Term time or other part time jobs? Any ideas?

Ellie2758

What about working evenings/weekends for your local out-of-hours GP service? Good money, so I hear, and you dont have to deal with kids or stand up or do heavy lifting.

Ellie

Savvy_Sue

You may find your local council has an arrangement with a temping agency or runs their own so it might be worth registering with that for part-time work. One of our local Unis has an arrangement with a commercial agency in the same way.

jellyhead

not everybody's cup of tea but i worked at mcdonalds before i got pregnant. i worked 10-3 on the days i specified, no evenings, no weekends and best of all no school holidays, so 16 weeks at least off each year (unpaid apart from the 4 weeks annual holiday). it worked well for me because my little boy hates childcare so i only wanted term time work. nowhere else in my town would have let me take the holidays off. the good thing about mcd's is they have a lot of students working there who are available for the shifts i didn't want, people who are at college want to work full time in school hols, people at uni come back and work when they're on hols etc. so basically i could pick and choose when i wanted to work, although in slack times they could only offer me 2 or 3 hours work each day around the lunch period.

at the moment i'm an avon lady, you have to buy your own books, paper bags etc. though and if you get a poor round there's not much profit to be made. i've got a poor round, i probably make less than a fiver a week for working about 4 hours a week, plus i always end up going out at night and weekends to catch the customers in, if i'd wanted to work those hours i could do a 'proper' job and earn at least the min wage.

i've also delivered the free paper, i'll do anything me

Clowance

for all your suggestions. I shall explore some more options - the uni one sounds interesting, also out of hours doctors.
The things we do to make some dough!

plumpmouse

There are numerous company that you can be employed with to sell products.

Such as Betterware or Kleeneze
Avon
Phoenix trading selling cards
IQ builders selling toys (set up fee is about £100 i think)
Usborne books (set up fee £19 in september)

I have just recently started selling usborne books to make some extra money. Not sure of what is invovled in the other ones I have listed but if you want any more info on usborne feel free to pm me.

pdoff

most call centres open evenings & weekends, at redcats where i used to work u could pretty much choose your own shift (not the best employers in the world though!) i now work on a checkout at a trade warehouse 6-9pm when hubby home from work which is a nice break from 3 year old while hubby gets to see how hard it is! pregnant again & they are great at finding me easy jobs when not sat on till.

Baby_A

I was considering applying at the local tescos for a few hours in the evening when my husband got home to look after the baby. The only thing that confused me was how it affects the child tax credit. If it reduces the child tax credit allowance we get then its pointless me going to work those few hours when I can be at home with my baby and husband getting more or less the same amount.

Dont know if anyone knows the answer? Is there a maximum amount of hours I can work without it being affected and actually being extra money for us. I noticed alot of you mentioned hours until 16?

Any help appreciated!

Laurenbelle

I forgot to add that i work for Avon too but due to my hours haven't really been able to "work" it. I make enough at the moment to buy myself make up and a couple of xmas presents each time. So that helps.

Ellie2758

Baby A, if you check the forms that came with your current child tax allowance it will tell you the maximum you can earn before you have to inform them. I would assume that this is because you are allowed to earn up to this amount before things change. I might be wrong in assuming that though.

Ellie

jellyhead

my avon repping allows me to buy a couple of xmas presents each time too. sometimes i have to pay avon all the money i collect from the customers, but that's because i ordered things for the pressie box. i don't mind nipping out to do it with the baby in his pram, i've got quite a stash of things for xmas already and i didn't pay for any of them because it came out the profit from the avon round. it takes a few rounds to get the hang of who the customers are but now out of my 4 streets i have it narrowed down to 45 customers, 10 of them have never ordered anything though but they say they want to see the books so hopefully they'll order nearer to christmas. this is a good time to start, the christmas gifts are coming out and there are 4 catalogues left before christmas, it's the highest sales time for most reps.

i don't know how this would affect the tax credits though, i suppose really you ought to keep a log of how much profit you make, i used to do this when i was on benefits and i would send them account of how much i'd earned, it rarely went over the amount i was allowed to earn without my benefit being affected (it was £15 a week back then) and when it did (in the run up to christmas) they just reduced my benefit accordingly, i was still allowed to earn the £15 a week but if i earned £75 in the 3 week period (avon orders are every 3 weeks) they would take the excess £30 out of my benefits so i still ended up being up to £15 a week better off. remember to deduct expenses such as the cost of the catalogues, paper bags etc. because you have to pay for them, it's not actual profit. i kept my invoices and highlighted the amount avon said i earned, then highlighted and deducted any sales aids i had to buy out of that profit, and the remaining figure was how much i'd earned.

also, tesco and asda take on extra staff just for the christmas period, so if you didn't want to work evenings all the time but you could manage it for a couple of months of the year that could be a good bet, at least it would be 'real' money at at least the minimumw age rather than commission based.