Working from home!

[greenclan67]

I am a stay at home Mom, with 2 girls, ages 8 & 10. I love that I am home with them. It means the world to me. My hubby doesn't make a great salary, so for me to stay at home, I have been running daycare out of my house for almost 11 years now. I love what I do, I have my ECE, but live in a very small community, where I am well known, and have been full with daycare since I have started, from year to year. Most start at 1, and stay til they are in school full time.
I have found this has been my toughest year. I don't want to do it anymore. I am tired of the mess in my house, kids toys always out. My kids don't play toys much at all anymore. I am not ready to leave my kids yet to go out "in the work world" I would like to wait til my youngest is at least 10, so they are 12 & 10.

My question is, does anyone know of anything legitimate that can be done at home, with a computer, or phone, or something, that would allow me to make between $800-$1000 month? Even though that is considerable knockdown from what I am making now. I need some change to keep my sanity. I love kids, and enjoy what I do, but really, really need to change something. I am getting close to 40, and just don't enjoy changing poopy bums anymore.

All help would be appreciated!

 

[drag n' fly]

Living in a small community has it's challenges. I live in a large city (over a million) so when I went back to work I did it during school hours. I now have a home based business that keeps me busy f/t. With your training I highly suggest looking into getting into the school system there.

 

[greenclan67]

Funny, that is the thing about small communities. We have 1500 people here. Most of my daycare parents that I look after right now, is teachers at the public school. I love that I get the holidays off, and so on, but I am just tired, tired of what I have doing. I have applied in the last year and a half at the school here, we only have 1 school in my community. I live right beside it, that is why I am so busy with daycare,plus I have a good reputation around town. I can see the kids leave the school and within a minute they are in my yard.
Anyhow, small community, not many jobs at the school. That being said, I sometimes think my teachers that I sit for, work against me, cause they don't want me to leave them high and dry, but who knows!
If I quit there will only be 2 daycare providers left in town, that is one of the reasons I am so busy! I will keep trying!
Thanks for the suggestions!

 

[jtdl]

I work for a hospital transcribing from home. You would have to take a course - they do offer some online - Scribes is one I hear of a lot. Alot of at home companies want experience but if it is something you might be interested look into the online courses, I think some of them have deals with some companies.

Another option is an at-home travel agent. There is a Canadian company that has all their agents work out of their own homes. I can't remember the name of it right now but you could probably find more info by googling. I wanted to do that as well, but just didn't have the time to go back to school. There are some corrsepondence courses but not sure how good they are.

 

[greenclan67]

That is what I am looking for. Something that will let me continue to stay at home for a little longer then if I went back to work. I would have the time to do some school work, not full time, but could be done. If you think of the name of the Cdn company, I would be interested in knowing who it is!

 

[jtdl]

I did a search looking for the travel agency that works from home, I actually had booked trips with an agent that worked for them years ago and remember their logo (light blue and white!!!) just can't remember the name!!!!! But I can't find anything that sounds familiar. I did find this though:

http://www.tpi.ca/home_based_travel_agent_canada.asp