When a full-time job as mom doesn’t cut it anymore cash-wise in this struggling economy, it doesn’t necessarily mean going back to work out of the house. There are lots of ways to work from home, keeping your work hours to school hours and managing mom responsibilities. For many of these businesses, you don’t need a degree or more than a nominal start-up cost. Plus you can likely find something you love to do, answer to yourself and don’t have to incur added expense of commuting or a new wardrobe. Here how to get started and some ideas of what can feed your passion and at the same time add some cookies to the cookie jar:
Official Business
Once you decide what you want to do, make it official. Just because you may not have an office to call your own, Uncle Sam still wants to know where to check in with you.
Online Orders
If you’ve got something to sell, do it online. The only overhead may be sharing a nominal portion of your profits.
Reviving Former Profession
Before you ever saw the inside of a maternity ward you probably had a cool career that can now be translated into something new and maybe even improved. For the woman who was a corporate publicist she can now help a local business drum up PR. A former teacher may dabble in some tutoring and an artist/designer can help a friend (for a fee of course) get her home’s interior together.
House Parties
Use mommy network (friends, mommy friends, carpool pals) to invite shoppers to parties at home for lines you rep.
Photographer/Videographer
If you’re friends are always slinging a camera to you at their special events you should consider making it a business. Some good core camera equipment can serve for your family as well as for your business. Charge a small fee to moms in town for covering baby christenings, recitals and graduations so that the family can relax and still capture all the special moments.
Photo by Mykl Roventine