 7 days on, one week off, 4pm till midnight. It works absolutely perfectly well with dh working 7am until 3pm, so I do all the mummy things - tumbletots, swimmig and music then go to work - knackering but it works. So poo bum and wee, sell the house and it will have to be the VW Camper van for us. Prufrock - I do that thing too, and ALWAYS return for pudding and nobody ever knows apart from my bf.

fms - I've just looked round our playroom and decided that maybe ours isn't the sort of interior you usually see in magazines! I like to imagine that, just out of camera shot, there is a huge heap of all the things they've moved out the way to get a tidy, perfect shot.

I know the marketing officer at the OXO tower, maybe we could get a good deal

Soupdragon, That's exactly what you would see!!

I work for an Interiors magazine on the advertising side. I used to work for a baby magazine, but got sick of commuting. I used to leave at 7.15am (beofre the kids woke up) and get home at 7.15 pm (provided the trains worked) just in time to give the baby a bottle and bed, and read a story to the older one! It is no life.

I resigned (read forced to and paid off!!) due to personality clashes and found a job, by chance in the local paper. Took a 30% pay cut and have just a 10 minute journey to work! Bliss.

Now if I want I can pop home for lunch with my girls and I'm there to give them breakfast and supper!! I feel like I have the best of both worlds. Even better since I'm in sales I have managed to make up the difference in salary by not having a company car, and earning more comission I am actually taking home the same

Crunchie, which baby mag did you work for, as I work for the same company that owns Prima Baby?

charliesmummy, do you actually HAVE a VW camper? We had a devon for years and it was marvellous, but has so many chronic health problems now that it has been put out to pasture in the garden as a wendy house!
Sometimes I still wave at them by mistake. They must wonder who the mental woman in the Astra is!

fms, what type of houses are you searching out? If it's contemporary, let me know as I'm an architect and could recommend some of the projects from my work (that i'm on maternity leave from..how dedicated is that).

Officially I'm a physio,work part time - very variable hours but max. 15 per week.

Unofficially and unsalaried (like the rest of you) I am a Taxi driver,housekeeper,laundry maid,referee,husbands secretary,social organiser etc etc.

I am an accountant and chartered tax advisor,an answer guarenteed to produce yawns all round,did work 3 days a week ,perfect job but have just had a third and with a 10 mile school run and a husband that works long hours have decided to take a break for a while,I miss the office interaction(hence addiction to mumsnet)and the brain challenge but not the politics or constant childcare stress.

emmabee I used to work for the other one!! Mother & Baby.