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2nd Trimester
Anyone working from home???
I am a stay at home mom, quickly realizing that money will be running tight with this new baby coming. Just wondering if anyone knows of any legitimate work at home jobs that I can look into. Thanks...
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Re: Anyone working from home???
If you are going to sah with your lo and money is tight, welcome to the club. We gave up ALOT to have me stay home with her.
I want to work from home but there is really not much time with a toddler running around.
Good luck.
I work at home for my uncle who owns a business here in town. I work about 10-15 hours per week. It helps us cover our bills and it's convenient. Before I worked from home I looked into many work at home opportunities and it was really hard for me to get going in something...a lot of things seem like scams or didn't work out for me. Maybe you can contact local businesses or someone you know who owns a business to see if they need office help. I pay bills, call companies if something needs to get figured out, work with our accountant on taxes...stuff like that.
Like the previous poster said, it is HARD to fit it all in. I'm pregnant and have a 1 year old- so staying on top of taking care of her, grocery shopping, cleaning the house, preparing meals, helping my husband with things, could easily take up all my time- I just have to fit in time to work as well. Hope that helps!
This will probably be the most obvious answer but any of those companies that do parties make decent money and you work as much or as little as you want to. Mary Kay, Thirty-One, Lia Sophia...and for the more liberal gals there are things like Passion Party and True Romance.
They usually have a startup fee of about $200 so that you have something to show, and then from there you get your friends and family to host a party, and you network from those parties.
I did it for a little while and it was fun, but I also had a FT job and it was too much to work FT and do the parties at night.
My Colton...Growing up so fast!
And Coralee, his baby sister...On the way!
There are legitimate jobs out there that pay you to work from home, and as much as I'd love to, the work you'd be doing is unpleasant at best. I know that NEW is a corporation my current employer works with and they set up service calls, walk customers through trouble shooting their appliances and electronics, call service companies, etc. You can go onto their website and apply to work from home. Issue being that most stay at home jobs are telephone jobs and it's the worst part of the job I have now... you spend hours on the phone with people who are angry their brand new item doesn't work, they might not speak English (and if they do, they aren't the most eloquent), and you often get yelled and cursed at (I'm a hormonal person and hate being yelled at lol). You're also only making $7-$9/hr, which in my state isn't much. The good part is that you're working with people all over the country, so you could work your hours around a set schedule (but it's not feasible to think you'd also be taking care of an infant while doing this work, you'll be busy inputting information on a computer).
You could do the "party" thing... Mary Kay, Avon, Scentsy, etc. They even have a kids toy one now! I had no success with MK, people in my circle just couldn't justify paying what some of those products cost, and I was constantly being pressured by my higher ups to sell more (and my orders had to be over $200, so if it took a while to get there, people were stuck waiting for what they wanted). But it might be different for your situation, and I know some women REALLY enjoy working for them. And it's way more fun then wearing a headset for 15 hours.
I work from home as a graphic designer for the company I had been working for before my son was born. I know others who do medical billing from home. Obviously, both of those options would require schooling.
What I can tell you from my experience is that it is a lot harder than you might imagine. I'm really lucky that I have all week to meet my deadlines so for the most part I can fit my work around my schedule and my boss is not someone who feels the need to breathe over my shoulder and pester me. My job is all computer and if someone needs to communicate with me, they email or fax, so I don't have to worry about them hearing a screaming baby on the other end.
However, my son is not very cooperative and now that he can crawl out of his pack & play, it's downright impossible to get him to take a nap so I can focus on my work. Therefore, if I need to get something done and he's not sleeping, he is drawing on my tv with his crayons, pulling all the books off his bookshelf, etc. and I feel terrible that I can't give him enough attention.
Then my husband gets home from work and acts like I'm a lazy person if the house is a mess or dinner isn't done, because I've been at home all day, afterall! It makes me feel like a crap mom and a crap wife. Most days I am not able to shower until my husband comes home from work because when my son does take a nap, I need that time to do my work.
We thought this would be such a perfect solution since we could save on daycare and I would be the one taking care of my LO, we'd save on gas and wear and tear on my car, all that jazz. My 8 hour work week stretches out into an entire week, and I honestly think that if I had a job outside the house for 8-12 hours a week my life would be so much more sane. Unfortunately, the daycare and price of gas would eat up my entire paycheck, so this is pretty much my only option right now.
This is me, too. I work from home doing graphic design, and while I feel blessed to be able to work out of my home, it really IS a lot of work. I'm a little stressed about how I'm going to juggle it all when the baby comes. I've slowed down my workload a lot since I've been pregnant, but I'm still putting in an average of 40hrs or more a week. I know I can make it work after the baby comes, but I don't have any crazy ideas about it being a piece of cake either.
Wearing your baby in a sling while you work helps when they are newborn and want to be held a lot. After that, I would lay my little guy on a blanket beside me with his toys or a play gym thingy to entertain him. Once they can crawl and then walk though, it's a whole new ballgame.
My son's sleep schedules changed so much, at one point he was sleeping 12 hours a night, so I could get up early or stay up a little later to work while he was sleeping, at another point he was taking 4 hour afternoon naps so I could get a lot done then. My mom would take him for 4 hours on my busiest day before she had to go to work. If you have any family or friends that are willing and able to watch them even a few hours a week take them up on it.
My husband is a teacher so he's home by 4:30 in the afternoon during the school year and all summer, but he is not a lot of help, he is still somehow in the frame of mind that he can go and putz around in the basement and ride his 4 wheeler when he is home and leave me with LO still trying to finish my work.