Work from home ideas?

[hippopandamouse]

Without boring you to tears with the ins and outs of the situation I find myself in. 10 weeks after my baby was born my employers turned up at my house to make me redundant. They lied to my face which I’m still trying to come to terms with and tried to stop paying maternity pay. I’m now due my last payment at the end of the month with no other job to walk into, it was nothing glamorous I was basically their servant haha! A family member wants me to run a holiday let for them, however they haven’t even started the renovations yet so that’s looking to be a long way off. My OH says that my contributions now to the family are taking care of the baby plus older 2 children and running the home (when he’s in a good mood) however I just know there are going to be money related issues and I need to find some way of bringing in some cash. I’m so stressed at the idea of not working, I want to contribute and be able to cover some bills but at a loss as to what I can do currently. We don’t have much in the way of childcare help and I cancelled my childcare arrangements for baby as I didn’t want to mess the lovely lady around when she could fill the spot with another child. Any ideas on working/making money from home? I’m not qualified for anything specifically. I’ve searched and searched online but haven’t really gotten anywhere. Sorry for the rambling! Super stressed out Mumma here haha! Any ideas welcome! :)

That sounds really tough! Just when you should be enjoying new baby time as well.

Good for you for looking for solutions though.

So what do you like doing? How much time do you realistically think you’ll have available? Will you treat this as a side hustle to your main job of SAHM - or the other way round?

Do you like writing? Creating? Helping people? Looking after children? Numbers? (Accounting work can often be fairly casual if you have the qualifications and want it to be home-based)

Have you looked into what benefits you may qualify for, with such a young baby?
https://www.entitledto.co.uk

it looks about £20 ($27) to join. I did get a pop up, saying lifelong membership for $3, but wasn't sure if you still had to pay the $27? Worth a try?

Don't be UTTERLY RIDICULOUS.

@Crispyqueen oh I’m so sorry to hear this! What an awful time for you all :( I hope your husband is on the mend soon! I’m open to any suggestions at this point

@ditzzy I probably sound really silly but I’ve taken such a knock from it all, it’s on my mind daily. Made worse by the fact we live right by them, we look out across their land and see their huge farmhouse when I take the dog out first thing (I’m uncomfortable that they can see in as easily as we can, we stupidly took our hedge out to open up the view and now have no privacy haha!)

I think realistically I’m looking at a bit of a side hustle, baby is amazing but an absolute whirlwind and there never seems to be a lot of spare time. She’s on the verge of walking at 10 months old and into absolutely everything! I get a lot of comments now about how I’m “not doing anything” and it’s really so disheartening.

I honestly feel like I have no particularly good skills in anything haha!! I’d love to work a job where I’m able to help people in some way at some point. I really considered studying to become a midwife but my OH doesn’t think we’d be able to manage it at all, we’re quite a trek from the uni for a start and I don’t have anybody who would be able to step in for school runs etc on a regular basis. My friend is studying currently but her husband is able to have days off as and when it’s needed but our living situation is much different and my partner can’t do the same sadly.

I just feel so lost currently 😅