Ways to make money/stay sane on maternity leave

[Leleophants]

Any ideas for remote, freelance work you can do as and when whilst on leave?

Thoughts are exam marking or some online tutoring/marking but not sure where to find this. Anyone experienced this?

No suggestions, I'm afraid, but just wanted to draw your attention to the fact that there are lots of rules around this! Make sure that any additional work you do won't compromise your maternity pay:

www.workingfamilies.org.uk/articles/what-work-can-you-do-during-maternity-adoption-parental-leave/

As PP said, you can compromise your mat pay so be careful.
Have you booked in your KIT days? I found they helped both money-wise and in terms of change of scenery, catching up with work colleagues etc.

As long as you're looking for self employed work then it wont affect your mat pay.

Be careful. You are still employed during mat leave and most employment contracts contain a restriction on working for any other employer while employed by your employer. If you were to be caught breaking such a restriction, you could be dismissed.

Presumably the baby isn't here yet and you don't realise to won't have enough free time to do marking

There's a £10 a day thread on here somewhere that give loads of ideas of ways to make a bit of extra cash without seeking employment. It's not necessarily quick money though.

Have you looked at matched betting? As its officially gambling (but I promise it's really not, nor a pyramid scheme, nobody makes money from referrals or anything else someone might suggest) it's tax free.
Team profit is a great website and fb group to look at.

love your opportunism!!

The reality of maternity leave is you spend most of your time looking after a baby which is actually quite tiring!

Good luck though.

Do you mean before baby arrives?! I could barely make breakfast let alone work once baby arrived!

The first 3 months were beyond exhausting & after that, exhausting. The day’s are filled with caring for a tiny baby totally reliant on you & by the evening, I passed baby to Daddy and collapsed on the sofa & watched crappy TV!

Maybe from 4 months onwards, I could have pottered with some work in an evening if we had really needed the money but I’m glad I didn’t have too. Enjoy your baby