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)

Just popping in to say that I was telling DH how inspired I was by this thread and within five minutes we came up with two workable ideas. Stayed up until 3 am researching and even in the cold light of day both ideas look good. This is just what I need, having been a very ambitious younger woman I've been itching to get back to work and be 'me' not just 'Mum'.

"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... "

phew, it's a good job I suggested no such thing then :).

Yes, it's fine, no one said as much on here but some women do hear far too much that they will be content if they serve and clean and do good works and that only men or women who are male want money, power, success. It does us down when generalisations like that are made.

NotMost, that's lovely. It should also be fun to try to build things up and when they fail (as mine often have) you just start again with something else or have a few ideas on the go at once.

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but there are already quite a lot of nursing staff agencies so it is not exactly an untapped seam of riches, although I dare say the owners of the biggest ones rake in a fair amount and the fact that there are so many demonstrates that it is a fairly easy field to get into (has "low barriers to entry" in business speak).

If looking for first aid training I would look for a provider to be accredited by somebody (for workplace first aid you must be accredited by the HSE; I suspect that Ofsted require accreditation too). St John's (St Andrew's in Scotland) and the Red Cross provide first aid training at a similar rate of around £50 a day. The reputation and resources of these organisations are quite formidable making this a field with high barriers to entry.

Just to add, if you teach First Aid to nannies you will need to give valid certificates (for OFSTED etc) but still worth to research it because childcare workers unlike parents need to repeat the course every 2-3 years and some do that even every year.

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Ah x-post Anchovy re 1st aid.

Nursing Staff Agencies: you are right. Thats why i said to work with Europe and to offer a 'full package' , but yes the competition is high.

Mwah ha ha ha I'm not telling you anything. I'll report back in once I'm up and running.

Ok then. Do you mean once you make your first million and you will buy us champagne?

Most people earn very little because they aren't prepared to take risks, sensible risks. They fear failure or lack confidence. If you can at least try and have optimism then things can go well. What is absolutely certain is you achieve very little if you try nothing.

(Anyone into economics might enjoy watching this about Hayek although not that relevant to this thread
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n2rpx/Masters_of_Money_Hayek/ )

..and tonight we are celebrating as one of my daughters has had a job confirmed which is nice news... and also proves some of my theories about women negotiating pay and trying to do it better than many do. She said I would have been proud of her when she said she was worth a lot more than £X.

Well done Xenia's small person.

You are right about taking risks - that is the nice thing about adapting our businesses in our late 40's - we have enough of a savings cushion to say 'bollocks lets try it' and so far so good.

Yes and if one thing does not work another one might.

(Thanks - the daughter is relieved as it's hard to get jobs at present and is in the middle of buying her first flat too so it's just as well the job is confirmed)

Just came across this thread and think i need 48 hrs to sit down to read it :) Suffice to say it does need a huge amount of selfconfidence, determinate and organisational skills of military proportions - i work from home and four children between 18m and 12 yrs. The rewards?:

Between Monday and today I have earned more than £1200. That's in 3 days.

1st aid - true, for people who need evidence of CPD or are doing an HNC or SVQ you'd need to set up something that was validated...

...but to teach parents how to tip their choking child upside down/fit a triangle bandage/blow a pea out their nose/when to call 999/when to take to a+E?

I think there's scope for a less formal course. I tried to get St Andrew's ambulance to run their kids' first aid one when we had kids at playgroup - impossible. They were just to busy to fit in with the hours the parents had available.

Great for St Andrew's. Duff for the parents.

Excellent news regarding Xenia's daughter in this economic climate getting a good job is a huge achievement.

Well done Xenia's daughter - although I think the ability to do this comes from a variety of inputs. 1. She's got great talent, skills and qualifications, 2. She believes in herself and 3. She doesn't actually need to say yes to the job because she knows she can afford a roof over her head and food on the table next month anyway.

But what interests me here is that she's able to stand up and say "actually no. I will not work for x, I'm more valuable than that, why don't you come and meet me in the Y range?" - and I imagine she's going to apply exactly the same principles to her personal life.

When you've got the ability to walk away you hold all the cards and can get a good deal - but you've got to have confidence in yourself to do that.

Well done Xenia's daughter.

Good post DD

Well done permas (our hardest time was 3 children under 4 and we both worked full time - I said to someone at a work thing today who as ever as they all do was going on about how do I do it all etc and I modestly dissemble and said it will never be as hard as when babies wake you up and you work full time... and he - of course it was a he - said when his were very young he worked away from them all week (!) so he never had sleepless nights at all.)

(On that issue her plan and my suggestion had been to get rival job offers and then negotiate where she was working, but the timing did not work out so I suppose the negotiation could have been tougher had that been so. The difficulty at the moment is plenty of young people are prepared to work for nothing, so if you're too tough with negotiations you don't get anywhere, but they had tried some others who had not worked out so I suppose once they know you are okay you are more likely to keep a job. She had also said when they asked that yes she would stay on at the current pay if that is all the budget could afford so there was a risk then that the pay would have remained the same. I am sure she would have looked elsewhere right away had that been so. Anyway that's just being employed, nor working for others so a bit off the topic of the thread.

I suppose we might be saying that an adult child with parents who would always feed and house it if needs be can afford to take more risk as they have a safety net although I suppose state benefits and housing benefit are also a safety net. You could argue the opposite that having supportive parents means you never do much as there is no incentive - why work hard if even if you don't your parents will feed you? i think it just depends on the person rather than what the parents do)

Great thread, wish i had known earlier there was a freelancer forum on MM, fantastic! Completely agree that aiming at £1k per month is too low - and often the effort required is the same as the effort required to make double or ten times that.

I make almost £1k per day but in a City job that I have lost my interest in, so i am very much looking at going freelance / online business to do something interesting and work from home more. Am going to do that quite soon so am happy i found this thread.

I was sharing my ideas with a friend who then told me about a friend of hers who makes about £150k pa as a freelance consultant in project mgmt working 9-5am, and apparently she didn't really have any experience in it, I guess she just knew how to sell herself, amazing.

My sister also became a freelance consultant a year ago and has a daily rate close to £1k - which is funny bc she used to be in all these underpaid NGO and media jobs - and when she went freelance working for the same type of organisations she suddenly got paid her previous monthly salary in a day. She only does about 1-2 workshops a week though and the rest of the time is networking, learning, relaxing, gym etc.. I guess some people set up a business to make a lot of money, but there's a lot to be said for making half and having a lot of spare time!! I want to follow the same approach bc I want to spend more time with my little daughter and if my business took 60h per week of my time i might as well stay in my current job.

Good luck everyone, look forward to sharing ideas!

I certanily for many people the economics of working for themselves means they can earn a lot more on their own than as an employee. I set up on my own when I was making the same as may annual salary through separate unconnected work at the weekend and evenings. It is certainly worth people looking at consultancy rates. The 4 hour working week book is for those who perhaps have no rare skills people pay a lot to hire but instead for someone wanting to sell something on line and certainly if you move beyond just selling your own time then you can make a lot more money (in some things, obviously people fail at things too).

I agree about selling. People have called me up for advice on this kind of thing for over 10 yeras and I always say the main thing is will you be able to generate any business. It does not suddenly miraculously fall down upon you - you have to bring it in.

Felix Dennis' books can be quite fun to read about making money. Poor chap now has cancer. He's almost planed £1m trees. Amazing what good you can do with money. Individuals use it much more wisely than the state does.

I very much enjoyed reading through this thread. Amazing....It takes that bit of courage, and I think really life is beyond the risk line....
PS. If you need a great architect to best design your conversion projects, let me know...

Xenia do you know of any organisations who give advice to business start ups re contracts, etc.? I can't afford to hire commercial lawyers, but I have several opportunities to start supporting myself and my son (recently single Mum), but don't have knowledge of areas like contracts, sub contracting, etc. I remember there used to eb an organisation called Mentoring Mum that gave advice to Mums starting small businesses, but they seem to have mostly faded away.
See my other threads
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_matters/1580528-Sub-contractors-contract

Wow...is this the or one the longest threads on MN? What a great read although had to skim towards the end

Another book I would recommend is The Laptop Millionaire by Mark Anastasi. Should be available via Amazon but is certainly available from his website. Great ideas on building online businesses, marketing them on a limited (or even NO) budget, outsourcing...similar to The 4 Hour Week but Mark breaks it all down very simply. There are a lot of testimonials in the book also which I liked but some people feel is just bragging!

Also, the World Internet Summit is taking place in London next week. It's over 4 days I think - it will be packed with information for those who want to exploit the power of the internet for their current business or who are looking for ideas. However, there will be lots of promoting by the speakers as they will all have programs, courses etc to sell. Nevertheless, if you can put up with the sales patter you can often get a lot of information out of it that will still allow you to put plans in place.