I Work From Home

Hello from sunny Arizona! I am excited to hear your stories and share with you in this adventure. Yes, I work from home; and I have been working from home since 2008 (12 years!) in several different capacities. I've created a home office space in 5 different houses in multiple states here in the USA and have also managed to work from AirBnBs and ho... tel rooms on occasion while traveling. I was teleworking as a single lady and have continued working from home through these first 10 years of my marriage as well as throughout our experience of having three children close in age. We have been able to minimize a need for extra childcare by juggling my schedule around my husband's school or daytime work schedule with a variety of different working hours, usually some sort of combination of nights, weekends, evenings, and extremely early mornings. Some of my various roles have overlapped as I've eased from one thing into another. I've worked for a major health organization, started an online store, worked as a freelancer doing some ghostwriting, and have been teaching English as a second language full time for 2 years. Through these different roles, I've gotten to know some of my coworkers or colleagues and have encountered people in my local community who also work from home. I realize that, even though we all work in a variety of situations and have different lifestyles or live in different locations, we all have something in common in that we have unique challenges with balancing work and life, things that many of our friends and relatives and colleagues who work in office or storefront or other brick and mortar settings don't experience. I've attended onsite work parties where teleworkers mixed with those whose desks were onsite and have also been the person covering the phones from home while everyone else went to the annual holiday party. More recently, I've hosted gatherings for ESL teachers; and so many people express that they never get together with anyone else who works for the same company. Everyone seems ...Read More