Considering leaving self-employment for a hybrid role within school hours

[CrazyCatLady1993]

I have been self employed for 5 years. I do brows & lash lifts from a salon. It started out as a side hustle and I really started to enjoy it, then I went self employed and it’s my main job. I loved it for years, the last 6 months I’m just not happy.

I never thought I’d say this, but I’m just not happy being self employed anymore. I can’t get a job in salon employed because they don’t hire you if you don’t have a certain beauty therapy qualification, and the money isn’t great anyway.

Being self employed I have a big bonus of being off for half terms and inset days for my kids but for me personally, that is all the benefits I have. The main benefit previously, was that I loved it

I am in the process of going through a mortgage application so I won’t change jobs until I’ve moved anyway.

Are there jobs out there that offer hybrid/remote roles within school hours?

I don’t want to apply for just anything so I will be quite fussy with what companies I apply to, I won’t be jumping ship just for the sake of it. I’d love a company where they value progression and you can have amazing company benefits and good pension (I haven’t made any pension contributions since being self employed 😰)

Running a business has given me so much experience in itself and has given me so much confidence to know how capable I am of doing a bloody good job of things.

Im just not sure where to start and if anyone else has been in this situation or industry, what have you done on to so?

Termtime jobs within school hours unless you want to be a TA are like hens teeth.

What are your skills?

What do you want to do?

Have you thought about doing the qualification that means a salon could employ you?

Remote/hybrid jobs during school hours will be very hard to come by, especially as you don’t have a speciality in something typically computer/phone based already. Also expecting to be really picky, and get excellent progression (in a school hours/term time job!) with great company benefits is quite unrealistic. I’d consider getting the qualification you need for your current job and doing that, or accepting if you want remote then it’s likely to be basic full time in sales/call centre just to start off with.

What other qualifications or experience do you have? The jobs market is very tough. It’s one thing to be “fussy” about what you apply for but it isn’t an applicants’ job market and it sounds like you want a bit of a unicorn job? You’re thinking of what employers can offer you, but what can you offer them in a saturated market?

Nail technician. My neighbour seems to enjoy this line of work, she only works two hours each day. No weekends.