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URGENTLY NEED A JOB

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MummyToBeAgain1 · 25/04/2023 10:54

Hello

I need advice!

After ruminating for months about my personal situation, I've decided to finally do something about it.

I need a job desperately.

However, my only option is to work remotely from home during the night. So, anytime between 8pm - 7am.

What are my options? Where do I look?

I did a google search but did not get far.

TIA

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Hatemylife2023 · 25/04/2023 11:35

Insurance claims, was offered job working overnight and remote, it was a multi hire opportunity too so more than 1 role available. Downside is training is daytime hours as with most night positions but that should only be a couple of months if I’m slow to pick things up which hope I won’t be. I just found the position on Indeed.

I also tried an actual home-working company Sensee is it, where it’s a bun fight for pick your own hours but that might do later/nights as they have different clients.

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MummyToBeAgain1 · 25/04/2023 12:58

@hatemylife2023
Thankyou so much for the information.

I filled in the Sensee application until I realised they require a telephone connection which I don't have!

The insurance jobs on Indeed are currently day time jobs - I require a job working at night. I will keep looking.

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JS80 · 25/04/2023 13:48

Out of interest, why can you only work overnight?

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MummyToBeAgain1 · 25/04/2023 18:10

@JS80

Hello

The reason I can only work at night is because I drop/pick kids up from school. 1 child finishes midday so I have to pick her up and she's with me in the afternoon.
If I was to send her to a seperate childcare place in the afternoon - by the time I pick her up and drop her of - it would take atleast an hour!

I then pick up the others from school, they get changed/eat and play for a while and then the revision/lesson starts for their religious education. I drop/pick up again.
We then have tea and bed by 7.30pm

DH arrives home later in the day and starts early in the morning so isn't any help.

I don't have family to babysit either.

I know that at night I can sit down with no distractions and fully focus and commit to what I do.

Sorry to be rambling.

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GayPareeee · 25/04/2023 18:15

When will you sleep? You'll need no good to anyone off you don't sleep

LIZS · 25/04/2023 18:15

So you could do 9-11:45? Or longer if you had childcare for dd?

Belltentdreamer · 25/04/2023 18:16

When will you sleep?

1smallhamsterfoot · 25/04/2023 18:21

Did you forget humans need sleep?

HollyFern1110 · 25/04/2023 18:22

Please don't make the mistake of thinking you can work all night & then survive on 2 hours sleep a day in between school runs.

I did & it was absolutely miserable.

Hairyfairy01 · 25/04/2023 18:30

I agree you need to slee. Some kind of care work may suit you. Or providing an ironing service privately sprang to mind. Night security / receptionist in a travel lodge or similar?

BumbleNova · 25/04/2023 18:33

Politely- I don’t think a job at night is what you need. You need adequate rest too.

what problem are you trying to solve? Lack of income?

Hairyfairy01 · 25/04/2023 18:33

Sorry, just seen it has to be home based. Some care homes offer twilight shifts so 8pm to 2am for example. But can your dh not adapt his hours to enable you to work?

Kickingupmerrybehaviour · 25/04/2023 18:35

Helplines have these kind of hours

3luckystars · 25/04/2023 18:35

Thats not going to work, you will be exhausted.

Could you try a part time job and get childcare for one or two hours in the afternoon?

Flimflamma · 25/04/2023 18:37

So your husband earns all the money and does no child stuff?

If you go back to work then he does some child stuff, (I mean he should be anyway tbh) that’s how it works.

Or, if you want to keep it as is then your DH needs to earn more money.

3luckystars · 25/04/2023 18:42

You could get childcare that picks your child up from school too.

bumpytrumpy · 25/04/2023 18:59

You need to get the nursery child into full day provision. Then you have 9-3 free. Plus a couple of after school club days will give you some reasonable time to offer an employer.

Working all night and not sleeping isn't going to work.

PenguinLove1 · 25/04/2023 19:13

Why no phone connection? Most wfh jobs will need you to have a home phone line and good broadband so you can connect to their network.

Loads of banks and call centres are constantly recruiting and many let their phone banking staff work from home and they can be open late at night. I think you would be better working something like 6-12 and get your husband to do the bedtimes etc so you can still sleep later at night.

Or get a weekend job when he is off? Or get a childminder for the mornings and work early until lunchtime?

Your husband will need to help, but most people just use childcare/after school clubs to allow them to work, its unlikely to find a fully wfh job that will let you do every drop off/pick up/ dinner/bed time and stop at 12 in the day.

storminamooncup · 25/04/2023 19:19

Is this a culture thing, where you are not allowed to work when your husband is at home, or have a phone connection? who the hell doesn't have a phone connection? or a mobile phone - are you not allowed a mobile phone either?
Why can't you work when the youngest is at nursery (I assume you meant nursery and not school), why can't you extend her nursery hours.
Are you in the UK? Is English not your first language?
This makes little sense to me.

Ragwort · 25/04/2023 19:25

Would it be better to look for a weekend job if your DH doesn't work weekends?

PotatoSoufle · 25/04/2023 19:29

Home working jobs are still hard to find, home working over night hours only are rarer still, and on top of that you’ve got no phone connection.

You don’t need an overnight home job, you need childcare to be able to work during the day.

JellyBeanFactory · 25/04/2023 19:34

Im sure that you will need a phone connection for any type of work.

But, aside from that, you can't work all night and function as normal during the day. Not possible.

Twillow · 25/04/2023 19:41

I think it's going to be almost impossible to find something like this that actually makes money. The complication of not having a phone line won't help. There may be online stuff you can do but it won't be big money. Think creatively - could you offer childcare to others at the times you are looking after your own? Can you cook well enough to sell anything (but again, probably pin money really). What are your monetisable skills?
What's stopping you from leaving the house to work out of interest?

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 25/04/2023 19:42

night reception at a hotel?

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MummyToBeAgain1 · 26/04/2023 09:55

I meant a phone line not a phone connection.

If I could extend the youngest childs nursery hours - I certainly would. Unfortunately, this isn't an option at our local nursery. She doesn't attend an independent nursery, the one she attends is part of a primary school.

Are you in the UK? Is English not your first language?
How patronizing! All you had to do is clarify a few points and I would happily explain what I meant. Yes, english is my first language.
You do know that if a post doesn't quite make sense it could be because the person may have expressive aphasia.
I struggle to get my thoughts in to words and when I do at times my mind goes blank and I can't think of the appropriate words. I've wrote out this response 3 times since yesterday to make sure it makes sense.

Please always judge with an open mind.

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