I have been self-employed for many years...My husband is a contractor and I take care of all of his accounting and contracts, and within the last year I trained to become a Travel Agent from my home.
Of course, these are self-employment jobs and there is quite a bit of bookkeeping to go along with it, but I love working my own hours.
I started my travel agent job by searching on the internet and worked under a company with a 50/50 split on commission, but this particular company did not do any type of training, just told you how to book cruises and tours etc..
I then did a search and found a company that did a 5 day training class in Ft. Lauderdale, and I love working with this company. I am essentially self-employed, but all I have to do is advertise, book the vacations and the home office does all the back-office work. We then split commission 50/50. I have averaged $2000.00 per month on the high months and made as little as $500.00 per month on the slow months. But of course being self-employed is different than working for a company that pays you directly to stay at home..BUT the tax-benefits are tremendous. I also prepare taxes during tax season from my home. There are many opportunities to make an income from home, it just takes plenty of research and self-discipline.
If you would like to know more information of how to start your own home-based business, feel free to email me at
cleopard@msn.com . I will be happy to explain the tax benefits etc. As far as health insurance, we adopted our daughter from the fostercare system, and she is on Medicaid, and we do not have any, we have purchased some in the past, but found that there are some benefits to not having insurance, such as free samples from the doctors office, and discount fees at dr. office etc..
I can honestly say, I have been self-employed since 1987, and would not go back to working a regular 9-5 job with bosses
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~Carol~