subject: The Best Home Jobs Are Often Free! [print this page] The Best Home Jobs Are Often Free! The Best Home Jobs Are Often Free!
Take moms for instence,You are a woman who loves her job, has invested time and effort into your career and are doing very well. Then the stork comes calling and leaves behind a little bundle of joy. As the blissful days of maternity leave fly away, you are aware of mounting doubts. What to do with the baby? Is child care safe? Can I afford a private babysitter? What about my late hours?
It is then that the decision is made to put baby first and job second and lo a work-from-home mom is born! The combined tasks of being a new mom and finding the hours or minutes in the day to hold down some form of employment can seem daunting or even impossible at first. However, take heart. With some simple planning and rules, you will soon effortlessly juggle both.
First, try to find a job that does not need you to work consecutive hours. This will be difficult to fit around the schedules of a young infant and more so as the baby grows and demands more time. Try instead for a job that demands either just a certain number of hours, giving you the flexibility to decide when those will be, or a job that just needs the assigned work done, giving you the flexibility to pick the amount of work you will do.
After you have worked for about 2 or 3 weeks, you will have a rough idea of how long you need to work every day to meet your financial needs.
As soon as this is clear, try to get some help, either with the baby or with the housework. That way you can work in peace without worrying about chores or whether the baby is falling off the bed!
Get the home into a routine as quickly as possible. While this will be a challenge with a very small infant, babies over eight months of age do much better when their day follows a pattern. This will help you distribute chores, baby care, and time with the family and even some sleep if you are lucky.
Working from home, if done right, really combines the best of motherhood and a career. It can be done without compromising the needs of either. All it takes is a bit of planning and discipline to have your cake and eat it too.
