If you had an 18yo who needed to earn £22k in a year, what would you direct them toward?

She needs to fund an expensive higher education course (not a standard England HE one - even with student loans there is a shortfall of around £10k per year).

She will have a year in-between A levels and Uni to earn some money for these fees.

Any ideas on roles she could look to do?

She has worked part time since age 14 doing food prep, batch cooking, and complete meals, home organisation, elderly companionship (but not personal care and has no interest in doing that).

She also volunteers about 1-2 times a month for around 3 hours supporting a family with a child with SEND and 2 younger kids.

Her part time role is great but is not going to morph into a full-time role as they don’t need that. She does not want elderly personal care roles.

Any ideas?? Dream job would probably be junior nanny or parents’ helper but it’s hard to know where to find those sort of jobs if you don’t have the right social circles. Plus I am old and none of my contemporaries have very young kids!

Posted Sep 6, 2025, 9:00 PM UTC

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