Any body work from home? I have questions!

[charlie_lael]

So after five years in the military and two very long deployments my husband's is finally getting out. He will be going to school full time and I would love to start school as well, but I have a problem... I ultimately want to go to school for a job that I can have at home since we're very adamant about homeschooling our son.

Do any of you wonderful ladies work from home? What do you do? What are your likes and dislikes? Did you go to school for what you do now or did you just jump in to something new? Any tips or advice about college/work from home?

This will be my first experience with college (got married at 19, had our son at 21, haha) so I'm pretty excited/terrified. Hahaha.

 

[Kitteh_Kat]

Yay for having hubby home full time!

I do "lite" work from home, but it's not structured. I do hits on Amazon's Mturk; mainly surveys from universities and research groups (currently working on a batch of $1.00 surveys from Harvard, woohoo!). I can do it for an hour or two a day, and make a couple hundred a month, which is really all I need for my student loans and fun money. I like it because I can do it from wherever in the US, so if the Army gives hubby relocation orders it doesn't really affect my income. Plus I have no boss and no set schedule!

There are companies out there that offer work from home positions. I recommend joining Work Place Like Home and browsing through the company subforums to maybe see if like any of the job postings that have been mentioned on there. Medical Coding and Billing is supposed to be great if you have the head for it, and are lucky enough to find a company that will let you start off working from home (really no customer interaction, just reading medical files and coding them so services can be paid) - I used MyCAA funding to do a program online for it, but it wasn't for me. Apple has overnight chat support positions sometimes. Sedgewick is an insurance company that lets some of their phone and e-support people work from home. There are opportunities out there, you just have to hunt for them!

If you can't find a work from home job you still might be able to homeschool, depending on your hubby's schedule. When my mother homeschooled us she worked evening/late shifts and did the schoolwork in the morning. She was tired, but she made it work so she could do both homeschooling and keeping her career!

I did do most of my classes for my major (Criminal Justice/Homeland Security) online. I preferred the online classes because I could do the work when I wanted, and was able to hold a job at the same time. I did the coding program when DD was under a year old, and mainly did it during nap and bedtime. Find a degree you think you'll enjoy, and research it. And if you don't like it you can sometimes switch to another major without too much trouble/retaking classes.

Good luck!

 

[charlie_lael]

Thanks for all the info!
I've looked into mycaa, but want interested in much of anything they offered. :/
I'll look at the links you posted.

 

[fitmommy83]

I just wanted to second the great advice above, and google "real ways to earn money online". I'm new so I cannot post a link, but the site is a goldmine of information.