1.I like the idea of being able to choose when you work. There is no 9-5. If you are a morning person you can work in the morning, if you are a night person you can work at 2am! You can work when you want to and choose not to work when you don't. In this day and age the technology is available to able to work 24x7. If you focus you can finish work early if you want to.
2.If you own your own business you don't have a boss to answer too. One of the reasons why I decided to start my own business from home was because I didn't really like having a boss. I hated having to do things that I didn't want to do, and let's face it that happens all the time when you work for somebody else - you have no choice!! Although when you run your own business from home you have to be your own boss - you actually do need to do some work!
3.These days there is a lot of talk about getting the right work/life balance. Unfortunately, most people probably have more emphasis on work than life. If you work for yourself you can focus on getting your work/life balance tipped the right way. You have the control and nobody else can tell you what to do.
4.No commuting - if you work from home your commute is just 5 minutes - to the kitchen to make a coffee or tea then straight to the office! Just think no more sitting in traffic jams for hours at a time. Unfortunately my husband has to commute for 2 hours each day; this is something that he doesn't enjoy. One of the aims of our business is to grow it very quickly so that he can retire from his current place of work and join me in the business. With our wealth creation strategies in place I can see that this will happen quickly.
5.When you work for yourself you are free to do things in office hours i.e. kid's school events. I didn't realise how much flexibility was important until I had a child. I can only imagine how stressful and difficult it is to juggle your work and still be there for your children. I'm fortunate in that I don't have to do that, this is why I love working from home!
6.Here in the UK we don't get a huge amount of sunshine but when we do I really want to enjoy it. I used to be stuck in an office, looking out of the windows wishing I was outside. When the sun shines now I take my laptop outside and sit in the sun and work. You can even take an impromptu day off. I think you can actually have a couple of duvet days in some companies, but you can choose as many duvet days as you like if you work for yourself.
7.One of the key benefits that I can see is that you can go on holiday and work. You may think 'are you crazy, why do you want to work when you're on holiday'. When I say work I mean it in the loose sense of the word! For example during the children's long summer holidays you could go away to the beach for 6 weeks and still keep your business ticking over. With a normal job you wouldn't be able to do that. This allows you time freedom and flexibility over your life.
8.You can also choose your holiday time. I see a lot of my friends having to book their holidays a year in advance. This creates a lot of difficulty for them. It's great to be able to decide that you'd like to take a holiday and not have to get it approved by somebody else. You don't have to get your holiday form in first before 'Janet in accounts!'
9.You have no office politics to contend with. I found this very disruptive and it's very easy to get sucked into it. When you work from home you can work with people that you like and not who you have to. You can have a virtual office environment on the internet and chat to people online. You can also attend networking events to get that social contact. But again this is all about choice - your choice.
Working from home gives you time freedom and choice over how you spend your time. I believe this is the key to work/life balance and is the way forward for a lot of people. As you can probably tell I certainly enjoy all the benefits of working from home and enjoy mentoring others on how to do the same.
by Julie Hanson, (c) 2007
It has not been a very long time since I have started working from home with the help that the Internet can provide. However, despite the rather short time interval since I have been carrying out work from home assignments, I am already witnessing some improvement in the number and the quality of the tasks and demands I can cover. My work from home priorities? Well, first of all, I must mention that the work from home areas in which I am active ? more precisely translations ? require a high degree of concentration and focus on the subject. However, I do not wish to enter the discussion on what translating means, I only want to call attention to a number of aspects I have been noticing during my work from home practice.
There are certainly several merits to working from home activities. One of them is the distribution of the time for working from home. This does not mean that, if you work from home, there is no deadline you have to meet for the successful completion of your tasks. On the contrary, deadline is a highly significant component of work from home schemes. However, working from home is an activity ? or it can be very well equivalent to more activities ? which gives you enough time to effectively meet any deadline. If you are a highly organized character, you can even develop your own work from home schedule, which is, in most cases, a suitable and helpful strategy towards more hours per day spent in the company of your family or simply relaxing and joking over a cup of tea with some friends.
From the independence you gain in the distribution of your work from home time another merit results, specifically flexibility. Indeed, you have created a schedule for efficiently working from home; yet, should you feel one day the need to change that schedule, there is nobody ? no greater authority, no boss ? telling you to thoroughly stick to the agenda. Moreover, there exists a pleasant thought, every time you come back home from your other place of work, your regular, standard workplace, that you can do even more to increase your and your family's general comfort and well-being while working from home, from the same home you share with them, where there is so much warmth and security no other workplace could provide.
Are there any doubts in the beginning of a work from home activity? Well, I find these doubts perfectly natural, especially for someone who has not been working from home ever in their life. If you choose, for instance, to be working from home as an author of articles, there exists, at first, a certain concern that you might get tricked. However, like in any other business, there is need of a particular degree of confidence and of optimism. In fact, what you ought to consider is the thought that you have actually nothing to lose in the very beginning but a couple of hours it has taken you to complete you first work from home task, especially in the branch of article writing as a work from home occupation. Even more, in order to get rid of as many doubts as possible, you can always look up on the Internet pieces of information concerning the firm or the person who requests your writing skills. Should you not find anything on the Internet, ask a friend or relative or any other kind of reliable acquaintances, maybe they are familiar with working from home as well and maybe they can assist you with some piece of advice. However, in case your acquaintances are not familiar either with the sort of work from home you are interested in, you can always ask for some kind of agreement with the person who wants to employ your skills while you are working from home. Generally, they will not fail to come to an agreement with you so as to make you feel safe since your working from home is the product they actually need to keep their own business in motion.
Therefore, the law that operates in the area of working from home is the same as in any other business, specifically that of demand and offer. If you know how to offer your services properly, then you will have the benefit of actually seeing them needed and demanded. After having managed to surpass your doubts, you will feel more and more self-reliant as your money-earning activities, conducted from your own home, bear the suitable, identifiable fruit of achievement. The key is not to get obstructed in the beginning by very likely to occur disappointments or by any apparent stagnant status of the results of your efforts; the merits will be consistent with the extent of your efforts. Unless you struggle for a while, you will not become the beneficiary of the anticipated supplementary earnings; in the end, everybody knows that money do not just happen to rain down from the sky, and this phenomenon will not occur in home business either. The key is to be optimistic indeed, but by no means a fantasist.
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