How to make money on maternity leave

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Most women believe that life stops on maternity leave. More precisely, the whole life that they had before the birth of the baby stops, because now taking care of the beloved little man takes all the days and nights of young mothers. This is partly true, and the work of women on parental leave is truly heroic. However, some of the fair sex find both the strength and the time that they devote to additional earnings. Let's see how they do it.

Wrong are those men who, in arguments with their wives who have just become mothers, use the argument: "You are still sitting at home, so do it yourself, you have time - a carriage." They would have tried to “sit” like this: they would probably have escaped to the “boring and sucking all the juices” job in a couple of days. Still, this is more of our business than theirs - to raise a child, to support everyday life, although in the modern world there are more and more families in which dad goes on maternity leave, and mom goes to work. But today we will talk about women who decided not to break traditions, but to bring some innovations to them: they stay at home and take care of the child, while not missing out on the opportunity to earn money that is not superfluous for a young family, because diapers, rattles, diapers and undershirts are pleasure is not cheap, especially when you consider how much you have to buy.

They say: “He who seeks will always find,” and they also say that only those who want to achieve success achieve success.

They say: “He who seeks will always find,” and they also say that only those who want to achieve it succeed, and not those who seek excuses, justifying their own failures. This is what the newly-made mothers are guided by, who decided at all costs to find a source of additional income. They browse hundreds of ads on the Internet, recall their hobbies, for example, knitting or making handmade jewelry, continue to work remotely in companies where they worked even before the decree. In general, there are a lot of ways. Several new mothers told us how they manage to combine childcare and part-time work.

Anna, 38 years old

By conventional standards, Arisha was born quite late - when I was 36. By that time I had already managed to make a successful career in the field of crisis management, but I also had time to get tired of the work that required constant concentration. As a result, when my daughter was born, I was glad that I could just enjoy the role of motherhood, without thinking about the problems of clients and not looking for ways to solve them. But literally three or four months later, I realized that I needed to do something else. Arisha is a rather quiet child, she did not throw tantrums, rarely was capricious, and therefore I was able to devote a couple of hours a day to a long-forgotten hobby: I began to knit women's clothes to order. Once I really liked this activity, and sometimes I calmed down in the evenings, only picking up the knitting needles, and then I was able to turn the hobby into a source of additional income. Of course, I still learn a lot and still do not knit masterpieces, but my few clients love these scarves, hats and simple sweaters. And I am glad that I can realize myself in something else.

Svetlana, 26 years old

I gave birth to a son right after graduation. She had not yet managed to get a job by that time, and her husband's earnings were barely enough to pay for a rented apartment and buy the necessary things for the child. As a matter of fact, I did not hesitate for a long time, deciding to find a part-time job on the Internet. Since childhood, I have been good at writing (this is probably why I graduated from the Faculty of Journalism), and I drew attention to the vacancies of a copywriter. I was immediately lucky, I found an honest, decent customer. Completed the first task, it was paid. Then I registered on the copywriting exchange, and off we go. Of course, orders did not fall out of a cornucopia, but people liked how I did my job, and therefore no, no, and the owners of some sites contacted me. My earnings helped our family to overcome difficult times, and then my husband found a better paying job. And although now we do not really need it, I still continue to write various texts, especially since the child is already attending kindergarten.

I was immediately lucky, I found an honest, decent customer. Completed the first task, it was paid.

Margarita, 33 years old

I am a teacher in an educational institution. When I gave birth to a son and went on maternity leave, I realized that I could not live without work. Of course, I didn’t deal with it from the first day of Sasha’s appearance, but after about six months I began to make tests, term papers and theses to order, and also wrote essays. In addition, I placed an advertisement for tutoring and took myself two students with whom I study English. I will not say that all this is very simple: a child takes up a lot of time, sometimes you have to sit at night in order to finish work on the next course book by the deadline, but I am not discouraged - it is better than to completely turn into a hen.

And what else?

In addition to the above methods of earning money on maternity leave, there are several more, and you should know about them if you are seriously thinking about combining childcare with a part-time job.

1. Soap making, scrapbooking, making handmade jewelry and other types of handmade art.

2. Looking after other people's children at home.

3. Bookkeeping of small private firms at home.

4. Website development.

5. Conducting online marketing research.

6. Working as a designer on specialized Internet resources.

7. Translation of literary works and educational materials from foreign languages.

8. Counseling clients (psychologists often work this way) on Skype.

Choose any option that you like, and, most importantly, know that you will succeed if you really want it.