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May 17, 2005 by Dane Carlson | 0 Comments

Microsoft Small Business Center:

consider carefully how much productivity you’re willing to give up. As a home-based business owner with kids careening about, it’s important to acknowledge that you occasionally may not get all the work done you’d like to get done. If that seems a small price to pay, fine. But if you cringe at the notion of changing diapers while your voice mail takes customer messages, give serious thought as to whether working from home is a good idea at all. Even if you have child care, it’s a guarantee that disruption will figure into your daily work routine.

In many ways, the mix of a home business and kids drastically alters the very definition of a work schedule. Pursuing the uninterrupted 9-to-5 workday regimen is akin to rooting for Don Knotts to get the girl — don’t bank on it. Moreover, if you’re thinking about a business that’s confined to ‘usual’ business hours, as many service-based operations are, chances are your children will eat into the hours you’re able to work each week.

In Entrepreneurial Lifestyle, Operations, Planning, Work at Home | 0 Comments