In my pre baby life I was a Mortgage Broker for about 5 years.

In regards to safety, we always had an admin person who knew our calendars and appointments and had an idea of how long a standard interview would take. When I would arrive at my appointment I would text our admin person to say I had arrived and then when I finished and was leaving I would text again to say I was all done and on my way home.

It was a good job pre kids as I was based from home and would get up in the morning and do all my paperwork in the morning, have a shower around lunch time and then have the afternoon to myself - non work - when I would do my shopping or whatever I wanted and then in the evenings I would be out at appointments. I worked for a large builder in Victoria so spent most weekends at our display villages doing loan assessments for people looking to build to give them an idea of what they could afford to purchase.

I was on a good base salary + commission (which was good but not huge) and also had a car allowance, and all my equipment provided - laptop, printer, scanner, stationary.

You need to be good at organisation and managing a lot of people and files at the same time as from an appointment to then lodging an application to them following through to the loan settlement can take a long time - especially if it is to purchase a property as in Victoria we can have up to 90 days settlements - because unless the loan settles you don't get your commission and you also need to manage that client until settlement occurs, plus all of you new clients you see as well.