Hi there


It sounds like you have the idea already, temping, sales rep and night staff are all good. Stick to something you know about, don't name specific places of work, and never ever be tempted to 'share', because if you are fibbing, one person knowing is one person too many.

Au pairs are allowed to come and work for you for one year, and their pay is minimal as you are supposed to provide their lodgings and meals,  but they do have to live with you, it depends how you feel about company in your home.

Whatever you decide to do, good luck!
 

Well, most of my friends know and it has been such a relief being open about what I do, I hardly know my neighbours and anyone else who asks I say I'm an environmental consultant. It's a field I know about and explains why I work strange hours and travel for work.

Any family I know has gone, so I don't have to worry about that, either.

Keeping that secret was the most limiting and difficult part of the job for me.

I once told a couple that I met on holiday, on a catamaran, in the middle of bloody nowhere, that I worked at the Ibis hotel, in a small, nowhere place.

'Really? Which one? I am at ".....oh god. I burnt in many more ways than one that day.

I am a real accountant, but I just tell them I am a lazy one that doesn't want any more business if they try to engage me. 

Or I say I don't mix business with friendship  - ha ha ha.

I find it very difficult hiding what i do from my family. Most of them know i do the modelling side of it (maybe not quite what kind of modelling i do though! :p lol) so they think thats my only job for now. I have nearly got caught a couple of times and its caused big problems with me and my mum as she does suspect she just cant prove it, she makes sure i know exactly what she thinks though of 'prostitution'! I have to try let it go over my head but sometimes i so tempted to just say 'well yeah actually i am an escort and i love it!!!' But thats not very sensible 

My dad knows everything i do and is fine with it, we are very close and pretty open with each other so providing im safe hes happy with it.

I am also a single parent to 2 children. When i first started i wasnt doing that much work really so my dad would watch them for me and i didnt declare what i did. But it was getting difficult working around my dad so i decided to make it more of a job than a thing on the side and i registered self employed. I get my childcare paid for me with working tax credit and ive got a childminder thats fairly flexible.

It does mean i can only work day times 9-5 ish monday to friday which limits the clients i get but its enough for now to keep me going. If i get a request for an overnight (which isnt very often, i must be advertising in the wrong places! lol) then i will make sure i find a babysitter for a night, i wouldnt miss out on that amount of money! lol

xx

 hmm  I could add attending night classes in the hope of embarking in a future career (as  an/in the field of) Actuary not going to spark many conversations once they know what it is 

The ideas on here have been great thanks,   and I did not think I would be able to claim childminding costs  but if I am registered of course I could as my hours would be  limited and there for income

 

My parents and sisters live over 200 miles away and all think I do plus size fetish modelling which is easy to cover as i often do that type of picture for my galleries anyway and they all love the pictures of me in leather chain and PVC It also explains why I have to travel every 6weeks

My close friends and my hubby all know what I do as I am an appalling liar and just could not keep it from blurting out