Work at Home Benefits
Welcome back to a blog that caters for the work at home entrepreneur or blogger looking to make a living from their writing and marketing skills. In this post, I want to take a look at the benefits of working from home and how it compares to working at a regular job.
Well, for me, the very thought of ever having to go back to work for a company is unpalatable for a variety of reasons, but I suppose the foremost of those is that once you’ve been your own boss and worked for yourself, it is very difficult to swallow your pride and go back to work for someone else.
So with that thought firmly entrenched in the back of my mind, I set myself on a trail that would lead me to self sufficiency and mean that I would never have to take that backward step in life. So what are the benefits to working at home that make it such an appealing way of life for so many people?
The first thing is, as I have already mentioned, not having to work for someone else, or not having a “boss” who can tell you what to do, how to do it and when.
Some people like the security of working for a company and even accept the ordering about from a boss because they find it easier to have their workload set out for them and to know exactly what it is they have to do, how long it should take them and how they should go about accomplishing that. That’s fine and each to their own.
Others dislike that way of working and it is those that seek out ways to change their circumstances, meaning a way to work for themselves and not to be at the beck and call of a boss, or worse, be an underling to a hierarchy of supervisors, managers, senior managers etc.
Another benefit I enjoy as I work from home is that I never need to commute to an office. That saves on time and travel costs, but to me the time saving is the crucial one. Commuting can often take an hour or more each way, lengthening your effective working day by an additional two to three hours or more. That’s an eighth of your day and over a five day week adds up to an entire waking day! So i could say that by working at home, I gain an extra day every week!
Another benefit is the flexibility of my working hours. If I oversleep, so what? I just make a point of working a little later that day to maintain my weekly hours that I need to effectively produce my income. If I were working for a company, guess how long I’d keep my job if I regularly overslept a day or more each week!
Working at home, for myself also allows me to make full use of my own creativity in the way that I do my work which ultimately results in teh way that my income is derived. For me personally, I spend a good deal of my working day building my portfolio of websites into a position where they generate income without further constant maintenance from me. In other words, the income they generate is passive and will continue to produce a relatively steady flow of cash whether I tend them or not. This is important as it means I can take a day off whenever I want to and the income from those sources will not diminish or alter because of it. Try doing that if you work for a company!
Your boss won’t be too happy if you just take the day off on a whim as the money you generate for the company will stop when you’re absent, especially if you are in manufacturing or production.
So that’s about as much as I want to write on the subject for now. I may carry this on in a future post.