While in the grocery store line today, I ran into a mom that I hadn’t seen in quite a while. We both have two kids and our oldest are just one year apart. They used to be in girl scouts together. I asked her what she’d been up to and she told me that she [...]
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Have you been looking for a telecommute job? Have you ever considered turning your current job into a telecommute job?
Many people work at home because they pitched telecommuting to their boss, and won them over.
The first thing to consider is whether or not your job can be done from home. Not every job [...]
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Many people dream of snagging a telecommute job not realizing that there can be some very real drawbacks and that sometimes those drawbacks can be deal-breakers. It’s hard to imagine, but it’s true.
One of the main challenges is the isolation. It can be really difficult to feel connected to your co-workers when you don’t have [...]
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The answer may be easier than you think, but there’s a catch.
The truth is that you find a telecommute job just like you find any other job- with research, persistence and a bit of job search savvy.
The caveat? Ever wonder why more companies don’t advertise telecommute jobs? In this competitive job market you’d think [...]
When I first moved here over ten years ago, I was planning to be a stay at home mom. It didn’t take me long to realize that I was craving professional interaction and recognition so much that I was trying to be superwoman. I felt like I had to justify my existence by being a [...]
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People don’t like to talk about it, but it’s time somebody did. Chances are, you or someone you care about suffers from it. It’s Work At Home Guilt Syndrome, or WAHGS.
Why is it that so many webmasters feel guilty when they work? This is not true for “traditional” business owners. The shop owner who hangs [...]
Well, I bit the bullet yesterday and bought a new laptop. I decided on the Lenovo ThinkPad SL400. It looks like it has pretty much everything I was looking for. It’s also the top pick at PCWorld’s Top 10 All-Purpose Laptops. My goal is to use it exclusively for my business. I’m also getting [...]
There have been times that I’ll be talking to a friend about some frustration at work and inevitably a sardonic smile creeps across their face as if to say, “Oh yeah, you poor thing. It must suck to work at home.”
Yes, working at home has some really great benefits that I wouldn’t trade for the [...]
Going green is becoming a priority for a lot of companies. Companies everywhere are taking steps to be more green by using solar energy, reducing employee travel, instituting recycling programs and the like. These are all positive steps, but the companies that are really leading the charge are the ones that are taking more drastic [...]
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Can an economic downturn really be good for anyone? It can if it means more people will be able to telecommute as a result.
Mike Elgan of Computerworld says that companies are looking for ways to cut costs without hurting productivity, and that telecommuting is an efficient way of doing that.
Economic downturns, painful as [...]
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