I make £50k per year but only work 6 hours a week – I don’t even have a uni degree either
A WOMAN has shared how she reportedly makes over £50,000 a year despite working just six hours a week.
Roma Norriss, a parenting expert, has previously hit headlines for her controversial tips, such as ‘rewarding’ bad behaviour.
While many may think the job requires a university degree, this is not the case.
The mum-of-four from Somerset shares how she manages to earn over £50,000 a year by helping families for just four to six hours a week, all without earning a degree.
“I earn £290 an hour which, at the moment, means my business turns over about £50,000,” Roma told http://NeedToKnow.co.uk.
“I currently work very few hours a week, just four to six, because I’ve been chronically ill with a neurological condition for the past four years.
“I expect when I’m well enough to work properly again I will be making a profit of around £120,000.”
Having started a Midwifery course at King’s College in London in 2002**,** Roma was forced to drop out due to ill health.
Deferring for a year, she planned to return but found out she was pregnant with her first child, Zephyr.
She attempted to return a second time, securing a place at the University of Sussex to study social anthropology, but never made the first day after deciding to travel to Japan.
She said: “I loved everything about the Midwifery course at King’s [College].
“I loved the tutors and assignments as well as learning practical skills, and I found the hospital and home birth placements thrilling.
“Sadly I got really unwell and was hospitalised.
“I tried to keep up with my coursework and hours but just kept getting more behind.
“I remember hiding in the storage cupboard whilst making up birth packs and crying because I was in so much pain and I had been trying to pretend I was well enough to work.
“I deferred the course to the next year to focus on my health but just as I was about to return I fell pregnant.
“I didn’t feel I could do justice to raising a child alongside training so I let it go.
“I also secured a place at the University of Sussex to study Social Anthropology.
“I never started that because I was travelling in Japan and didn’t want to come home.”
Despite not finishing a degree, Roma – mum to Zephyr, 15, Artemis, 11, and two stepsons, 16 and 12, [not named for privacy reasons] – hold all qualifications necessary to do her current job, having done a year-long training with Hand in Hand Parenting.
She’s also trained as a breastfeeding counsellor with the National Childbirth Trust.
She said: “I charge a relatively high rate because I’m pretty experienced in my field and have been working with parents for almost 20 years.
“I’m at a point where I can confidently move families from A to B even when they have some extremely difficult issues.”
For those looking to become parenting consultants, Roma advises people to just ‘do it’, with the job being incredibly rewarding.
She said: “It’s the most rewarding job out there because you’re watching families transform brutal, unworkable situations to everyone being happy and thriving.
“I get heartwarming messages almost daily about how much things have changed for people.
“I know that parenting is one of the most potent tools for shaping the society we want for our children because we’re changing the way the next generation thinks and therefore the decisions they are likely to make.
“There is so much utter dribble out there in the form of parenting advice, please don’t add to that!
“It takes a good amount of self-enquiry to be able to offer useful attention to other parents.”