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How about looking at internal communications or corporate comms. It will use your PR experience but from a different angle and it isn't marketing. Look at the website by VMA who specialise in communication folks - I'm permanently glued to it looking for roles as I've just accepted Voluntary Redundancy and there are a few roles out there (even in Yorkshire!). I nkow quite a few people who've made the move from press/PR to comms as it's the ability to convey the message that it's important.

Good luck with your search

Edited to say - lots of Government Departments have comms roles and they tend be fairly secure and flexible with hours!
 
I have a friend who events and she retrained as a paramedic she works 4 days a week on shifts and then has 3 days off. Only problem is she does sometimes have to work weekends and her shifts are 12 hours shifts so it is difficult sometimes in the winter. Luckily she keeps her horses at home and OH and her dad also help out.

I think you either need a job that pays ££££ so someone can help you out during the week and then you have your weekends free and take holidays to train or you need a local job which possibly offers flexi time so you can keep your horse fit.

I work for a charity and earn over £30k but I do have a degree not that I think you would need a degree for my job you could also do it if you had experience. I work flexi time and work two late evening a week and leave earlier one day a week. Pony lives out and fed and checked by YO on my two late days. I get 30 days holiday.

I know it might be boring but legal secretary's that work night shifts get paid a lot. My friend is a lawyer and her PA get paid more than I do.

Jobs that you might be able to do from home or outside office hours might be good such as IT programming.

Unless you have a real passion for marketing I would give it a miss not that well paid and very competitive and also marketing/PR departments often 1st to go in hard times as companies sometimes think sales teams can cover those roles. A friend of mine is looking for a media type job in sussex and has degree in journalism plus experience and struggling to find anything suitable - she has had one interview and they said they had 56 applicants for the job which was for a local council.
 
Just had another thought how about horse transporter. I hire a horsebox and driver/helper and went to a show at the weekend with a friend and we paid £180 for the day. She is now booked every weekend till February taking people out BSJA showing and to indoor dressage.

She started out as way of funding her horses but now is so busy that she does not compete that often but she is also busy during the week as well. Even if you just did it every other weekend during the summer and then every weekend during the winter when the eventing season finishes you could still compete. If you found someone who was into eventing and going to events you wanted to go to you could even offer them a discounted rate if they did not mind you taking your horse too.
 
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