One of the benefits of working online from home, is that you can be based just about anywhere globally and as long as you have internet access you can do your thing. Usually when we travel on vacation I would bring along my laptop and try to get an hour or two of work done every day. I’m not one to sleep in, so while the rest of my family sleeps in, I get some work done. This way, family time is never affected.
During our trip last week to Montego …

Over the years I’ve plastered the benefits of working from home throughout this blog and the many articles I’m published online. And I’m sure I’ve left many of you thinking that a work at home career is the best thing since sliced bread, but in reality it’s not. Today I want to touch on a subject many of us who work from home or work in the industry tend to ignore. The impact your work at home career is having on your family and more specifically, your spouse. In the …

Do you freelance? Over the years dealing with people who are looking for a job they can do from home and being part of the telecommuting industry, I found myself generalizing that “freelancing” meant working on a computer. To be honest I never considered that freelancing is basically an umbrella term for people who work when they want and in most instances, on a contract basis. For those of you who’s not familiar with the term, it simply means”somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer …

This post is especially important to those of us who work from home on a freelance or contract basis or have a small business that they’re running from home. The sad reality is that though we don’t have an “employer” who deducts taxes from our weekly paycheck, we must submit and pay taxes at the end of each year. There’s absolutely no exceptions as far as I know… unless you have a very creative accountant or you live in a country where there are no taxes.
In this episode of “The …

If you work from home, you know how important it is to maintain high levels of productivity, whether you’re a freelancer working for yourself or a telecommuter who must still answer to a supervisor. Working from home, despite the myth, is actually not always easy and relaxed. In fact, working from home can create even more distractions than working in an office. Therefore, it’s important for people who work from home to limit as many of the distractions as possible. One of the easiest ways to do this is to …