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Confessions of a Single Mum

The ups, the downs and sideways views of life as a single parent

Work From Home? Avoid These 3 Mistakes

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Being able to work from home all these years has ticked so many boxes for me. I didn't thave to send the children to childcare in the holiday which they hated. I don't feel so bad on day sI can't work from being ill ( I have M.E). Plus the feeling I get each morning when I get up knowing that I work from home still is a mixture of immense excitement and that feeling when ou stands at the edge of a cliff. But there are a few things I never really truly anticipated when I started and a few I am ... VIEW POST

So What Is A Flexible Career?

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It used to be that you would go to school to get your grades. Have a careers talk that lasted all of an hour, if you were lucky. Then you would decide the following week what you would like to do. The clever girls would go into nursing or teaching, less clever would have to be secretaries and the rest of us had the dizzy heights of shop assistant to aspire to. Yay ( a very underwhelming yay). You left school, hopefully, got a job and that was you set for life or until children came along.  It is ... VIEW POST

Work From Home Tips

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I must admit I love working from home. There is freedom, flexibility, it's rewarding and a fridge just an arms reach away. But it can also be lonely, hard work and challenging. When I first went self-employed about 7 or 8 years ago the children were younger and did understand that even though I was at home I had to work. They new desk time meant work time which meant quiet time. Admittedly now they are older they forget I am working and I have absent minded teenagers roaming in and chatting. But ... VIEW POST

Spotting Work At Home Scams

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When you star thinking about working from home one of the first things you probably tried was a quick google. Currently, the phrase working from home is pulling 207,000,000 results. Pretty impressive. But among those results, there will be a scary amount that is just scams. They will be just out to make money from you and you probably won’t earn a penny. But how can tell what's legitimate and what is a scam? Keep in mind that there are no real ways to get rich quick, so if it sounds ... VIEW POST

Could You Be A Work From Home Mum?

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We all joke how lovely it would be to work from home and wear our pj's all day, but hang on a mo, it's not actually that daft an idea. Ok may the pj bit might be. You do have to do a bit soul searching and decide if working from home is right for you. It really isn't all pj's and Netflix. Well, it can but you won't earn a living that way.   You would have to consider child care, how you would manage when kids are off in the holidays etc. Next, you have to consider what type of work at ... VIEW POST

School Holidays and being Self Employed

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Is it me or are these school holidays dragging more than usual. I feel I am still rather new to all this summer holiday thing as I have always worked full time, up till going self employed that is. The first summer was a novelty and it rained. The second summer I was more hopeful, it was still novel and it still rained. The third summer I gave up hoping for a memorable summer and I wasn’t disappointed, yep you guessed it rained. This summer has been a blinder. We have had sunshine, bbq’s ( as in ... VIEW POST