New Business Opportunity For Me

I might have a new work-at-home job.  A teacher in the area has a second business through a college. She offered a job to me with her company. Maybe I'll actually start my own home business, take them on as a client, make some business cards, have cheap brochure printing to start, and get going.

It's an idea. I'm thinking about it. I need to contact her to get more information, find out if I'll need any equipment (I think it's just my computer and Microsoft Word which I have), and figure out how much time I will need to commit to this new opportunity. With four kids, timing is everything.

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Girly Hair Clips

I am going to start making those flower hair clips for my kids. Rather than spend $2.50 or more on each completed hair clip somebody else made, I am going to try to do it myself.  Who knows...if I do well, maybe I can get a little side business going selling them myself.

My oldest daughter makes hair bows out of fabric, hair clips, and a hot glue gun. They're cute and my younger girls love them. Well, except for when one side of the clip isn't glued down right and it goes cockeyed. I add a super glue and clamp it with my finger until dry (should use a small steel clamp...I glued my fingers the other day).

I am also considering opening up a dog kennel if our next house has enough property.  I think it would make a decent little home business. The hair clips would be more of a hobby I think, but a dog kennel would be something I could do year round.

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Work at Home Mom - - Soon!!!

It's almost time to get back to work (working from home).  I'm thinking another two weeks or so if things work out the way we are hoping and it'll be time to buckle down.  It'll coincide with my four kids going back to school so that will work out great!  This economy has just been awful for my husband's work but we're lucky he still has a job so I can't complain too much.  Pretty soon, I'll have my jobs back too:)

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What Does Mom Do When All Kids Go Back to School

With my four-year-old starting kindergarten in the fall, I've been thinking about going back to school myself.  The problem is that our local university doesn't have a program that I really, really want.  They have teaching, nursing, social work, and criminal justice degrees.  The only one of the three that might get my attention would be the criminal justice degree but I'm just not sure about that.  I used to want to be a social worker but the first abused child I came across, I wouldn't handle it well so I need to look for something else.

I've managed a corporate automotive office, worked for Presidents and Directors, worked for years on my husband's legal family court stuff, and was trained as an auditor for the automotive industry.  With everything going green, I am wondering what the energy auditor training program entails and what kind of job I might find in the future with that. 

I know I am going to need to do something but I lean more towards an "at home" job because with kids getting sick, etc., it's better for me to be home and available to any of our four children who need taken care of.

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Work at Home or Kids Franchise?

I've been working from home for about two years now. I've tried a couple of different things during that time but decided that blogging was the way to go. My schedule is my own (which makes it great with four kids).

With the economy hitting the dirt, I am seeing several empty businesses in town. It has me thinking a little bit about what kind of business could be run successfully right now. A specialty shop carrying products you can't find anywhere else but the big city would be a fun business. Any kids franchise would be popular in this area since it is very kid-oriented and when people spend around here, it does tend to be on the kids before themselves.

Then I get to thinking about all the hours that I'd have to devote to an outside business and that my schedule would no longer be my own. I think while my kids are still young, I'll stick to being a work-at-home parent. I want to be home whenever my kids need me right now.

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Mom Corps - Work From Home Recruitment

When I took a severance package to leave my 40-hour work week in the corporate offices of an automotive company to stay at home with my (then) two babies almost nine years ago (we've since added two more), I left with a few tears for the people I was leaving behind but with the excitement of knowing I would be raising my kids - nobody else.

If you are a stay-at-home mom who wants to become a work-at-home mother, or are still in the workforce and wanting to leave, there are a few companies recently in the news that may help you.

They are:

Mom Corps
On-Ramps
Flexible Executives
Flexible Resources
FlexWork Connection

If you are looking for a recruiting company that can offer you the flexible schedule you and your family need, you might find what you need with one of them.

There are also other things you can do from home depending on just how much income you are looking for. I also blog for additional income, though I am currently looking for other ways to bring in more income to our family. Gas prices and the rise in groceries is just killing our budget. With school coming soon and the need to clothe three kids (possibly four if she qualifies), then school clothes for four children will take a healthy bite out of our finances.

*not a sponsored post.

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Make $40 in TEN MINUTES!! FOR REAL!

I work from home because I want to be home for my kids and available. I am always on the lookout for LEGITIMATE ways to make money. Through a friend of mine, I heard about surveys you can do that make you money. I've found a number of sites that I have actually been paid for (I don't list them on my site unless I've been paid!). Right now there is a really good offer I wanted to make y'all aware of. It is at Mermaids Sand Dollars. Usually I just do the free offers (doesn't cost me a penny to do and I make $$ doing it). However, this offer was too good to pass up. The offer is called Psychic Source. You pay $10 for a ten minute reading. Mermaids pays $30 to you for doing the offer and will pay you another $20 if you do this offer in February as their February promo. I did this so I made $40 in ten minutes plus had my first psychic reading, lol. I also get 250 PTC ads for my home business advertised on Mermaids for free! Sign up at Mermaids Sand Dollars and then do the Psychic Source offer. It was simple. I did it Saturday and had $50 in my account on Monday!!! Just click the link below!!

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