Back at university at thirty four, skint, and with a very odd timetable

I left a career I was good at and hated to retrain, which means at thirty four I am living like somebody eleven years younger, in a shared house, with a timetable that makes no sense and an overdraft that makes perfect sense.

Five years in this. One dynamic of two years, which ended when I started the course, essentially because I stopped being able to give it any time and she was honest enough to say so before it went bad.

Two things about me are inconvenient and I would rather lead with both. My availability changes every term and swings from almost nothing to entirely free. And I have no money at all, which means I cannot go anywhere that costs, cannot travel far, and would be uncomfortable if anybody spent on me.

What I do have is a great deal of time in the parts of the week when other people are working, and the ability to do anything that needs doing during the day.

What I want is a structured arrangement with tasks I do on my own time and report on. Something that lives in the week rather than in evenings out, because evenings out are not available to me for the next two years.

What I do not want is for the money to be solved by somebody. It does not need solving. Nothing I am asking for costs anything, and the day it does I will not be able to do it.