I so desperately want to be a stay at home Mum and work from home, however I have no idea what to do. We need for me to have a decent weekly wage. I am currently working 3-4 days a week and my husband works 5 very full days (6am-6pm most of those days). We really need to eliminate after school care and as much vacation care as possible as it’s an expense that we really don’t want to pay. We have 3 children, 2 at school and 1 in daycare. I feel like all I do is work to pay for daycare and OSHC.
We live in a small regional town in Queensland. We have minimal internet coverage where we live which make doing any type of online work difficult but I guess not impossible. I do not want to do ironing or cleaning peoples houses as I’ve done this before and they are absolute pet hate chores of mine. Selling make up, Tupperware, linen etc is not for me either as the income is extremely unpredictable, especially where we live, selling these types of things are hard to do. As I said earlier, I need a decent income every week.
Is there anything out there that would work for me that I haven’t already thought of, or am I dreaming that such work excites?
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Yeah, truthfully you're looking for something that's rare to non existent.
Can you apply for some nightfill positions at your local supermarkets?
No, you're dreaming. No company would hire you to do any sort of work like that with poor internet coverage and not proving yourself worthy, it's too big of an investment.
I would do cleaning or ironing, it's not a chore when it's a job..
What you can do, however, is make a hobby for yourself such as buying a Cricut machine and start doing some custom made products. Things that people genuinely want. But you need to be good because every 2nd person does this.
Do you get FTB? How much extra would you get if you weren’t working? And if you are not paying for childcare/vacation care you might do ok.
If only! Even with a good internet connection there's nothing there. Any wfh, well paid position would attract a very competitive, qualified field of applicants as there's a lot of us who would love it!
You could try medical transcription or similar. I looked into it after it was suggested to me but turns out it's not great pay.
You could look into doing family daycare. It's quite highly regulated so your residence may not be suitable and obviously you'd have to obtain all the relevant qualifications first which takes time but it's an option.
There's really not a lot of entry level work from home admin types of jobs, that's usually a privilege reserved for people higher up. Let alone it being unrealistic to expect it to work with minimal internet coverage, that type of work is usually very time sensitive and relies heavily on the instantaneous nature of the tech world .
A lot of us would rather not be paying CC/OSHC fees but we do what we've gotta do, sometimes that also means working jobs we find "a chore" just to stay afloat.
I'd also double check you're getting the correct subsidisations for the care as you may not be gettting the assistance you're entitled to.
OnlyFans. Online paid chats .
A stay at home mum and a mum that works from home are not the same thing.
Exactly.
All the parents I know who work from home still need to send their kids to daycare or have another adult present because they'd get nothing done with their kids home. The workload doesn't decrease, you're just doing it from a different location.
People who haven't worked from home seem to think it's as simple and easy as hopping onto the computer for a little bit inbetween looking after the kids, running errands and doing the housework. It usually doesn't work that way!
Totally agree..due to covid I'm working from home and it's bloody HARD!! My kid still goes to childcare whilst the other does remote learning. It's not as simple as squeezing in work between your household stuff.
I'd look at nightfill, 7-12 shifts two or three nights a week. Pay your bills, don't disrupt the kids as hubby would be home and they're likely asleep.
This is why I went into teaching, it's school hours, home when kids are (mostly). I do pay after school fees but I can afford it, working is worthwhile. Or teacher aide, you have to train either way, but kids are going to be there for lots more that 4 years.
Working from home with kids home is the most stressful exhasting thing I've ever tried to do! I would not recommend it.
We have run a trade business from home for nearly 8 years.
While our business was growing it was fine.
Now its a fully fledged business, our kids are fine, they know office is not a playroom they have grown in this environment.
School holidays can be tuff.
Its other people…you become the baby sitter because…your home. Other peoples kids want to hang out with the ‘free range’ house.
Its hard to work in home office meanwhile I can hear my house being trashed.
My kids are just about to start high school now, we would probably spend less quality time with them because there is no actual day off, not at work. Family holidays consist of laptop and phones on the car dash on a Friday /Monday if we have a long weekend.
I was always that mum in the park looking at my phone/ on my phone…In other people’s eyes looked neglectful because my office can be mobile.
So its freedom without freedom
I actually sent them to school in lockdown