Elmo hasn't been around for 40 years, but now Sesame Street has!
When I worked full time in a corporate job, I’d get the kids to day care by 8:30, and sometimes didn’t pick them up until 6:00 or 6:30. I hated it! I was making a great salary that more than paid for their child care, but when all was said and done, paying for the quality of child care I was willing to settle for amounted to a lot of my take-home pay. [...]
Working from home doesn’t have to mean sitting in front of a computer all day, but for many of us, that’s exactly what it means. I own a photography business, which someone might immediately picture as an action-packed sort of vocation. But the reality is, I’ll go and take pictures at an event or wedding, or take someone’s portrait, and then spend hours at the computer doing all my uploading and editing. Folks who work from home on a part time or full time basis doing even more computer-centric work, such as programming, will find themselves at the computer even more than I do. [...]
There are many advantages of telecommuting that you can use to convince your employer to let you work from home.
I’ve found 8 benefits you can talk about with your employer, according to Kate Lister and Tom Harnish, authors of “Undress for Success: The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home” (Wiley, 2009).
- Most employers that have been surveyed have said that they’ve noticed an improvement in productivity among their employees who were telecommuting. The amount was substantially more than usual and was observed to be as high as 35% more.
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Cellphones like the iPhone & Motorola Droid help you Work at Home
Cell phones technologies such as the iPhone and the upcoming Motorola Droid are making it more and more possible each day to work from home or anywhere in the world – even while traveling – and reduce your stressful lifestyle. It let’s you be anywhere and still get your work done. It has really helped me to be able to take MORE vacations because I’m not dependent on a job to decide when I can travel. I usually just go when ever I realize I have some money saved up, and I want to travel. And I complete my work while traveling, by the pool, sipping on a drink. [...]