Jobs that fit around kids

essex_1988

I'm training to be a childminder but won't be able to start that for at least another year . I have a 1 year and a 3 year old..3 year old is in nursery but 1 year old is at home with me...anyone got any ideas of jobs I can do whilst having 1 year old at home 

PeppaCoin

I'd suggest its going to be very hard to work from home during the day with a one year old. At that age they are moving around, into everything, noisy and hard to take your eyes off.

What about working in the evening when the littles ones are asleep? Could you be a Virtual PA? Any qualifications in book-keeping? Work in sales from home? Appointment-setting? See if any manufacturing companies near you have any small-scale manufacturing jobs you can do from home?

Marcon

essex_1988 said:

I'm training to be a childminder but won't be able to start that for at least another year . I have a 1 year and a 3 year old..3 year old is in nursery but 1 year old is at home with me...anyone got any ideas of jobs I can do whilst having 1 year old at home 

What skills, experience and (above all) contacts do you have?

Jillanddy

If you mean a job working from home whilst also "minding" your child,  then quite apart from the impracticality of that,  you won't find many employers who will agree to that set up.  

TBagpuss

Most employers require that you have child care in place if you are working from home.Obviously this changed during lockdown when schools and nurseries were closed, but normally you you can't really work at caring for a child and work for an employer simultaneously, so looking or part time work that you can do when you are not aring for the childnre would be better - e.g. during any hours they are in nursery or with other family, or in the evening after they are in bed.
IS their other paretns in the picture? Are you able to split care so tht you are able to work while they are being looked after by their other parent? 
The other possibility s if you have skills where you would be paid for the finished product rather than for fixed hours, so you could work at the times that wor for you - things like design or freelance roles where you arecreating a product for a client and and the deal is that you complete it by a set deadline, but that depends very much on what your skills are. 

wilfred30

Are you currently training and looking after your 1 year old at the same time?

Can you afford to send your 1 year old to nursery with your 3 year old?

74jax

What hours will you not have your child? Could you do evening work? Weekend work? 

pinkshoes

I would look at sending the 1 year old to nursery for a couple of days a week, then find a job on those two days, like shop work.

Or find a nursery that does term time only contracts and work in a school as a TA.

Marcon

pinkshoes said:

I would look at sending the 1 year old to nursery for a couple of days a week, then find a job on those two days, like shop work.

Or find a nursery that does term time only contracts and work in a school as a TA.

Snag is that the childcare will cost more than OP earns...

essex_1988

Thank you for all the replies, I'm finding it's hard to find childcare that works around the hours that jobs want me to work...my partner does night shift and during the day he has to sleep because of the job he does, we have no family near by that can help. I don't mind putting baby in nursery but it's finding a job that pays enough for the £50+ fees per day that will make it worth while 

MovingForwards

Have you done a benefit check to see if you'd get help towards costs?