Are you one of the moms I meet on a regular basis who is dying to work from home? The world is full of moms who desperately want a work at home job. But you know what? The world is also full of moms who had that dream come true – and once it did, they realized it couldn’t give them the lifestyle they were hoping for.
Here’s the rub – if someone offers you a stay at home job, I’d almost always advise you to turn it down. Because what you should be looking for is not a stay at home "job." You want a stay at home "business."
Is there a difference? You bet there is.
Remember, a stay at home "job" is still a job – maybe not that much different than the job you have now. You’re just doing it from your house or apartment. Guess what you still have with a stay at home job -- a boss who makes the rules, deadlines imposed by someone else, and, here’s the really important one, a ceiling on how much money you can earn that’s based on two things…
1 – How much your boss is willing to fork over for your services
2 – The amount of time you have to trade for money
The first point is something most moms get immediately. But many have trouble with the second. So let me explain.
If you plan to get rich, or simply just financially secure, trading your time for money, you’re going to have a long road ahead of you. Lawyers, surgeons, athletes – these jobs are basically the only ones where trading your time for money can be wildly profitable.
For the rest of us it’s simply impossible to expect to become financially secure trading an hour of your time for $15, or $25, or $50. If you don’t believe me, pull out a calculator and run the numbers yourself. If you worked until you basically collapsed from exhaustion at the end of the day, how many hours of work could you do in a week?
Now take that number and multiply it by your typical hourly wage? Will making that kind of money every week give your family financial security?
What most moms I meet don’t quite get is that the only way to accomplish both of the things you want by being a work from home mom – providing some income for your family that will let you stay home with your kids -- is to start, find or buy a work at home BUSINESS.
Now I know many of you out there will say, "BUY a business?? I can’t afford to buy a business! Who do you think I am, Donald Trump?" What if I told you that thousands of moms have had success buying a business for around $50? Would you be interested? It’s no joke. In fact, I go through a bunch of opportunities just like that on my work at home mom job page.
Remember, there is a huge difference between the two. Businesses that I started months ago, that I don’t spend a minute of my time on now, bring my family a nice steady revenue stream every month. If I got sick, went away, moved halfway across the world, or stopped "working" altogether to care for my children or my husband if they got sick, those checks would continue to arrive each and every month.
Can you say the same thing about your job? Will that change simply because you now work from home?
That’s the real secret behind all this. This is what successful, happy, content, financially stable work from home moms understand.
Here’s all I ask -- the next time you start thinking the solution to your problems is to find a great "job" that you can also do from home, ask yourself the big question…
Can I trade enough hours for what they’re willing to pay me to be financially secure? And here’s another one – will my kids be any better off than they are now if I do?
When you’re ready for a real work at home business, you can also check out my work at home mom blog. You’ll find some very helpful insights and step-by-step tactics there for making the stay at home mom dream a reality!
By Rachel Glaste
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