10 Reasons Why I Love Working at Home
I’m tired today. My son’s going through one of those ‘get up between 4 and 5 am’ phases, and I am most decidedly not an early bird myself. Closer to night owl, but since I do have to be up in the mornings with my kids I don’t indulge that as much as I would like.
But, you know, that’s one of the great things about working at home. I don’t have to drive tired to work, and if I really, really need to, a nap is not entirely out of the question. I’m pretty hard on myself, and naps are quite rare, but if they’re needed I can do it.
But there are many more wonderful things about working at home, especially for myself and online.
- Setting my own hours.
I have one kid at school and the other is currently keeping himself entertained. But once that stops I can stop working and not have a boss telling me to get back to work! - I decide what to work on.
Some days that’s really hard, because there will be many things I think I ought to be working on, but it also allows for some whimsy. Of course, there are still priorities and sometimes I do things because they need to get done, not because they’re the precise thing I’m interested in working on at that moment. - Setting one heck of an example for my kids.
My daughter is definitely getting the idea that she can do whatever she dreams of. For the longest time she assumed she would be a mommy, but she thought that a part of a mommy’s job was to work on the computer. Now she’s decided that she can have the career and her husband can stay at home. It’s fun to watch. - I can be as creative as I want.
Some days that’s almost torture because I’ll have too many ideas and too little time. I have so many ideas I’ve just never had the time to implement. - Knowing I’m doing good work.
Sometimes it’s easy to feel like nothing has come of my work, but other times I can see near immediate results. It’s a great feeling. - No worry the boss won’t give me a holiday off.
While it’s rare that I take a day completely off, for holidays and other times I may do as little as check blogs for comments, check the forum, and my email. Less than a half hour, and I’m free for the day most times. And if I really want the whole day off, I can do that too. - I can work when I’m sick.
Or not, depending on how sick I feel. No guilt about getting coworkers sick, and my family would be seeing me anyhow. - I can work my best working hours.
I’m more night owl than morning person, so that’s when I work. If I can’t focus, what’s the point of working? - I am almost completely spoiled for regular jobs.
And I love it. While I could work for someone else if I had to, and do a good job, my heart is in my business. I like it that way. - Being able to provide for my family.
I do pretty decently from home. Currently not quite at my husband’s level of income, although at times I have exceeded his. That I can do this while being there when they need me is just amazing.
I could probably go on and on, but 10 reasons are plenty.
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Sounds like our sons are on the same wavelength! I´ve been getting a few very early mornings in myself.
I would have to add the ability to simply stop and read stories to your kids. I love it when my toddler comes in with an armload of books and I can just turn away from my work, scoop him up and read with him.
I do that too. It’s long been a basic rule of mine that if the kids need a story, I stop and read to them. It’s fun and so good for them.
Curious about what you do to make your income, working from home??
Running this website is the main one. Some other sites that bring in less. Affiliate marketing, that kind of thing.
I used to also do medical transcription as a job. It was a pretty good one, but I like the flexibility and creativity of running my sites far more.
I heard about medical transcription to work from home. Do you have any information you can pass on. I’m a new mom with a 7 weeks old and my husband would really like me not to go back to work because he strongly feels that leaving him at daycare won’t be as good as our own home but I’m concerned that I will go stir crazy not doing other things so any direction would be great.
I have a big section on medical transcription here that covers some of your options for getting into medical transcription. You will need to take courses through a reputable program. No legitimate companies hire without quality training and/or experience. The best schools have good enough reputations that some employers will hire their new graduates. Without that it’s tough, as many companies want 2 years’ experience.
Career Step is the most affordable of the options, although you do need to take at least their Gold level course. My own former employer wouldn’t hire people who didn’t take at least that level, as I understand it.
If you don’t want to spend the money learning medical transcription, a few general transcription companies do hire people without experience. You have to pass an online test to show you can do the work, of course. I have general transcription companies listed here and Tigerfish is one I know of that has the online test.
I know what you mean about going stir crazy. My kids are wonderful but focusing on them alone would be too much for me. But do remember that working at home with a baby is hard. Nice thing about medical transcription is that you can generally set your own schedule, but they do prefer that you keep reasonably to it. As your baby settles into a schedule things do get better, though.
I hope this gives you some information to go through. Let me know if you have more questions I can help you with.