Ideas needed! Finding 4 hours of work?

dawyldthing

by the time the middle classes have 'overpaid on their taxes' silvercar and the working class have had the working tax credits we really would as a country be a lot better off being in a communist society as it would stop all of this battle of classes that the government want so that they can rule us all while we bicker over everything. Everyone should have the same amount of money regardless of what role you do - money doesn't make you happy, its what you do in life that will

lisawal1971

Extra hours, I note the degree/ expertise that you mention so maybe: tutoring, teaching an adult evening class, proof reading? Sorry can't be more help. Good luck!

apples1

Rumpleskintskint wrote: »

I was considering something like Betterware, but wasn't sure how it would apply... i.e. would it have to be profitable to minimum wage standards (i.e. be making roughly £25 a week, the equivalent of 4 hrs X min wage) to qualify as 4 hours of work? I also have a number of web projects that have good traffic but are currently run as non-profit, though could potentially be profit making with a few tweaks (they have been in the past, but we made the decision a year or so ago to go non-profit) but, again, the income from that can vary quite a bit from month to month, although they certainly constitute more than 4 hours a week of work in actual "time".

Hard to think why you would make a decision not to make a profit when money is so tight for your family that you are dependent on benefits? Seems that if only a few tweaks are needed to make a profit from this venture then if you have clearly done well with it and/or you partner invested a bit more time into it it could provide the profit you need allowing you not to need the extra 4 hours and benefits.

wik

Yikes!! I shall have to find an extra 7 1/2 hours a week :S I didnt know about this change in working tax credits !

My contract is for 16 1/2 hours a week, and there are no extra hours to be had. The hours have suited me, as I have a poorly DD who is home tutored and I have to be at home when the tutors are here.

I think it shall be back to working a couple of shifts in a pub for me

cannyscot_2

Rumpleskintskint wrote: »

A large part of the reason for Broken Britain is the sub-standard, uninvolved, distant parenting that results in vast swathes of apathetic and disillusioned teenagers and young adults. The sort who have no concept of self-worth beyond a nice car. Or a credit card. Debt and overspending broke Britain - that is a fact - and people are FAR more likely to equate money with happiness if their parents have palmed them off onto strangers to buy them a few more toys.

I have a degree in Psychology - focussed heavily on Child Psychology - and all of the aforementioned non-profit projects I mentioned in this thread are centred around the effects of the sort of useless hands-off parenting you're advocating. I'm afraid citing one study isn't going to sway me - and I'm not subjecting my children to SuperNanny for the sake of working longer hours. Money > children? That's the sort of thinking that broke the entire damn planet.

HOWEVER - I didn't come here to get into a parenting debate - I have enough of those elsewhere with the rest of the formula-feeding, leaving-baby-to-cry, off-to-nursery scum that makes up the vast majority of this country. I've gotten more than enough good advice from some very helpful people on the first page, and will happily leave you all in your whining Daily Mail misery. Good luck with it. And good luck to your children, should you ever have any.

I think your view is very simplistic and makes a lot of generalisations. I am a very well adjusted 40 something whose Mum worked from the time I was 3 months old. She made my care a priority and I was always well looked after by a childminder. My mother thought education was important and I have 2 degrees and now a good job. That good job has allowed me to work but in a more flexible part-time fashion since mine were babies. It has also allowed me to work round a disabled child.

My DD has just won a place at Cambridge and I feel very strongly that I must show her a good example. Why would I educate her to the expect that the minute she has children she would give up and not use her education?

I think most people on meeting me and the children would think we were very happy and well adjusted. I am a responsible person and have always taught my children that Mum has promised to go to work and so even on difficult days I have to keep my promise. I think as a result my children understand responsibility better than most and I would not ever have to worry that they would not be able to earn a living as they are very determined, proactive people.

I am now at a great stage of life as the chuldren are growing up and the pressure is less-at the early stages yes it could be intense. There are other mothers around me who now have no career/outside earning/job and are experiencing children leaving and feeling redundant. I think life is a balance. My best friends (same age) had a stay at home Mum -she doesn't seem any happier to me.

zagfles

wik wrote: »

Yikes!! I shall have to find an extra 7 1/2 hours a week :S I didnt know about this change in working tax credits !

My contract is for 16 1/2 hours a week, and there are no extra hours to be had. The hours have suited me, as I have a poorly DD who is home tutored and I have to be at home when the tutors are here.

I think it shall be back to working a couple of shifts in a pub for me

Note that the change only applies to couples. Single parents will still be able to get WTC on 16 hours. For couples it's joint hours (one must work at least 16, total 24).