Work From Home
by ~ July 30th, 2008. Filed under: Work From Home.Work From Home: Moms
With fuel costs on the rise, to work from home just makes sense. Plus, what about the high price thats being paid in the human sense when children become latch-key kids or husbands and wives become virtual strangers or like ships passing in the night in an effort to generate enough income to support themselves and their families? More and more, single moms or dads and parents are looking for ways to work from home and to get out of what I call racing with the rats.
Having been a single mom for years, I spent a tremendous amount of time away from my daughter between the commute to and from my jobs and many hours each day and every week at my jobs themselves. I worked for multiple employers, sometimes up to 80 hours per week (not counting commute time). I felt at times as if my daughter was being raised by pre-schools, teachers, after school programs and babysitters. Much of what I earned often went to pay the schools and babysitters, as well as for many other costs incurred. Id have given anything to be able to stop this insanity.
I longed for the day I could either find a way to not work at all or find a way to just work from home. Now in most households, both the husband and wife have to work to provide the necessary financial support to sustain their families.
Back in 1996, I finally broke the seemingly unending cycle of trading my time for money and working for others away from home. Ive now worked from home for years, and what Ive learned is that it just makes more sense. Not only do I have more time and financial freedoms and control over the choices and decisions I make, but I earn more, save more and I have tremendous tax advantages that I never had when working for someone else.
When deciding whether to work from home or the alternative, the choice for me is simple. In hindsight, Id have given anything to have spent more time at home when my daughter was growing up. The fact that I could not work from home took a tremendous toll on my relationship with my daughter and my marriage.
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