Work from home

[JodieR1]

Hi everyone. I'm new to Mumsnet and I'm a stay at home mum. I have four children my daughter who's 6, my son who's 4 my third child he would be three now and he passed away when he was 8 months old 💔 my 4th child is nearly 22 month. My partner works and i would love a job jsut to make extra pennies so im currently looking for a work from home job im not really wanting to do marketing or selling things etc. so I've came here to ask if anyone knows a Wfh job that doesn't include marketing/selling.

Thankyou

What are your skills? What did you do before having children?

I've done cleaning and customer service advisor, I'm keen to do anything to be honest I'm a fast learner

Something like a call centre where you can work from home? assume you’re not married, please work as much as you can. You have no financial protection if you split.

We've been together 10 years still happy as day 1. But I can't jsut work as much as I can. I have children who need looking after.

Pay for childcare and go to work?

In the middle off my baby's inquest at the moment so won't ever leave my children with someone they don't know. plus it's the 6 weeks I'm making memories with my children. And I don't want my 1 year old in school yet after my son passed away my baby is my rainbow

Most employers still expect you to use childcare when wfh.

If you wfh you still need child care. Sorry

There's a fair few customer service jobs / call handling jobs where you can wfh.

However you wouldn't be able to do this whilst also caring for multiple children at home, especially during the holidays. If you are WFH in one of those sorts of roles, you'll be spending the day at your laptop / computer dealing with calls, there won't be much memory making going in.

Lots of local authority jobs are entirely or largely WFH. When I was applying, the max was being in the office one day a week. I work for a LA and almost never have to go in if I don't want to. You'd get a pension then too.

The job search engines on sites like Indeed usually enable you to filter by WFH.

Lots of charity/ third sector jobs seem to be WFH too.

Basically any desk based jobs may be WFH, and the public and third sector seem to be still embracing this more than the private sector.

WFH jobs that employ people will require that you have an environment away from all distractions while you are working. Including children.

The jobs that allow you to care for your children while earning some money are things like selling online, or Avon style enterprises.

Have a look in the charity sector. Alot of WFH available there.

You can't work from home with young children. Is that what you are asking?

Sorry, that's unreasonable.

Maybe set up an online shop? You can do that round your kids.

What would the plan be for your 22 month old Op?

@JodieR1 it wouldn’t be fair on anyone for you to try to work from home whilst minding a 1yr old.

99% jobs will expect you to have childcare even if you're WFH.

You wouldn't be allowed to have the children with you while working.

You would need to still have child care in place. Except in emergencies there can be a short term flexible approach.

I’ve only stopped using paid childcare once they are in secondary school. Even then in the long summer break we try to find activities for them. My SiL has started a vinted selling she was about to have a second child so it worked for her to earn a small amount.

I’m sorry to hear about your baby and the inquest.

You'll still need childcare if working from home, unless you will only be working when your OH is not working. In which case you could do non hole or out of home anyway.

Most jobs offering WFH include having childcare in place as a condition of WFH.

Sorry to hear about your son.
You’d struggle to find anything that would cover the childcare for three children. Especially as a new starter. My friend who had a similar set up went into childminding. Always a call for that if you can manage another one when they’re a little older.

Otherwise best to try and work around your partner’s work. Evening hospitality work etc.

Hello! I'm really sorry to hear about your loss and I hope that you are coping with the inquest, I can't imagine that's a pleasant experience at all so please do look after yourself.

I just wanted to observe that some have been quite quick to jump here without acknowledging your circumstances which I think is quite clinical and I can imagine feels a little blunt to you.

I agree though with the general feedback - I think it's going to be hard to find a role wfh that meets your requirements that doesn't need your children to be in childcare while you're doing it (for them, you and the employer). I think you can generally work marketing/sales/your own online shop etc in hours around the children, but I think others might pose more of a challenge to you.

I dont understand your finances enough to comment and I cant imagine to understand what your family has been and is going through, but would it be an option to wait to return to work until you feel more comfortable with littlest in childcare? Or you may have to consider sales/marketing options? There is always a trade off to consider.

Hoping someone can give you something more constructive but I wanted to acknowledge your situation and send you some very unMN style love and support as you reach your new normal xx

It doesn't sound like you are going to be able to wfh during the day while looking after your children but there are things like survey sites you can make a little bit of money from during naps etc. There used to be a thread in the Money section on here called 'make £10 a day' or something like that which was very useful.

You could also look at an evening job while your partner is home looking after the kids.

Don't do Avon our any other MLM, most people loose money from this and making your friends and family customers is never going to do well for your relationships.