Working From Home

About Working from home.

What would it mean for you to be able to work from home? Have you been thinking about it or even try to look for a home based job?
I left my office job when my son was born 3 years ago and I haven’t looked back since, not because I came across a great home working opportunity! But because I wanted to look after my child and watch him grow and feel reassured that he is getting the best care possible.

Why another site/ blog about working from home? The reason simply is, when I felt ready to search for another job, a work at home position, I was inundated with information, most of it irrelevant and out of subject. Most working from home websites are targeted at a US audience and finding appropriate information or even a home based job listing for the UK proved to be a tremendous task in such a labyrinth of information.

This blog is intended for those, who are actively searching for a home working position, mainly in the UK, need information about other aspects of working from home, and would like to hear about the first hand experience of a home working mum.

If you type ‘working from home’ into Google search you will be flooded with information, but most probably you will find it a chore to comb through these information to reach the useful parts. The point of this site is to make the valuable facts about working from home easily accessible.

This blog is going to inform you about:

What it means to work from home
Where to look for home based positions
The legal implications you need to be aware of
Postings of current and updated home based job vacancies
Tempting scams and ploys to avoid
Get rich quick schemes- fact or fiction
Freelancing : how to and where to find freelance work
How to use your pc and internet as a useful resource to add a few pennies into your pocket
Telecommuting
Franchise prospects that requires minimum capital as start up
And other free ideas that you can undertake when considering a home based break.

I will be searching through all relevant information in print and online and anticipate to post genuine links and content. I welcome all comments and ideas.

Recruiting now!

Apply for these Home Based Jobs now!
These companies are recruiting home workers
Most of the posts offer a basic pay on top of commission which make them more appealing.
Most of the positions are Nationwide in the UK.

Work as a Sales representative for a Teaching resource company.
This post requires teaching experience or other experience in a school setting. It is a 3pm to 5 pm daily shift and the pay is £20 per hour.
http://www.teachable.net/links/jobs.aspx.

British gas is recruiting Home based Energy Sales consultant.
This is a customer service/Sales role
There is a basic salary + commission which would be around £2500 per month OTE (uncapped) and other benefits.
http://www.salestarget.co.uk/JobSearch/JobDetails.aspx?jobid=43968402
Recruitment Consultant. Flexible hours.
I found this position advertised few days ago and unable to find post again, so please copy and paste the Url, and you will access the application form. This is an American company that has now opened in the UK. The company’s name is Brainhunter UK Ltd
https://www.brainhunter.com/frontoffice/seekerCreateAccountAction.do?sitecode=pl522&jobId=
Become a driving instructor with Red driving school.
The website states:
Working as a RED Driving School Instructor has the following benefits:
Fully air conditioned Vauxhall Corsa provided
Full call centre support
Earnings around £500-£600 per week
The satisfaction of being your own boss
http://www.go-red.co.uk/become-an-instructor.php
Homebased Telesales Nationwide UK
The information is sourced from uktemp and the website and about the job: We run www.FindaPro.co.uk and need a number of self-employed home based telesales consultants to tell businesses about our services
http://www.uktemps.co.uk/part_time_job/1332453578/sales-business-development-jobs/hankham/home-based-telesales-uk-wide/

As promised I have searched for these positions and they are all advertised on independent or own business websites. There is more to come soon!
Disclaimer: I am not being paid to post these jobs and I am not in any way affilitated to the above mentioned companies, the only reason for the above links is that they are all home based jobs!!

my predicament

Home working is proving to be a great practical solution for me. Weaving both home and work life on a day to day basis 24/7 is not the easiest of jobs, but is definitely convenient, especially for someone with a young child. I feel very lucky indeed that working from home gives me the possibility to earn, while still being able to care for my child and be there for him every single day.

Something I need to work on now, is how get my priorities right, so that I am not working every weekend of the year or shutting down the laptop at dawn everyday to start my journey into dream world at 4 am, only to toss and turn in bed having nightmares about needing to submit a work later during the day and not having started it yet! And, still running behind with my work schedule and hoofing and panting all the time trying to organise housework, attend to my son’s constant growing demands and manage to breathe in some oxygen all in the same nanosecond!

How do I favour work over playing building blocks with my three years old,specially when he looks at me with his huge sad eyes and says ‘mommy will you be my friend and play with me just a little?’!!? Or he desperately needs to use the loo only when ,I am just about to sit down at the desk to start work on that all important piece.

At the moment work life is relegated to the evenings, after seven till the early hours of the morning, when everyone, well at least the little one is in bed. So do not ask me what is on TV at the moment? as it’s been a while since I have watched anything…movies included, except for the brief news flash! And not to forget the weekends! almost all my Saturdays and Sundays have been taken up with ‘catchup’ work, while the little one amuses himself with daddy.

Although it seems like at the moment it is all work and no play…I do not really feel like complaining…It is absolutely fantastic to be able to sit in your dressing gown at your desk and carry on with your homebased work, while its pouring rain outside and peeking at the window you can see people fighting with their opened upturned umbrellas, isn’t it just fantastic?

Now don’t get me wrong, there certainly are some glum moments included…it can get awfully lonely with only yourself and your pc to keep you company…but if like me you have a little chatterbox that comes up with rib cracking funny things to say every few hours, the blue minutes do not last long!