Anonymous wrote:One on one assistant for special needs students where your kids are in school. Exact same hours and days off as your kids have including breaks. Schools are always hiring especially now before school starts.

It's not just for one on one either. Paraeducators who work with the class have the exact same hours. No paperwork. You walk right out the door when the kids do.

Don't laugh at this suggestion but what about becoming a lunch lady at a local school?

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Anonymous wrote:Any money in freelance translation?

Yes! But you have to build up a network and reputation. If you can also edit, that helps.

Where do I start?
Thanks.

Freelancer.com and other sites like it. Make your own website (free is fine, WordPress is a good platform), and get active on social media. Then once you have completed a few jobs online, start networking, giving out your cards, etc. Go to writing and editing conferences. Join a MeetUp group. It will take you a year to just establish yourself, and another 2-3 to increase the quality of your clients and be able to pick and choose projects.

Not recently, but several years ago, I knew a SAHM who waitressed at a local restaurant, comparable to a TGIF, Bennigan's, Applebee's. She would work weekday lunch shift roughly 11am-2pm when they needed a few more servers due to lunch rush. They liked her because she only wanted to work the limited hours as a +1 server and wasn't in competition with the other servers for the longer or more popular shifts. It worked great for her, even though it didn't pay great (she did pretty good on tips, but not on wages).

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Anonymous wrote:Any money in freelance translation?

Yes! But you have to build up a network and reputation. If you can also edit, that helps.

Where do I start?
Thanks.

One on one assistant for special needs students where your kids are in school. Exact same hours and days off as your kids have including breaks. Schools are always hiring especially now before school starts.

I "taught" kid classes at the rec center. It took some creativity to come up with ideas, but overall it worked out well.

Anonymous wrote:Any money in freelance translation?

Yes! But you have to build up a network and reputation. If you can also edit, that helps.

Any money in freelance translation?

Anonymous wrote:You could start your own small business based on previous experience or something entirely new. Extracurricular classes of some sort comes to mind. Art, music, foreign language, yoga, etc. - endless possibilities there. The best part? You don't have to be the teacher! You can hire independent contractors who do that for you. You would be making the contacts with schools or daycares, once they agree to let you offer classes you hire a teacher (indeed.com) and off they go.

Those are after school hours, and OP would probably need to be on alert, if not present, especially at the beginning.

Several parents in my area are school bus drivers - they just need some help getting their kids off to/home from school for a short time each day since that's when they're working.

Pet sitting. I did that for years and loved it.

You could start your own small business based on previous experience or something entirely new. Extracurricular classes of some sort comes to mind. Art, music, foreign language, yoga, etc. - endless possibilities there. The best part? You don't have to be the teacher! You can hire independent contractors who do that for you. You would be making the contacts with schools or daycares, once they agree to let you offer classes you hire a teacher (indeed.com) and off they go.

What did you used to do? What skills do you have?

I'm a SAHM to 3 kids and miss working. I do not miss working long hours and dealing with commute stress. DH has a demanding job so he can't help with drop off or pick up.