5 Awesome Work-at-Home Web Sites

9:52 pm ByFiled UnderWAHM

Looking for someone to pay me to be a mommy. Any takers?

Yeah, that’s what I thought. As I mentioned in a previous post, The Hubs and I have come to the conclusion that I’m going to need to bring in some income if I want to stay at home. So far, no one seems to want to pay me to simply be a mom, so we’re going to need to find another alternative.

This prompted a number of questions regarding how exactly to make it work – including: is there anyone out there who has worked form home successfully?

I began researching this, and many other questions, and have stumbled upon some great blogs and Web sites dedicated to helping people learn about and make the most of opportunities to work from home.

In honor of what I have deemed “WAHM Wednesday” (every Wednesday I will post something about working from home), here are 5 Great Work-At-Home sites:

WAHM.com – With a name like that, how can it not be useful? This site is packed full of a variety of information for the working parent, including a job board, helpful articles like How to Make Self-Employment Work for You, recipes for busy parents and even an online forum for parents to share ideas, ask questions and connect. It’s your one-stop-shop for all things WAHM.

Money Saving Mom – This is one of the first blogs I ever subscribed to, and while it is mainly dedicated to helping parents save money,  Crystal Paine, the site’s owner and blogger, frequently posts some great tips for working from home. She has an entire category dedicated to Earning & Saving Money, and as a WAHM herself, she isn’t afraid to share both her successes and failures making it one of the most honest and reliable sources out there for those of us who strive to stay at home.

Mompreneurs Online – “A mom’s one-stop work-at-home resource.” The tagline pretty much says it all. This site features a forum, articles, a great blog, live local chat and a great Newbie Toolkit packed with useful advice for those of us looking to venture into the work-at-home world for the first time.

Work At Home Mom Revolution – I like to check this site frequently as Lisa Mills, the blogger, posts a detailed Work-At-Home opportunity just about every day. It’s unlikely that each one would be of interest to you, but I find it inspiring and useful to keep track of what’s out there. She also features some helpful tips.

Sparkplugging – Again, the tagline pretty much sums it up, “Work-at-Home Resources for Home-Based Entrepreneurs.” This site offers something for people at all stages of the work-at-home journey. Whether you’ve just started, been doing it for years, or are only thinking of giving it a try, Sparkplugging is definitely worth checking out. I find the categories under the tab about starting a home-based business particularly interesting, especially the blog dedicated to freelancers.

Don’t forget, I’m still looking for WAHMs and WAHDs to profile each week on “WAHM Wednesday” starting in March. Leave me a comment, e-mail me (info@doingthemomthing.com) or send me a message on Twitter (@themomthing ).

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Wanted: WAHM (or WAHD) Stories

10:13 pm ByFiled UnderSAHM, WAHM

In my quest to leave my current place of employment and become a Stay-At-Home-Mom (SAHM), I have come to the conclusion that I am going to need to find some way to get paid. At least a little bit. Somehow. At least for the short-term.

Well, I haven’t exactly come to that conclusion, The Hubs and I have. The only problem? I can’t seem to find anyone who wants to pay me to be a mom. Weird, isn’t it?

I’m not going to let a little thing like getting paid stop me though. Instead, I am investigating ways to make money while staying at home. Enter a new acronym you may have seen floating around on this world-wide-web of ours: Work-At-Home-Mom (or WAHM). I say investigating because I have some questions surrounding how exactly this whole thing would work.

Namely, how will I actually make money without going to work? How will I avoid getting scammed (do a quick Google search for “work at home” and your browser will be inundated with get-rich-quick schemes – most seemingly too good to be true)? How will I balance accomplishing working from home with being a mom (I don’t want it to cut into my time with The Munchkin or have to stay up working into the wee hours of the morning and miss out on time with The Hubs either)?

Sometimes I worry that maybe I don’t have realistic expectations and it’s not possible to have it work all ways. But then I look at my little girl and think about how I would do anything to be able to stay home with her, and I realize that it’s at least worth a shot.

So, here I am investigating and I need your help. Starting in March, I am going to be profiling moms (or dads) who work from home. I’m looking for people with all types of experience, good, bad, ugly or even surprising. If you’ve got a work-at-home experience, I want to hear about it.

Leave me a comment, send me an e-mail (info@doingthemomthing.com), or even direct message/tweet at me on Twitter. Tell me a little bit about what you’ve experienced. I’ll pick a few to profile (one each week) starting in March. You can even leave a link to your Web site that I’ll include in the post, and of course your comment too if you leave one for me.

I’m getting excited already. I can’t wait to read your stories. And to share them with everyone starting the first week of March. This is going to be a good series…

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