If there’s one thing you learn while being a stay-at-home parent, it’s that you can’t deal with someone bossing you around anymore. Looking after your child (or children) and managing everything at home is already the toughest job you’ve ever had. You can’t bear the thought of heading back to a traditional 9-5 with an annoying boss telling you what to do. No, most stay-at-home parents who want to work again will go down the self-employment route. It’s time to start a business - and your life for the previous few years puts you in a great position to pursue different opportunities. Looking after the house and kids means these business ideas are perfect for someone with your experience:
DIY, Building or Gardening Businesses
All three of these business ideas are grouped together because they’re very similar. Stay-at-home parents basically take on the role of DIY fixer, professional gardener and (sometimes) the family builder. You’ve been in charge of fixing or installing everything around the house in the last few years, so why don’t you take these skills and make them profitable? Setting up a business like this is simple because all you really need are some tools and reliable builders merchants to gather supplies from. Then it’s a case of using your own home to prove your expertise before finding your first few clients. You may have to work for free to get a couple of initial jobs done for friends/family, but it’s all about building a portfolio that makes others trust your services.
A House Cleaning Business
This idea is a bit like marmite: you either love it or hate it. Some stay-at-home parents finding cleaning to be therapeutic after doing it for so long. They also discover that they’re genuinely really good at it and can transform spaces in a jiffy. So, take your cleaning knowledge, get the best supplies, and set up a house cleaning business. You’ll visit other people’s homes and clean them for money. It’s basically like performing one of your daily parental roles, only for other households - and you finally get paid for all the hard work.
An Errand Running Business
You could call this a concierge business to sound more fancy, but the idea is simple: you get paid to run errands for other individuals. Busy families employ you to do their shopping, pick up their kids, and so on. You get a lot of elderly people needing a service like this as well - and it helps you run a business around your own routine. You still need to do the shopping or go on the school run, so being paid to do similar things without compromising your schedule too much is a fantastic idea. It’s one of those businesses that works best through word-of-mouth, or perhaps you have to knock on people’s doors to find work. Regardless, it could be great for you if you want to earn money while still living a fairly similar life to before.. Of course, if you’d rather still stay at home while running a business, then you can find all kinds of home-based business ideas instead.
