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Stay at Home Moms
Cgelske
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i wish to be a stay at home mommy.
Cgelske
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i would love more than anything to be able to stay home and spend all my time teaching and loving my little bundle of joy, making sure everything is going as planned and i'm putting education first, i want my child to be smarter than i am.
so what kind of job can i have that would allow me to stay at home and do the things that i want to do with raising my child?
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Re: i wish to be a stay at home mommy.
Pretty much what the above poster said
I'm SAH because we can afford it.
There are a lot of ladies who do WAH but they started in the workplace and transitioned over. GL!!
There are people that find ways to work at home, though I don't know how they do it. Sometimes you can barely find time to get the laundry done or take a shower. My 2 year old is not as high maintenance as a baby, but when I'm trying to get things done it can be so hard with him interupting me every 5-15-30 minutes. He's a normal kid after all who needs attention. Once my DS is asleep for the night the last thing I would want to do is work - I want to relax, spend time w/DH or get random tasks done. Obviously for some this is the ideal time for them to work - gotta pay the bills somehow.
There is no easy answer to your question. Who knows what your skills are, what your current job is, etc.
I'm a floral designer. I work 15 hours outside of the home at a store and also do weddings from my house periodically. When I do weddings out of my home DS definitely has a Grandma babysit - there's is NO WAY I could get my work done with him around.
I recommend starting your own business. I know a ton of moms who work from home and we all own our own business. We have control over what we do, when we work, what we charge etc. Turn your hobby into a business and sell on etsy or ebay. Or start a local service business (cake making, piano lessons, computer classes, jewelry making, card making, photography, design...) Only you know what your talent is.
I rent personalized signs to announce new births and birthdays (storks, funky cakes, fairy princesses etc..) I've been doing it for 6 years and I bring in an excellent part time income. I rent 20-30 signs a month for $55-$85 each. I just take the kids with me when I deliver the sign. Then I simply pick it back up 3-5 days later. I LOVE IT! www.sweet-greetings.com
I would steer clear from to-good-to-be-true online jobs (chacha etc..) You'll work your butt off for a few bucks. Also steer clear of jobs that make you sift through pages and pages of their website without even clearly stating what the job is.
If you do find something, ask for references and do a google search to see what info you can find out about the company.
thank you very much for your help. i've been looking for some kind of stay at home work for quite a while, i have a love for traveling and i would also like to relocate in the future, i've definitely been through pages and pages online. i usually will look them up on BBB but i've never had much luck at all.
i've also worked for chacha, i could barely get through the training, they didnt explain anything to me at all. people have given me the idea to start my own at home child care but i'm in an efficiency apartment so i wouldnt be able to take much on.
thank you all for the ideas and im happily accepting more ideas. im going to start researching how to start my own business now. :]]
I have to buisnesses that I do in the comfort of my home.
Email me at cash4purpose@gmail.com
And I can send you some information. I don't want it seem like I am spamming on the site.Please do a search on this forum and you will find tons of WAH posts.
Good luck!