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Last Updated: Apr 28th, 2010 - 22:06:40 |
The Hazards of Working At Home
By Lisa Barker
Mar 9, 2009, 17:37
Are moms who choose to run a home-based business out of their minds?...
Moms that choose to run a home-based business are utterly out
of their minds. I should know. I am one of those women.
Here’s a list of
things you can count on happening, so be prepared.
1) You’ll buy 12 reams
of paper for the printer and fax. Yet the very minute you need that paper
there’s only one sheet left and a colossal collection of artwork tacked to the
dining room wall thanks to the kids.
2) You’ll teach the kids to answer
the phone professionally—because you never know who will call. Family, friends
and colleagues all remark how well-trained your kids are when answering the
phone. Then, a key person for the success of your business calls and gets “Yeah,
what?” from a child with a mouthful of peanut butter.
3) Yes, you CAN
work in your pajamas from home…if you don’t mind being surprised by UPS or FED
EX when you’re the least glamorous.
4) When it comes to Word documents
save, save, save as you go because the minute you’re pleased with your work
somebody’s chubby little fingers are either going to pull the plug or somehow
magically erase the entire document that just took you hours to
create.
5) The minute a customer needs to fax you is the precise minute
you discover the kids have used up all the ink and while trying to fix the
matter it ‘blows up,’ singeing your hair and awing the kids who all chant, “Do
that again, Mom!” And then UPS shows up….
6) There is no working through
lunch or dinner EVEN if the project you are working on needs to be done
YESTERDAY. Just ask a brood of kids to wait ‘just a few more minutes’ and you’ll
soon feel like the only caribou among a pack of starving wolves.
7) As
soon as your toddler has a diaper blow-out, the phone will ring, your older
child will answer promptly and professionally and then hand you the phone. And
then UPS shows up….
8) Your husband won’t understand why you must leave
the house as soon as he returns from his away-from-home job…but the singed hair,
trail of copier paper and smoking diaper should be enough clues for him to
figure it out.
9) Be prepared to type with one hand while hugging up a
clingy toddler who wants you to look HIM in the eye and not the monitor.
10) Your business cards will make great confetti for toddlers and the
perfect ‘tickets’ for the older kids when playing make-believe circus
outside...and you'll be running to collect them all right when UPS shows
up.
Working at home will be the toughest job you’ll ever have, but quite
possibly the one you’ll love the most precisely because of the kids.
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the Author(s) : Jelly Mom™ is written by Lisa Barker and syndicated through Parent To Parent™ and is available for newspapers, websites, e-zines and newsletters. Here's all the info you need to publish Jelly Mom™: http://www.jellymom.com/editors-pubinfo.php |
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