Lifestyle of a Corporate Mom Dropout – What to Expect
I am sure most of people have dreamed of working from home but don’t know where to begin or are not aware of what to expect while working as a work at home mom. If you are one of them, I am here to help you to understand it.
Here are some of things you should expect as a work at home mom:
Traveling is a thing of the past: Working as a work at home mom, you do not need to travel any longer in the mornings and in the evenings to and from your employer’s offices. What you need to do is just be organized and can create a favorable work schedule for the projects you are working on just from your home office.
You are your own boss: A work at home mom? Thank God for there is no longer a boss to push you around with burdens of work with stringent deadlines! What you only need is self discipline and your days through out the week will run smoothly without being harassed by anybody.
A variety of work to do: If you are individual who has a wealth of skills in varying fields, then you have plenty of work for you to do. A work at home mom can do all the work that does not need one to be in the client’s office to be done. Therefore, it depends on you on whether to specialize in one or several services.
No sick pay, holiday pay or retirement benefits: This is the point where a work at home mom differs from an onsite employee. As a work at home mom, what you earn is based on the work you have done. Therefore, planning, spending and saving is crucial especially for the unforeseen misfortunes and time when you are no longer working. This is the main point of attraction for majority of employers to utilize work at home moms in that they will be able to cut down on costs.
Can you work for more than one client: As a work at home mom, you can work for several clients at any one time depending on the kind of projects or services you are providing. This means that you will not be depending on one source for your earnings thus making you more stable financially because of the various sources of income.
As a living testimony, I am personally a work at home mom for many years now and I have never regretted for joining this noble field. I enjoy creating my wealth while working on the projects for my clients from conducive home environment as my own boss. You can also be one as long as you have self discipline, determination and focus on what you need to achieve in your life.
Re: No sick pay, holiday pay or retirement benefits
One way to get around this is to find ways to generate passive income in your business. Can you create a product or service one time, and get paid for it over and over, even when you aren’t physically present to serve your customers/clients? Examples of this could be licensing a workshop/system/recipe you’ve created, setting up an affiliate scheme where others sell your products/services for you, giving out re-sellers rights so that people pay you for the right to resell your work/creations, packaging and re-selling information in the form of books, e-books, CDs, DVDs etc, franchising, leveraging your efforts by joint-venturing with others so that you gain access to a wider pool of prospects/clients. Think of ways you could create passive income in your kind of business.
Another way to deal with being absent and still earn some money is by setting up an on-line store so that customers can buy from you 24/7, 365 days a year, whether you are dead or alive! Paypal makes it very easy. You can just add a Paypal button to your web page, or send your customers a link if you don’t have a website and they can pay you. They don’t need to have a Paypal account to do this. And there are many other sites you could sell from too.
One more way to get around being absent from your business is to systematize everything and take on board an assistant to follow your systems. I personally prefer a virtual assistant (V.A.) VAs are not physically present as employees but work for you over the phone or internet. So you don’t have employee paperwork and responsibilities. VAs are widely used all over the world, not just by small businesses but also by large corporations. Not only can a V.A. cover for you in your absence, he/she can also take off your hands those time-consuming but low-paying aspects of your work, such as admin and clerical stuff, so that you can concentrate on the higher-paying tasks such as seeing clients.
Yet one more solution is to automate as much as you can. Set up autoresponders to answer your emails or send out newsletters. Put your product fulfillment on auto-pilot by engaging the services of a fulfillment company. Set up systems to ship orders or deliver downloadable products once customers make their orders. Think of all the ways you can automate in your business.
Being a corporate mom drop out or work-at-home-mom has its benefits as well as it’s tough sides. But if not getting paid whenever you aren’t there has been one of your tough sides, I do hope that by now your mind is agog and your creative side a-whirl as you come up with befitting solutions.
All the best,
Work-at-home-mom and coach to female small biz owners,
Oma Edoja http://zestwithoma.wordpress.com