Thursday, February 26, 2009

Working From Home Is Still A Job For Moms

The position of a work at home can be a very, very good thing, affording you the wonderful opportunities in life. You'll be able to see the kids off to school and greet them when they rush in from school. You can take a break to run laundry to the washer and drier or fix a bowl of fruit and Jello for tonight's dinner. You can be more relaxed about many tasks you used to fret over, quit sweating some of the small stuff, and be a modern mom who's on top of things in this busy internet age.

Working at home can also be very difficult if you mismanage your time if you do not set up a work schedule that you and your family can live with. When you work at home, you must make very good use of the time that you spend working. If you are not efficient in accomplishing your work, you will either spend too much time working or you will fail miserably at your job. You've got to be able to concentrate and be dedicated to your job at home just like any other job. Keep to your work schedule for yourself when you work at home and then you must enforce that work schedule for yourself. Don't let your family and friends interrupt it.

Hopefully, you've had some sort of experience in a regular, in-person job in the past. Looking back at that experience, think about the experience and how you can apply that structure to your work at home job. When you have a job that you go to outside your home, you are required to be at that job on a regular schedule. If you don't, and you don't have a reasonable reason, you simply don't have a job anymore. When you have a work at home job or business, you need that same kind of structure. You need to set regular working hours. A work at home job often allows you to choose the hours – but you must adhere to them. This is especially true in fields where there is high competition for your position – such as virtual call center jobs or virtual assisting. Somebody is always ready to take your hours – or your position, permanently. Remember how hard you worked to get this job? You deserve to keep it, you deserve the peace and quiet of home, you deserve the stability and the fresh air of your own backyard. Don't let anyone take that away.

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