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Working the Summer Months: Working at Home with Kids

By on May 13th, 2011

If you’re used to sending your kids away to school and working, you’re in for a rough ride – summer is almost here! Of course, those mothers who are insane like I am don’t have to worry too much about this. In fact, the summer months are the most relaxing months for my career, simply because I’m on summer vacation as well. My mornings won’t change much once school lets out. I’ll write for a couple of hours before dawn, but maybe I’ll get to crawl back into bed for an hour and rest instead of packing lunches and prepping …

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Part-Time Freelancing Is Okay, Too

By on October 16th, 2010

There is a huge focus on full-time freelance careers with conversations often centering on how quickly a writer (or designer or coder) can run away from work and stay at home being creative all day long. Understandable, but I don’t think it needs to be a universal message. Writing full-time is not for everyone, and it’s certainly not for me. Freelancing Full-Time There is no doubt that you can get more writing done in a day if you’re focused on it for hours upon hours. You can build a business more effectively and work the necessary time to grow your …

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Doing What You Love or Loving What You Do?

By on September 4th, 2010

I read a comment on a financial blog written by a woman who resented her situation in life. She hated being the primary breadwinner and having almost sole responsibility of her child. She hated that her husband (who she didn’t actually hate, by the way) couldn’t seem to get it together and didn’t have the ability to support her while she stayed home. She had always dreamed of staying home and enjoying her babies without the burden of employment or the pesky business of bills, but now while she tried to finished her law degree, work during the day and …

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One Writing Mom’s (Realistic) Goals for the New Year

By on July 28th, 2010

It’s almost time to start another year! Parents and teachers know exactly what I’m talking about. They live in my universe where January is simply part of winter break and the REAL year starts in mid-August or early September when kids go back to school. In this family, I always go back to school and I’ll have one heading off to kindergarten *stifle sob* and another in a preschool that follows my district’s calendar. So in a matter of two weeks my life will pick up in intensity to a level that even I can’t believe I endure. Of course, …

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When Exhaustion Kicks In…And You’re Still Working

By on June 30th, 2010

If the idea of an all-nighter fills you with excitement and gritty determination to see it through to morning with coffee, sugar and a big welcoming bed the moment the project is finally complete – you’re not a parent. Or at least you’re not the parent looking forward the 6 A.M. wake up call every morning of the week, every week of the year you’ve enjoyed for the last five years. That poor parent? That’s me, although sometimes we sleep in around her until say 6:30. Of course it’s absolutely healthier to rise at the same time every morning and …

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The Ugly Thoughts of a WAHM Part 2 – The Nasty on Childcare for Working Parents

By on June 16th, 2010

In our last installment, we established that all mothers tend to judge each other from time to time. Okay, you’re right – you don’t, but the rest of us at least recognize that the thoughts cross our minds from time to time. I think I might be worse than most because I deal with the product of poor home lives more than most adults (I teach at-risk high school students in a public, alternative high school.) But back to the topic at hand – work-at-home moms are just as naughty as the rest of the moms out there, but we …

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