Work-At-Home Mom Success

When a mom considers starting a business from home, or just working from home, it can be a very scary thought. Many moms would like to earn a living from home so they’d have more time with their children, but they’re afraid of not making the money they need or atleast currently make from their current jobs.

Taking that first step can be hard. When taking a chance with something new, it can really help to hear about others success. Over at Miserly Moms they have a page dedicated to the success stories of work at home moms. All are submitted by readers of their site.

Miserly Moms:

When I started working from home in 1999, I thought it was only going to be temporary. My company had just folded abruptly and several people from that company decided to try their hand at operating a publishing company. They were only going to publish two magazines to begin with. However, that two turned into eight within the first six months of publishing. Consequently, I had to scramble those first few months to get my computer running up to par, get an office established (I was living and working in one 10′x15′ for the
first six months), and learn how to do the job I was doing, since I had never had that much responsibility in my career. It was a steep learning curve.

I found it hard to work from home for the first year and a half. Starting up a new company and working out the bugs of doing so plus the 14-hour days really were taxing. And not having a computer department to help me with computer issues meant I had to learn how to solve my own computer problems. Furthermore, I dealt with loneliness quite a bit. Working from home without much personal contact took getting used to. My coworker and I, who both worked from home at the time, found the solitude overwhelming at times and we would meet for lunch at least once a week just to have some face time with a friend. But once things were running smoothly and I adjusted to the change of work environment, working from home became a blessing. I learned that I didn’t have to be at home all the time. As long as I had my cell phone and I checked my e-mail at least once a day, I could fit work in to my schedule, rather than fit my schedule around work. I quickly learned to enjoy the flexibility.