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AnnotationThe rise of the home office in the 1990s has led to the rise of the number one home office headache: dealing with the kids. Katherine Murray, and experienced work-at-home mom, provides invaluable insights and advice that can help people who work at home balance their careers and their families.
From the Author
Want to stay home with the kids and earn a living doing it?Have you always dreamed of staying home and starting your own business? Lots of people do--and do it successfully. I started my own business, reVisions Plus, Inc., over 10 years ago when I wanted to stay home with my infant son. I began editing and writing from my home and then watched as my small business grew into full publishing-services company. Working at home is not something new, and it’s not nearly as unusual today as it once was—today over 23 million of us work at home in some capacity. But working at home has a new twist if you are self-employed and you’re a parent. And if you are working at home and doing that delicate balancing act of taking care of your kids while you do it, you are just the reader I’m talking to in Home but Not Alone: The Parents’ Work-at-Home Handbook.
I started writing Home but Not Alone because during the course of interviews on my first parenting book, The Working Parents’ Handbook, many parents said "I want to do what you do! How do you work at home and raise your kids at the same time?" So when I finished that book, I started researching a book that would tell those parents how to do it. In Home but Not Alone, you’ll find out how to evaluate whether you’d like running your own home business, discover what you could be good at, research and test your idea, put your "support team" in place, communicate the upcoming changes to your family, enlist your family’s participation, and more. You’ll find out how to set up your home office, plan your marketing approach, run your business like a business, and be professional in spite of the baby crying in the background. You’ll also read about how you can find time for yourself (it’s possible!), leave your stress in the office, improve client relations, and get your family to help chip in with the housework. If may sound ideal, but don’t be fooled: it’s hard work! But it can also be great fun, a terrific challenge, wonderfully fulfilling, and maybe the best thing you and your family have ever done together. Working at home isn’t for everyone, but if you’ve ever dreamed of running your own show, why not let yourself consider the possibilities and dream a little? I’d love to hear your opinion when you read Home but Not Alone—drop me a note at kmurray@revisionsplus.com and let me know what you think.
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