Hi everyone, I’m a SAHM to an 18month old daughter and have 2 other children at school. My husband works full time, but we’re only just scraping by each week. I need a job but don’t want to put our daughter into daycare. It’s ridiculously expensive and I just don’t feel comfortable putting her into care and we have no family living in the same town as us so we have no one to help out with looking after our kids while I work. I have been out of work since having our first child a little over 9 years ago and my back ground is child care. I need to do a job that I can do from home but I have no idea what to do. We live in a small country town and live out of town (so rural). Our internet is extremely limited, I am not crafty at all and am not interested in selling Tupperware, beauty products etc. I’ve done family day care before and I’m not interested in doing it again. I do ironing for a lady once a fortnight, but I hate it so I’m not keen to pick up anymore. (Who really enjoys ironing anyway right?) Does anyone have any other ideas on work that I can do from home with a toddler running around and very limited phone and internet?
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Look, you're really setting yourself up for failure. A lot of "I don't want this and that", I don't have this or that. It's work, it isn't meant to be extremely joyous and most stay at home jobs require decent internet coverage for advertising at the very least.
Broaden your horizons and be more open to things that you can do and you might find some success :)
To work from home you would need to have good internet service at the least. Can you study so that in 18months you can go back to work with a good job? It doesn’t help now but could help in the long run
Realistically, unless you're elstablished in a career or have the relevant qualifications to make it logistically possible for you to do your work at home, you'll really only be making pocket money, if that. And your only real options are doing things like people's washing/ironing and MLM, especially as your limited with internet and phone resources. I dont mean to be a downer but being in this exact situation myself and having considered every avenue, that's just how it is unfortunately.
Some nightfil or weekend work may be a better fit, its what we had to do to avoid exorbitant childcare fees.
Without internet and some qualifications you have very limited choices.
Have you looked into growing fruit and vegetables? If you aren’t doing it for yourself it can cut expenses but you maybe able to sell any excess.
Bees and honey - wax wraps are a popular and sustainable item too.
There is not much you actually want to do. If you need the money you prob have to suck it up like the rest of us and either do something you don’t enjoy or put your child in care.. or be more flexible and more open minded about possibilities
Do you have the qualification to run family day care? 🙂
She said she doesn't want to do FDC did you read her post? She doesn't want to do anything .
No need to be a bitch!
Potentially asking because if she is qualified in FDC then she can go and work in a normal centre and take her bubs.. seems like a logical question to me!
She wanted to do work from home jobs. She doesn't want to put her child in day care , she also said that in her post . You dont get to take your child for free to a day care centre if the mum works there either , it still costs. But either way the OP has asked what to do 'from home' and then proceeded to list a bunch of things she refused to do from home. So unless she's highly talented or has a diploma or equivalent in something , nobody here can actually help her .
Wow can a person just ask for some direction while stating what they don’t want to do anymore?
Stop responding to posts with such a nasty attitude and just scroll on before someone puts their foot in your mouth.
She wants to work but she’s had enough of what she did before. Simple! She’s only asking for some suggestions, not to be insulted.
In the OPs defence, childcare is not an occupation that is well suited for everyone. A few of my friends have done FDC, most of them ended up having to stop because it started having a detrimental effect on their own kids.
I do agree, if you need the money, you do need to lower your standards a bit and not be picky but in jobs where people entrust you with their loved ones, that's only something you should do if you genuinely love doing it, it's not something you should do just because you're hard up for cash.
Suck it up. Sorry to be blunt but if you need money, you need money. If you are not crafty, or have quals then your options are limited. Nightfill pays and you with childcare/ Fdc you get childcare subsidy so it’s quite affordable. We all gotta do what we gotta do to pay bills.
I quite like ironing... may be I should have a think about doing some extra work from home lol.m
Is there any way you can use your property? Give lessons? Run camps? Get a campervan and run an airbnb/homestay?
Create a space for a workshop and run wellbeing sessions like plate throwing, mosaic, intuitive art, kids messy play, parent relaxation while you take the kids for a big play and then make and deliver smoothies and foot baths etc
Prostitution? Can’t do online sex as internet is bad, so you’ll just have to go old school. How’s the phone line? Perhaps phone sex? Or selling shit over the phone....
Upskill. Do a course. Barista. RSA. Disability support worker. Massage therapy. Aged care. Proof reading/editing.
Meet some locals, make friends. Pay someone to mind your kid or do a swapsy with another mum one day a week. Or work nights or weekends.
Cleaning. Gardening. Tutoring. Volunteering. Volunteer at school then you might get a job out of it.