I have been in the corporate world for almost fifteen years.  I have a 4 yr old and 2 yr old that need me more than my job does.  Unfortunately, we are in no financial situation for me to quit my job.  I am looking for an idea for part-time work that I can build up and hopefully turn it into a full-time thing.  Any suggestions?
 

Dear Sharon,

I am 47 years old and have had successful at home businesses because I made
a major life-changing decision to control my own career...20 years ago.  There is never a time in anyone's life that having children is affordable.  There is never a time in anyone's life when they have all the money they want.

However, in making my decision to stay at home with my children, I have never looked back.  Yes, it was financially difficult but we made it.  I changed the priorities in what I felt we had to have.  I chose a reasonably priced home to live in, a used car, garage sale clothing/furniture, and put in a garden.  I cooked meals at home instead of going out to eat because I was too tired, after a long day's work away from home to cook.  In other words, I made major changes that cut most of my entire income out of the "needed income."

Once I did that, the pressure came off of me and I began to take my own skills and market them.  It just meant I had to believe that I was worth a lot more to me and my family than I was to the company I worked for.  Sit down with your budget and see for yourself how much of what you spend monthly now, could be rearranged or omitted, even for 1 year.  You will be surprised to find out how much waste is in your budget at this time.  You will also need to compare how much of an income tax break you and your husband would get at the end of the year if you didn't have your salary but cut expenses together.  This will take cooperation on both your parts.  Your husband must see the advantages and disadvantages to this type of lifestyle change or it will not work.

Once I made the lifestyle change and quit my job to stay at home, I believed it long enough to start making money.  Little bit at a time, the revenue from my own skills started building my business.  I nurtured my business the same as I did my children.  Over the years it has given me both stress and joy.... but, I ask you... who ever said life was going to be a room full of roses all the time?  If I had to give one reason for why I have succeeded in my lifestyle changes is that I surround myself with women who believe as I do and work towards the same or similar goals.  NEVER put yourself in a place where people make you doubt yourself.

If you go into business, in order to succeed, you must recognize the risk and be careful.  You must have a little bit of fear to be cautious.... and, you must have a lot of patience with your own personal growth as you change.  Be sure to take your skills, the ones you love the most...the ones that come the easiest for you... along the way to your success.

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To your success,

Deb Nyberg