Make Money Working From Home

Most of you who read my posts are either working from home or wish that you were. I do most of my work from home and have been doing so for the past ten years. However, I don't make a "killing" doing it. I make money by doing the following:

• Blog Post Reviews - Payperpost, Sponsored Reviews, Review Me and now, Social Spark.com
• West Telephone Sales online with telephone telecommuting Part-time
• ETS - Scoring student tests online part-time telecommuting
• Substitute Teaching - a bad year - they overhired in our district and there has been no work this school year.

I hope to add some income via blog advertising this year, which my husband does very successfully on the websites he manages. When I first left my full-time job to have my children, I did some consulting work from home in my work field - Human Resources. After that I sold Southern Living at Home products and left that after they refused to let me sell close out products online. Through it all I have Ebay-ed for nine years, very successfully. I now only buy Gymboree for most of my youngest daughter's clothing, because I get such a good return when I sell it online after she outgrows it.

Newsweek published an article this week called "Cutting Back Your Hours". It talks about everything that I do right now as being cutting edge for flexibility with decent money. I could use the decent money. Companies have jumped on our bandwagon, thankfully, by realizing the great workforce that is Stay At Home Moms.

Two placement services that serve this market are 10 til 2 http://www.tentiltwo.com/ and Mom Corps http://www.momcorps.com/. These services help find organizations that hire for project and part-time work. I am signing up with both today in hopes of increasing my hourly pay back to something more professional in range. As they said in the article, part-time doesn't mean low pay anymore, especially if you are a seasoned former professional. I'll let you know how it goes.

In the meantime, I do highly recommend Educational Testing Service (ETS) for relatively high paying part-time work scoring tests. The lowest hourly pay is $10/hour and it goes up from there depending on the test and its scoring requirements. During the holidays, the telephone work for West is good and it helps pay for the holidays for us.

If you have some ideas to share, please e-mail me and I'll write about them.

Can I Really Get Ready to Be Seen In a Pool?

I can't believe it's just a little over a month until I will have to don the annual caftan swimsuit and be seen almost naked! Why, you ask? Because where we are moving has a lovely community pool and the kids are already clamouring to go swimming everyday! I think I must get serious about Weight Loss if I am to actual undertake this mission!

I've really not be serious in years about this and I don't really feel like going back to meetings and other previously tried ways to lose weight. I like to do things on my own first. That is why I like www.PlanetFatLoss. They have very straightforward articles about losing weight and getting fitter. They have easy sections with different diet plans (not one size fits all) and exercise plans to choose from. You can join the community and get daily RSS feeds and other information emailed to you. It seems to fit in well with my daily computer use, so I'll get a lot of commitment reminding! I need to do something, so this will be the first day!

Growing Up Green Contest Winner

Congratuations to Marcy - who finally took the plunge and wrote a comment on my post about the book Growing Up Green. She's looking forward to reading the book and I'm sending my review copy right out to her! Thank you for participating in my first contest! I'm happy to reward my readers!