Working from home offers a lot of flexibility for women and their families. Many are able to schedule when they work and how they work to suit the needs of their family. This is great, particularly when you have small children at home who often have demands that are not predictable.
Some women venture to working from home out of necessity, while others are following a dream. Either way working at home can be a fulfilling career choice while staying with your children.
Pam Dvorak, owner of Quintessential Beads fell into this job, "I didn't expect to ever do something like Quintessential Beads though. That's something that I just sort of fell into and I'm loving it. It's my own business and I do it at my own pace. My kids can be with me and if they make noise when a customer calls, then it's not a problem. I've created my own environment and that includes having my kids at my side."
While this may seem like a great solution, there are also draw backs. Working at home means you need to find work that you can do at home. Sometimes old jobs can turn into work at home jobs since the relationship is still with the company. Other times an entirely new field is opened for the person. Many will try to turn hobbies into jobs or learn new skills in order to make themselves marketable for working at home.
"Best thing is, you work at home. Worst thing is, you work at home. My office is right outside my bedroom, so the first thing I see when I get up in the morning and the last before I go to bed is the damn computer," says Lynn Siprelle, owner of The New Homemaker. "If I had it to do over again, I'd have put the office in a different spot."
It's not just moms! Fathers are also jumping on the work-at-home bandwagon. Some dads are bringing the majority of their work home and spending less time in the office or have made the move to totally telecommute.
No matter who does the working from home, it can be a struggle for the family to find the perfect job solution. Then the problem becomes finding the time or energy to work and to overcoming barriers of ignorance from others who simply don't understand what you are doing or how.
