In today’s uncertain economy, more and more people are making the decision to leave conventional jobs and work from home. As we watch bricks and mortar businesses, and even major corporations restructuring, downsizing, or going out of business altogether,most of us have come to realize job security, when working for someone else, is just an illusion. As people are forced to do more and more for their employers for less money and fewer benefits, many are becoming tired of working so hard to make someone else wealthy in a nine-to-five work scenario.
It will be interesting to see the results of the 2010 census in regards to the number of people working from home. The US department of Labor suggests that as of 2007, as many as 1 in 3 workers were doing at least some of their work from home, even if they maintained a more traditional job outside of the home. Statistics suggest that a significant number of these folks working from home are doing well indeed. According to Money Magazine, 20% of work at home businesses gross between 100K and 500K per Year!
Aside from it being the obvious growing trend, you may ask why you should take the plunge and join the ranks of the work from home. There are many reasons, enough to fill a book, but for today I’ll give you 5 reasons why you should work from home:
1) You will save a lot of money. When you consider the cost of your commute, work clothes, eating out (including for many the lure of the vending machine) your away from home job actually costs you money. When your job is home based, you can sit around in sweat pants and a t-shirt all day and as long as you do what needs done- you are golden! Get hungry? Go to your own kitchen and make a snack. Save the wear and tear on your car and your nerves by shortening your commute to a trip from your bed to your desk!
2) You will save time. Not just commute time either: When you work from home, you can choose to work during your most productive time of day- or night. Seriously, not everyone is a morning person (I’m not!). If your most productive time of day is late night, when all the kids are in bed and you have some quiet time to yourself, by all means- go to work then. You don’t have far to go… Also, when you are no longer working a job based on other people’s time clock, you can streamline your work and find ways to be more efficient. Quite a few home based businesses offer the option of automating at least part of the work as well. There are also many types of time saving software programs available online- some of them for free.
3) You will be doing this for yourself, for your own reasons. No longer will your goal be to make someone else rich. Because your success depends on you creating income for yourself, you have excellent motivation to do your best. If you choose your business wisely, your job stability and security are up to YOU. Working from home can be a way to boost confidence and empower yourself.
4) A work at home job done primarily online, can be worked anywhere that has an internet connection; meaning it isn’t just a work from home job, it’s a work from a cafe in Italy job, a work on a park bench while your kid plays on the swings job, a take your wireless card camping and work under the stars job. Your child has first lead in a play at school at noon? Wonderful! Work before or after and be at that play! You get the idea. You won’t miss out on what’s important to you because you have to be at the office.
5) Your income doesn’t depend on how much other people say you are allowed to make. As you learn business skills, you will probably find your income grows much faster then at a regular office job. When you find out what works for you and your business, you will then be able to improve upon your business plan, and tweak it to increase profits. The more effort you put in to learning and applying the skills, the more profit you can achieve. It helps of course, to choose a business that offers a lot of training and resources that you can use to start earning money quickly while you learn.
There are of course many more then 5 reasons why you should work from home; I hope I have given you a few important ones to think about . Aligning yourself with a solid company with a proven business model to follow is a big help in making the transition to a work from home business. I urge you when seeking such a model, to investigate and look closely at the details. Start off right, and you will save yourself from headaches later on and make it more likely you will be a work at home success story! Best of luck to you on your journey to career freedom!
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