As I just said, I have been pleasantly surprised that working from home this go-’round has actually gone really well. I am able to be a hermit when I don’t feel like being nice, which is Really Nice Benefit Number One, and Really Nice Benefit Number Two is the variety of the work that I do.
Since I have come home to work, I have blogged (here, of course, and then I also have a personal blog that deals with politics – see my bio for more info.) I have also written copy for websites, edited sales letters, done lots and lots of data entry work, and hooked rugs for a crafts company. I am going to start working as a moderator for a small private company forum fairly soon. I am starting again as a researcher for Sunlark Research. I had a texting company approach me and ask if I would be a texter for their company on the political topic I blog about (that job is still in the works). I have decided to do Pay Per Post through my personal blog. I am trying to learn HTML, Javascript, and CSS so I can work on websites. And because I really do love kids, I am going to take a two hour class this summer and become a certified substitute teacher so that I can sub at the local elementary school this fall as yet another “side job.”
I’ve got more hats than a fashion mogul, and I love it! The problem is trying to decide what jobs to take and what direction to head next. I used to struggle at the office because even if I liked the job and liked what I did, I would get bored with it. I always wanted to do something new and different, instead of the same ‘ole, same ‘ole. When I work from home, I can do that. It’s actually fun for me to work (are those two words even allowable in the same sentence?)
I have gone from studying to be a medical transcriptionist so I could work at home, to working at home as a general transcriptionist and hating it, to going back to an office job so I could get away from working at home, to quitting the office job so I could work from home for a month or two while waiting to go back to school, to realizing that hey, why do I need to go back to school? I am happy right where I’m at. My original goal was to become a medical transcriptionist. The end result is me working from home as a writer/data enterer/editor/texter/whatever-you-want-me-to-be-er, and I’m loving it! Is this where I thought I would end up? Not in a million years.
But I wouldn’t trade it for the world.