The down side to working from home

[Fortuner]

Hi all I haven't been online in a while except just to manage my website. The family and I have been sick with flu and I'm just recovering from bronchitis & tonsillitis which has affected business negatively because I can't teach while being so sick so while off sick there is just no money coming in. So the down side to working from home vs. being employed is that there is no paid sick leave and if that is not bad enough you also have the added expense of doctors’ bills which are never planned for and always tend to pop up at the most inconvenient time in my life.... ....!!!

Then there is the lack of respect and recognition from family and friends when you work from home because they don't see working from home as work, they rather see it as sitting on your ass all day!!! My husband and his mother are the worst when it comes to this, just because I work from home they expect me to have all the time in the world to drop EVERYTHING and jump to their every demand, but they would never dream of taking off work to do their own dirty work. This really makes me so mad but they never seem to sneer at the income I make that provides for everything!!!

Then there is also the unsteady and unreliable income you just never know from where or when your next pay cheque is coming in so you can never make any long term financial commitments because you just never know if you will have the funds on time to make payments.

Other than those few gripes I can't really complain because at least I am earning an income (thank goodness for the online work when I can't teach) which is better than nothing at all, I have my financial independence and I am more flexible for my family.