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How Your Child’s Temperament Affects Your Home-Based Business

Quite a few home-based professionals work from home so that they can care for their children. Balancing a home-based business (or two) with one or more children is certainly not an easy task. Many factors contribute to whether it is going to work or not on any given day, including what kind of work is on your plate, how many children are home with you, the ages of said children, and perhaps most importantly the temperament of the children. If you have kids at home then what I’m about to say may seem quite obvious. If you do not have … Continue reading →

Any Day Can Be Your Friday When You Work From Home

Thank goodness it’s Friday. These are the words that are uttered in many an office all over the world at the end of the work week. For home-based professionals, though, Friday may be just anther day. The work week of a home-based professional may be quite different from that of professionals that work outside of the home. While this is not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing, it can cause home-based professionals to feel a little bit out of sync with the rest of the world. As much as home-based professionals who do some or all of their … Continue reading →

Before You Submit That Proposal……

If you do freelance writing work, submitting proposals on projects may be a large part of how you get work. By working as a freelance writer, I have learned that there are two very important things to consider when submitting proposals. First, know what you are bidding on. This serves two very important purposes. The first is that you must know enough about what the job entails in order to be able to make an honest assessment of whether you can do the work and for what price. If the project description is unclear, ask questions. Knowing what you could … Continue reading →

Is This Your Dream Job?

I was talking with another home business owner/operator recently and she declared that her business was finally her “dream job”—I felt a pang of envy. While I truly love SOME of the stuff that I do for work, I haven’t been able to focus entirely on the parts I love and let go of the parts I don’t…I need a little more time before my work from home business is truly my dream job. But, I do think that entrepreneurs and work at home business owners are often much more inclined, and much closer to actually working their dream jobs … Continue reading →

Working Early or Late to Make Room for Family

Flexibility is one of the perks that comes up again and again for those of us who work from home at our own home-based businesses. This fact may have even been one of the main motivating factors that encouraged us to actually start our own businesses. AND, many people admit that a home business allows them to make room for family in ways that a traditional job cannot. Many of us find ourselves working extra long hours, however, to accommodate all this flexibility. We might work late, after the kids have gone to bed—or get up earlier than the rest … Continue reading →

Encore: Q&A of a Working QA, Part Two

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If you missed Part One, check it out here. Again, here’s Laura, a working MT and QA gal: Do you work full-time or part-time, and why? I work full time because I need full-time pay. We have a tiered system where the higher your line counts, the higher your rate of pay is. Working full time allows me to reach the higher line counts and the higher pay scale. What is the best part of being an MT and/or QA? The best part of being an MT is the freedom. My current job allows me to be at home without … Continue reading →

How Quickly Everything Changes. Are You Prepared?

In yesterday’s post, I talked about my son’s recent hospitalization and how thankful I was that I was able to spend every moment with him without worrying about work issues. Today, I’ve been obsessing about our medical bill that will be arriving shortly. I really don’t have a clue what we are going to owe and I am anxious to find out so we can plan accordingly. Ever since I started working from home my income has always been used to pay for the “extras”. My husband’s income pays our mortgage and related bills. My income covers groceries, dining out … Continue reading →

What is the Right Job for You?

I don’t know. Not a single clue. I could start naming off random jobs that I know about or have heard of, but that doesn’t answer the question: What is the right job for you? Warning: This blog is going to be venting, from beginning to end. Feel free to hit “next” at any time. 😉 So I am a member at very active work-at-home forum, and I spend a lot of my evenings and weekends reading posts and trying to respond to questions when I can. But there are perennial questions that just never seem to stop coming up, … Continue reading →

Staying on Track While Working From Home

In yesterday’s blog, I wrote how difficult it was for me to focus when I was at home all day long. When I first decided to stay home and study full-time so I could graduate and get a job as a medical transcriptionist (MT) I thought I was studying incredibly long hours. It was only after a couple of months of making very little progress in my studies that I realized that I was wiling away most of my day in forums or e-mailing people or cleaning the house or whatever else sidetracked me that day. I did several things … Continue reading →

How Many Hours Are You Truly Working?

When I first decided that I wanted to work from home so I could stay home with our children when we had them (that still hasn’t happened, actually) I decided to become a medical transcriptionist (MT) because that was what I read about in an ad in the newspaper one Sunday. Not really the best reason for choosing a career path, but at the time, it made sense to me. I quit my day job and went to school full-time so I could graduate quickly and start working right away as an MT. My husband was very impressed with my … Continue reading →