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TryingMyBest
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Posted: Aug 28 2013 at 6:49pm \| IP Logged

I gave notice a few weeks ago and they've asked me to work part time from home, at least until they fill the position. I agreed to do it but I'm a little worried about how it will for me.

Does anyone else work from home? My plan is to do a few hours of week each night after my DD goes to sleep. I'll also have some time when DD is in nursery school (3 days a week for 4 hours). We're leaving her in school until we move and then she'll be home with me all of the time.

I maybe have bitten off more than I can chew but it was hard to walk away from the opportunity to make some extra money.

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Posted: Aug 28 2013 at 9:19pm \| IP Logged

See how it goes. You can always scale it back (or quit outright) if you find it really doesn't work. Do anticipate that bedtime might be more iffy right before and after your move (always has been that way for us, though of course your mileage may vary), and you might need to plan around that.

I write from home, but my writing for money is really sporadic, mostly because to turn out a publishable essay takes me a long time and more solitude than I normally have. Working on deadline means my whole family goes into lockdown mode and people get hotdogs or whatever else Daddy makes for dinner, which is not what Mommy would make . . . I was not cut out for freelance writing success, obviously, at least in the life I have currently. But my hope would be that most people have more clarity of thought and can accomplish tasks more straightforwardly than I am generally able to. I'm just way too comfortable living on my own timetable . . .

One friend of mine who has long done corporate consulting types of jobs has also gone through a number of au pairs and foreign exchange student-cum-nannies. She's now working full-time from home, and I'm not sure what their arrangement is this year (her kids do go to school), but even when she wasn't working full-time, she seemed -- in a way that looked like genius to me -- to acquire live-in child-care help that didn't seem horrifically expensive. Having someone to take up the slack when she really needed not to be available to the household because of work seems to have been a lifeline for her, but then I think she was working her way into full-time employment, not out of it.

Good luck with it all. Again, if it's too much, you can just cut the cord altogether, but it's worth trying to see how work-at-home will go.

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roomintheheart
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Posted: Aug 29 2013 at 2:21pm \| IP Logged

I'm a work at home mom. I think I even posted a question about this a few weeks ago, but nobody responded.

I typically have to work after dh is home to take care of kids, so in the evening. Sometimes I can find time to work in the afternoon if the kids are all occupied. It's always difficult, but the extra money is a lifesaver.

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Posted: Aug 29 2013 at 4:44pm \| IP Logged

I work from home as well. I'm on a freelance basis, though (transcription). So I have the benefit of making my own hours. Some weeks I choose to not take any work at all because it just becomes too much. My husband wishes that I could take more work, because we really could use the money. However, I have to be realistic about how many hours I have in a day, and what needs to be accomplished. When I take on more than really should, the family suffers. As much as I try to juggle it all, it's so true that "when mama ain't happy, nobody's happy." When I'm feeling stretched thin and stressed out, the whole family feels it. I try to keep that to a minimum as much as I can.

That being said, when I am working, it's usually late at night after the kids go to bed. 2 am isn't abnormal

. I have four kiddos, ages 6 and down. I get pretty strict about quiet time when I know I'm working on a deadline. Working on a regular part time schedule is something I'd only be willing to do on a very short term basis. Even then I'd be hesitant. But that totally depends on what kind of work you're doing, and what the chaos level is at home. As Sally said before, don't be afraid to cut the cord if it becomes too much.

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Posted: Aug 29 2013 at 5:19pm \| IP Logged

I worked from home and homeschooled until baby #5 was born. My children were all elementary age down when I worked. My boss knew that I homeschooled. I usually took calls/made calls in the afternoon during quiet time, and did the bulk of my work at night and on weekends. (when my husband looked after the kids) When I had toddler twins and I had to take calls, I had a phone with a headset and mute button. I enjoyed it and financially it was a big help - and I had an awesome boss who was fully supportive of me homeschooling. But it was TIRING. My job was relocated when baby #5 was born and this was probably God's working. Life gets a lot busier as kids get older and the spread of kids is from teen to infant. I would like to do some work from home again maybe when I have fewer kids at home.

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