As a Mother, it’s a tough choice when deciding whether to return back to work or stay home to keep caring for you children, well thanks to modern technology and the evolution of the workplace you can get a perfect compromise, working from home with flexible hours.
Thanks to work from home jobs, you can be flexible with your time, giving you a situation where you can be close to your family, but still get back into the working world and save some money. So today, we’ll look at a variety of job roles that you can easily do from home and we’ll be rating them on flexibility, training required and changes you need to make, with the rating of 5 being the easiest and 1 being the hardest..
-Hair/Beauty Technician
Working in hair and beauty is a great job for working from home for flexibility, you get to choose who your clients are and when they have appointments, this allows you to schedule your work around the needs of your family.
For training required you’ll need some training to do hair or beauty professionally, you can easily get a diploma from an adult learning centre or find a course on hair and beauty that you can do at weekends, so although some training is needed, it’s not hard to get that training.
Then lastly for changes to make around the home, whilst you don’t legally need a specific working space, having one will add to how professional you appear to clients, so we recommend using a specific room for hairdressing or get a cubicle track to create an area of space dedicated to your work in another room.
Flexibility: 5/5 (Very Flexible)
Training Needed: 2/5 (Some Formal Training)
Changes Around The Home: 3/5 (Some Changes Required)
-Virtual Assistant
A virtual assistant can also be good for flexibility, working as a VA you can choose what workload you have and still schedule your day around family, but in some VA roles you’ll have less flexibility in your hours due to needs from your employers.
Training for a VA job varies between roles, but a lot of the time you’ll be doing simple administration work which doesn’t require much training and your employer will likely provide any training you need on the job.
Then for changes you need to make around the home, they’re very minimal, as long as you have a computer and somewhere to work in your home, you’re all set to go, if you have a spare room you may want to make a home office, but that isn’t necessary.
Flexibility: 3/5 (Somewhat Flexible)
Training Needed: 4/5 (Some Informal Training)
Changes Around The Home: 5/5 (No Changes Needed)
-Child Minder
Looking after other peoples children is not as flexible as other roles we’ve outlined so far, you’ll need to regularly work during normal work hours whilst the parents of the children in your care are working, but you’’ still be able to look after your children whilst working.
For training, there are legal requirements you’re required to achieve, you’ll need some sort of official certification in child care and have a regularly updated background check to be able to carry out this work.
Then lastly for changes you’ll need to make, you’ll have to properly child proof your home to legal standards, to make sure there’s no chance of a child in your care getting injured in your home.
Flexibility: 2/5 (Not Flexible, But Can Still Care For Your Children)
Training Needed: 1/5 (Lot’s Of Formal Training)
Changes Around The Home: 3/5 (Some Changes Needed)
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