Women and Home Based Business
This website has been a huge part of my home based business since 1998. Initially it was just a little project – self-created by Veronica and I (she was just 4 years old) back in the day when hardly anyone knew how to make a website.
The year previous I had learned how to hard-code HTML and I was working for a few corporations based in Toronto while I tended the fields and animals by day, then edited and created web pages by night.
Looking back I think that’s what it takes for today’s woman to have a home based business – or at least to get a successful business off the ground and in the green. You have to pull two shifts. There is the daytime-you (doing all the things you need to do to survive) and the night-time-you (doing all the things you need to do to grow a business).
Sorry ladies, for most of us, that’s what it’s going to take. No television, minimal social life, and being dead tired until you make your first dollar. Somehow that first dollar of your own home based business is enough to keep you up for many more nights until more clients, sales, or commissions come in.
I certainly do know that I’m generalizing here and perhaps a little old-fashioned but remember I’m living in the country where traditional values still apply. Men work, come home, get fed, retire in front of the television. Women work, come home, make meals, do dishes, prepare for the next day, run a few loads of laundry, help the kids with homework, plus much more.
Women who don’t work outside of the home are still expected to do all their ‘traditional jobs’ even when they’re trying to get a business going.
Before I get flamed for this very sexist, very backwards way of life, let me just say that I have been shacked up, single, and married over the years. I’m also partly to blame for being taken advantage of because I can and will do it all – whatever is required.
When I first started my business I had a toddler to look after, a man to take care of, and a business to run. The day he told me he was going to throw my computer out of the window because I spent more time on it than with him was the last straw. The money I was making was paying the mortgage, putting food on the table, and paying his gas to get to his low paying job every day.
Shortly after this I became a single, work-at-home, mom. Suffice it to say life became a lot easier. I could look after the farm animals, grow our own food, pay all the bills, and eventually come to home school my daughter. Yes there were many nights I burnt the midnight oil and many weeks of being exhausted but I made it and my business is still running fine today – growing, in fact.
Ladies you’ll have a lot on your plate while you get your home based business up and running so you’ll want to make sure you’ve either ‘got it under the hood’ (if you don’t know what that means just ask any country woman) or you’ve got a great support system in place. There will be no room in your life for lazy, demanding and expectant men. And, if you can’t work from sun up until well after the sun’s down learning the ropes and getting your business systems in place, you’ll need enough money to see you through however long it takes to get your business running smoothly and in the black.
Please don’t be a stranger. If you need help, a safe place to vent, or some home based business advice I’m just an email away and I answer all serious questions – I have, in fact, for the last 8 years. You can leave your message in the comment below (if it’s sensitive I won’t publish it) which in turn sends me an email and I will likely reply within the week. As you can tell I’m not tied to my computer as much these days as I used to be.
Women and Home Based Business is a post from: Country Living