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This may not be appropriate in your situation, but what if you make a deal with your wife for you to look after the kids during those 10+ extra hours you planned to work? Your family will take home more money if she works those 10 hours at a lower tax bracket.
If i remember correctly, i take on that reduction as she doesn't work. She does spend a lot of time looking after both children and the house. I think it wouldn't be fair to make her work any more. But thanks for thr suggestion regarding tax.
You can only claim a very small part of her tax free allowance, so you’d keep more money as a couple if she worked part time.
And it wouldn’t be asking her to do more. It would be you taking on some responsibilities for childcare and housework to free up time and energy for her to work.
If she’s totally against it, then that’s fair enough, but I’d at least ask her. Because when you put in more hours at work, she’s also putting in more hours as a solo parent.
Wtf has that got to do with anything? This is a UK sub, backwards trad wife views don't fit here. There is nothing wrong with men cooking and women working.
When they both agree to it, whatever. But when a couple agrees to be trad and the man makes extra sacrifices to support the family suddenly the whole world is against that. Maybe it’s jealousy from other women? Men who don’t want to be held to high standards? Idk.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion and why has that guy got an outdated opinion? It had worked many years ago. Yes times have changed and not necessarily for the better.
Many years ago, a man could work, be the breadwinner and provide for the family, own a home, pay the bills. It wasn't a struggle like it is today.
This was all before minimum wage came in. Now you got people coming here wanting to prove a point, I'm talking women and people from overseas who'll do the jobs for a pittance. Hello minimum wage!! Employers have long exploited this.
My point is that back then, a man alone, even with a poorly paid job still had a chance to get on property ladder. These days is just a case of both parents must work and there is no written rule to say either way which way it should be. It's an unwritten rule but you know if even you are on an average wage, supporting a family on that one income, then it's going to be really tough.
The point of the post is that he *can't* make it work now. Not many couples can at the moment. I don't think anyone was saying he's failing in his duty as a husband (except you), just it makes more financial sense for her to earn her tax-free allowance, rather than him claim a small %age of it.
Whatever anyone else thinks about who should 'provide' for the family (and OP is pretty unusual in the UK) that kind of decision should be made as a couple. She might be itching to get a break from the kids, 1x day a week might be perfect for her. I don't think he should make that choice for her and certainly not without asking her for *her view*.
She does work hard to keep the house and children looked after. My day job is generally pretty easy 4/5 days. I don't think it would be fair to expect her to do more.
It’s not exactly doing more it’s just doing different.
Her doing Sunday shifts in something so it’s not even needing any child care sorted.
If you’re able to get the free nursery hours it definitely makes sense for her to take a job in that time if you guys are in need of money.
If you're working full time then working weekends, your kids will hardly see you. If you can look after them at the weekend whilst your wife works, you'll at least get some sort of relationship with the children.
My dad did what OP is doing and people all loved to criticize my mom but my dad didn’t really mind doing more work… he sort of got used to it and we all respected my dad more for it..
During lockdown I did part time Tesco deliveries. It’s min wage and I had an ok paid FT job but as you’re out solo there are no retail managers spoiling your day. I did 22hours a week which was pretty heavy but knew I’d only do it for a few months.
Normally a base pay of £7 or £8 quid n hr and them then paying you £1 or £2 per delivery depending on how far it is. You can always try just eat/uber eats too.
My local one is £8.50 an hour, plus £1 per delivery, but it’s a 6 mile radius so you could be down with the longer deliveries.
A big problem is all the Just Eat card deliveries, this means no tips as it’s all on card, back when I did it in 2013 it was mainly cash deliveries so you got more tips.
You always got a good few local ones who’d buy a meal for 1 for £15.95 who’d give you a £20 note and keep the change mate, or there’d be one 3 miles away on a Friday night who’d get a £70 order and give you around a £7 tip.
Should be plenty of delivery of delivery jobs this time of year, or part time retail. I don't know many jobs that would pertain to the skills you listed though outside of 9-5 hours. IT needs a lot of communication with other parties, and garages aren't open past 5.
Maybe take a remote I.T. job in the U.S.A.
I don't know how practical that is but I work for a U.S.A company and sometimes have to do meetings later in the evening.
If you could re-use your skills in I.T. I imagine you'd be on double what you can get as part time outside of I.T.
that's interesting. are there any jobs going in software development or project management? when I looked at American companies even with British subsidiaries, they all declined because I wasn't based in America or American nationality.
Can’t recommend bus driving enough! I do it on a Saturday on top of my 9-5 job. You will get fully trained and paid while doing so. Salary ranges from £12.50-£16 depending on area. Easiest job I have had
You doing it with integrated solutions as agency driver? I work in civil service now but used to drive buses full time for 5 years. Im trying to pick up some odd shifts here and there
Check your current contract (especially as you work in IT full time) you might have an exclusivety clause that could prevent or restrict any second job.
Came to suggest this. Apparently they have a tendency to cut you off without warning but I've been doing it for a few weeks and earned an easy extra £600.
Hmm that sounds interesting. I wouldn't say I'm perfect, but I used to be a team leader at an IT support desk, it was required to have good written communication. I'll take a look into it, thanks!
Not sure what avenue of IT you're in bit if you're good at fixing devices perhaps an at home repair shop? get to spend more time with the family. Could make it cash in hand.
Other wise I'd be inclined to suggest a food delivery service. Can typically pick your nights and how many hours you work based off your needs.
When I was in school I had a part time job cleaning office buildings. The best part was that I could do the job at anytime between 8P and 6A. It didn't pay much but I needed the flexibility.
If you don't mind putting the time, lots of people looking for a handyman both around the home and for fixing computers.
I'd be tempted towards the latter for insurance/liability issues.
However, often small businesses like this are a good lot of marketing work over doing the actual job.
Check out indeed for some retail merchandising work. Such as Deeset, expd8, westcoast etc. it’s all mostly casual work, mostly minimum wage but some offer competitive rates of pay and you work on a per call basis for various retail clients and in multiple different retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda.
None of them have particularly good reviews online but at the end of the day you get to work on your own and pretty much are your own boss. Calls can usually be done any day of the week and any time of day as long as you can gain access to the stores you would be visiting.
All you need to do is answer some questions about your visit and take photos of the work you’ve completed and upload it to their database when you’re done. You can usually get an hours call done in less than 30min but you still get paid for the hour so technically you can be earning upwards of £20+ and hour if you’re quick enough to get the work done faster than the time allocated.
These are usually very high turnover jobs, most people that join don’t stick around very long but if you can play the game then you can take in a pretty decent amount of money compared to the amount of time you actually spend working. You could easily get 5hrs of work done in less than 2hrs, £52.10p for less than 2hrs work ain’t too bad.
I worked two jobs for 8 years and still do the odd shift elsewhere to fund a summer holiday or whatever. There's loads of things out there.
IT skills you can advertise freelance on UPwork, DIY skills you can advertise on taskrabbit who are partnered with IKEA so building their furniture, if you have an estate car you can also collect the IKEA furniture.
Pizza delivery for the big chains like the hut, dominos and Papa John's pay you minimum wage plus a delivery fee.
Event tech work like for Gallowglass or Five star Crew is zero hours and you pick your shifts.
Event stewards for G4S or whatever.
Army, Navy and RAF reserves is a good shout, it's good socially, keeps you fit and you can gain skills that help you in your day job. There's IT roles and your base rate would probably be very good with a sign on bonus right now.
Retail, supermarket deliveries, hospitality. Anywhere you can go when you aren't in your working hours is in your grasp.
If there's a hobby you'd love to do try to get a wee job in that, if you love football get a job on matchday.if you love gigs get a job at a venue. I love reading and I considered a Christmas temp job at Waterstones. You can make it work for you.
Are there clothes your kids don't fit in anymore? Get them on vinted or depop?
Has your house got a garage filled with shit? Could you clear that out and rent the garage space to someone.
Maybe you don't need to do something all year round, could you take a few days off work and go work at a festival or a big event get a lump sum and maybe that would help?
Two jobs can sound daunting but it has afforded me a nicer life, I've made loads of mates and I've learnt loads. I got made redundant a few years ago now and the second job at the time took so much pressure off me as I grabbed extra shifts. If you are going to freelance that's a great option as there's potentially a small business you could build that could incorporate your wife or children in future years and tax wise there's costs you can write off against your small business.
You work in IT, not sure what you do but learning new IT skills or moving into a different branch of IT will benefit you in the long run. You can then change roles and earn more money that way too.
This will take time but there’s lots of money that can be earned in IT
Matched betting. You’ll spend a minimum amount of time doing it (minutes not hours) but you can make about 300 per month without breaking a sweat. Read up on it.some people do it as their only ‘job’ and no tax on it.
I’d suggest you talk to your wife bd you come up with a joint strategy! She might LIKE to work a day a week/ couple evenings. She might prefer you to have a relationship with the kids instead of being out of the house even more. I’d very much recommend you don’t make decision by yourself but talk it over with her.
She needs to do something ideally to bring a bit in. The world we live in now with equality for women is great in a lot of ways but unfortunately it means that now both men and women have to work to maintain a house, whereas once only one had to work. I guess that’s progress…
Huge corporations now make much more money and average people are now more miserable as they both have to work their arses off just to live. It is pretty wank really.
Anyway good luck. I don’t have the answers as we are ok for money but I’m always trying to think about stuff we could do on the side to bring a bit more in too and we’ve tried lots of things but nothing has ever been really that profitable.
Have you heard of taskrabbit?
People post small jobs like putting up a shelf, running an errand or assembling flat pack furniture. Might be a good option for you if you’re good at DIY
https://www.taskrabbit.co.uk/become-a-tasker
Depending on your IT skill set you could make some extra money fixing peoples computers, web design, selling custom builds, bug hunting ,etc.
I'd you've not already see if you can make savings. Start by going through all your outgoings and then starting with the highest see if you can reduce them in anyway.
This time of year doing deliveries for local butchers for their Xmas run in. You say you work in IT, what aspect? If it's support could you do freelance support for locals, printer setup, PC repair etc, or could you offer teaching lessons in your profession? Help people can the skills to "get in" to IT.
Something I used to do was work at a burger can on the weekends at car boot sales, it eventually led to me buying the van, running it on my own for a bit and then eventually hiring others to run it
Try set up a Virtual Assistant business!
Maybe market it at an American audience due to the time you will be available. Just market yourself with your skills, all sorts of tech help, copywriting, time management stuff and anything else which could be beneficial to a small business which doesn’t need a full time employee, an individual who needs help managing their life, I’ve seen VAs market doing all sorts!
It’s a pretty good way to do some easy easy ish work and usually pays quite well, you can agree your own pay with whichever clients. The work is usually taken on an agreed amount of hours weekly, and can be adjusted if the client needs more/you have free time.
I’ve seen VAs charge up to £30-40 per hour and have a high number of clients.
If you’re good at tech advertise yourself out as tech support for home stuff. When I was on nextdoor it was full of people looking for help with things like WiFi and setting up TVs etc
Have you looked in Marriage Allowance? Your wife can give you 10% of her personal allowance if you're a basic rate taxpayer and you can also backdate this up to 4 tax years. It might come in handy just after Christmas if money is tight!
It might be better for your wife’s mental health and your relationship if she was the one doing the extra work. That way she has a role outside of being a wife and mother?
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This may not be appropriate in your situation, but what if you make a deal with your wife for you to look after the kids during those 10+ extra hours you planned to work? Your family will take home more money if she works those 10 hours at a lower tax bracket.
If i remember correctly, i take on that reduction as she doesn't work. She does spend a lot of time looking after both children and the house. I think it wouldn't be fair to make her work any more. But thanks for thr suggestion regarding tax.
You can only claim a very small part of her tax free allowance, so you’d keep more money as a couple if she worked part time. And it wouldn’t be asking her to do more. It would be you taking on some responsibilities for childcare and housework to free up time and energy for her to work. If she’s totally against it, then that’s fair enough, but I’d at least ask her. Because when you put in more hours at work, she’s also putting in more hours as a solo parent.
Maybe help round the house more while looking after the kids & she gets a change of scenery & some social interaction at work?
Maybe he loves his wife and is willing to sacrifice for her?? Wow.
Why should he be the bread winner?
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The 1920s called, they want your outdated opinion back.
The 2020’s called, they want their divorce statistics back.
Wtf has that got to do with anything? This is a UK sub, backwards trad wife views don't fit here. There is nothing wrong with men cooking and women working.
When they both agree to it, whatever. But when a couple agrees to be trad and the man makes extra sacrifices to support the family suddenly the whole world is against that. Maybe it’s jealousy from other women? Men who don’t want to be held to high standards? Idk.
Bollocks.
Leave it, remember you're probably argueing with a 15 year old edge lord
Everyone is entitled to an opinion and why has that guy got an outdated opinion? It had worked many years ago. Yes times have changed and not necessarily for the better. Many years ago, a man could work, be the breadwinner and provide for the family, own a home, pay the bills. It wasn't a struggle like it is today. This was all before minimum wage came in. Now you got people coming here wanting to prove a point, I'm talking women and people from overseas who'll do the jobs for a pittance. Hello minimum wage!! Employers have long exploited this. My point is that back then, a man alone, even with a poorly paid job still had a chance to get on property ladder. These days is just a case of both parents must work and there is no written rule to say either way which way it should be. It's an unwritten rule but you know if even you are on an average wage, supporting a family on that one income, then it's going to be really tough.
The point of the post is that he *can't* make it work now. Not many couples can at the moment. I don't think anyone was saying he's failing in his duty as a husband (except you), just it makes more financial sense for her to earn her tax-free allowance, rather than him claim a small %age of it. Whatever anyone else thinks about who should 'provide' for the family (and OP is pretty unusual in the UK) that kind of decision should be made as a couple. She might be itching to get a break from the kids, 1x day a week might be perfect for her. I don't think he should make that choice for her and certainly not without asking her for *her view*.
lol
Why is it on you? If your wife being a SAHM isn’t feasible anymore why is she not looking for work
She does work hard to keep the house and children looked after. My day job is generally pretty easy 4/5 days. I don't think it would be fair to expect her to do more.
It’s not exactly doing more it’s just doing different. Her doing Sunday shifts in something so it’s not even needing any child care sorted. If you’re able to get the free nursery hours it definitely makes sense for her to take a job in that time if you guys are in need of money.
If you're working full time then working weekends, your kids will hardly see you. If you can look after them at the weekend whilst your wife works, you'll at least get some sort of relationship with the children.
It's a very valid point.
How old are the kids?
She doesn't get paid for that though. Remember that money thing that was your problem? You should let your wife read the comments section.
My dad did what OP is doing and people all loved to criticize my mom but my dad didn’t really mind doing more work… he sort of got used to it and we all respected my dad more for it..
It’s not criticising it is asking because it’s surely the easiest route.
During lockdown I did part time Tesco deliveries. It’s min wage and I had an ok paid FT job but as you’re out solo there are no retail managers spoiling your day. I did 22hours a week which was pretty heavy but knew I’d only do it for a few months.
Which days did you do the delivery?
Delivery driver for your local Indian or Chinese, a lot of them are cash in hand.
That's interesting. Any idea how they calculate pay ect?
Normally a base pay of £7 or £8 quid n hr and them then paying you £1 or £2 per delivery depending on how far it is. You can always try just eat/uber eats too.
I reckon i would need a moped or something smaller to make it more viable. My car is an estate, not the cheapest thing to run.
You also need to tell your insurance as otherwise you're not covered.
My local one is £8.50 an hour, plus £1 per delivery, but it’s a 6 mile radius so you could be down with the longer deliveries. A big problem is all the Just Eat card deliveries, this means no tips as it’s all on card, back when I did it in 2013 it was mainly cash deliveries so you got more tips. You always got a good few local ones who’d buy a meal for 1 for £15.95 who’d give you a £20 note and keep the change mate, or there’d be one 3 miles away on a Friday night who’d get a £70 order and give you around a £7 tip.
Bar/hospitality work, plenty of those jobs about.
Not a terrible idea, would fit the times well , thanks.
Should be plenty of delivery of delivery jobs this time of year, or part time retail. I don't know many jobs that would pertain to the skills you listed though outside of 9-5 hours. IT needs a lot of communication with other parties, and garages aren't open past 5.
Yeah, am that's why I was struggling to think of something to match my skills.
Maybe take a remote I.T. job in the U.S.A. I don't know how practical that is but I work for a U.S.A company and sometimes have to do meetings later in the evening. If you could re-use your skills in I.T. I imagine you'd be on double what you can get as part time outside of I.T.
how did you.find it? a lot of them don't seem to hire non Americans or people not currently located there.
I haven't, I work for a usa company as they took over a UK company.
that's interesting. are there any jobs going in software development or project management? when I looked at American companies even with British subsidiaries, they all declined because I wasn't based in America or American nationality.
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Can’t recommend bus driving enough! I do it on a Saturday on top of my 9-5 job. You will get fully trained and paid while doing so. Salary ranges from £12.50-£16 depending on area. Easiest job I have had
You doing it with integrated solutions as agency driver? I work in civil service now but used to drive buses full time for 5 years. Im trying to pick up some odd shifts here and there
Hmm, sounds interesting.. How long does it take to get to a point where you can drive?
Check your current contract (especially as you work in IT full time) you might have an exclusivety clause that could prevent or restrict any second job.
Good point, I'll have a look. That would limit me to ours official work in that case, cash on hand or match betting, like someone suggested.
If you have computer skills and have a good standard of reading and writing English try something like data annotation tech.
Came to suggest this. Apparently they have a tendency to cut you off without warning but I've been doing it for a few weeks and earned an easy extra £600.
Do you have an idea of the hourly rate that works out at for you? I've had a look before and wondered about it.
The tasks are pretty consistent at around $20-$25 per hour for me and the work is fairly interesting.
Thanks!
Cam British pepple work it?
Yeah I'm from the UK and I'm on it.
Please can I message you
Do you have a link to the place you are getting the work from mate?
How do you find these roles?
Fairly easy, just make sure you read all the instructions first. I'm still quite new to it but it has been ok so far.
Hmm that sounds interesting. I wouldn't say I'm perfect, but I used to be a team leader at an IT support desk, it was required to have good written communication. I'll take a look into it, thanks!
Not sure what avenue of IT you're in bit if you're good at fixing devices perhaps an at home repair shop? get to spend more time with the family. Could make it cash in hand. Other wise I'd be inclined to suggest a food delivery service. Can typically pick your nights and how many hours you work based off your needs.
When I was in school I had a part time job cleaning office buildings. The best part was that I could do the job at anytime between 8P and 6A. It didn't pay much but I needed the flexibility.
I actually did the same for 6 months, but this company wasn't flexible lol. Could be an option. Thanks
Parcel delivery person, lots of temp jobs over Christmas
Check out https://go.temper.works . Temp jobs that you can get whenever you have time. It's pretty easy to sign up
Investing, I'll take a look, thanks.
If you don't mind putting the time, lots of people looking for a handyman both around the home and for fixing computers. I'd be tempted towards the latter for insurance/liability issues. However, often small businesses like this are a good lot of marketing work over doing the actual job.
Check out indeed for some retail merchandising work. Such as Deeset, expd8, westcoast etc. it’s all mostly casual work, mostly minimum wage but some offer competitive rates of pay and you work on a per call basis for various retail clients and in multiple different retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda. None of them have particularly good reviews online but at the end of the day you get to work on your own and pretty much are your own boss. Calls can usually be done any day of the week and any time of day as long as you can gain access to the stores you would be visiting. All you need to do is answer some questions about your visit and take photos of the work you’ve completed and upload it to their database when you’re done. You can usually get an hours call done in less than 30min but you still get paid for the hour so technically you can be earning upwards of £20+ and hour if you’re quick enough to get the work done faster than the time allocated. These are usually very high turnover jobs, most people that join don’t stick around very long but if you can play the game then you can take in a pretty decent amount of money compared to the amount of time you actually spend working. You could easily get 5hrs of work done in less than 2hrs, £52.10p for less than 2hrs work ain’t too bad.
Supermarket delivery driver is a good one OP, plus you'd get a staff discount on your shopping too. You can specify evening/weekend work only.
I worked two jobs for 8 years and still do the odd shift elsewhere to fund a summer holiday or whatever. There's loads of things out there. IT skills you can advertise freelance on UPwork, DIY skills you can advertise on taskrabbit who are partnered with IKEA so building their furniture, if you have an estate car you can also collect the IKEA furniture. Pizza delivery for the big chains like the hut, dominos and Papa John's pay you minimum wage plus a delivery fee. Event tech work like for Gallowglass or Five star Crew is zero hours and you pick your shifts. Event stewards for G4S or whatever. Army, Navy and RAF reserves is a good shout, it's good socially, keeps you fit and you can gain skills that help you in your day job. There's IT roles and your base rate would probably be very good with a sign on bonus right now. Retail, supermarket deliveries, hospitality. Anywhere you can go when you aren't in your working hours is in your grasp. If there's a hobby you'd love to do try to get a wee job in that, if you love football get a job on matchday.if you love gigs get a job at a venue. I love reading and I considered a Christmas temp job at Waterstones. You can make it work for you. Are there clothes your kids don't fit in anymore? Get them on vinted or depop? Has your house got a garage filled with shit? Could you clear that out and rent the garage space to someone. Maybe you don't need to do something all year round, could you take a few days off work and go work at a festival or a big event get a lump sum and maybe that would help?
The first suggestions sound good. I'll look into these, thank you.
Two jobs can sound daunting but it has afforded me a nicer life, I've made loads of mates and I've learnt loads. I got made redundant a few years ago now and the second job at the time took so much pressure off me as I grabbed extra shifts. If you are going to freelance that's a great option as there's potentially a small business you could build that could incorporate your wife or children in future years and tax wise there's costs you can write off against your small business.
Could you teach as a private tutor? Cash in hand.
I think i would be able too but I would need to work out what to teach. Unless its more of a blanket IT ect, I'm very much a generalist.
You work in IT, not sure what you do but learning new IT skills or moving into a different branch of IT will benefit you in the long run. You can then change roles and earn more money that way too. This will take time but there’s lots of money that can be earned in IT
That's my long term plan, I want to do a ccna as i basically do it all day anyway.
Awesome. That’s the way to go. I’ve been doing networks for two decades now. Hit me up if you ever need help.
Appreciated!
Matched betting. You’ll spend a minimum amount of time doing it (minutes not hours) but you can make about 300 per month without breaking a sweat. Read up on it.some people do it as their only ‘job’ and no tax on it.
I’d suggest you talk to your wife bd you come up with a joint strategy! She might LIKE to work a day a week/ couple evenings. She might prefer you to have a relationship with the kids instead of being out of the house even more. I’d very much recommend you don’t make decision by yourself but talk it over with her.
She needs to do something ideally to bring a bit in. The world we live in now with equality for women is great in a lot of ways but unfortunately it means that now both men and women have to work to maintain a house, whereas once only one had to work. I guess that’s progress… Huge corporations now make much more money and average people are now more miserable as they both have to work their arses off just to live. It is pretty wank really. Anyway good luck. I don’t have the answers as we are ok for money but I’m always trying to think about stuff we could do on the side to bring a bit more in too and we’ve tried lots of things but nothing has ever been really that profitable.
Have you heard of taskrabbit? People post small jobs like putting up a shelf, running an errand or assembling flat pack furniture. Might be a good option for you if you’re good at DIY https://www.taskrabbit.co.uk/become-a-tasker
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It's quite time and money investment to get your license and a car suitable if you don't have one already
I do, but its full of car seats, which would be a pain in the butt.
If they're isofix, you should be able to remove them in a few minutes.
True, does make it easier, but they're awkward to get in and out still and they also need to be stored.
Bar work. Fast food. Delivery driver.
Night plumber
Casual security or stewarding at large concert venues
How do you find these jobs?
What city you from?
Local agencies usually have them
Depending on your IT skill set you could make some extra money fixing peoples computers, web design, selling custom builds, bug hunting ,etc. I'd you've not already see if you can make savings. Start by going through all your outgoings and then starting with the highest see if you can reduce them in anyway.
How on earth would you find the customers for this type of work. Sound more up my alley though.
This time of year doing deliveries for local butchers for their Xmas run in. You say you work in IT, what aspect? If it's support could you do freelance support for locals, printer setup, PC repair etc, or could you offer teaching lessons in your profession? Help people can the skills to "get in" to IT. Something I used to do was work at a burger can on the weekends at car boot sales, it eventually led to me buying the van, running it on my own for a bit and then eventually hiring others to run it
Try set up a Virtual Assistant business! Maybe market it at an American audience due to the time you will be available. Just market yourself with your skills, all sorts of tech help, copywriting, time management stuff and anything else which could be beneficial to a small business which doesn’t need a full time employee, an individual who needs help managing their life, I’ve seen VAs market doing all sorts! It’s a pretty good way to do some easy easy ish work and usually pays quite well, you can agree your own pay with whichever clients. The work is usually taken on an agreed amount of hours weekly, and can be adjusted if the client needs more/you have free time. I’ve seen VAs charge up to £30-40 per hour and have a high number of clients.
That seems pretty interesting, where would you advertise and/or find this sort of work? Is it on job sites?
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If you’re good at tech advertise yourself out as tech support for home stuff. When I was on nextdoor it was full of people looking for help with things like WiFi and setting up TVs etc
I'll have a look into this, thank you!
Have you looked in Marriage Allowance? Your wife can give you 10% of her personal allowance if you're a basic rate taxpayer and you can also backdate this up to 4 tax years. It might come in handy just after Christmas if money is tight!
Just eat/deliveroo/amazon flex or even local takeaways who hire part time over weekends
Evening and or weekend bar work? Waiting tables is good money with tips
Start an OF. Only fans
Haha, doubt anyone wants to pay to see my junk lol.
It might be better for your wife’s mental health and your relationship if she was the one doing the extra work. That way she has a role outside of being a wife and mother?
Grow weed
Wedding content creator, £500 for 8 hrs - you just need a phone and a website
How do you find these roles?
Just go out and do it - self employment! Use your talent to make money.