Any legitimate work from home jobs?

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So, I'm a single mum. I work 8 hours on a check out. I've been through a lot the last year. This has resulted in me now having time off of work due to stress and anxiety. I really struggle to afford to live on a poor wage and nursery fees. Is there any genuine work from home jobs where I can support my child better? I can't continue on a part time wage. I feel like if I earnt a better wage I wouldn't be going through some of the upset I am at present but that's a different subject. I just can't boost my hours because the nursery fees will eat my wage even more. Please help.

I have no degree or a levels. Just a willingness to better my daughters life and be independent.

Thank you.

I know you say increased hours would be eaten up in nursery fees, but it does pay to work in some instances. When I had my first daughter, I was in a low paid nhs job. But with the job cane training and development opportunities, and the ability to climb the ladder. Although I have A-levels, I have never been to university. For 4 years I practically worked for nothing. It was hard and I relied on tax credits to assist with nursery fees and basics. And eventually it paid off as I'm now in a great job, kids are at school and as a family we're self sufficient. It can be done.

What about an apprenticeship? Or jobs with in-house training. Many employers now are willing to put in, in order to keep hardworking employees.

The only genuine work from home opportunities I have come across is either genuine self employment where you trade or provide a service based on skills you have or very occasionally simple admin tasks where you already have contacts/know the person who wants the work done.

@adviceneededon

I did speak a about increasing my hours at work a couple of months back but they don't have anything. And when I worked it out it didn't really work in my favour, so it's probably not a bad thing. I've worked here now. For 7 years and used to be a full time check out operator. I've never found there was much training opportunity in this company either unfortunately.

I've considered doing an online course at home in accountancy or mortgage advice as I have a keen interest in them both, however don't have the funds sadly. 😫

I'm not clear if you can only work 8 hours as that's all the nursery hours you have?

If so, then a longer-hours job working from home with a small child to also look after at the same time is not acceptable if you are employed.

And decent self-employment is notoriously hard to set up and involves even longer hours than any paid job.

If you have more child free time, then the simplest answer as pp say is to up your hours and start thinking about the longer term, for training and promotions and advancement. I think that would also positively impact on your state of mind too.

The only people I know who work from home eating decent money are those doing IT roles (developer/support) who are full time but offices have moved to hot desking and want them out of the office on some/all days. They’ve all got decades of experience, degrees and Masters though.

What hourly rate are you on and what are you hoping for?

I did speak a about increasing my hours at work a couple of months back but they don't have anything.
That's a no go then. What about fast food jobs? McDonalds especially has an excellent staff training and internal promotion programme - you can go from serving at the till to regional management and beyond! Plus loads of hours!

I've considered doing an online course at home in accountancy or mortgage advice as I have a keen interest in them both
If you are set on this, does your local college offer part time courses, and of so, what do they offer in terms of discounts for people in your situation?

Have you considered open university for your courses? You could apply for a student loan and you would only have to pay it back once you earn over £1500 a month. It's all home based.

Agree with McDonald's and also greggs, both do management training with qualifications you can take elsewhere in the future.

Come over to the £10 a day thread OP.

There was a huge thread on this the other month - maybe search for that.

The consensus was that you have to have a marketable skill that people are willing to pay good money for if you want to set up your own business and wfh.

The problem is any WFH job that will enable you to ALSO look after your child will be things like self employment that isnt customer facing - but you will probably need an indemand skill or set-up costs for that.

Any WFH job that is proper employment will not let you work while also looking after a child and would probably be a sackable offence. I've worked from home for a virtual call centre and it was in something I signed that I would have proper childcare in place.
So most WFH jobs will need you to still pay for childcare which means really you arent restricted to work from home jobs

The only job I can think of where you wouldnt need childcare is to become a childminder.

Accounts and Mortgage advisor would need you to either have long phone calls or meetings with clients which isnt possible with a child in tow. You cant take your child with you to go rounf a clients house and go through their mortgage application!!

The people I know who work from home mainly work for big employers and had a period of time working in their roles before they were able to start working elsewhere. I know a couple of childminders - one who does full-time and one who runs a breakfast club only. The only other self employed people I know have franchises running children’s activity classes ( singing & dancing or baby sensory ). I think you need to be proactive .... find out what the management trainee situation is in your current organsation. Have you ever expressed an interest or are they thinking you’re happy performing in your current role? Who are the big employers in your area? If you’re interested in accountancy is there something in payroll that might suit ( while you’re studying). Financial services is sales based & I imagine would be target driven. If you have the right personality for that then you could look at recruitment or sales roles but you need a serious amount of hustle.