new mom, in love with my baby, needs online job until baby can be in school. Any recommendations?

[Anonymous]

Yes, I can, I am pretty creative and I take lots of pics & edit them (natural images). I wonder if that's possible online

[Anonymous]

OK, gotcha, just got online and viewed ETSY, tx. Will check it out.

[Anonymous]

Maybe open a home-based preschool and enroll other children. My dd went to a preschool like this. The lady accepted children from 18 months -36 months, and it was a great first preschool for my dd. She had hours from 8:30 am - noon Mon-Friday with two or three day options available.

[Anonymous]

Two options:

1. Amazon Mechanical Turk. Pay generally isn't great, but some tasks are specific to US-based people or native English speakers and pay better.
2. eBay. Flexible schedule, that's why it's worth it, and the numbers work out when your value of time is low. Buy stuff new via clearances, with coupons, overstock, etc. Then resell on eBay. Also troll garage sales and the like. Specialize in certain items and you'll get to know pricing well. Also buy items in bulk and then resell on eBay by the item.

[Anonymous]

13:32 here. Those were the no-skill jobs I mentioned. Better if you can get stuff like copy-editing, writing, etc of course, but you'll need the connections or sub out. Our marketing consultant subs out all his copy editing to a SAHM and she does it in the evenings from what I gather.

[Anonymous]

1) If you're crafty, Etsy.
2) If you're not crafty, check out superstash.net. Not to copy her idea, but basically she works with two respected, established brands in the cloth diaper market, buys in bulk, and resells from the U.S. with quicker shipping. You could set up some online store for some other product - like nursing covers, cute clothes, etc. The parents who are used to waiting for products to ship from China would consider buying from you for quicker service.
3) Get licensed and run an in-home daycare. I'd definitely consider you given your background. My lady makes 36k a year watching 3 kids and she doesn't have a degree in education - you could charge $200 more a month than she does, once you're licensed.

[Anonymous]

Ignore the snarky folks with no experience in this.

I had the exact same feeling and desire as you-- to find a job I could do from home when my baby was born.

So... I created my own.

I used to be a teacher (like you!)... but, I've always enjoyed writing. I started freelancing from home writing web content (articles, copywriting, etc.) for businesses.

Check out the writing section at WAHM.com forums. You can get your feet wet at places like odesk.com or elance.com...but I don't like the bidding sites. Rub elbows with businesses online (forums where they hang out, social media, chatting with other online writers...) to get early business.

There are a ton of opportunities out there and you can absolutely fit it in during nap times, etc.

I've only ever worked part time at my writing but earn far more than I did as a teacher (going on 6 years of this).

Where there is a will, there is a way.

[Anonymous]

My sister did several work at home jobs. One was with a flower company, she would answer the phone and sell people flowers. Another was with QVC - again taking online orders over the phone.

She also looked into teaching online courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Check out the writing section at WAHM.com forums. You can get your feet wet at places like odesk.com or elance.com...but I don't like the bidding sites. Rub elbows with businesses online (forums where they hang out, social media, chatting with other online writers...) to get early business.

How legit is wahm.com? My company is looking for someone to copy-edit our documentation. I checked on wahm.com but a bunch of the posts look a bit questionable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP HERE!

My husband has no problem with me staying home, he manages the bills. I WANT to work, online school takes up no time for me, I have a good baby, I can multi-task well. Getting him a babysitter for a few hrs a week if needed is not a problem at all. I would like to have a sml income of my own, with re: Communication/research/anything online etc. I used this site to expand my resources. We live in downtown Silver Spring,MD

I would suggest tutoring since you can market your education background. Your question makes more sense knowing you are willing to pay a babysitter for a few hours.

Just FYI those online MBAs that require no work are pretty worthless.

This is stupid and annoying. Since when improving your education is worthless?

[Anonymous]

OP, let me know if you find it. We all want that... GL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignore the snarky folks with no experience in this.

I had the exact same feeling and desire as you-- to find a job I could do from home when my baby was born.

So... I created my own.

I used to be a teacher (like you!)... but, I've always enjoyed writing. I started freelancing from home writing web content (articles, copywriting, etc.) for businesses.

Check out the writing section at WAHM.com forums. You can get your feet wet at places like odesk.com or elance.com...but I don't like the bidding sites. Rub elbows with businesses online (forums where they hang out, social media, chatting with other online writers...) to get early business.

There are a ton of opportunities out there and you can absolutely fit it in during nap times, etc.

I've only ever worked part time at my writing but earn far more than I did as a teacher (going on 6 years of this).


Thank you, this is helpful

Where there is a will, there is a way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ignore the snarky folks with no experience in this.

I had the exact same feeling and desire as you-- to find a job I could do from home when my baby was born.

So... I created my own.

I used to be a teacher (like you!)... but, I've always enjoyed writing. I started freelancing from home writing web content (articles, copywriting, etc.) for businesses.

Check out the writing section at WAHM.com forums. You can get your feet wet at places like odesk.com or elance.com...but I don't like the bidding sites. Rub elbows with businesses online (forums where they hang out, social media, chatting with other online writers...) to get early business.

There are a ton of opportunities out there and you can absolutely fit it in during nap times, etc.

I've only ever worked part time at my writing but earn far more than I did as a teacher (going on 6 years of this).


Thank you, this is helpful

Where there is a will, there is a way.

OP: oops, I meant to say Thanks, This is helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Check out the writing section at WAHM.com forums. You can get your feet wet at places like odesk.com or elance.com...but I don't like the bidding sites. Rub elbows with businesses online (forums where they hang out, social media, chatting with other online writers...) to get early business.

How legit is wahm.com? My company is looking for someone to copy-edit our documentation. I checked on wahm.com but a bunch of the posts look a bit questionable.

I'm the one who wrote that. It's just a forum-- like any forum. A variety of posters from a variety of backgrounds.

There are a ton of 'home business MLM' type people on there, in the various forum sections. But the section for writers is decent.

I only mentioned it to OP because it's a nice way to learn what other freelance writers are doing.

There are definitely some good writers there... and they typically don't charge very much.

As a business owner, I'd recommend posting a job on Odesk.com. I've hired several writers and virtual assistants there with excellent results.

[Anonymous]

Well a few suggestions are a ton of my SAHM friends actually do a lot of the direct selling, ie. Mary Kay, Avon, etc.

I'll admit that the most successful one I've seen thus far are the passion parties (certainly not for the faint at heart) but one of my friends seems to have made a pretty good deal of money; this option would probably only be viable if your husband would be open to being on baby duty on weekends, I think she host those parties from 6:00 - 8:00 pm and then spends the rest of the time with her little one.

I have hosted one of her parties as well as a few of the mary kay for my friends who do them and they all seem to be pretty tasteful and a ton of fun, although the passion party is more fun for obvious reasons!


Her website is www.singyoursexy.com feel free to reach out to her, or look into the other sites. GL!