Need evening work-what do you work as???

[Paranoid1stTimer]

I am really REALLY struggling to get evening work. We are strapped for cash and OH works long hours. I can work 7:30-late and will have use of the car but all my experience has been in admin really. Lots of restaurants round here want people with experience and I just keep getting knock backs. Recruitment agencies want 9-5pm temps. I am struggling a bit now and getting really worried.

We honestly have no childcare and actually can't afford FT nursery. I have been unsuccessful in finding any PT daytime work where the pay will cover the nursery fees as I would need to take LO to a nursery in the city (not London BTW) since we would need to pay a CM to take LO to and from nursery if it were close to the house. That was even if I could get PT admin work. What is going on?

Any advice?

I work as counter staff in a take away. The wages are shit, but when it's quiet I am being paid for sitting on my arse watching tv, drinking tea and MNing on my phone. I love my job

It's my 'time off'.

call centre? supermarket?

Ooooh - excellent idea! This is the main problem since I have only ever worked in office jobs in the city centre really. I have no imagination or experience of other things I could do in the evenings... Thank you so much, I never even thought of that! :)

Waitressing/bar work? Very physical though.

hotel receptionist? or could you do transcript typing or similar from home?

If all else fails do ironing from home or Do evening cleaning? Or phoenix trading cards?

Childminding but that would take a while to set up

Where are you based? If it's London I can give you a lost of focus groups which pay between £40 & £100 for an hour two of your time. It's not a job, and it;s not guaranteed work, but it's handy cash while you're looking for a job.

Let me know if you're interested and I'll post the list.

Also worth having a look at www.peopleperhour.com/ to see if there's anything there which matches your skills.

Call centres are a good one, as mentioned above, as they often involve shift work.

This book A bit on the side - 500 ways to boost your income has some good tips, and contact addresses in it. And there are 2nd hand copies going on Amazon for 1p plus p+p.

It's got lots of ideas you probably would never have thought of.

I used to work on reception at a swimming pool. That was Saturdays and evenings. My experience was admin too.

Often, evening jobs are things like packing or stock replenishment. Not very exciting. When our DCs were little I worked in an electronics factory in the evenings, assembling PCBs. It filled a gap, once I'd got the hang of soldering!

Definitely try supermarkets. Apparently my local Tesco don't do long shifts anymore so they will probably do 6-10 shifts or something.

Then you would only need to find childcare for a few hours until your DH comes home - perhaps a friend or neighbour?

That people per hour site looks good as well - perhaps you could advertise to do admin for small businesses and work from home in the evenings?

Care work - sometimes have evening shifts to put people to bed.

Thanks again. I just can't seem to find any evening work at the moment. I think I must be looking in the wrong places. Have been looking at Gumtree, Jobseekersdirect, s1jobs and all the usual.

I am in Glasgow. It used to be fairly easy to get any kind of call centre work - especially evening shifts Thurs/Fri since none of the younger ones used to want to work these shifts when there were always nights out at the end of the week. I don't know if being SAHM is hindering my applications...

Thanks again for the advice here.

Can you work a weekend day at all?

I'd bet that most retailers are looking for Christmas staff.

I used to work for Next and they always took on Christmas temps for evening and weekend work.

Could you do even a 9-1 on a Saturday or something and 2 x nights in the week?

Forgot to add, these jobs are normally just advertised in the shop windows, and then you can go in and pick up an app form or just send your CV off to them all.

Are you near the city centre?

Babysitting agency? Don't know if you need childcare qualifications but a friend of mine used to work for Sitters. The pay was pretty good - she was paid a minimum of 4 hours regardless of whether the parents stayed out that long and quite good hourly rate.

I found it really hard to find part-time work when I was looking. I found this website to be good womenlikeus.org.uk but it's London based so might be good for others reading this thread, but not you, OP, sorry.

Christmas staff is a good one. Last time I wanted a retail job I just started at one end of the high street, and went into every shop I'd consider working in, and simply asked if they had any vacancies until I found a job. It took me about half an hour.

I'm a retail manager working 5til10 4 evenings a week. Staff work various but usually 6til10. That's at m&s.

I also do focus groups and mystery shopping for extra cash now and again.

Bar work - again I'd actually go in to ask. Take a CV and expect to arrange to do a trial shift.

IME many of them do it by work of mouth - you won't find the ad on the internet.

Taxi company phones person, whatever you call it - also would need to go in and ask.