Mama Life - Collaborative Post
Becoming a new parent is a magical thing; it is a true blessing to spend those first months getting to know a new member of your family as it learns to laugh and fill your home with joy. The worst part of becoming a new parent isn’t the nappy-changing: it’s having to tear yourself away and return to work. But working from home is more viable an option than ever, and there are various jobs you could undertake so that you never spend time away from your family again. Here are just five suggestions:
Professional Blogger
Blogging has been a popular way to leverage online spaces since their commercial advent in the late 1990s. Today, blogs present an opportunity for home-bound parents to write about their experiences in parenthood – or indeed about any discipline or topic of interest – and generating revenue from online advertisements, sponsored content or product placement. Through organic growth of an audience to your posts, you can grow your income, making for a simple way to generate money for your new family.
Freelancer
Becoming a freelancer enables you to utilise key skills you picked up in previous lines of work, but on your own schedule and entirely for yourself. In generating a core number of regular clients, you can secure yourself a regular income while retaining complete control over your hours and pay-rate – giving you more time to look after your family, and the option to pick up more work when more time becomes available to you.
Online Tutor
There are a great number of private tutoring organisations, which hire tutors and allocate students to them. Many of these organisations support remote tutoring solutions, meaning you can teach skills and disciplines from the comfort of your home. You would be able to retain some degree of control over your timetable, as well as benefitting from the perks of PAYE. Tutoring is also a rewarding line of work, and great practice for future teaching moments between you and your children.
At-Home Trader
While this option may exist more as a hobby than a job, the correct execution of it could secure a steady income for you and your family – or even help you grow your savings rapidly. Trading is the buying and selling of shares on the stock market, with the general principle being that you invest in companies set to grow and boost their share prices, which in turn increases the value of your investment. By using the MT Webtrader trading platform, you can get started in trading from home, allowing you a completely flexible way in which to invest your money and potentially generate more.
Online Re-Seller
Those with a keen eye for salesmanship can still exercise their skills from home, through the shrewd use of online marketplaces and auction sites to sell goods. You could start with selling unwanted items from your home, but with a short-term investment in wholesale stock you could create a business as an online merchant. An honourable mention here goes to dropshipping, a new form of e-commerce whereby you create an online store front to allow the sale of products in a warehouse; the sales orders go straight to the warehouse, who honour the purchase. This means less of your home space is taken up by stock, leaving you more room to enjoy raising a new family.
