My wife is always telling me, motherhood is a full-time job. So what happens when the economy sours and households need more income to survive? Someone has to do more work. In a growing number of American households, that someone is mom, going out and taking part-time, often night-shift, jobs to keep the bills paid. Many of these mothers struggle with the change, however, from being away from their children to still keeping the household in order to finding time with their spouse.
Luckily, if you’re a mom who wants to stay home while working, a new generation of jobs can let you stay home and bring home the bacon at the same time through the miracle of telecommunications and the internet. Check out this list:
Customer Service Specialist – Instead of running a customer service call center in a building, dozens of companies have created virtual call centers. Recruits take a few weeks of training. They are then given the software and equipment to take calls from their home. They are required to work a set schedule and they have to be able to guarantee no interruptions during their shift. They typically get paid hourly, sometimes with performance bonuses. JetBlue is among the most popular of these.
Transcriptionist – This service of taking words from audio, video, or handwritten documents to a written one has moved to the internet. Transcription is used in the legal, medical, and translation fields. Transcriptionists receive recordings or documents via email and then type them down. They can get paid either by the job or per hour, depending on the company.
Online Teacher – Online colleges are looking for experienced experts in every field from Literature to Accounting. Just like regular teachers, online teachers are expected to put out learning materials (video or written lectures), grade assignments, and answer student questions. Schedules for these jobs tend to be very flexible.
Accountant – If you hung up your CPA cape when childrearing started, it may be time to bring it out of retirement. With remote access made so easy over the web, you can audit, organize, and earn right from your home PC.
Web Content Writer – Websites are always looking for some insane person to write content for all one million of their pages. Writing can range from funny, thoughtful articles and blog posts to high-volume production jobs. Web writers are expected to complete their work within set timeframes, but, other than that, they can organize their schedules however they see fit.
