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Actual for You - Super Moms Return to the Workplace
Because I do a lot of networking with very small business owners, I meet a lot of dual business owners. These are people, usually women, who own two businesses (or more).As a solopreneur, your resources are limited – that is, time and mo'ney. Managing and marketing one business is already a full-time job, so if your two businesses don't share the same target market, you may struggle – a lot.Sharing the same target market allows you to refer business to yourself, and if your two products/services are related, this is smoother. For example, if you are involved with two different MLMs whose products are both wellness related, you can easily market both to the same people.
Choose a reasonable amount of time for work. Take baby steps, pun intended. There’s no reason to go from stay-at-home, unemployed mom to workaholic right away. Try an hourly and/or part-time job on for size and then decide if you want to super-size it to a career.
Find qualified care. Whether you’re searching for the local babysitters’ club or visiting a never-ending slew of daycare providers, securing quality and affordable care for your children should be your first priority. Friends, relatives, schools, churches and family doctors are a great place to find reliable referrals for these services. If you’re shopping for daycare, be sure to check in with the state and local agencies responsible for health and safety licensing. Also, if you’re considering a home daycare situat
Factoring of receivables is an arrangement whereby a company sells its accounts receivables to another company (banks and other institutions) that specializes in buying them and obtains the necessary financial accommodation. It is the most popular method of short-term financing in the US. Factoring offers the following advantages: relief to manufacturers and sellers from the bother of collection of book debts, saving in time and man-power required for debt collection, and last but not the least, adequate and better source of financing.The factoring institutions render the following functions: Credit recording- that involves maintenance of debtor’s ledgers, collection schedules et
“My decision to get back in the workplace was mostly financial but when I look back I realize it had much to do with my education, too,” said Keisha, a working mother of one and former globe-trotting student and educator. “I wanted to be able to contribute to our family income but still stay at home during the day with my son. Some of my suggestions got shot down by family but other ideas got a better response.”
So Keisha began a job working from home managing a company called About Town Moms, a tight-knit organization that led moms and their wee ones on historical neighborhood walks, private museum tours and other cultural adventures. Then Keisha added another job to her already hectic day, delivering ads as a field representative for a company called News America; she landed the gig through SnagAJob.com.
“The major challenge is time,” Keisha said of her new life. “I feel like I run around all day but by the end of the day I sleep really well knowing that I am helping my family financially, raising my son during the day and staying in the workforce. Many people call me a super mom but I have always been happiest when I feel like I’m helping others.”
Keisha’s story is echoed around the country as moms look for jobs for reasons ranging from financial to self-improvement. And there’s one common theme among all these different tales – motherhood is tough enough, and working while rearing the kiddies is an even more difficult balancing act.
But it can be done. Here are some tips:
Sell your mommy skills
Through all your motherly adventures, you may or may not have realized that you’ve acquired and grown a new set of skills. For example, what’s another name for fixing breakfast, changing junior’s diaper and paying some bills, all at the same time? That’s multi-tasking. And what about bargaining with the little ladies over an agreed upon bedtime? That’s you developing your patience and stellar negotiating skills. And finally, what separates you from the hotshot college graduate vying for the same job? Maturity.
If you still need convincing, then consider this: The job you’re doing now is likely to be more taxing than the job you’ll soon be doing. In fact, a recent study conducted by Salary.com determined that when the typical stay-at-home mother’s duties are amassed – roles including cook, daycare center teacher and psychologist - she would be rewarded $140,000 a year for her 92-hour work weeks.
So don’t sell yourself short on your revamped r?sum? or during the interview; instead, leverage your motherly superpowers.
Getting over the guilt
It may not feel like it at the time, but you’re not the first mother to jump back into the working world, and you’re certainly not the first to have some reservations about making the jump. In fact, according to an ABC News "Good Morning America"/Good Housekeeping poll, 60 percent of moms with kids under 18 years of age are also out there collecting paychecks.
If you don’t find comfort in numbers, then here are a few other tips to help the transition.
Choose a reasonable amount of time for work. Take baby steps, pun intended. There’s no reason to go from stay-at-home, unemployed mom to workaholic right away. Try an hourly and/or part-time job on for size and then decide if you want to super-size it to a career.
Find qualified care. Whether you’re searching for the local babysitters’ club or visiting a never-ending slew of daycare providers, securing quality and affordable care for your children should be your first priority. Friends, relatives, schools, churches and family doctors are a great place to find reliable referrals for these services. If you’re shopping for daycare, be sure to check in with the state and local agencies responsible for health and safety licensing. Also, if you’re considering a home daycare situati
Who is a netprenuer? Actually the word netpreneur brings images to mind of a young geek. A person in his early twenties who has the courage to break the conventional rules to build up an online business from scratch is our netpreneur. There was a time when netpreneurs were thought to be some kind of mythical creatures. They came from nowhere and made millions in the market. And that image is still itched out into the minds of many but to be honest these are just images. The reality is very different.The majority of netpreneur are still young but they are not some kind of eccentric genius. Anyone can be a netprenuer these days. That is the result of easy access to internet and the
“The major challenge is time,” Keisha said of her new life. “I feel like I run around all day but by the end of the day I sleep really well knowing that I am helping my family financially, raising my son during the day and staying in the workforce. Many people call me a super mom but I have always been happiest when I feel like I’m helping others.”
Keisha’s story is echoed around the country as moms look for jobs for reasons ranging from financial to self-improvement. And there’s one common theme among all these different tales – motherhood is tough enough, and working while rearing the kiddies is an even more difficult balancing act.
But it can be done. Here are some tips:
Sell your mommy skills
Through all your motherly adventures, you may or may not have realized that you’ve acquired and grown a new set of skills. For example, what’s another name for fixing breakfast, changing junior’s diaper and paying some bills, all at the same time? That’s multi-tasking. And what about bargaining with the little ladies over an agreed upon bedtime? That’s you developing your patience and stellar negotiating skills. And finally, what separates you from the hotshot college graduate vying for the same job? Maturity.
If you still need convincing, then consider this: The job you’re doing now is likely to be more taxing than the job you’ll soon be doing. In fact, a recent study conducted by Salary.com determined that when the typical stay-at-home mother’s duties are amassed – roles including cook, daycare center teacher and psychologist - she would be rewarded $140,000 a year for her 92-hour work weeks.
So don’t sell yourself short on your revamped r?sum? or during the interview; instead, leverage your motherly superpowers.
Getting over the guilt
It may not feel like it at the time, but you’re not the first mother to jump back into the working world, and you’re certainly not the first to have some reservations about making the jump. In fact, according to an ABC News "Good Morning America"/Good Housekeeping poll, 60 percent of moms with kids under 18 years of age are also out there collecting paychecks.
If you don’t find comfort in numbers, then here are a few other tips to help the transition.
Choose a reasonable amount of time for work. Take baby steps, pun intended. There’s no reason to go from stay-at-home, unemployed mom to workaholic right away. Try an hourly and/or part-time job on for size and then decide if you want to super-size it to a career.
Find qualified care. Whether you’re searching for the local babysitters’ club or visiting a never-ending slew of daycare providers, securing quality and affordable care for your children should be your first priority. Friends, relatives, schools, churches and family doctors are a great place to find reliable referrals for these services. If you’re shopping for daycare, be sure to check in with the state and local agencies responsible for health and safety licensing. Also, if you’re considering a home daycare situat
Although its presence lingered unaddressed for many years, environmental noise is now recognized as a significant health issue. Environmental or ambient noise is unwanted or harmful outdoor sound created by human activities, including noise emitted by means of transport - road traffic, rail traffic, air traffic - and from sites of industrial activity. From delivery trucks to air conditioners, we are constantly bombarded by sounds that go unnoticed for the most part. However, out-of-earshot should not mean out-of-mind. It is precisely these innocuous environmental noises that should be sounding an alarm.Those involved with the more obvious noise sources such as airports, shootin
Sell your mommy skills
Through all your motherly adventures, you may or may not have realized that you’ve acquired and grown a new set of skills. For example, what’s another name for fixing breakfast, changing junior’s diaper and paying some bills, all at the same time? That’s multi-tasking. And what about bargaining with the little ladies over an agreed upon bedtime? That’s you developing your patience and stellar negotiating skills. And finally, what separates you from the hotshot college graduate vying for the same job? Maturity.
If you still need convincing, then consider this: The job you’re doing now is likely to be more taxing than the job you’ll soon be doing. In fact, a recent study conducted by Salary.com determined that when the typical stay-at-home mother’s duties are amassed – roles including cook, daycare center teacher and psychologist - she would be rewarded $140,000 a year for her 92-hour work weeks.
So don’t sell yourself short on your revamped r?sum? or during the interview; instead, leverage your motherly superpowers.
Getting over the guilt
It may not feel like it at the time, but you’re not the first mother to jump back into the working world, and you’re certainly not the first to have some reservations about making the jump. In fact, according to an ABC News "Good Morning America"/Good Housekeeping poll, 60 percent of moms with kids under 18 years of age are also out there collecting paychecks.
If you don’t find comfort in numbers, then here are a few other tips to help the transition.
Choose a reasonable amount of time for work. Take baby steps, pun intended. There’s no reason to go from stay-at-home, unemployed mom to workaholic right away. Try an hourly and/or part-time job on for size and then decide if you want to super-size it to a career.
Find qualified care. Whether you’re searching for the local babysitters’ club or visiting a never-ending slew of daycare providers, securing quality and affordable care for your children should be your first priority. Friends, relatives, schools, churches and family doctors are a great place to find reliable referrals for these services. If you’re shopping for daycare, be sure to check in with the state and local agencies responsible for health and safety licensing. Also, if you’re considering a home daycare situat
India among top jeanswear market Jeanswear trends started in India truly in the eighties, with the establishment and the movement of brands like Avis, Wings, Flying Machine, UFO, along with international brands like FU's. With the realistic pricing and a "Good jeans for less" proposition, Newport entered into the mass psyche in the mid-nineties. The growth in the domestic jeans and casualwear market is attracting an increasing number of multinationals into the segment.With the Indian youth becoming increasingly fashion conscious and with spending power being consistently on the rise, making life easier for the fast-growing 'premium' category of jeanswear brands. On the other han
So don’t sell yourself short on your revamped r?sum? or during the interview; instead, leverage your motherly superpowers.
Getting over the guilt
It may not feel like it at the time, but you’re not the first mother to jump back into the working world, and you’re certainly not the first to have some reservations about making the jump. In fact, according to an ABC News "Good Morning America"/Good Housekeeping poll, 60 percent of moms with kids under 18 years of age are also out there collecting paychecks.
If you don’t find comfort in numbers, then here are a few other tips to help the transition.
Choose a reasonable amount of time for work. Take baby steps, pun intended. There’s no reason to go from stay-at-home, unemployed mom to workaholic right away. Try an hourly and/or part-time job on for size and then decide if you want to super-size it to a career.
Find qualified care. Whether you’re searching for the local babysitters’ club or visiting a never-ending slew of daycare providers, securing quality and affordable care for your children should be your first priority. Friends, relatives, schools, churches and family doctors are a great place to find reliable referrals for these services. If you’re shopping for daycare, be sure to check in with the state and local agencies responsible for health and safety licensing. Also, if you’re considering a home daycare situat
Determine the size of the production company you need. Although there are many factors that determine the cost of a video shoot (as explained later), the first consideration for staying in budget is the type and size of the production company. Large production companies have multiple studios and sound stages, editing suites, and a sizeable staff. These are the people that television stations and Hollywood producers call on when they need a local production for television, cable, or film. They are very experienced and produce fantastic results, but a considerable price tag must accompany such overhead. Often they are unable to service small businesses because they ca
Choose a reasonable amount of time for work. Take baby steps, pun intended. There’s no reason to go from stay-at-home, unemployed mom to workaholic right away. Try an hourly and/or part-time job on for size and then decide if you want to super-size it to a career.
Find qualified care. Whether you’re searching for the local babysitters’ club or visiting a never-ending slew of daycare providers, securing quality and affordable care for your children should be your first priority. Friends, relatives, schools, churches and family doctors are a great place to find reliable referrals for these services. If you’re shopping for daycare, be sure to check in with the state and local agencies responsible for health and safety licensing. Also, if you’re considering a home daycare situation, check for accreditation and other evaluation criteria through the National Association for Family Child Care.
A home away from home
If you choose to work from home, we know that part of that decision has to do with still being there to keep an eye on the kiddies. It makes sense; however, you still need to make sure you have your own designated space to do your work. If you don’t have the luxury of having an entire room as your office, search for an appropriate nook – try transforming an alcove or positioning your desk so that it’s facing a window and all your other concerns are a world away…three feet behind you. Also, most corporate environments have ergonomic experts to make sure your work tools are positioned in such a way that you won’t get carpal tunnel syndrome the first week on the job. You won’t have this luxury. So be sure to keep your eyes at least 20 inches from your computer screen, the monitor at eye level and your feet positioned firm on the ground. And don’t slouch.
So grab batteries for the baby monitor and pick up a new pair of pumps. A return to the workplace – whether it’s in your spare bedroom or down at the mall – isn’t as scary as you think.
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