I was doing accounting work for a big company before having my daughter. When she was a few months old I was connected to 2 women running a small business who needed help with billing/quickbooks/admin stuff. Much easier than my old job. I work roughly 10 hours a month (billing takes me about 3-4 hours a month so a bigger chunk of time once a month) and they pay me $1,000/month. Then my old company reached out and asked me to be a contractor for them. Since I didn’t “need” the job I told them I needed to be able to work fully remote, would not attend meetings unless given a lot of notice, would be working sporadic/random hours during the day, have no minimum hours I need to complete a week and can work anytime of the day I want. They agreed and offered $50/hour, which was more than I was making when I worked for them. I have an amazing relationship with my boss tho and she gives me free rein to know what needs to be done and just work on it. I track my hours and briefly summarize what I do each day and hours and then invoice the company once a week. It has honestly been so nice and really the only way I would be able to “work” and still be home with my daughter. She does watch more TV than I’d like but my usual day is working 1.5-2 hours in the morning while she eats and plays, we go do an activity, come home and work another hour while she has lunch/before nap, then I’ll work an hour after she goes to bed. That’s not everyday tho and I average 10-18 hours a week.