How Can I Earn a Hundred Quids a Week?

[zenie]

did i miss the part where OP said they wanted to live in dire poverty or something?!

What makes you think someone doing that would be living in dire poverty?

 

[mrsfran]

did i miss the part where OP said they wanted to live in dire poverty or something?!

I beg your pardon? The OP asked how she could earn 100 quid a week. You can earn a hundred quid a week doing ironing and washing, distributing leaflets and doing paper routes. And you can do all those things while looking after small kids.

Or is it really the nature of the work that you're objecting to?

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Any ideas that don't involve encouraging men to leer at me?

My friend did a help desk thing from home. Same sort of thing as the sex line things above but answering emails and phone calls with access to a data base.

Can't remember the name of the company and I've lost contact with the guy now but you could Google it.

 

[zenie]

Or is it really the nature of the work that you're objecting to?

Taxamo has staff to do domestic chores like that for him.

 

[scifisam]

I beg your pardon? The OP asked how she could earn 100 quid a week. You can earn a hundred quid a week doing ironing and washing, distributing leaflets and doing paper routes. And you can do all those things while looking after small kids.

Or is it really the nature of the work that you're objecting to?

You're incredibly optimistic, Fran.

TBH, Guruchelles, I'd say that you should enjoy your summer with the kids.

If you feel guilty about being on benefits, then there's an extra reason you shouldn't, because you're only on benefits temporarily until your course starts. It's not like you're poncing, by almost anybody's standards - you're kinda what the benefits system was designed for.

Any temp jobs or casual jobs you can get usually take a while to pay dividends, by which time you'll be studying full time again. Not worth it.

Unless you desperately need the extra money, really desperately, it's not worth the time away from the kids in the last free summer you'll probably have for a long time.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Why don't you offer to babysit other peoples' kids in your own house? You are already looking after some - what harm a few more? Plus it'll make your own a more sociable bunch as well as theirs.

 

[scifisam]

Why don't you offer to babysit other peoples' kids in your own house? You are already looking after some - what harm a few more? Plus it'll make your own a more sociable bunch as well as theirs.

That is a good idea, as long as it's actual babysitting or informal childcare.

If she wanted to become a registered childminder, though, she couldn't do it this summer.

 

[geminisnake]

You could do leaflet distributing.

I've done this and I really don't think it's a goer with kids. You have to shift to make decent money and the wee ones would get pretty bored I think.

As for the child minding, I think legalities would be the big problem. Iirc you're not allowed to look after people's bairns for money unless you are registered and probably insured. Summat like that isn't worth taking a chance on imo.

Market research, if you can get enough work, does pay ok but tbh I agree with sfsam in her last line of post.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Iirc you're not allowed to look after people's bairns for money unless you are registered and probably insured. Summat like that isn't worth taking a chance on imo.

Well OK, but when's the last time you heard of a babysitter getting fined for not being registered or insured?

 

[Guruchelles]

I can't babysit or childmind - I'm not that great with children.

I think I might have found some freelancing work, so fingers crossed.

Scifisam - I might take your advice if I could live on benefits, but the books balance out with me £400 in the red each month. It's because my rent is high. They won't pay it all because a) I have three bedrooms and I'm only entitled to two (I use one as an office to study) and b) I don't have damp.

Worked it all out that by doing this work I can just about break even.

 

[geminisnake]

Well OK, but when's the last time you heard of a babysitter getting fined for not being registered or insured?

I get your point but I thought it was only fair to point out any potential problems iykwim.

I think the powers that be realise they can't go around doing babysitters but if your local authority got wind of you advertising a service or making a living from it they might not be chuffed.

Your pal's bairn earning a bit of pocket money watching your bairns is different to what chelles is looking for

And fingers duly crossed for your freelancing

 

[the button]

I'm on holiday next week. You could go in and do my job for a couple of hours.

 

[jayeola]

That's definitely the danger. I've never been able to understand the psychology of the male callers - they must envisage a call centre full of masturbating page 3 girls or something.

Is there an emacs chat line? I'd phone it....

/* me sweats */

 

[scifisam]

Well OK, but when's the last time you heard of a babysitter getting fined for not being registered or insured?

That's not the issue. The issue is that a lot of parents depend on working tax credits to pay for all or some of their childcare, and they simply won't be able to claim their payments to you unless you're a registered childminder. Richer parents, who aren't entitled to working tax credits, nonetheless have more money to spend and tend to also expect a registered, experienced childminder for their money.

@Guruchelles - good news about the freelancing. Shame about the rent - that is an enormous shortfall.

 

[keybored]

I think the way it works is they call an 0898 number and get patched through to you on your separate line, installed at home or just on your regular landline.

You're pretty much right, but something tells me it's been a long time since you called one of these

 

[Agent Sparrow]

How's your typing Guruchelles? Some universities employ transcribers to type out interviews so their research workers/fellows don't have to do it. It's not that bad a rate if I remember rightly. You could enquire at your uni, or elsewhere.

I think it's often done freelance, so that might actually be the work you're going for anyway

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

I think the way it works is they call an 0898 number and get patched through to you on your separate line, installed at home or just on your regular landline.

Im reliably informed its done these days via computers, the worker logs into a system which then directs calls to their home phone( adding some code of other via the home phones keypad activates it all)

Then the worker gets a recorded message when they answer the phone telling them its a call from the service. Giving your number or details out would get you the sack....

Several girls I was in uni with were doing it.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

I beg your pardon? The OP asked how she could earn 100 quid a week. You can earn a hundred quid a week doing ironing and washing, distributing leaflets and doing paper routes. And you can do all those things while looking after small kids.

OH RIGHT! ha ha sorry i thought this thread was about making HUNDREDS of quid PLURAL and i didn't think much of the get rich quick schemes so far

Yeah, for the circumstances of having to mind the kids that sounds fine

 

[Taxamo Welf]

Taxamo has staff to do domestic chores like that for him.

since i was born, yes.

My mother enjoys herself, who am i to stop her?

 

[Taxamo Welf]

Im reliably informed its done these days via computers, the worker logs into a system which then directs calls to their home phone( adding some code of other via the home phones keypad activates it all)

Then the worker gets a recorded message when they answer the phone telling them its a call from the service. Giving your number or details out would get you the sack....

Several girls I was in uni with were doing it.

This has some good info

http://libcom.org/news/article.php/interview-sex-text-worker-250106

Interview with an ex-sex text worker

In the wake of the first unfair dismissal case for a sex worker, libcom.org interviews another sex worker about the industry, the work, and the possibilities for struggle

Last week, GMB member Irene Everett won the first ever unfair dismissal case for a sex worker, against Essex-based Datapro Service Limited. She had worked on their live adult chat lines for eight years. The GMB, following its merger with the International Union of Sex Workers in 2002, has been trying to organise in the UK, and this was their first victory.

This month the government also announced moves to legalise brothels of up to three prostitutes working together, whilst stopping short of full decriminalisation of the sex industry and even promising new crackdowns on street prostitutes. This underlines the difficulties for sex workers in organising and the ambivalent nature of state intervention, although it does point to new mainstream interest in the subject.

Research by Sophie Day has shown the diversity of approaches to self-organisation or legal reform amongst prostitutes. Some view their work very much as a small business and wary of legislation - which although it might mean better work conditions may also mean more regulation, less autonomy and more difficulties in remaining self-employed, and some are involved in public campaigns for legal recognition and work rights. However, the sex industry should not be seen as limited to prostitution, as Irene Everett's case shows.

With this in mind, libcom.org spoke to Jack, a libertarian socialist who worked for a sex-texting company during 2005.

http://libcom.org/news/article.php/interview-sex-text-worker-250106