How A Writer Started Working At Home

Marcia Passos Duffy of HomeOfficeWeekly.com has been working at home for 10 years.

Amazingly she does this from a relatively slow paced New England town – Keene, New Hampshire to be precise.

So how did she get started?

Here’s her story…

My previous jobs were in New York City working as a writer and account executive for medium-size public relations firms.  By the time I left I was an account supervisor making decent money with a pretty nice office with a scenic view of the Empire State Building.  I was also smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, drinking a gallon of coffee, and at one point commuting nearly 2 hours a day to get to work.  

I was stressed to say the least.

I began working from home quite by accident when we moved out of the New York City metropolitan area into a small city in New England – a deliberate flight away from the pressures of suburban life.   Once we settled into our new area, I was hired by my local newspaper as a part-time stringer covering events for several outlying
towns.  When I arrived at the newsroom for my first day at work, I realized I did not have a desk – or even a computer or a phone.  I had to work out of a conference room and wait for a computer to free up after deadline.  

I tip-toed up to my editor, who was under the gun to put out the day’s edition of the newspaper and asked if I could go home and work.  “Sure, go ahead,� he said, without even looking up.  I headed back home, set up an office, and have not left since.  While I worked for many years as a correspondent, I soon realized that I
could make more money doing other writing gigs as well.  My home business was born.

What’s the rest of her day like? Check out the rest of her story

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