If there’s one thing full-time moms know, it’s multitasking. I can’t imagine how they do it. Feeding, bathing, entertaining, cleaning, shopping, and more. I want to take a nap just thinking about it. Who’d want a second (third? sixth?) job on top of all that work? Well, my encounters tell me a lot of stay at home moms wouldn’t mind having a little something on the side, having their own way to earn. No, you’re not necessarily looking to climb the corporate ladder. You just feel that being home all day doesn't exclude you from the workforce. You’re home all day and feel, for any number of reasons, you can do more.
You gotta love ‘em!
I decided to put my self-interests aside and see what I could do to help busy moms work from home and still be primary caregivers with minimal disruption. I talked to moms who were interested and those who already work from home. I researched industries that offer remote work. This list won’t include stuff like calling complete strangers to drag them into a survey. I’m not saying that’s not good work. I’m saying this list is about giving the ladies who want to make money options. After all, do you really need me to tell you to go get a paper route?
No, I didn't think so.
So coming up is a list of 13 prospects for moms looking to work from home. All are promising and offer the opportunity to make a decent to above average work from home income.
Let’s have it, ladies!
Pet Sitting
Check out sites like DogVacay.com or Rover.com. If you’re a stay at home mom and live in a busy, populated area, you could earn a decent sum just watching Fido. Pet owners go to work and don’t like leaving their pets alone. Others want to run to the salon or take a short vacation. Of course, this is only ideal if you can deal with pets, and you make sure these animals are kid-friendly. Do a search for pet sitting jobs and you’ll see this is a legitimate, thriving business. At the aforementioned websites, you can create a profile and get started today.
Data Entry Specialist
The detail-oriented, technologically smart mom who can manage tons of information will easily slip into the world of digital information and work remotely in data entry. Take paper documents and put them in a digital form. You will need strong keyboarding skills, and some work may require photo composing perforators or scanning. You may need specific software, which some employers may supply. If you’re not working for a company and choose to go independent, you’ll be responsible for pulling together your own tools. Either way, these roles are highly flexible, allowing you to take on as much work as your other responsibilities allow. You can manage daily routines while the children attend school or sleep.
Accounting Clerk
More and more CPAs are abandoning traditional offices and going home. If you have any background in managing financial records, writing reports, reconciling bank statements, processing payments, and providing clerical support, this may be it. Throw in data entry, bookkeeping, and word processing, and you’re off the chart! These positions are growing in the remote world, can be full or part-time, and good, well-paying jobs can be found darn near anywhere as the web has opened up the world, putting employers in the position of finding the best regardless of residence.
Matchmaker
You’ve seen the TV show. The one with the woman who makes hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, putting couples together and going about her business, never to discover if her duties ended in love or disaster. Does she care? No. Her job is to bring them together. Happiness is their job. Matchmaking a great slot for a people person who loves setting up friends for love connections. It requires being personable and knowing how to read others, having strong communication skills and great amounts of patience, and being able to align desires and preferences. Yes, this work from home job might need a tad bit of training but a lot of this work has to be a natural part of your personality. From home, you talk, get to know clients, and search (usually through databases and online matchmakers), and plan get-togethers.
Affiliate Marketing
If you’re into shopping, or if you just do a lot of it (and what mom doesn’t?), a job where you get paid for recommending products and getting people to buy them is ideal for you. Affiliate marketing is finding consumers and getting them to make a purchase through a link you place on the internet. Vendors are pretty competitive in this rapidly growing marketplace and are constantly in need of sharp people who can spread the word about their services and products. Your link will come from the client. Each has its own affiliate program and procedures. Put as much energy as you want into the program.
Start A Blog
In my mind, this is the BEST work from home job a mom could want. It’s definitely a be-your-own-boss situation. It allows you to work on your schedule and indulge in topics you love. This work only takes away what time you choose to give it. (Lose that Netflix time while the baby naps.) The best part? A blog allows you to put your energy into a personal project, be it cooking, DIY, makeup, etc. Yes, there are more blogs out there than irritating survey calls, but many women -- including at-home mommies -- are making money at it. You simply have to decide what’s going to work for you AND find yourself a like-minded audience. Read blogs, successful ones, and even the dull, and consider what you could do in the field. Consider what you know and what you love, and get to blogging!
Virtual Tutor
Remote teaching isn’t new but now it's big business and it’s here to stay. If you’re skilled in a particular subject and have the ability to show others how to apply themselves, you can earn an income remotely. Use Google Hangouts, FaceTime, Skype, or any of the internet tutoring tools for meetings with students. The best part of this work from home job is it doesn’t require you to have in-state teaching certification. (Though it wouldn’t hurt.) I think many stay-at-home moms have degrees, a subject proficiency, and even prior experience in teaching. All of you have a past in something teachable. Take advantage of that and jump on this bandwagon. Math and English tutors stay in demand. Good tutors that know physics, chemistry, and earth science are needed. If you’re bilingual, give classes in English to students abroad.
Resell/Flip Products
This is going to require ingenuity, marketing, and timing. You buy things cheap and sell them on eBay or Amazon at a profit. If you have a sense of what people may want or can’t get to, if you find a deal that you can turn into a profit, this is a great work from home position. As for flipping, if you’ve ever seen “Flip This House,” you know what I’m talking about. Scavenge flea markets and thrift stores (or just buy stuff off eBay) and resell them. If you’re a fixer-upper, this type of work is perfect for you. There are moms who’re making a fine income doing this and still deftly managing the household. I know one work from home gal who bundles up the baby and takes them with her to garage sales.
Transcription
This one requires exceptional listening skills and a good understanding of the language you're transcribing in. (I know. I tried this one. I sucked. But the friend who put me onto it was making between $500 and $800 a month.) Listen to an audiotape and type what you hear into a computer. Clients and companies may ask for previous experience, especially for higher-paying slots in legal and medical transcription fields. This work asks for tons of concentration and endurance, but if you muster up the time and patience, you’ll not only find plenty of jobs, you’ll earn a decent income. Special equipment will be needed and you’ll most likely have to foot the bill for it. I initially invested less than $125.
Proofreader/Copy Editor
If you love to read, have solid computer skills, are competent in spelling, punctuation, word usage, editing, and have a familiarity with stylebooks, you'd make a good candidate for proofreader or copy editor. With the overload of information on the net, the written word has never been so popular. Despite the popularity, so few possess the grammatical detail needed to impress but there are plenty of entities that do want people who can impress. Remote copy editors and proofreaders can work for anyone, anywhere. And as long as you show consistency, careful fact-checking, and attention to detail, you’ll stay busy.
Graphic Designer
This has been one of the most steadily growing professions in the world for a good long time. This is an industry that wants passion and creativity. And it pays pretty darn well. Freelance graphic design is a good way for moms to work from home. If you know your stuff, you just have to start looking for clients or work with an existing company. Sign up with websites like UpWork and Freelancer, outsourcers that help connect people and projects.
Event Planner
If you live by your datebook and keep a minute by minute schedule, if you have a sense of trends in decoration, design, and food -- or can connect with those who do -- Party Planner is the right work from home opportunity for you. Seeing projects from start to finish, you’ll need to be calm and collected, putting together weddings, bar mitzvahs, and birthday and anniversary celebrations. Most of this work can be done from home, and you become the person who takes the stress off clients and gets things done. Take events that work around family for openers. Go with small local events, maybe for free. Build a website with a photo gallery of events. Get local vendors to hang up and leave out your flyers.
Virtual Receptionist/Assistant
Six years ago I thought this was a myth. But it’s an expanding business proposition for anyone who’s ready to act as the voice of professionals and businesses. Answering phone calls, running errands, or assisting in bookkeeping, marketing, clerical work, and other services. An assistant may specialize in specific skills and only perform tasks in that venue. For example, a virtual assistant that has experience in real estate may only work with realtors because that industry is in their background. Decide where your skills would be best suited and begin the search.
And there you have it. The 13 best jobs a mom who wants to work from home can hope for. I know you’re ready to get the ball rolling, but before you jump in make sure you know your availability. Work from home is supposed to be convenient for your family so don’t put yourself in positions that compromise your real intent. And keep an entrepreneurial mindset. Working from home means you’re essentially building yourself as a business. Thinking of yourself as an independent organization and operating a legitimate business will help you market yourself as an organized, reliable, and successful work at home mom.
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