Working from home allows moms to have both career and family time, but
balancing the two can be challenging. It can also be tough finding
legitimate and money-making work from home jobs. Here are tips on
working from home.
Secret shopping is an extremely flexible job and most shoppers work almost entirely on their own, so self-discipline is a requirement for success in the industry. There are two situations known to occur in the industry…blowing off an assignment and table-top reporting…easy to do but absolutely wrong, and it’s self discipline and honesty that will avoid getting the shopper into trouble.
I love my life and my choice to stay home and raise my kids
but after two years I must admit I'm a little disappointed. There’s
a big difference between how I expected things to be and the reality of how
they are. After years in the work force, juggling
chaotic schedules and letting a sitter see my kids more than I did, I was more
than ready to throw in the towel when the opportunity arose. But working from home has its challenges.
Someone once told me that being a SAHM was easy. Guess what, they were wrong. The juggling act gets harder the older your
children get and with the more children you have but even in those first few
weeks with your first born it’s the hardest job you will ever have to do.
"We've Come A Long Way Baby" is a term that only women from a certain era remember. It's an old Virginia Slims cigarette ad that glorified the fact that women could now choose to smoke if they wanted to (and kill themselves too, I suppose). The WAHM community has come a long way too. It's time to get some perspective on the changes that have taken place in the Work at Home Mom world. We've come along way since the concept first started picking up steam 20 years ago...
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Women who work from home take multi-tasking to a whole new level. They may be editing a corporate report with one hand while feeding a baby with another all against the backdrop of a screaming toddler. But what happens when those babies become school children and suddenly Mom finds herself in a perfectly quiet house, living the dream she had for so many long, choatic years? Here are some tips on coping with the work at home mom version of the empty nest. Tags: work from home momschildren going to schoolempty nesthome alone
"You're so lucky!" is a phrase I hear often and, on most days, I am willing to concede that I am very lucky. After five insane years of running my oldest daughter from grandma's house to the babysitter's while I earned my Ph.D., I found a way to work from home and be with her and her new baby sister. I truly appreciate the fact that while I am sipping my coffee and watching my computer boot up, my neighbor (who holds the same job as me, but not online) is standing knee-deep in snow scrapping her windshield and cursing.
I also very much appreciate the fact that when it comes time for my children to return home from school, I simply stand up, stretch, and open the front door as I peer out at my neighbor who is typically screeching into her driveway in time to grab her kids and speed off to the next class she is teaching while dropping her sons at some destination along the way. However, these past years of working at home have taught me many many valuable lessons that I truly wish I had known sooner. Here are my top five things I wish I had known before working from home.
"We've Come A Long Way Baby" is a term that only women from a certain era remember. It's an old Virginia Slims cigarette ad that glorified the fact that women could now choose to smoke if they wanted to (and kill themselves too, I suppose). The WAHM community has come a long way too. It's time to get some perspective on the changes that have taken place in the Work at Home Mom world. We've come along way since the concept first started picking up steam 20 years ago...
