When someone writes "WAHM, a work-at-home mom, the most treasured of all the mom options (stay at home = bored; work outside the home = exhausted)," it feels as if I should be nodding vigorously, given the subject of this site. Who am I to argue with a "most treasured" designation? Â And yet this column by Virginia Heffernan in The New York Times Magazine, the source of that quote, left me shaking my head.
The flippant categorization of women and tongue-in-cheek insinuations about telecommuters and Judge Judy reruns were just the start. The most bothersome to me was the underlying premise that women should be totally in charge of the home. Maybe...
I received this email from a reader. I'm posting my answer and some advice for her in th Work at Home Moms Forum. Do you have any other ideas for Peg?
Hi there!
My name is Peg, I am a single mother and very very broke at this time. I have been searching and searching for a job and unable to find anything. I have been looking into working from home doing data entry and such. I am soooo scared to death to get into more debt, as it is I do not make enough to pay my rent or utilities right now....
Those of us lucky enough work from home are in an enviable position. And the world's con artists know it.
Preying on people who simply want to balance financial security and family life, they push phony work-at-home opportunities of every type--from pyramid schemes and bogus businesses to useless directories of work-at-home jobs and low-pay survey taking. The result for those who send getting started working from home, you may run into some unfamiliar terms while researching potential work at home jobs.
Here are a few words you might see. Click on them for a full explanation.
It may seem that if you work from home, then you should qualify for a home office deduction on your income taxes.
But hold on! The question of whether to take a home office deduction is a complicated one. The IRS has many requirements a taxpayer must meet before claiming a home office deduction. And complicating the issue even further is the important distinction the IRS makes regarding the home office deduction for telecommuting employees versus the self-employed...
It's a tough time to be an employer, even if you are one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For." More than 40 percent of 2010 Best 100 Companies have a negative job growth rate. And that makes it even tougher for the job seeker who'd like to land a job at a top 100 company.
But for those that want to work at home, though, the news is slightly better. The number of companies that allow employees to telecommute or work at home at least 20% ...
