How might I earn £1000 a month working from home?

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Hello, i wondered if any of you had any ideas about how I coud earn £1000 a month working from home?

I have spent 20 yrs working in the health service as a nurse then counsellor, just gone back after second lot of mat leave and realised I am done with the nhs, after child care I bring in £1000 a month, so I figure if I can earn this at home, I will be able to stay at home until kids in school. Any ideas ladies? (Working as private counsellor not an option at the moment as we don't have enough space)

Genius.

Thanks guys - I really appreciate it.

Will get onto those suggestions later on today.

Thanks for the compliment about the site, talk - it's just a freebie one until I figure out whether I could turn it into an actual job...

There's a kiwi psychologist who does lectures on teenagers, he's very funny, and very good - nigel Latte I think there's scope for something similar here with continence...from a marketing point of view there's plenty of folk to buy the stuff, worse luck.

I keep thinking about the Dragons' Den USP dooda - well, there really can't be that many fanny physios who do comedy too?

Mula Banda - that's a really good one. Tricky too!

Have you contacted Woman's hour and Radio4 comedy ?
No money but lots of publicity.

Mula Banda the easy way : Down dog. Breathe out pulling your tummy in. Once all breath is out haul your tummy up and back to make a hollow. Release after three seconds ANYBODY will find their pelvic floor muscles at that stage !

I got an email from mn academy yesterday - they've got via one of the business links - a woman doing a speech/book "Marriage is not a financial plan" - thought that might appeal to the elders!

More women than men under 40 are millioanires in the UK precisely because for many marriage is a financial plan - womem have two ways to make money - on their backs in bed and then through the divorce courts in the traditional fashion and secondly through our work/business interests. Men (except my ex husband) tend just to have the second route still although I am sure that will change as more women do better.

I don't think we will reserve this thread for how to nab a rich husband although for many women who are pretty but without qualifications and drive a rich husband is often their easiest way to a fortune.

The more serious point is that if women give up all earning potential plenty are left destitute after divorce or being widowed. In general it is wise to have several sources of income.

By the way any women setting up business with others including a husband or relative get in writing some basic points even if you don't want to pay a lawyer to do it. Agree your %, agree how many hours you will each put in, agree whta happens if one of you wants to leave or dies etc etc.

hi all

THANK YOU for this inspirational thread, it's given me the kick I needed to get going and plan for a new job. So, today I registered for a course to improve my work-related skills and then (hopefully) I shall be off to pastures new and definitely better paid!

Most people aren't rich though and most men aren't rich husbands either and most people are not interested in owning an island and also this may come as a shock, but most people don't want to be rich either

No, but most people want to be comfortable
and £1000 a month is not far above minimum wage
and £1000 a week is only just out of basic rate tax
and if you aim low you'll end up low

yes most people want to be comfortable, but comfortable means different things to different people

My aim in life is not to sleep on a bed of fifties, but to have nice holidays, horses for the entire family, a car which doesn't make me double-check my breakdown coverage before a long journey, to buy clothes without looking for sales, to take my children to theme parks without having to check the bank first, to pay off the mortgage. Those are things which will enhance my happiness, and guess what? They all require cold, hard cash.

It's easy to say it doesn't matter when you marry money.

I want to be a role model for my children, I want them to have the best education and for me to be able to give them the best I can.

I fail to see why anyone would want to give their children the best. I think saying "money isn't important" is an excuse to not try. Ask any of the mn women struggling to make ends meet if money is important and if they wouldn't prefer earning 1000 a day.

Great thread. Any tips on negotiating pay? DP has just been offered a job and the advertised salary was 80-85,000. Think it works in scales but he'd rather start at the top!

I don't think it's a thread to discuss whether we want wealth. it's a thread about women who earn £1000 a week or £1k a day as I made it into which is much more fun.

Obviously people can aim for the minimum wage if that's what they prefer.

Also some people's attitude is most people earn about £20k so if I earn that that's great. I am far too useless to be and far too unlucky ever to earn £50k or £100k and they set their limitations. The point of the thread is to show that plenty of women earn £1k a day and if you want to try for it.

VerySouth
I would say do lots of research on them and give a dozen reasons to go in at the top with the plan of going on up.
Good luck.

mumblepot, what screams out at me here is that you are a nurse. You are already highly trained in some very technical skills.

I come from a legal background so I don't have much sense of the exact sideways moves you could make here. But sideways moves are what it's all about. I haven't stood in a court for 8 years but it's my concrete sense of what it means for someone to sue someone else that gives me credibility when I advise from home about potential disputes.

So I'll start my wild stabs based on my own encounters with the NHS.

• How about if you ran a first aid course for new parents at your house? You would have to invest a lot of time (and maybe update your knowledge) but then you could give the same course again and again and again. Each time you would get better at it. You would never, ever, run out of clients. You could give the course out of working hours. Crucially, your past life as a nurse would give you credibility.You would say - and always says something that is true - that you believe every new parent should be able to react to an emergency nearly as well as a nurse would - and so it is your mission to make that happen. You would respond to questions with modest remarks along the lines of "well, in the hospital we tended to see a lot of X -this is something that perhaps happens more often than we think, perhaps more frequently than Y which maybe we dwell on more".

Crikey I could write your website right now.... (please tell me I'm good at this career guidance thing).

If "sideways moves" are my number one suggestion, number two is networking. Networking is simply being interested in other people that you meet. Keep showing an interest. Sooner or later someone at your first aid course will tell you they are a head of personnel and want a telephone based corporate wellbeing service for their staff.

If that happens though, you then have to decide how many hours a week you want to work and how much you want to earn. I do occasionally earn £1000 - I then take the rest of the week off though :). People like Xenia and my top female client are characterised by boundless energy. I don't have that.

good luck.

ah, sorry, I see it can't be at your house. But if it's a course for 20 couples, you can hire a scout hut can't you???? Or have it at a friend's big house and give her a cut.... I like this idea better than private counselling because there are no confidentiality issues.

St andrew's ambulance do 1st aid for babies and kids - the ones they run here are really oversubscribed...

Womens' Hour and R4 are on my hitlist - but I need to have created a stir in order to get noticed. A producer at teh comedy unit once told me that they started to notice once you had a twitter following of10 000, and, once you have 100 000 then you can get publishers and comissioning editors sniffing about...

So far, I've got 45...but, that's 5 more since MNHQ tweeted about me this morning.

I rather like the idea of earning 1k day. It's unlikely to happen - I'd need a dose of luck, some good fortune, and a dash of serendepity to boot - but, if you don't try, you'll never know!

"don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon" It's a bit twee, but I rather like it.

Two reasons women aren't well paid:-
Teenagers are advised to find a career in something they are interested in. So girls are into fashion and makeup, and the caring professions, not mining in Kazahkstan.
Girls/women like to work with people (more than men do) hence men choose to be plumbers (often working alone all day) etc whilst women choose nursing, shop assistant.

My DDs are both in jobs predominantly done by men and love them, and are good at them, and are well paid.

One DD has written articles for her former uni magazine about her job which has taken her overseas and I'm sure it will have encouraged others to follow her. It wouldn't be hard to get other (well paid) professional women to do the same ie write articles for school careers advisors (if there is still such a thing).

Hmm, maybe I could set up a website with said articles.

I'm not sure about my boundless energy. I like at least 8 hours sleep a night and when I'm not too busy I like to lie in the sauna after my swim (or sun after lunch when it's sunny) which you can do if you earn £1k a day and work for yourself and in particular when your children are no longer very small. That is one reason why women in their late 40s and 50s can do so tremendously well (i) they have years of experence of life and work so are better than people in their 20s on the whole and (ii) their responsibilities tend to be fewer at home so they have this wonderful period where they can blossom like the La garde the French lawyer at the IMF and Hilary Clinton and all the others. So anyone younger .. your best is very much yet to come.

On how nurses can earn a lot - ideally you try to pick something where others do the work and you have say 10 nurses out there all doing something from which you profit.Earlier on the thread I wrote about the huge growth market now people lead 30 years retired not the 2 or 3 they used to in the 40s when pensions were set up. The provision of care for the elderly in their own homes, provision of teams of good nurses, perhaps people you recruit who are nurses abroad you bring over, who are very well qualified and you house them cheaply and provide them with work if the right people are not in the UK or provision of OAP homes in much cheaper and nicer and warmer places than the UK like the Indian care home on that fictional film which I haven't watched but read about.
NHS is supposedly ring fenced but we have just discovered tax receipts are hugely down and we have a massive huge loadof new cuts which will have to be made so that may be a chance if fewer staff are retained for a need for more nursing agencies providing nursing staff when required.

Or just as suggested advertising courses - pick people with loads of money who are used to paying £500 a day for a course. Lots and lots of courses paid for by businesses cost £500 day. Perhaps put them on in lovelyplaces like ski resorts. May be get pharma companies to sponsor or put up speakers and then think about what aspect of nursing or skills these companies might need who are trying to use up their training budget - first aid for those on oil platforms for example and you put it on in Aberdeen, my first random thought. Go where the money is and the people with budgets for and used to paying a lot for courses. Add into so you haev a full day additional speakers - your day cours could have you doing first aid, a psychologist doing something about workplace stress, a nanny agency talking about childcare issues, a fitness and nutrition expert on say paleo healthy and nutrition as I think richer delegates want to know about that as much as how to save a colleague who has a heart attack at work, just pick 4 main topics one of which you speak on and you arrange the other speakers and advertise the day.

I'm mostly just marking my place as I've found this thread inspirational.

Following from lingle's suggestion I did a couple of first aid courses for babies and toddlers when my three were young and I paid for my mother to go too (pfb). You could target NCT groups.

great so it isn't a hopeless suggestion. Now, that's just the suggestion that we can all think of because we've all had babies. You as a nurse will be aware of other unmet needs...... (older people, etc).

re this £1000 a day malarkey. I do occasionally earn £1000 a day but I wouldn't want to every day. What's important is to have a day rate as close to £1000 per day as you dare AND by that I mean a day rate adjusted for the realities of costs, whether your bills get paid, and how much unpaid ongoing marketing you have to do.

unfortunately for my finances but fortunately for my soul, during the several days off that I reward myself with after earning the £1000 or close to it, I've discovered a passion for particular work with vulnerable children. I now have a second job doing this a half day a week. It earns diddly squat but I look forward to it all week, and I wouldn't delegate it for any money.

So maybe the ideal is to have one hard-headed job that pays well, do it part time and thus give yourself time to develop and pursue passions. If your passion is financial success though, then you just do the hard-headed job full time and end up both rich and happy. result!

PS strongly agree that characteristic of successful people is doing what they said they would do when they said they will do it. As a nurse, this will be second nature to you - huge advantage there.

Wow what a thread, and i think Xenia is brilliand on this one!

OP, with all that happening in Europe there is a huge number of nurses and doctors wanting to come to uk. I know this is true about Spain and i imagine it also applies to Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Italy. What about an Agency and a 'pack' offering short courses (via Skype or online?) re how to go about it, work in uk hospitals, help with applications and letters, advice on housing and settling etc?

Re first Aid Courses you can also target childcare colleges, nannies, au pairs, Nurseries.

Re retraining can you use your nursing background and become Nutrionist? I think there is money there.

Yes Laq, and she could team up with an immigration lawyer expert who works with businesses who could do the immigration issues too although that shoudl be easy as they are coming from the EU.

I certainly agree with lingle that if you earn a lot in a day it gives you choices eg more time with your children or to help the sick or whatever you choose to do. If you just earn £6 an hour then you tend to have less time even for charitable work. Although gosh I really don't like women being sidelined into women hate money and power and wealth and ideally want to serve like some kidn of glorified Florence Nightingale and that all women hate the idea of leading British business or the nation. Therein lies the way of anti feminism and woman as saint rather than business leader...

I'm a Nanny and in order to a) register at ANY agency and b) become OFSTED registered, I had to get my paediatric first aid certificate.

The woman running the course I was on was a first response paramedic and she did them on a Saturday at £60 a head. There were about 10 of us and should have been 12 (at least). That's £600 for the "six" hours course (that was actually 3 and a half hours).
I actually had to travel down to London for this as it was the cheapest and there was no availability in my area.

First aid courses are THE way to go and you should set up on your own to start off with. Not that Xenia's advice isn't fab, but rushing into setting up a franchise or a business where people are working for you is scary and it sounds like you'd be better off earning a good amount on your own a while and once you have gained a large amount of first hand experience in the area you can start to employ people to work for you and they could - for example - earn £35 a head and you could take the rest. I think you would find that there are plenty of nurses who would take the opportunity to earn the extra money and it would work well for them and you as it could be evenings and weekends so they could work around their job.

Also, there's lots of scope for working 10 - 2, there's a huge number of health professionals available for work during school hours/evenings/weekends who are hobbled by childcare needs.

I know, cos I was one.

I'd have bitten your hand off for the chance to go to nurseries/playgroups and talk to mums about 1st aid. There's often an empty room to use...

Excellent idea.