Regular readers of this blog know that I work from home after many grueling years of corporate whoring. I simply cannot imagine squeezing back into another pair of too-tight heels and prancing around a corporate ant farm day after day. I have put that life behind me.
And now I have a new reason to be [...]

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Ok, my boss is a psychotic, moody, mouthy bitch, and I never know how foul a mood she’ll be in at any given moment, but then again: This is no different from my last corporate job. And at least now I don’t have to get up at six to do my hair.
I love buying groceries [...]

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I work from home. I don’t have a fancy office setup in a fabulous den or anything – I work at an old Ikea dining table in the living room, which holds my laptop on one end and my roommate’s various and sundry computer bits on the other. I use a dining chair, even thought [...]

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This is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while, as it relates to freelancing. And yes, I’m totally guilty of it.

First, remove your sweatpants, pajamas, and/or stained underwear — whatever’s your freelancing uniform of choice — and set them aside to be burned. If you’ve been freelancing longer than a year, believe [...]

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Working from home doesn’t mean you never get a winter cold. In fact, because I work at home, my immune system is weaker than the mass-transit commuter I used to be. Back then I could tolerate millions of germ assaults every day, because I was accustomed to being crowded onto filthy subways cars like cattle [...]

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Is there stuff that freelancers and work at home types just can’t live without? You betcha. The main one being coffee, of course. We mainline the stuff through an IV catheter in our kidneys. It’s what gives us our somewhat frightening ability to get stuff done while still being all ADD and interesting.
So I [...]

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There are zillions of ads and whatnot on the web telling you about getting rich with affiliate programs. You can’t. Not rich-rich, anyway. What you can do though is buy yourself a little time and push the wolf a little further from your door.
Those ads that say “I made a million dollars doing nothing except [...]

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