Working from home, can have it's up and downs! One thing I really love, about working from home is that is has given me the opportunity to be home and watch me daughter grow up. Now that she is school aged, it allows me to attend school functions & be home when she's sick without having to explain, why I need to take time off to be with her. Not to say that she never attended anytime of childcare from someone else she did as due to my work in real estate I am not always able to be here every day all day as I have clients to see but for most of it, she has been able to be with mommy.
Also, working from home allows me to set my own schedule and I can choose to take time off when I am sick or want to go on vacation without asking permission. The down side is that I am self-employed and so there is no sick pay or vacation pay, so when I am not working that means I am also not making any money.
Another thing is that when business slows down as it has over the past year and a half or so and there is no business, I don't get a paycheck like I said before if I am not working, I am not making money.
Working from home can be great but it can also be very isolating as you don't have an office full of people to communicate with and so you have be very self motivated to work from home. Also, I found that I gained weight do to lack of movement, I mean really I walk from my bedroom to my office and around the house throughout the day but it offers little to no exercise. So, ladies and gentlemen make sure to set aside time to workout before you end up like me, out of shape and struggling to get back in shape...But over all I can't complain as this is what I wanted to be able to do all along and so I am blessed that I have been working from home for almost 10yrs now!
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