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)

I have skimmed the thread to check suggestions for the OP (I know there was a lot of discussion about other things tok) but wanted to suggest Occupational Health as a potential option.

I see this job advertised a lot in my field (Human Resources) and believe there is a market out there for small medium businesses to have an Occ Health point of contact when they have to manage sickness absence.

A friend of mine has just set up her Occupational Health consultancy business whilst on mat leave with dc3. She can't keep up with the work. Likewise, she isn't a HR person so is throwing me work too.

Perhaps get in touch with a local HR consultant to see if there is demand in your area?

I've done a few direct sales jobs - Avon, Ann Summers and Usborne have been at various points in my life, but i wont say which I do now in case I get accused of recruiting.

They get a bit of a bad press, but I can only think they are from people who couldn't be bothered - all three had me earning at least double minimum wage within three months, and it went up from there. Not Xenia level, but not bad considering every other job has been minimum wage and stupid hours, if the job is even there.

My main tips for direct sales:

Research before you join. Not just the company, but who you join with. Most of these companies have a pyramid structure, so whoever you join with has a vested interest in you earning and staying happy. Never just join through head office. I would say that the best option is someone with a smallish team, who is ambitious, and who has someone very successful above them. That way you get the expertise of the successful person and the personal help from the ambitious person.

Choose something that will work in your area. Avon does well in areas with lots of low paid people in a good community. Ann summers is brilliant with students. Usborne for the middle class pushy mums. Lots of competition isn't always a bad thing - awareness of your product will be high.

Grab every bit of extra income - raffles at home parties, special offers from one catalogue sold a full price from the other, etc. keep thinking of new ways of selling your product - do stalls, Facebook, internet. Get n touch with groups and clubs who might be interested in either buying (end of term presents?) or letting you hold a stall.

Recruit. There is only so much you can sell, but recruits keep bringing in money. Support them well and they will become friends, too.

Be positive - your first few weeks may not be very lucrative. Carry on.

I've been told Occupational Health would be good to retrain in, but dismissed it. Will look again GodisaDj - I've been keeping my eye out for positions like this that are in demand.

The thread is packed with Xenia wisdom and much appreciated... and I think I have concentrated on my many failures herein which is as interesting as any success.

I was trying to find a UK list of which jobs have the highest hourly rate.

Actually this isn't too bad from the US:
www.cnbc.com/id/40573590/Jobs_That_Pay_100_Or_More_Per_Hour
including:
"Lee says the three easiest ways to get a $100 an hour job are: 1) Become a doctor, 2) Become a CEO of a large company (500 employees or more) or 3) Manage other people?s money (stock broker, portfolio manager, etc.).

So, most of the time, you?re going to need higher education like a medical degree, law degree or at least an MBA. Though, as you?ll see, there are a few exceptions on the list for those with special talents in the arts. It?s also important to note with most of the jobs, you?re not going to earn $100 an hour out of the gate ? you?ll need to stay in the business for a few years. "

This is why the parents who drag their chidlren round recruitment stands I have manned at private schools particularly second generation immigrants insist little Johnny or Jane considers dentistry, law, medicine etc. Do something most people can't do and you'll do okay.

I was trying to find a treasurehunter so emailed a contact who owns part of a precious metals deposit in the Antipodes. So if you can develop a niche skill or something where 80% of the population just do not have a high enough IQ to do this or pass the exams that tends to help.

Good ideas from Britta.

We also had our house used for filming although sadly not recently and that was very well paid.

I read an article on having houses used for filming and saved a list somewhere, I love the interesting and quirky things the masses don't usually have the opportunity to do.

A relative of mine has a very good medical degree so I am watching with great interest as she climbs the career ladder and contemplates starting a family - timing makes a huge difference and she is way ahead of one of her peers who had a baby a while ago.
I've heard plenty of 'I don't want my children to be a doctor/lawer/dentist, I just want them to be happy', but it's what I am placing at the top of my list of priorities for my children.

wait wait wait OP - you want to earn 'at home' but also you want to care for your children full-time as you talk about what you earn after childcare as if you won't use childcare.

that SERIOUSLY limits your options... pretty much to either childminding (about the only job you can do while caring for your own children) or to something with opposite hours to your Dh/DP.

my experience as a successful freelancer is that you HAVE to do what you are qualified, expeirenced, specialised or talented in doing. i don't know what your talents are but your experiene is counselling so i don't know why you dismiss that so readily. you could find a room to rent by the hour and do that out of office hours to cater for working clients and allow your dh/dp to do childcare.

(nb, yes we were lucky but only really once - £10k 10 days Ruth Rendell thihng, huge huge fun and I thought wow, we can have loads of this and make lots of money and do nothing but like most of my optimsitic hopes it came to naught, virtually nothing since expect a radio 4 play - why film a radio play in my garage?)

Agree with meybenow - stick with what you are qualfied and experienced or talented at doing.

Gosh what a fascinating thread! No time to read the whole thing tonight but will definitely do so tomorrow!

You need to find a skill hardly anyone has (Beckham at football, ability to tolerate short fat ugly old millionaire, best female surgeon in the UK or whatever...)

If we are sticking with £1k a day which a good few mumsnetters earn most probably have some kind of key service others cannot provide. IT Is one:

" The bidding war for actuarial IT talent that broke out late last year has intensified, with insurers now resorting to five-figure relocation packages for migrants - if rates of over £1,000 a day fail to secure enough UK contractors for Solvency II projects.

Still seeing insurers ?rush to comply? with the regulations, IT staffing firm ReThink Recruitment said pay for actuary risk modellers, database designers and system modellers had almost doubled since December.
Then, rates were up to £600 a day ? whereas today, with the commencement date of the regulations drawing nearer, the same candidates are on £900 a day, hiked to £1,100 a day where a rival end-user tries to poach."

The netaporter lady sold something no one has done before - v expensive fashion items on line.

I certainly think it is worth our children getting key skills at university and often post grad too even if they think they will just get nito business and sell something because knowledge about accounts and tax and employment law and law in general - sales law, share capital, pensions are all things that most businesses need.

Hmmm, I wonder what transferable skills the average (or, some might say mediocre ) university lecturer has that could spin out for 1k a day?

Omg!!! Xenia!! You can ONlY by from the orange!! Hahahahahahahahaha

WilfSelf Advice & coaching for 11-plus, UCAS helicopter parents!

I really like the positivity and "can do" attitude found upon this thread. It's given me real inspiration and I've had a bit of a vomit of ideas session today and thoughts about "diversifying my portfolio".

This time next year I could've made in the region of over 100 pounds! But still I'll keep trying.

No, on a serious note - I feel like it's all coming together now and thank you all for your thoughts on this thread, I've found it very inspirational.

Good. I am a positive person.
University lecturers? I've worked with loads - they either contract services at £1k a day if they have those skills - loads of public sector external consultants are paid at that rate. I speak for £1k a day actually about 50 days a year. I am absolutely no better than many university lecturers ni my subject but I suppose they juts cannot be bothered or they don't do what I do - write to 20 + companies pester, fix things up make it a huge priority and do it in holidays. I matched my salary when I was employed through work done out of hours not in my work area. Instead a lot of lecturers do take longer holidays than say 2 weeks a year.

Also the ones I worked with tend to be scientists and they can and often do get involved in businesses which they own - lots of univesrities have policies allowing revenue shares in a way the private sector does not if you are an employee and/or they go self employed and found businesses. Some have made massive sums.

Has anyone said prostitution yet? I hear you can make fairly good money and it's flexible...can fit in around children's school hours and you can be your own boss.

Here is one examle but these chaps (sorryu they are all chaps not women which is amassive disappointment - where were the women? Why do women go in for dresses (little money unless you are netaporter) and men into defence (mind you Johnnie Boden has done pretty well at dresses)... did rather well having been state employees defence sector:

" The shares surged on the news of the appointment of his successor Leo Quinn, the former chief executive of bank-note printer De La Rue. Analysts said Mr Quinn had a record for improving profits and direction at businesses he has worked at, including Invensys and Honeywell.

"Quinn comes with an excellent industry track record both in Europe and the US for better focusing businesses and driving margin improvement," analysts at Cazenove said.

Qinetiq said it had been looking for a new chief executive for a year, and Mr Love's departure was not related to criticism of the company in Wednesday's report into the 2006 Nimrod crash.

Mr Love, 55, will leave in November after four years as chief executive, and has worked for the company since 1992, when he joined the Defence Research Agency as chief financial officer. He is entitled to the pay and benefits as set out in his contract, expected to be broadly similar to last year when he was paid £488,000, with no bonus. Mr Love also owns Qinetiq shares worth about £8.4m.

He and Qinetiq's other senior executives, including chairman Sir John Chisholm, who stands down next summer, came under fire at the time the company was listed in 2006 for making millions of pounds from stakes they had bought at a lower price a few years earlier. Private equity group Carlyle reaped £300m from selling a 30pc stake it paid £42m for. The shares rose 22½ to 165.4p. "

For sure, it is a good way to earn extra money for scientists who have obvious spin-outs/ Public sector consultancy, perhaps although the people who I know who do it now in fields I know a little bit about tell me the market has utterly collapsed right now. I am sure you're right Xenia, about prioritising it and most of us being uninterested - making money is not your typical lecturer's core value.

But it's becoming more attractive the more out of love I fall with such idealistic vocational notions

x (ly) - what about kids learning that stuff whie they work? much better way for them to spend their time and our money, surely.

There is a difficulty for academics. I always found the last learned writing I did the higher fees I got for it. The easist shortest writing I have done has got me more work/business and publicity than anything which requires a lot of effort with footnotes. If you only get funds to your department if you write the long good stuff you are unlikely to do the commercial stuff. I pay an academic for something he does for me and he has just stopped doing it so the work has gone to a private sector person, because I think he is busy but also because it is not the sort of publication that gets his department the right kind of brownie points.

I do think it is worth women wanting to earn more money looking at what women who earn £1k a day do and then doing that. For example if people pay £400 a day for loads of business conferences and you can find 10 people to come on your course that is just about £4k profit less your marketing and room hire costs. If instead you agree to do cleaning for 5 hours for your neighbour at £6 an hour that is £30.

(slight name change, same person that thinks your London loo idea is great)
some kind of training, Xenia? Perhaps a 'women into business' course?

I'm loving this thread also, I think it's great hearing women talking positively about earning high and not feeling feeling like they are choosing work over children. I'm very inspired! I was training to be a nurse but gut instinct tells me it's not right for me, high stress and low pay! Considering re training in something I can do self employed, I just hope it works out!

This thread is inspring... But also making me feel inadequtae as Im struggling to look after my children, home, admin, provide extra education for dc, have quality family time, a high quality marriage, see friends and extended family, make time for hobbies, excercise AND set a business up!

I feel overwhelmed. Not a superwoman. :(

What is it they say? "If you want something done - ask a busy person"!

I live abroad so the only family I need to concentrate on are in this house and my friends are mostly exercise pals.

I've given up sleep.

Given up no sleep! Noooooooooo....!