what kind of job fits in with, dropping off and picking children from school, having school holidays off and always being around for sickness etc?

[beachlover]

can you think of any ?
or is self employed the only way to go?
please give me some ideas,

I'm in the same boat, so if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them!

Work evenings?

That's the reason you have SAHMs!

Self-employed seems to be those ghastly smug women in some monthly magazines who float around running antique cushion beading businesses, but always have a handy hedge-fund manager husband in the wings.

I think daytime prostitute might fit in nicely. I've considered it, but not sure I'd pull in many punters

I think evening weekends or self-employed is the only way to go.

There is no employment without compromise if you have children.

pmsl at day time prostitute
definatly dont want to work either weekends or evenings

sorry i know im picky,

how about part time admin in a local office where you could do say 4 hours a day?

Or local libraries may offer child friendly work hours? especially if you have any big libraries by you or a university library?

or set up a cleaning business, ironing etc?

Being self employed is often harder to juggle those holidays, sicknesses etc as if you are not working then you are (more often than not) not getting paid. At least in jobs you are entitled to annual leave, sick leave and a degree of parental leave.

A school job is likely to be the best compromise but unfortunately working and parenting is a compromise.

Or a non term time job with an au-pair, nanny or family childcare (childminders etc don't have children when they are sick).

sorry, when I said 'in jobs' I meant to say as an employee

no way would i want to do ironing or cleaning, i hate both

before posting i had thought of childminding or petsitting
or
something creative would be nice, i enjoy cardmaking etc.

also thought about becoming a teacher, but im not sure id like the hours tbh.

teaching assistant would be a great job and may well fit in with what im looking for

to be totally honest think what im after is a token job iykwim
we don't really need the money but dd is going to school in september
and i feel a bit under pressure[from family and friends not dh] to get a job iykwim

nursing

i work nights and sleep when the children are at school, ie 10am-2pm

or sometimes i work weekends (but i prefer nights)

Why would you feel under pressure from family and friends to get a job - it is none of their business. If you do not need to work, then do something voluntary.

I know exactly what you mean, I'm actually under no pressure from anybody other than me. But, I would like to feel that I am achieving something, so far all I have managed to think of is school jobs but they seem few and far between and I'm sure are snapped up really quickly. My dd also starts school in September.

Also, I cant really do nights as I have no idea what time Dh is home until he walks through the door, and I dont really want to work weekends.

I have a colleague who has managed to get annualised hours in a management job. I am amazed tbh.
She works shortdays, three days a week and only in term time.
I don't think she would get this deal if she was trying to get it now, iykwim, but certainly admin jobs, nursing jobs etc can be annualised in this way to allow for term time working etc.
You could try temping agencies...they might be able to find you something with non-standard hours?

What about some sort of temping agency where you tell them when you can work and what time til etc? Sorry, no idea if I'm talking rubbish, just a thought.

Also, maybe some sort of casual shift thing at a supermarket???

Again, I'm prob talking tommy rot...

i sometimes quite like working weekends

gives dh time with children just him and them - plus you get out of the house knowing children are fine with their dad

a friend of dh made loads doing phone sex, when kids went to bed.

thankyou for all the ideas
phone sex, lol not sure dh would really like that

well before i had dd, i used to work as an advisor for a very large chain of pharmacys. i loved it at the time, swaning about in my suit, going out for nice long lunches to all the best places, feeling important, having meetings about meetings, organising training days and conferences, visting my pharmacys.reviewing audits, advising on advertising campains etc, the people that worked in marketing would come and present there ideas and projects to us, and we would give our opinions, kind of thing

only problem with this kind of work, its usually always fulltime.
sometimes after a very long day we would go out for dinner or id call in on oxford street on the way home and do a bit of shopping.
i didn't mind getting home later as it was so much fun.
but now i totally admit i do not want full time work

i realise jobs like my old job don't come up every day,
and i realise i have been spoilt, i used to really enjoy my work and it didn't feel like work tbh,
but as much as i loved my job, i love spending time with dd more.
if i could find a job like my old one one day a week, i think i would be in heaven, although i realise that that is very unlikely

My job!

I can pick and choose the shifts I can do, although there are certain shifts I am expected to do, but if I can;t it is OK. I only do a couple of shifts a week but there are more shifts availible if I want them. Certain times of the year I get full weekends away which clocks up the wages no end. I get a fairly good hourly rate too. Been doing it for about 9 years now.

Think about casual work where you do shifts on a rota, like theatre ushers, function waitresses, racecourse tote staff, sports/ music venue catering staff. Goes both ways you have no work when they have no work.

My job. I am an accountant but I work for a firm that allow me to work either from home or in the office. I do part time in the office in school holidays and that is only to load up the work I have done from home.

You could study to become an accountant. There is the AAT route (Association of Accounting Technicians) which would give you a good start, lots of colleges run the course now. Loads and loads of accountancy firms are calling out for book-keepers. You could be self-employed and as long as you have a computer, you could do book-keeping for them. It is not as hard as it seems, they all have their "particular" way of doing it and could train you up. It is good money too and reliable employment as book-keepers/accountants are always in demand.

my job!
childminder

Dunno - but let us in on the secret if you find one!

I am being serious a lollypop lady! My mum did it while we were at school..