| ot sure what my neighbors think, though I know they | | | | I felt like I was struggling to accomplish three people's |
| cast odd looks at me. They know I'm a single mom | | | | jobs, and I didn't feel like I could give any area of my |
| with kids to support, and they see me leave every | | | | life the attention it deserved. |
| morning to drop my kids off at school. However, as | | | | This may not describe your life. You may be one of |
| soon as I have my children distributed at their various | | | | those superwomen who thrive on activity from |
| schools, I turn right around and come home. My car sits | | | | pre-dawn until post-dusk. Or you may have lots of |
| parked in the driveway, and I leave for a few hours a | | | | support from family, so you aren't on your own. Maybe |
| week just to run an errand or meet friends for lunch. I | | | | you won your state lottery! However, I think the |
| am not wealthy, and I did not inherit money or receive | | | | situation that I had was very common. It is more |
| a giant alimony settlement! I am responsible for | | | | common with single parents, but from my experience, |
| supporting myself, and my kids in a decent | | | | one parent can find herself or himself with a huge |
| neighborhood by good schools. | | | | share of the responsibility in married couples too. |
| However, I was just determined to find a job or | | | | Millions of people work at home now. Believe it or not, |
| business I could perform from home, and after lots of | | | | Apple Computers and Hewlett Packard were started |
| work, trying many different things, I can finally say that I | | | | in garages. Some individuals manage to work a deal to |
| support myself from my home business! | | | | telecommute for their present employer, while job |
| It wasn't always this way. I used to scramble around | | | | seekers are always looking for flexible job |
| the house before daylight, looking for paired socks and | | | | arrangements. Others take the route that I |
| attempting to shove breakfast in my kids so we could | | | | concentrated on, and begin their own business that |
| get packed up for before school care. Any interruption | | | | can be worked out of a home office. These days, you |
| could almost reduce me to tears because I had to get | | | | really only need a computer, telephone, and maybe a |
| them sqared away so I could begin an hour long | | | | fax machine. |
| commute to my own desk. My employer expected | | | | Online selling sites like EBay and Amazon have made |
| my to arrive by 8:00 a.m. Of course, I seldom met that | | | | it possible for many people to begin their own business |
| expectation. | | | | on a shoestring. Others do affiliate marketing, or |
| After work, I needed to be the first one out the door | | | | perform free lance work for companies who ask for it. |
| so I could beat traffic and arrive at after school care | | | | Some job boards concentrate on finding recognized |
| before it closed. Then, after a day of work, and a long | | | | employers who are looking for employers or |
| commute, I could come home and attempt to come up | | | | freelancers to work from their own home office. I |
| with a balanced and satisfying meal, get my kids | | | | researched and tested working at home, until I finally |
| started on their homework, and make sure I had laid | | | | came up with the perfect fit for me! |
| out things we would need for the next morning. | | | | |