If you earn decent money working part time during school hours, what do you do?

[Pampampam]

I currently work from home running a small business. I generally only work during school hours (inc after school clubs etc.), and then flexibly during school holidays depending on childcare. Our set up works well & I don’t want to increase my hours as one DC has additional needs & me being available to them (DH works away a lot) is a necessity.

But my profit is down & looks set to stay that way so I need to take on an additional job to keep us afloat (I don’t want to fold the business entirely but in an ideal world I’d devote 3 days a week to it then do something else 2 days a week). I might be looking for something that doesn’t exist, but if you have a side hustle a couple of days a week that brings in OK money, what is it?

I’ve looked at working in schools but any other ideas? I don’t want to work in retail or hospitality.

I'd imagine hairdressing is perfect for this but you'd need to retrain and take time to build a client base.

How about cleaning? More and more people in my area are picking up a few hours here and there cleaning houses - you can reliably get £20 an hour self-employed here (obviously area dependent - we pay £23) and there is SO much demand. Lots of flex too.

I know it's not very glamorous, but realistically it pays more than admin/most part time WFH jobs that aren't specialist.

@Singleandproud Good point but I am literally useless with doing anything with my hands. My recent jobs are media/marketing/copy writing based but I’ve got quite a lot of strings to my bow (counselling, IT, design in previous roles) so your post has made me thing outside the box . Thank you.

I was going to to say cleaning as well, people are desperate here. You could specialise in helping older people too, not personal care, more of a home help that families can hire to go in once or twice a week to clean, change bedding, do laundry and fetch groceries plus crucially check all is well and be friendly. Huge need depending on where you are, if theres older people who's families live elsewhere eg anywhere but London really - my friend does this and the wealthy dc who work in London just want their parent to be happy really without them needing to visit so often!