Jobs for SAHMs

Hi,
Im just thinking ahead to after I have the baby and would love to know what sort of jobs SAHMs do for extra money. I would ideally like to have something lined up as I am currently a student and wont be able to save for when the baby comes. I will have a Marketing degree so hopefully that will help me find something suitable. We are struggling now on one income and will continue to struggle if I dont find some work that I can do at home when the bubba is born. What does everone else do and if you dont mind it would be nice to know what sort of money you can get for particular jobs? Thanks in advance!

Ooo I'm definitely going to be watching this thread.

I would love to know what kind of jobs we can do as SAHMs. I have racked my brains but I can never think of anything that I would be able to do.

I've done a years Early Childhood Studies, so could do something along those lines, maybe home-based childcare for one other child during the week.

Good topic idea!

I'm going to be a studying SAHM. I'm going back to uni next semester to finally finish my degree. You could do post grad study. If you have a child you get an allowance no matter what your age is or partners income.

What does SAHM stand for?

Ha that is so obvious now.

I work from home and will be able to work from home once bubs is here if I choose (not sure yet) Hubby and I own and online retail store and i am a customer service manager.

Working from home is great and was really good when I had MS

Hey Topsy,

With a marketing degree, why don't you look into doing some marketin/design work for small businesses around the place? the other thought I had is that I might look into doing some courses in webdesign - something you can do on a computer is always good from home!

I SOLD AVON and nutrimetics cosmetics with my first pregnancy.
i also make heat packs which are sold on trademe and also in a few stores in town.

ok i didnt want to put my kids in childcare i wanted to stay at home with them so i looked in the phone book and found homebased childcare services and i singed up. i get to stay at home and look afther my kids and watch a couple more. you are allowed 4 kids at one time (including your own ) and only 2 under 2years at one time. i get paid $4 per hour per child you can choose weather to take on a child or not especally if thay have crazey hours.at the monent i work 4 days a week 2 of them i only work 9 till 1 and the other to i work 9 till 5 and fridays is the only day i have 4 at one time and two of them go home at 1. i have been doing this for 3 years now and find it is great for a bit of extra money and you have to enteract with the kids so you are spending quality time with your own kids as well.

How did you get into freelancing, Emma?  It's something I'm interested in. 

Sorry Becks but I don't think you're right about your partners income having no impact on a student allowance. A friend of mine looked into it, and while the threshold may have been a bit higher, her DF's income still counted.

Also, it depends how much study you are doing as to your entitlement for WFF subsidies/tax credits. If you go on to the online calculator, it says for some aspects that if you're a student, you're not entitled. I assume that's probably full time student I guess. A lot of contradicting stuff out there though