I have added a quick look at autosurfs in my work at home scams section. Why? They are at high risk of being shown to be a scam. It’s not proven yet, but several are under investigation, so it is time to make sure you know what puts them at risk.

What will be the result of the investigation? I don’t know. My gut feeling is that at least some of them will be shut down as Ponzi schemes, but it is not impossible that a few will have business models that hold up, I suppose. Only time will tell. I’m monitoring results carefully to see where the investigation takes this.

Much to my complete lack of surprise, the poll I’ve been running shows people want more access to work at home jobs. Of course, that’s the most challenging one, but even so, I do have some ideas on how to include some more. I’ll be labeling them as unscreened, however, and including reminders on what to look out for.

So now I’ve changed the poll. I’m asking for the second choice. There’s a lot more I can do with this site than just add more work at home information, and I’d love to know what other areas are of interest.

It’s going to take a bit of time to add to the work at home section. I’m still deciding on the best way to implement it. I’m leaning toward a blog style so that it can easily be seen when the jobs were listed, making it easier to avoid out of date listings. Then again, I could do much the same simply as a section in the forums, which would make it easier for other people to post job leads.

Eeny, meeny, meiny, mo….

No one who has really worked at a home business thinks it’s easy. Saying a home business is easy is reserved for those who picture it as sitting on the couch watching tv and somehow generating a small amount of money without working. Real business just isn’t like that, especially if you have kids.

One of my biggest challenges right now is that my kids are on rather difficult schedules. Gage currently prefers to nap about the time Ariel wants her lunch. Naptime and lunchtime are often my best working times, but when they intersect it isn’t so easy. First I have to get Gage to sleep, then make Ariel’s lunch and my own. By the time I’m done eating, he’s often awake. Little rascal’s been taking short naps lately!

The trick to coping with times like this is finding things they’ll do without me. This is more easily done with Ariel than with Gage, as he is in one of those clingy phases. For Ariel, I can pull out play dough and she’ll be happy for a time or I can let her play on the old computer. I have yet to find a toy that will keep Gage busy for more than a few minutes on a regular basis. Fortunately, he’s getting more interested in what his sister does now that he can walk a little, so I expect all this to improve soon.

After they go to bed is another great time for me to work, but I have to balance that with spending time with my husband. Can’t neglect him! Now that I’m over my most recent cold I’m hoping to have the energy to stay up a little late one night a week to get work done with no interference from anyone. Stuff like that really helps me accomplish my goals.

We also try to remember to take at least one full day a week for family activities. We spent Saturday at the zoo, which was a lot of fun. The weather has been ridiculously warm (mid 80s!), so hiking is on the list sometime soon too.

The balance between home business and family is often a precarious one, as it is all to easy to work too much or not enough. I can always think of things I’d like to be doing on either side of that equation.

What a shock! So far on my poll, most people want more work at home job listings. I’m surprised, really (ok, maybe not). Of course, that’s the most difficult one to improve, since finding legit work at home jobs isn’t easy. But I’m thinking of ways that might help. The hard part is going to be balancing finding more work at home job possibilities with my own sort of time management.

I think I’m going to do a little work and reposition the poll so it’s a little more visible, just to see if I get more answers. I only have about 30 or so at this point, and obviously I’d like to hear from more people so I know what else is of interest. It’s a bit more work to put it other places on the site, but I think it will be worth the effort.

In a week or two I’ll be adding fun polls as well as other serious ones, just because it’s something fun to do.

I’ve added a poll to the main pages of this website asking what I should do more of here. It can be a bit of a tricky question, and some things are more easily done than others. But I figure it’s time to see what people want here.

This poll is serious, but now that I have the software installed to add polls, I’ll probably do some fun ones later. Shouldn’t have to be serious all the time, right?