Help! employment ideas for stay-at-home-mom, doctorate in botany, over-aged for most jobs.?

You could teach science in an on-line degree program. Most of these jobs are part-time, but some colleges do seek full-time faculty to teach in distance degree progams. You could also invest in career counseling. A counselor has the expertise to help you find a job that meets your criteria. The career center at your graduate institution probably offers alumni services. Most people on yahoo answers, myself included, don't know enough about what jobs are related to botany that a doctoral level scientist can do at home nor about your interests, values, work background and skills. You'll probably get lots of ideas here, but the jobs might not interest you or fully utilize your training.

You have a doctorate? Well you can obviously write reasonably well. Where I am there is a huge demand for people to write plans and documents - to distil other people's ideas and put them into a format that meets the needs of banks, financiers, tender evaluators etc: The topics that may interest you in botany might include things like: . farm regeneration plans . environmental impact studies . tenders for landscaping companies . environmental lobby group submissions. You need to get into the space and this could be done through, perhaps: . Internet advertising . Contacting lobby groups and farmer associations . Doing some charitable job and using it as a reference It's amazing how few people can write and how few applicants for grants, tenders etc actually answer the questions they're asked in the advertisements/tender documents. If you've answered essays - as you no doubt have and can cut the waffle down to the salient points ... bingo - people will love you. And pay great money if you're in the commercial world! You would have to meet with people - so you need to be able to ask questions and listen to answers. But that's not hard if you remember we were given two ears and only one mouth for a reason! Of course my experience is on the other side of the world from where they say "Mom" ... we call it "Mum" :) But I can't imagine it would be much different there!

Have you thought of raising annuals and perrenials to sell, either to garden shops or have a seasonal stand of your own? Or, how about raising fresh herbs and/or vegetables to sell to local grocers or at a farmers market? You could also raise things like lavender and loofa (sp?) and make up dried flowers or sachets or bath gift baskets to sell. Good luck!

Why don't you start a question web site or start a business in helping people with answer to there garden needs around your neighbourhood you can take your child drop off leaflets and answer question like what do I have to do to get my soil right to grow this or why are these bugs eating my whatever what can I use to kill them or how can I grow bigger tomato's you might end up with so many questions you could write a book.you could charge for your advise and you can take your child could open a whole new world.Start small and get bigger with word of mouth I d pay for that sort of help and you shouldn't have any overheads.help people start worm farms or compose heaps etc.I am presuming you don't leave the house because of your little one.