A Guide To Working At
Home
INTRODUCTION
Back to the salt mines. Another day, another dollar.
It’s the daily grind. It’s punching the clock.
It’s a supervisor you can barely tolerate getting on your case
even though you are clearly five times smarter than she’ll ever
be.
It’s middle management bungles. It’s upper management
cold-heartedness.
It’s a loud factory floor or a tiny slate gray cubicle.
Forty hours per week, plus overtime.
Occasional weekends.
If you are a good boy or girl, that hourly wage will inch
up just fast enough to almost keep up with inflation every year and
some day you may even join the ranks of salaried management and
longer hours dealing with even more annoying people.
It’s described as everything from a hassle to a prison.
It’s a job and you might be tempted to get rid of it.
That’s probably why you are reading this ebook.
Unfortunately, along with all of the agony, the job also brings
with it money. If you’re lucky, it might bring a lot of
money, health benefits and even a shot at retiring without starving
to death.
Jobs mean money. Money, whether it’s the root of all evil
or not, makes the world go ‘round and ‘round.
Thus, the inmates refuse to attempt to escape. In some
workplace version of the Stockholm syndrome, the hostage employees
begin to trust and rely upon their oppressive boss overlords even
though they recognize that the guys upstairs don’t have their best
interests in mind.
Even in this modern twenty-first century economy where people
change treat jobs like disposable lighters—use it for awhile, then
get rid of it—many spend their idle hours dreaming of a comfortable
work prison. Some place they can tolerate long enough to make
it to age sixty-five with some benefits. They don’t even want
to grin and bear it for several decades. They just want to
bear it. That alone would be enough.
Even that can be hard.
There are some people who are willing to make a break for
it. They visualize a future that doesn’t consist of years of
abuse capped off with little more than a stooped back and a
gold-plated retirement watch.
When they daydream, they think about running their own
show. They imagine not just making a living, but actually
living. They don’t want a new office or to work for the
company across town. They want to own their own future and they
want to sweeten the deal by working at home.
Others are already at home and are looking for work.
Instead of trying to find a gig on the bus route, they may be ready
to do their own thing.
Others may just be looking for a way to add a few bucks to the
family coffer every week while being able to spend quality time at
home parenting. Instead of forking over their slave wages for
daycare, they decide they can be both a parent and a provider at
the same time by effectively operating a work at home business.
This ebook has been written for anyone who may be ready to
escape the daily work ritual.
No more morning commutes with other wage-zombies. No more
spilt gas station cappuccinos in the car. No more keeping
your fingers crossed for a promotion.
If that sounds good to you, keep reading. We are going to
examine the attraction and benefits of running your own home
business. We are also going to honestly approach some of the
challenges of escaping the traditional work force and how you can
deal with them. We are going to cover some of the many work
at home options available and discuss where to find new
ones.
We’ll talk about avoiding the scores of work at home scams and
will spend some time discussing some of the unique challenges faced
by those who are working with home and dealing with kids at the
same time.
If you have ever wanted to toss your name tag like a ninja’s
shuriken right into the head or chest of a dimwitted middle
manager, this is your ebook. If you’d like to redefine casual
Friday to mean actually putting on pants, this is your
resource.
This is a handy guide to working at home that won’t pull any
punches or sell any bogus dreams. You can consider it a
letter of warning or a carefully-crafted escape plan. It may
be both.
Of course, the whole issue of working from home is incredibly
expansive and we don’t profess to cover every single nook and
cranny of the matter within these pages. We do, however, think this
is a valuable resource that will help you decide whether or not
working from home will work for you and, if so, can help you in
deciding how to stop being a clock-puncher and to become your own
boss.
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