Make it Great

I was on my BFF forum, yesterday- WAHM and someone was “venting” about how working from home was not all it’s cracked up to be. I agree with her 300% she is totally correct in my book.

Now, the person “venting” had a work at home job. Meaning she worked for a company and she gets paid every week or two.  Now, her reason for venting was that her schedule wasn’t as flexible as she thought it would be, she wasn’t getting paid as much as she thought she would be, and she wasn’t able to enjoy more time with her family as she had hoped. I think this scenario is similar to that of lots of other WAHMs as well.

I ain’t all its cracked up to be people!

No matter if it is a Home based business or work from home job, you will not be your own boss. With a home-based business, the customers are going to be the boss, you won’t tell them that, but they are. With a work at home job, you will be “hired” to work for a company.

I also have a work from home job, with this company. I actually like it most of the time but there are some pitfalls.

Here’s is what you can expect 9 times out of 10:

• You will have to pick your hours from the hours they have available, so your picking your schedule from the hours available which may be just night hours or morning hours.
• You may have a few or more hours to choose from depending on the amount of “help” the company needs
• When it is slow, meaning you are getting (0) calls,if you are a contractor, you will get paid $0 dollars, if you are an employee you will get paid your hourly rate which may be minimum wage.

For me, I decided to work from home due to not having to work outside the home or at all. I don’t have to work to pay any bills, it is more of a supplemental income and something to keep me busy thoughout the day. I also don’t have any children or pets to give my attention to. My husband works in the afternoon and into the night. So, looking at my lifestyle you can see that working weird hours or no hours would be fine for me. Also, I don’t need to make much money so this option fits my lifestyle.

Now, if I had children, I would of course need to work when they are napping, at school or doing something to keep themselves quiet. So my availability would be limited. So, if the company only has 2 hours available between 9 AM and 5 PM, that’s what I have to work with.

Also, if I needed to make a set amount of money every 2 weeks to cover my bills, I would have 2 options, work all through the day and night or stalk the schedule for hours to show up and catch them really quickly.

So, as you can see working from home with a work at home job is not for every lifestyle. You have to make sure you check out the company, talk to the people who work there via forums and message boards and just do your research.

Companies differ in policies, pay and schedule availablity so you have to ask questions, that’s the only way you will get answers!

Jarmelia Ladson