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What country are you in Incog?

Have a think about what career interests you and then look at how you would get into it.

So say for example you wanted to be a midwife, what qualifications would you need to get into it? If it required a certain amount of GCSEs and you didn’t have them, look into a college course to get them. Then what is the next step, do you need A-Levels in certain subjects before applying for uni? Again, go to college and get them and work your way up until you’ve achieved the education standard needed to enter said career and then it’s a case of applying to employers such as NHS to get a job.

Plenty of women do courses part-time around their kids. Especially now when the gov offers 30hrs funded from 9m old, there’s no excuse to have to wait until they are school age. That’s 5 whole years wasted and puts you behind even more if you do that.

You can do free courses at the OU. Ive been looking at them but might be something I look more into in the new year as im expecting baby no. 2 in December. I finished uni with a newborn and the baby brain shows in my final year essays

I read in your comments nothing interests you. Work is work. A job is a job. Sure, hopefully you can forge a career at the intersection of skill and interest, but you don’t have to be enthralled by your work to do it. I love being a nurse but I don’t like wiping poop butts, yet it’s part of the career and I’m grateful God gave me the heart and stomach to to do the parts of the work others don’t want to do.

Incog - ok so you’ve discovered you don’t want to be a hairdresser, work in a nursery, or be a baker. That’s a start! 😂

Sadly no one can make the choice for you. You have to figure it out via trial and error what does interest you. Millions of people do degrees and their day job has nothing to do with it lol. Maybe start by writing down a list of hobbies/things you like doing and explore from there.

Find a hobby or multiple that you like and turn them into jobs

You could travel agency working from home set up your own business if you wanted to. I'm currently doing this. You can just book holidays for people or you can build your own business and team. Dm if you want more info

It would let me do the whole reply thing. But what other things have you tried? Like diamond painting, sun catchers/wind chimes, ebay resale, refurbish furniture, etc... stuff that would start out as under the table but could work up to as an actual 9-5.

Some people like the finished art work but not actually doing the work. Look up some YouTube videos. But you could sell them online and eventually make your own online store. It does take time and finding your own groove of things.

You could walk dogs! If your partner is home on weekends, start then. Once you start having regular clients, you may even be able to take the kids along, depending on the dog(s). Once you have some experience, you may be able to do multiple dogs at once or offer additional training services. At first it's just a little extra money, but that fine. It's something that can grow with you as your schedule permits. on the walks you'll have time to think about what you might like to do as a career when you're ready for one.