A home based role which pays under £700 per month - is it worth it?

[gazzalw]

Would you do it? I was made redundant at the beginning of the year and effectively accepted the first job I was offered but with a view to doing something else alongside it. In theory possible because it's part-time.

However, less than a week in it's clear that I will probably be working full time for some months to get up to speed, particularly as there's been a two-three month break in personnel and I'm basically having to work things out for myself. So everything is well behind. Was envisaging spending no more than 15 hrs a week on it but it's quite clear it will take some months before I will even be able to even consider working to this weekly time-frame.

Whilst I could do with the regular money, I'm not sure even short-term that it's worth my while. What would you do? And there already seems to be an expectation that I can drop everything to do meetings etc...

TIA!

you're doing a 35 hour week for £700 pcm?

If you’re working that much for that pay for an employer, that’s illegal

If you are working full time for part time pay it really is not wort it and as others have said probably illegal.

Depends. Sounds like possibly not.

I do accounts, and it's always in a right mess when I start, that's probably why they call me in.
But once I get it sorted, there on in, it takes all of a few minutes and it's so easy I could do it with my eyes shut.

Is this the same?

Thanks for your responses.

I suspect some months down the line it could be quite easy to do things quickly BUT my predecessor did say they will try to make it a full-time post out of peanuts money.

I am happy to do it for 15 hours a week but really wouldn't be wanting to do more than 20 even to start with. And I've already done 15 in two days (including an evening handover meet-up).

if your predecessor said that, I'd take it on board.

would you consider talking to them about this?

I will do SpringNowPlease2018. Have a meeting arranged and think I will make it quite clear that I'm only doing 15-20 hours a week from the off.