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What careers let you earn lots of money without working full time?

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mousiemousie · 23/10/2006 17:33

Just wondering which careers are best to advise young girls to go for if they want to earn good money without working full time whilst they have a young family...

...any suggestions?

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WelshBoris · 23/10/2006 17:35

prostitution

merrily · 23/10/2006 17:37

LOL at WelshBoris

hmmm no, can't think of any others...

LadyMuck · 23/10/2006 17:38

Welshboris . You don't want to encourage young girls into prostitution though as the money goes down once they have children.

phantomrantum · 23/10/2006 17:39

Young girls? - if they don't have a young family already, they should just concentrate on building a full-time career doing something that they want to do and that they might half enjoy without worrying about that side of things. If they already have a young family and no career, it becomes trickier me thinks...

phantomrantum · 23/10/2006 17:40

Young girls? - if they don't have a young family already, they should just concentrate on building a full-time career doing something that they want to do and that they might half enjoy without worrying about that side of things. If they already have a young family and no career, it becomes trickier me thinks...

earlysbird · 23/10/2006 18:28

I might not be very popular with the other teachers out there for saying this but in fact teaching is a good choice especially if you put a few years in before having kids. I think secondary tends to be more flexible about employing p/timers and there's also more potential for promotion. I worked 3 days a week a couple of years ago and took home £1400 a month, plus you get hols with the LOs too

hana · 23/10/2006 18:34

agree with teaching - I work part time ( om mat leave now tho) and it's v good
but it's a slog to get there!

nulnulcat · 23/10/2006 18:48

cabin crew if you have plenty of family support for childcare used to get about £800 a month for max 10 days\work if i worked 10 days wages would be nearer £900.

popsycal · 23/10/2006 18:56

teaching.......
only do able part time if you have more than one child under school age imo

blueshoes · 23/10/2006 18:56

I always thought journalists? Can mnetters who are journos confirm?

How about chiropractors, GPs?

CarolinaMooncup · 23/10/2006 19:00

me too blueshoes. Or graphic design.

Think you need some sort of talent, unfortunately

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mousiemousie · 23/10/2006 19:40

Earlysbird I had no idea teaching could pay as well as that!

at WelshBoris!

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alex8 · 23/10/2006 19:41

I don't know how much it pays but my optician says her career has really fitted in well with having children.

MaloryTowersPonceAndProud · 23/10/2006 19:41

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RanToTheHills · 23/10/2006 19:44

yes, GPs now relatively v well-paid and much easier to work p/t too. Still v competitive to get into though and v long training.

hatwoman · 23/10/2006 19:49

the same as you might advise young boys to go for if they want to earn good money without working f-t. Young girls are way too impressionable to be talking like this (unless you're talking about youngsters who already have families). They'd be better off excelling in whatever career they choose so that they can negotiate flexible working when the time comes. encouraging young girls to choose careers on the basis that they might, one day, want to work p-t is counter-productive for the rest of us (especially if young boys are getting a different message). when I was 19 and an undergrad at Oxford I was told, infront of my mum, by the wife of my college's Master that teaching was an ideal career for a young woman. even my mum (a teacher and a very family-oriented person) nearly spat her coffee out. she was appalled to hear someone talk like that

IdrisTheDragon · 23/10/2006 19:49

I'm an accountant working part-time (3 days a week) and I earn a respectable amount of money.

hatwoman · 23/10/2006 19:51

dh works for an investment bank 4 days a week and earns good money.

MaloryTowersPonceAndProud · 23/10/2006 19:52

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NotQuiteCockney · 23/10/2006 19:56

I don't think people should choose careers based on longterm family plans. What happens if you choose a career you didn't really want, so you can take time out with kids, and then turn out to not have kids in the long run?

lemonAIIEEE · 23/10/2006 19:57

Drug dealing? Insider trading? Selling state secrets?

Agree with opticianing or, in a similar vein, being a pharmacist.

I've also been told that if you're going into medicine then being an anaesthetist is a good option for family-friendly hours (there are much stricter limits on how long anaesthetists can work than other doctors, apparently, or something like that).

blueshoes · 23/10/2006 19:59

hatwoman, can you say which area of investment banking?

hatwoman · 23/10/2006 20:14

just come back to this thread to apologise. I think the way in which I posted might have been a bit huffy, or sniffy or something like that. I didn't mean it to be. NQC said it better. blueshoes - he structures derivatives - why do you ask?

blueshoes · 23/10/2006 20:23

thanks, hatwoman. Asked only because the City is not famed for flexible working, particularly investment banking, which encompasses quite a wide field.