Opportunity Knocking?!?! Answer That Door!

So, yesterday I spent quite a bit of time looking for ways to change my temporary SAHM status to permanent. As of right now, with everything staying the way that it is, I only have about 16 months left to enjoy my stay at home mom status, and I really want to change that. I am loving staying home with my children more than I could have ever imagined. So, in order to maintain this privilage, I was surfing the net using every buzzword that I could think of looking for an actual job that I am qualified for that is NOT a home business selling the product of the week. (One thing I've learned about myself....I'm not a salesperson, no matter how hard I try. And to be honest, I don't really try all that hard because I really don't enjoy doing it.)

Well, to my delight, I found several good jumping off sites that other people have started which lists different companies who hire SAHM's or WAHM's, or just telecommuting jobs in general. It takes a little bit of time reading through what the different companies offer, who their clients are, what services they provide, what the requirements are (education, experience, and computer capabilities), etc., but I actually found a couple that I was interested in. One is a telecommute position for a health insurance company, and a couple were for data entry/administration/virtual assistant type positions which were more freelance type jobs where you sign up with a profile for a company, and you could either bid for available jobs (mostly short term, or single task work), or be put on a waiting list and wait until something comes up for which you qualify. Ok, so that might not be quick money at first, but I have some time on my side, and I figured why not go ahead and sign up and see what happens? And in the meantime, I can still be on the lookout for something that is more stable than contract work.

This is all very exciting to me because up until yesterday, I was under the impression that finding opportunities to work from home with my qualifications (or lack thereof considering I'm not a college graduate) was almost impossible unless I wanted to do a MLM (Multi-Level Marketing---Sell, recruit, sell, recruit, etc., etc., etc.)

I wanted to pass on what I've learned so far so that if anybody reading this is interested, and you don't know where to start, here are a few of the sites that I found helpful. Good luck to you. I hope it helps!

http://www.dirtydiapersyndrome.com/
http://www.wahm.com/jobs.html
http://notesfromawannabewahm.blogspot.com/