Working from home or starting your own business are employment trends on the rise. For most people, these start as side businesses – ways to make extra income or to make your hobbies more productive. But the desire to turn it into a full-time gig is strong. Just imagine: Work that you choose, a schedule you set yourself, a ... Read More
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A Test to Help You Figure Out Which Career Best Fits Your Personality
Choosing the right career can be of the utmost importance for a variety of reasons, both professionally and personally. We often identify with our careers as much as we need our careers to support our families and ourselves financially. This identification and financial aptitude does not come easily when our occupational choice is ... Read More
Salary Negotiations – 9 Tips to Help Women Ask for the Money
Many women feel uncomfortable when asking for a raise at work. It seems that reason and basic common sense are often two of the greatest factors holding ladies back from getting what they really deserve. Here is a look at how women can overcome their better nature to get themselves on level pegging with their male ... Read More
How to Convert Your Office Job to a Telecommuting Position
By Meghan Nguyen Seven years ago, I asked the partner of the law firm I worked for in Austin to do the impossible … make my full-time office job a work from home job. I was nervous asking for this, especially since I was still relatively new to the firm, but my boldness paid off. My position became a remote job, even after I no ... Read More
7 Benefits of Working From Home
One of the emerging trends in business is teleworking. Teleworking is just a fancy word for allowing an employee to work from home. Working from home has become increasingly popular because of its many benefits, both to the employees and employers. So if you are an employee and you are interested in working from home, these are ... Read More
How This South African Makes Money Selling Typing Services From Home
Gaynor Paynter lives in Kensington, South Africa. After high school, Gaynor studied graphic design for a year and then decided it wasn’t for her. She later graduated with a secretarial diploma from the then Germiston Technical College in which she obtained a distinction in Information Processing, (a fancy name for typing). Today this ... Read More
The Truth About Working at Home as a Real Estate Agent
Real estate was, for years, considered to be a man’s world. It was a difficult occupation for women to break into initially. Thankfully, over time the field has become wide open and developed into more of a woman’s domain. Females aspiring to be realtors had to work hard to prove themselves, but finally, we have evolved into a force ... Read More
Professional Women Are Leaving Corporate America
An event whether happy, like the birth of a child or tragically sad is often the catalyst for professional women to leave Corporate America. It was years ago that my daughter Serena died in a drowning accident yet the memories of that day are as vivid as if it happened yesterday. Serena for years had been my silent secret child ... Read More
10 Tips To Avoid Work-At-Home Burnout
“Ugh ... I really don't want to work today. I have a ton of stuff to do but don't want to do it. What the heck, am I bored or feeling burnt out?” How many of you have asked yourself that question? I know I have. Many times. Not only when I worked the "9-5" jobs, but also while I worked in what I thought was my desired work-at-home ... Read More
Raising Kids While Pursuing a Degree: It’s Not Impossible
We live in a brave new world, one in which our hyper-competitive, globalized economy forces us to stay ahead of the curve simply in order to survive. This means even a college degree is no guarantee of a secure future. Having children, of course, changes everything, and many women, in particular, feel as though they cannot both ... Read More
Working From Home May Not Be By Choice
To have the choice to work from home can be a total blessing. Making your own hours. Not having to converse with annoying co-workers. Working at your own pace and on your own time. But what if working from home was not a choice? What if circumstances dictated the necessity to abruptly leave your office desk and quickly shift ... Read More
How to Get Started with Public Speaking Gigs
When you take the entrepreneurial route of working from home, you have to explore every possible money-making avenue. Diversifying your income streams is a must, and public speaking is one way to go about it without huge financial risks and overhead expenses. But, how do you get started? Let's dig a bit deeper into this ... Read More
How Freelance Writers Can Obtain Higher Paying Clients
Anyone who is an online writer always wonders in the back of their mind how they can obtain higher paying clients. We all hear of people making $100 and more for simple blog posts, yet it can seem almost impossible to achieve these rates if you are not going about things the right way. Many times freelance writers become ... Read More
The Pros and Cons of Telecommuting
By Liz Krause Telecommuting from home is not for everyone, but as technology such as IP phone systems and mobile apps continue to improve and gain popularity in businesses, more employees are finding themselves in a position to choose to telecommute as an option in the workplace. A friend of mine recently told me of a ... Read More
“Work-at-Home” Is Not a Job Title
There are many misconceptions about what work-at-home actually is. I often see questions posted on forums, Q & A websites, and comment threads asking what work-at-home pays or if all work-at-home is just a scam, as though “work-at-home” were a single job title or opportunity. Many times these questions are unfortunately ... Read More
