One hour challenge - help me think of appropriate questions

[Nefertiti2]

It's a hell of a list you've got. For your CV, setting up and working on businesses with your husband sounds really impressive. Lots of transferable skills there, and can also be described at whatever scale you want. Doing a PhD in 18 months sounds unlikely

[Balderdasha]

I think she may have started it before the twins arrived and just finished it off in between feeding and burping the babies, but still. She complained that her current job carries a level of responsibility that is too high for her to properly relax. She's basically in charge of trying to bail out a very large organisation that is imminently about to go under.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm pretty sure that if I polish off my CV and get in a bit of interview practice, I could get myself a job. I'm less convinced of how long I could successfully do a job for. I simultaneously get bored very easily, but don't respond well to high-pressure and stress. So I need something that is interesting, varied and challenging, but without too much responsibility, preferably school-time and term-time only, that pays enough to cover all the housework and work for our business that I wouldn't be doing. I only want to do ethical work and I'd prefer not to commute too much. Not asking for much am I?

[ursus arctos]

There's actually a role open at a non-profit I am on the board of that would suit you very well, but it is in New York, which is rather impractical.

[Antepli Ejderha]

I'm not sure what your exact qualifications are Balders but adult education sounds up your street and can match the timing schedule you've got. It's often hourly paid now which isn't great I'm afraid. Good luck with whatever you do, it sounds like you're doing an amazing job already.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I was thinking the same thing. Contract teaching (which I'm about to stop doing) gives you the opportunity to work a few hours to begin, but increase them them later when opportunity/inclination allowed.

[Balderdasha]

My qualifications are varied and mostly esoteric.

I have A-levels in English language and literature, philosophy, maths and further maths, as well as 11 A* GCSEs.

I have a degree that sounds more made up the more you describe it. It's sort of a masters, but it's an MA (Cantab), which just means I managed to not die within three years of leaving Cambridge, and paid £30 for a nice reunion dinner with my friends, so I don't know whether to describe it as a BA or an MA. The college I went to has since been renamed. I don't even know what subject it's officially in. I started out studying SPS, one quarter each sociology, politics, psychology and social anthropology, a course that no longer exists. Then after one year I decided to specialise in social anthropology, but that switched me into the archaeology and anthropology tripos. I can't say I have a degree in that because I've never studied a day of archaeology in my life.

I have a British Council TEFL qualification, but I doubt I could find evidence of it.

I was an associate of the institute of environmental management and assessment, and a LEED green building associate (an American green buildings standard thing), but I think both of those have expired because I didn't renew my memberships.

I have some current generic safeguarding training.

I did teaching for two years in China, I don't have a strong desire to do it again.

Thanks for all the tips, guys.

[Balderdasha]

There's actually a role open at a non-profit I am on the board of that would suit you very well, but it is in New York, which is rather impractical.

That would be quite the commute!

[ursus arctos]

Just think of how many steps you would get in!

[ursus arctos]

I have only seen British legal CVs, but what I'm used to in those cases is for both the B.A. and M.A. to be listed, with the latter being specifically M.A. (Cantab.) and the B.A. description including subject and honours. It may well be that people don't bother in the UK, but Americans and Continentals are generally impressed (even if they understand the system).

[Nefertiti2]

All Cambridge and Oxford BA's magically transmute into MA's.But call it an MA, of course,

However a Cambridge degree, some social anthropology, knowledge of China and some green qualifications (with your self evident clarity of analysis, range of skills and sense of humour) look like they could be adjusted to fit a multitude of narratives/

[Patrick Thistle]

All Cambridge and Oxford BA's magically transmute into MA's.But call it an MA, of course,

However a Cambridge degree, some social anthropology, knowledge of China and some green qualifications (with your self evident clarity of analysis, range of skills and sense of humour) look like they could be adjusted to fit a multitude of narratives/

Yeah. That would walk you into an interview for pretty much any management job in the NHS. (I'm being serious. I've yet to meet one with a business degree. But they have all kinds of stuff on their CVs)