Archive for the 'Work Life Balance' Category

As a Career Advisor or “Facilitator” I’ve helped alot of people through the process of finding the proper educational course for them in situations where they’d usually faced a dramatic life change.  99% of these were people who’d been laid off after 10, 20, 0r 30 years in one particular position. I’ve seen some who [...]

It’s not exactly home based… but a family or couple might like this. Please do your own due diligence. Just passing this opportunity along I found while surfing the net. CAFE AND GIFT SHOP IN N.E. PA We are the owners of a small (50 seat) cafe and gift shop in N.E. PA, and are [...]

Her work day might begin at 9AM. It could end at 10PM. She’s a program manager with IBM. But that doesn’t stop her from training enough to run marathons at age 50. I’m sort of ashamed. I don’t have the discipline to even work out at home in the Air Conditioning, let alone run a [...]

Is not commuting driving you crazy? Check this out – could working at home drive you nuts? After much arguing, wheedling, and cajoling, I finally convinced my boss that — thanks in large part to all the gee-whiz technology we have now — I could work at home and be even more productive than I [...]

Do you share this woman’s anxiety? You can hear her struggles in this article: Sanity of a SAHM, WAHM, teetering between the lines of sanity Specifically, this is the nub of the problem: SAHM and WAHMs often find themselves at home more by themselves than other mothers and crave interaction. They crave adult interaction. They [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’m running into a lot of people just struggling to make ends meet. If they have a home business that “works” (i.e. generates a predictable income for a given amount of work) the temptation is to keep working till you drop just because it doesn’t seem you can get [...]

From the Institute of Leadership and Management: Employer support ‘helps people be productive at home’ A study by Brigham Young University showed that home based workers did a better job of balancing home and work life. But one success factor seems to be employer support. Employer support at a minimum means supporting the technological infrastructure [...]

The Denver Post in Home for art, artists profiles someone who had a crazy idea… “I wanted a place where I could hold events and be creative, a gallery where I could show my work and other people’s work, and I wanted to work at home,” recalls Weil, 43, an artist and Web designer who [...]

My mom’s down to visit from Michigan. Anyone who’s still a football fan after their losing streak has got to be loyal. Anyway, one thing you must know about my mom is that she is rabid football fan. She’s been known to let out more than one bloodcurdling scream when her team crosses the goal [...]

This is very important for any self employed person. But it’s another reason that people wanting to make money selling iphone applications. The faster these phones work, the more possibility of making money through the marketing of iphone applications. Here’s what I’m talking about… while on vacation I left my rural, non-3G world to venture [...]