Mar 30 2009
How do you work from home?
I can’t tell you how many times I get this from people. They want to know how to work from home, thinking it’s so easy, that you just kick back on the couch and watch soaps all day while your paychecks roll in. I’ve been working from home for nearly 2 years now, after being laid off from my job. My daughter was about 4 months old at that time, and I’m so lucky that I have able to be at home with her each day. But let me tell you, if you think it’s easy, you better think again. There are times when I think it would be easier if I worked outside of the house, but the nearly $200 a week childcare is what kills it for me. So here I am.
My main income is from selling on Ebay. I’m a Powerseller, and I love it! I sell mainly clothing, and health and beauty type things (makeup, discontinued items, etc.) I sell my daughter’s things she outgrows, as well as yard sale and thrift store finds. I also do surveys for a couple of different places. The tricky thing about it though, now that my daughter is bigger is that my only time to “work” is naptime. So if she decides to skip a nap today, I get nothing done. But I must say, I do love it. We go to a thrift store about 2 times a month to look for things to sell, as well as stop at yard sales in the spring when they seem to be everywhere. I look for name brands of clothing mostly, among other things. I’ll go into more detail about what I sell and how I sell it this week on another post.
If you are thinking of getting started with Ebay, good luck, it can be done!
You have a very good point there people assume that work at home means hardly work…. Even when some of us put in up to 60 hours a week at times, while taking care of kids at the same time.
Working at the office was wayyyyy easier I must say. I usually work best when my daughter is at school for a couple hours (kindergarten and at night when she is sleeping)
Setting up arts and crafts for her the night before can buy me a little time to get stuff done and so does working in the sunroom while she plays in the yard.