Work life stories…from real people

As you may know I do not consider myself the smartest person in the room…I certainly have strong opinions and aren’t afraid to voice them and they are based on lots of reading, research and facts but I’ve been known to be wrong, and I”m sure I will be again.  And I’m by no means the only voice to listen to about work/life.   There are many people who are “experts” at this…they live it each and every day.  To that end part of what I want to do with this blog is to give voice to others who struggle/juggle/conquer/fail with their particular work/life balance.

I have guest bloggers on occasion…I would love to have more, but honestly it takes a lot of work and while I am constantly working on it, it isn’t happening as regularly as I would prefer.  So I wanted to bring you more stories…not from this blog but from one I read regularly Work. Life. Balance. I was lucky enough recently to meet Chrysula Winegar in person and I look forward to working with her to change the way work works and the way we all think about work.  Please check out her blog and her Work LIfe Stories series…I think it will be a valuable resource to learn from real people living their lives, working and making work work for them, and constantly questioning what makes sense for them – in other words…people just like most of us!

The first in my series of work life stories is representative of a relatively new piece of the economic puzzle – mothers who work from home, often at night or in the early mornings and make a decent financial contribution in the process.  It’s a hybrid approach – entrepreneurial, but with low costs of entry and minimal child care requirements.  A middle ground for some wanting/needing to parent full time but keep connected to their professional world and make a family income contribution.  These kinds of work life solutions are growing at an exponential rate in certain applicable vocations.

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