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5 Ways a Home Business Can Make One’s Life Easier
December 25th, 2009 | 
Author: Home businesses come in many different shapes, sizes and forms. These types of businesses provide individuals with an alternative to the office job setting and provide various freedoms to the business owners as well. In fact, there are five often-cited ways in which a home business can make one’s life easier overall.
Child Care Issues
Perhaps one of the most often cited features of a home business which can make one’s life easier is that by owning a home business, individuals are able to work while staying at home with their children. This makes the need for daily child care a nonexistent factor. Although some individuals who work from home still opt for putting their kids in daycare, having a home business does make doing without child care a possibility.
Transportation Issues
Another way which home businesses can make a business owner’s life that much easier relates to transportation issues. When owning a home business, one can conduct their daily business affairs from the convenience of their home office. This gets rid of the need for commuting to an office each day and putting mileage on the car, not to mention paying costly gas bills. It is also a time saver with regard to not having to commute to and from work which is also a highly regarded trait of owning a home business.
Tax Deductions
One who has a home business is also able to reap the benefits of multiple tax deductions and incentives which may be available to them. Using a home office enables a business owner to save money in the long run by seeing deductions on their annual tax returns. Although this only happens once a year, the rewards are often quite good for home business owners who operate their business out of their home office.
Being Your Own Boss
An additional incentive for home business owners is that they are their own boss. This is a wonderful thing to consider. No more bossy employers enforcing strict, unyielding schedules. Being your own boss is a sure way to make one’s life easier. One can work when they want to, take a break if they like and pursue their occupation in the manner which they see fit.
Reduce Overhead This Way
Lastly, an individual who runs a business out of their home will often find that their life is made easier by saving themselves money in the end. As opposed to those individuals who own businesses which are run out of separate offices, home business owners will see large reductions in overhead. Making use of the home as a workspace is a great way to make life easier on the individual and their wallet.
Tom Lindstrom
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I think I’d be a great mom. The only problem is… I’m not sure I want to be one. Help!?
OK, so I’ll try to make this brief.
I’m 28 years old and a business owner. I have been married to a great guy for almost 5 years now, and I really like our lives together. We want to travel, see the world, build businesses and go and see neat stuff. We also really like children, and I think we have SO much to offer to a child in the way of educational and meaningful experiences, and we can afford a child. My husband is simply fantastic with children, and I’m pretty good with them myself. We have people nearby in the family that would be TICKLED to babysit whenever we want to, etc. Basically, the situation seems ideal.
The challenge is, my husband is 37 an I’m 28. He wants a kid NOW if we’re going to have them because he’s not getting any younger. My mom was 37 when she had me, so I always assumed I’d wait, but have now adjusted to "early thirties" – but that’s still not good enough. Hubby is kinda acting like if we don’t have kids before he’s 40, he’s all set. Meanwhile, I am really feeling like I’m not ready.
My business is really flourishing, and I finally got it to the point where I have a great program and business model, and I expect the biz to really take off this year and grow into what I’ve worked towards for the last 10 years.
Additionally, I’ve begun modeling in my spare time and its started to take off recently as well.
Further, I’m (slowly) getting into great physical shape, and so is my husband. We’re eating healthy, spending time outside, going on day trips, etc etc.
Life’s great and I’m really happy!
Now what the heck is wrong with me that I don’t want to have a kid right now? I know that everyone is going to immediately think "nothing!" – but I feel like I should be wanting a baby right now, but I just don’t! I want to wait like 10 years like my mom did and do all the things I want to do BEFORE I am a mom, so then I can give my child the world.
I can’t imagine not being able to sleep late, enjoy a silent house, take off for the weekend when I feel like it, go on trips, and watch my business stagnate because I’m preoccupied.
Ugh – I’m so conflicted. My husband keeps telling me that it’s OK if we don’t have children at all, but I know he wants them. He’d be SUCH a great dad – truly. And I honestly believe that I’d be an incredible mom – when I’m ready. I’m just not ready, and his age is putting pressure on me that I just don’t want to deal with.
I feel like my whole adult life’s work will be thrown to the sidelines if I get pregnant right now – and we’ll be broke! I don’t get to be a stay at home mom – I’m the breadwinner. I make double what my husband makes, and boy, life will CHANGE if my income is drastically reduced.
I’ve worked so hard to build up my self-esteem, my company, my modeling life, my health, and I finally have my life just about where I want it.
Now – on the other side of the coin, here’s this:
I think about it a lot. I really want to have one child to take to the zoo, the aquarium, on trips, read him/her stories, build forts outside, encourage them to get into sports, be on the PTA, help with homework, show lil Jr. how to start a business, how to have a healthy relationship, teach them how to tie their shoes, etc etc etc. ALL of it sounds AWESOME!!! I really want to do all of that, and am convinced that it would be one of the best experiences of my life. I mean – I’ve already got the baby’s room decorated in my head!!
So if you’re confused – join the club. I’m so conflicted – I don’t know what the right answer is for me. At the end of the day, married or not, it’s *MY* life, and I believe I should have full control over whether or not I choose to give that up for an alternate life. Which I guess I feel I would be doing. I’m not Kelly Ripa – that woman has her whole life together, and she’s got kids, and she has it all. Even a great marriage!
I’m Ms. Average American Citizen here who doesn’t have millions laying around to make everything easier, and don’t feel like I’m ready to give up my current life for a completely different one.
I know 100% that my life will CHANGE drastically and my time will be really shifted into other areas, so don’t tell me that my life won’t really change. That’s simply not the case. Many people who think I ought to have a baby now are all about telling me how I can do it, have it all, do it all, etc. Meanwhile, they’re not doing it all, nor do they have it all. I know better, and I don’t think I’m doing something wrong my realizing that about 6 years of my life will pretty much be devoted to full-time parenting. Yes, I am aware of day-care and other child care services, but I know how much it costs and most importantly, it’s not even close to an ample substitute for one’s own mother.
So I guess my questions are these…
How do I reconcile this all in my head?
How do I make a decision once and for all and get the hell off the fence?
How do I LIVE with
yes, I’m aware that wasn’t brief. However, compared to what I was going to say, it really was!
it cut off my last question. Sorry!
it was – "how do I live with my decision – whatever it ends up being?"
Thank you!!
We certainly know ALL about baby sleep issues in our house!
I went for over 3 months with probably 2 hours sleep in a night. I ended up having to go and sleep at my parents and left my other half to suffer for a few days just to finally get some well needed sleep.
In the end though it was a baby sleep audio program recommended by a friend that finally saved us. We followed the advice and within two weeks she was sleeping through the night most nights with just the odd night where she would just wake once!
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Here’s what we used to help us … http://offto.net/babysleepsolution/
Funny opening sentence "I’ll try to make it brief" You didn’t try very hard, huh?
This is the longest question I ever came across and I’m not reading all this….
Bottom line: If you’re not ready for a baby then don’t have one.
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If you’re not ready right now, you’re not ready. Only you can decide which is worse- the fear of losing control of your lifestyle, or the fear of missing the chance to have children. Examine your values, imagine the future without one or the other. Which do you think would be hardest to live with when you’re towards the end of your life?
There are ways to compromise- just because you have a child doesn’t mean you’re automatically going to be broke or have 100% of your life turned upside down. Lots of successful women have children, and it doesn’t ruin them.
I would recommend you talk to your husband and find a compromise you can both live with. Know that getting pregnant and having children is not really something we can control- it might happen for you right away, and it might take years. Keep that in mind when you’re having your talk. I know you said you wanted to wait till you were 37- what if you get there and you can’t have kids anymore? Or it is so difficult that it takes three years and thousands of dollars?
I wish that I could have had kids when I was 28, but I didn’t meet my husband until later and didn’t marry until 35. I’m now 37 and expecting my first, and it took 18 long months to get pregnant. You sound to me like someone who might be filled with regret if you get to that later point in your life and discover that you missed the baby boat. I am not saying this to scare you- but it’s a fact that fertility decreases when you hit 35, and it becomes more and more difficult to conceive.
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So – you’d like to have a child, but you have a great career and don’t want to be a full time carer.
Your husband really, really wants a child and is great with them.
You earn more than he does.
So have a child and he can be a stay-at-home dad while you develop your business. What’s the problem?
Actually I know what the problem is. It’s that you haven’t even considered that mum is not the only parent capable of childcare
Seriously, think about it.
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