Making money as a SAHM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work for a healthcare company and work from home in IT/business. I love it! Perfect job for a mom, very flexible. When the kids were little I worked very part time from home in the healthcare/IT field to keep resume up to date and then went full time now that the kids are in school. I’m home to get kids off the bus, make dinner, play. I make 80k a year plus benefits. The very part time gig made me have no gap in my resume.

How do you get into this field?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If there were a lot of good options (or even any good options) all the women from my HS class wouldn't be slinging shakes and supplements and wraps.

If you had a background that could be a solid WFH job, you'd know it. Most things I hear about for women who don't, like, have a law degree, sound like they end up paying less than minimum wage per hour (think "virtual assistants").

What if I, like, have a law degree?

You're quoting me. I'm an associate but I interact with a lot of staff attorneys/doc reviewers who, best I can tell, WFH. I'm also told there are brief-writing jobs that are fully WFH.

LOL, poor little Millennial missed the sarcasm there...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If there were a lot of good options (or even any good options) all the women from my HS class wouldn't be slinging shakes and supplements and wraps.

If you had a background that could be a solid WFH job, you'd know it. Most things I hear about for women who don't, like, have a law degree, sound like they end up paying less than minimum wage per hour (think "virtual assistants").

What if I, like, have a law degree?

You're quoting me. I'm an associate but I interact with a lot of staff attorneys/doc reviewers who, best I can tell, WFH. I'm also told there are brief-writing jobs that are fully WFH.

LOL, poor little Millennial missed the sarcasm there...

Haha Nono, I was trying to poke a little (good-natured!) fun but I do actually have a law degree and wanted to know - and I found PP's response helpful, so thanks! Oh

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you earn money, you are not a sahp. You would be wahp.

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Why such emphasis on this?? Who cares. She’s saying she’s a SAHM who WANTS to work.

I don't understand this either. Also, why can't someone be both? I work two days a week as a physical therapist and W-F I am a SAHM.

Because if you work from home, you should have childcare for your kids. It’s difficult to do both (often against work policy). Your situation is different.

Uh, no, lots of our kids go to public school. We don’t all have toddlers. I work 5-10 hours a week. I’m still very much a SAHM. Not sure why that bothers you so.

NP here. If you work 5-10 hours a week you WORK! !
You aren’t a SAHM, you are a working mom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you earn money, you are not a sahp. You would be wahp.

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Why such emphasis on this?? Who cares. She’s saying she’s a SAHM who WANTS to work.

I don't understand this either. Also, why can't someone be both? I work two days a week as a physical therapist and W-F I am a SAHM.

How can you be both a SAHM and a working mom?
Seems you want the title SAHM but don’t want the financial lack of money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you earn money, you are not a sahp. You would be wahp.

So, this is technically true. But when a SAHP (someone responsible for child care during the hours a partner/spouse is at work) is looking for extra income, but ISN'T looking to "go back to work", it means he or she is looking for the type of work you can fit in around the baby's nap, the toddler's playgroup, or the preschooler's nursery school hours; or evenings, weekends when their partner can tap in... but be able to drop if their partner is on travel that week. It's a kind of flexibility that most jobs just don't have, which is why it is a lot different from just saying "I want to go back to work part time" (which usually implies you will be looking for some kind of part time child care."

OP, the simplest way to earn some extra money as a SAHP is to provide occasional child care for a child your own child's age.

You made up that definition. Being a SAHM has nothing to do with your partner working. A single parent could be a SAHM if they had money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you earn money, you are not a sahp. You would be wahp.

So, this is technically true. But when a SAHP (someone responsible for child care during the hours a partner/spouse is at work) is looking for extra income, but ISN'T looking to "go back to work", it means he or she is looking for the type of work you can fit in around the baby's nap, the toddler's playgroup, or the preschooler's nursery school hours; or evenings, weekends when their partner can tap in... but be able to drop if their partner is on travel that week. It's a kind of flexibility that most jobs just don't have, which is why it is a lot different from just saying "I want to go back to work part time" (which usually implies you will be looking for some kind of part time child care."

OP, the simplest way to earn some extra money as a SAHP is to provide occasional child care for a child your own child's age.

You made up that definition. Being a SAHM has nothing to do with your partner working. A single parent could be a SAHM if they had money.

OK, well sure. If you are financially independent and you are the one providing child care for your child during the day, fine, you are a SAHP.

OP however very specifically said in her original post, "I'm a Stay at home Mom, my husband works a demanding job, we want me to continue to be the SAHM, but I want to earn some extra money." She did not say "I want to go back to work." It's pretty clear she is looking for the type of work that you can fit in around being the primary caretaker of a small child or children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Medical billing is a great idea. It'll only get more in demand over time too.

Drive for Uber. Lots of SAHMs when I take it during the business day.

Remote work as a virtual assistant (Fancyhands). You pick up tasks from the pool when you want them.

For $15/hr? My teenager makes that at an aftercare TKD place. That's depressing.

I think what people overlook is that with things like Uber and Fancyhands, you work when you want to work, not when someone tells you that you have to work. So you "pay" for that flexibility in potentially lower compensation but it can result in more $$ overall. For example, if you're a night owl and kids go to bed by 8pm, there's few flexible jobs where you can earn money at that time of night. (other than the oldest profession of course)

[Anonymous]

Uber is a HORRIBLE way to "make money". You don't get paid for the cost of running your car. Uber is trying to run a taxi service, without having to pay for the cost of the fleet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uber is a HORRIBLE way to "make money". You don't get paid for the cost of running your car. Uber is trying to run a taxi service, without having to pay for the cost of the fleet.

Of course you do. You get paid $X to give a person a ride. You use some of that money to cover your operating costs, like fuel and wear and tear on your vehicle.

A lot of taxis work this way also -- the driver owns the car and gets paid a % of the fare from the taxi company.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you earn money, you are not a sahp. You would be wahp.

So, this is technically true. But when a SAHP (someone responsible for child care during the hours a partner/spouse is at work) is looking for extra income, but ISN'T looking to "go back to work", it means he or she is looking for the type of work you can fit in around the baby's nap, the toddler's playgroup, or the preschooler's nursery school hours; or evenings, weekends when their partner can tap in... but be able to drop if their partner is on travel that week. It's a kind of flexibility that most jobs just don't have, which is why it is a lot different from just saying "I want to go back to work part time" (which usually implies you will be looking for some kind of part time child care."

OP, the simplest way to earn some extra money as a SAHP is to provide occasional child care for a child your own child's age.

You made up that definition. Being a SAHM has nothing to do with your partner working. A single parent could be a SAHM if they had money.

OK, well sure. If you are financially independent and you are the one providing child care for your child during the day, fine, you are a SAHP.

OP however very specifically said in her original post, "I'm a Stay at home Mom, my husband works a demanding job, we want me to continue to be the SAHM, but I want to earn some extra money." She did not say "I want to go back to work." It's pretty clear she is looking for the type of work that you can fit in around being the primary caretaker of a small child or children.

Yes I agree but she wouldn’t be a SAHM anymore.

[Anonymous]

A working parent is not a SAHP it's a WFHP and it's bizarre that anyone would dispute it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A working parent is not a SAHP it's a WFHP and it's bizarre that anyone would dispute it.

OMG who cares. Nobody in real life makes a big deal out of this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A working parent is not a SAHP it's a WFHP and it's bizarre that anyone would dispute it.

OMG who cares. Nobody in real life makes a big deal out of this.

Yeah ... what? I think most people think of a SAHP as the primary caregiver for all the child's awake hours. What he/she does in his/her "off" time is irrelevant.

I'm feeling like there's some weird aggressive insistence on this thread that a SAHP not have an income stream, however small or however few hours. Why is that? What's at stake if SAHPs can also include the time-honored tradition of women who earn "pin money" or something? Why must they then call themselves working parents?

[Anonymous]

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