Term time only work ideas....please?

[pickles15]

Hi, just wondered if anyone had any bright ideas about jobs/employers that could be an option for me.
I am in a position to be able to get a job as dd with special needs is due to go off to residential school.
She'll only be home at school holidays so i only want to work term time, but...and this is the tricky thing...i dont really want to work with kids, especially young ones.

any bright ideas people?

How about looking into being a rep for a book company that sells educational materials to schools e.g. Pearson / Heinemann / Collins

If you get the right sort of clerical job in a school you don't have to spend any significant time with kids - certainly in a large secondary school.

I'm a civil servant. I work term time only and lots of people I know do too. Not suret hat there are many jobs going with the government (and potential new one) getting rid rather than recruiting!

How about admin in a large (secondary?) school. There are lots of roles that actually don't have much contact with children.

Maybe look for jobs advertised as part time, and then negotiate over how the working days are organised? I work 80% of full time, working pretty much full time during term time and either 1 day a week or not at all during school holidays. It is a fairly high level technical job in the private sector, which involves a lot of travel and customer contact.

This was negotiated with my existing employers when they pushed me to take on a new role that I didn't particulary want (so thought I might as well get something I did want out of it).

You would need to think a bit about how the job could be made to work in chunks. In mine, there was some concern over response times, but in practice customers always did wait to see me, because my diary got very booked up anyway. Now, there is more personal time in there, but I don't specify that it is that delaying my response. I just give them the next date I have some time available. Luckily the summer holidays were a quiet time anayway!

Have you thought about setting up your own business so you could set your own hours?

You don't say what your skills, background, strengths etc are but this might be an option. Is there anything you could make/do/teach and sell? Cakes? Piano lessons? etc

Or, you could look into various Direct Sales opportunities - Usborne, Virgin Vie, Phoenix, Avon, Ann Summers etc - as they offer your own business with very low start up costs. (I do Usborne, PM me for more info on how I work it etc)

Of course, with both your own business and direct sales you have to bear in mind that while they offer you the flexibility you seek, you only make money dependent on the effort you put in, that there is no basic salary/hourly wage so you need to take this into consideration.

It might be worth also submitting your CV "on spec" to your local schools for admin too.

good luck, whatever you decide

There are specialist flexible working recruiters - look at women like us (London based) or FlexworksUK (Leeds based). If these are not close, there might be one near you.

I am a distributor for Forever Living products. The company offers support by extensive training opportunities and online tools to help in every step of building your own business and making it a success. They provide many incentives and rewards for doing well.

You decide the hours you want to put in and can be worked around another job, family life etc.

Please contact me for more details on the products or joining the company and becoming a distributor.

www.simplyaloevera.myflpbiz.com

Do you have any contacts from before kids? I do a fairly mainstream admin job, but the boss is the husband of my old boss from before kids (if you follow that!). Because he knew me, he was willing to accommodate the hours I wanted. A known quantity is a good bet for employers and they may be more flexible to get someone they trust. I also do Phoenix on the side!

Working in adult education or FE? The term time jobs are usually student facing stuff, though - learning mentor, special needs support etc.