Work at home jobs can be ideal. They give you flexibility, you can be choosy about who you work for, wear pajamas all day even! The downside is that you probably won’t get a regular paycheck and health insurance could be a problem.
I had to leave my independent contractor position a little more than a year ago because my family needed the stability of a bi-weekly paycheck. I’m not the only one. From Beating Broke,
When I quit, I decided to give the new situation of blogging and a part-time job 6 months to see where it went. While the part-time job remained fairly stable, the blogging income has been anything but. My income on that front has fluctuated by several hundred dollars from month to month, and hasn’t grown at the rate that I had hoped it would. Because of that, and the fact that I was operating on limited funds to cover any differences between my income and what we needed to pay bills, I’ve got to make the right move here and get a job.
Kudos to B.B. for having the courage to go it on her own. I have always heard, though, that if you do this you should have at least six months to a year of salary saved as you groom your business for success. With the economy seeming to be slowly recovering, I do hope she’ll be able to make another go of it in a year or two.
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