This is a question I too have asked myself many times, and have so far come up with nothing plausible. Whenever i tell them my work doesn't have  a landline number they look at me really strangely!
I will rack my brains and if i come up with anything i'll post it here.
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If it's just about a cover job where there's no landline, you want something that'll take you outside, like door-to-door sales. Mobile hairdresser, massage therapist etc. (if you have the skills). The old personal trainer excuse also works for this as well as for having visitors. Oh, or street sweeper, traffic warden, postie. If the utility companies employ people who just go reading meters you could be one of them too.

Sorry, I didn't explain fully - I knew exactly what I meant but as if you would! See, not the sharpest knife....
I want a spoof job where I work part time, out of the house so the kids must go to their Grandparents a few days a week in school holidays and after school sometimes in term time. I don't like them home alone as people know so the job needs to be out of the house so they then have to go out of the house. I have been wracking my small brain for the answer all morning.
I thought sales? I could have got a job working in a call centre? No personal calls allowed, get me on my mobile if it's important? It's the best I can come up with. No disrespect to call centre workers but you don't need a degree to do that job and they are fairly easy to come by on the whole and it's the sort of job where I can say 'this will do for a while mother, just to get a bit of extra cash in for Christmas/car expenses and so on, until I get my degree...'
I can't think of anything else at all. A shop job is out, uniform you have to wear, the fact they can turn up at a shop and ask for me at any time and then get a blank look and a 'who?' from the staff.
I know getting a job right now is a stroke of luck but there is no reason why I couldn't have that stroke of luck in the eyes of my family I suppose.
It is half term next week so I will drop the I have a job thing on the family then, to start the week after, just in case it goes ass over tit I will say I am on temporary staff for now.
If anybody has a better one than call sales or call centre, feel free to pass it on. I will suss out what company I am working for next week, so some looking about at what is out there first.

OK its late, im knackerd and will probably laugh at this in the morning but, what about signed up as a demonstrator for something like Bodyshop at home, Virgin cosmetics, Ann summers, Tupperware?

You dont need stock, as you meet the organiser/supplier at the house, you just do the sales pitch

Thanks guys.

Alex suggested a cleaner. Go to the posher houses here and clean, go to any house and clean really, I know pensioners that have young girls in to clean for them not that I am a young girl anymore but you get the drift....  And I think that is genius.
No landline. Only contact via mobile. All I have to do is keep cleaning stuff in the boot of my car and it's passable. Odd hours, so I can happily drop off kids at 11am and get them at 4/5pm a few days a week. Also I can only be gone for a couple of hours and pick them up again. It's very flexible!

So that is what I will 'be'.
It's a good one should anybody else need a 'job'.
Thanks for all your suggestions, it's been a great help.
x

The cleaner idea is a great one, wish i could have thought of that!.
I was thinking of 'stealing' your idea  , or maybe saying I'm a carer for elderly people in the local area - covering home visits etc. A family member of mine was once a self-employed contractor working for a private carer firm (no landline if you're a self-employed contractor) xxx