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Hello everyone! My name is Alaina and I am a stay-at-home, work-at-home, homeschooling Mom of four wonderful kids here in Denver,Colorado. I began working from home after my first son was born in 2000 and have been researching work from home jobs ever since. I also have researched a lot of different work-from-home scams over the years and I like to help other Moms avoid these scams. I also like to help other Moms find freebies and other great deals online so I post those when I find them as well. As a Mom I know I always appreciate when other Moms share great product suggestions with me and so from time to time I will be doing product reviews on great products for you and your family. Feel free to contact me by email if you ever have any questions about a work-from-home job you come across. I can be reached at [email protected]
My Work history:
I like to mention my work-from-home work history to ensure readers that I do know what I am talking about! Also, for readers who have questions about any of these companies or any similar companies I would be more than happy to answer them. Sometimes reading someone's past experiences can also give you an idea of what will or won't work for you.
When my oldest son was born in 2000 I got my first work from home job doing data entry for a company called DEIS that did magazine subscriptions. It was a flexible job but the amount of work that had to be done each day was a lot to balance with a newborn and later a toddler. DEIS is no longer in business. In 2001 I went to work for Alpine Access, a virtual call center company. They are based here in Denver and at the time only hired in Colorado. Alpine Access is a wonderful company to work for. When I first started there they did not have set schedules each week, you entered your availability and were scheduled around that. This worked great for our family at the time because my husband was a sports journalist and was around a lot of mornings and afternoons to watch our son while I could work. My husband's schedule varied every week though depending on what events were going on that week. When Alpine Access switched to a set schedule each week with the program I was on at the time in 2006, I had to leave. I couldn't commit to working 7-12 every morning, for example, because his schedule varied every day and every week. You do have to have a quiet background when working a virtual call center job, no screaming kids running around! By 2006, we had added two little girls to our family so we had a full house and I just couldn't do it when my husband was not around. It was a good five year run though with Alpine Access and I would recommend them to anyone.
For a couple of years after this I did jobs that were not necessarily work-from-home jobs but flexible enough I could schedule them around my husband's work schedule. I did mystery shopping (yes, it is a real job!), grocery store demos and then worked doing merchandising for Distribution Services Inc for a couple of years where I was promoted to supervisor. During this time I also briefly worked for ACD Direct, another call center. They are also a great company to work for. They take incoming calls taking donations for different PBS TV and radio channels. I also worked for ETS, Educational Testing Services. They hold online grading sessions several times a year for different standardized tests. For some of the tests, you are required to have a teaching degree but for others a bachelors degree is good. This is a really great job but it is seasonal, mostly in the spring and early summer when school is wrapping up. I left both the merchandising job and the ACD Direct jobs when our fourth child was born in 2009, I then took about six months off before starting the search again. For several months I did short assignments I found online, I kept busy doing assignments on Livework.com and Odesk.com and also worked for IMShopping.com as a shopping assistant. Be sure to check out Livework and Odesk, there are a wide variety of different assignments on there that will fit a variety of work backgrounds. In the work-from-home forums they refer to smaller jobs like this as "eggs" meaning when working from home many times you need many eggs in your basket in order to have enough constant work. In the fall of 2009 is also when I started blogging. Up until then I had a regular website where I had a list of companies that hired people to work from home but I decided to switch this over to a blog in order to allow for constant updates and new jobs postings. Thus, TelecommutingMommies was born. I also started doing some freelance writing online. I used sites like Helium.com to publish a couple of pieces that I then used as my samples when applying for writing jobs. I was hired by Demand Studios, Internet Brands, and Interact Media. Freelance writing is a very flexible work-from-home job that you can really do anytime. Unlike some jobs that have to be done within business hours this is a good one to do after the kids are in bed. In the spring of 2010 I was contacted by Leapforce for a job I had applied for a year before as a search engine evaluator. This is very flexible so I added this to my basket of eggs with the freelance writing. The website you work on is open 24 hours so you can work whenever you want to. I was also hired on in 2010 as the Denver Telecommuting Examiner at Examiner.com. In the fall of 2010 I started working as a community manager for ShesConnected doing social media. This is what I spend most of my time doing now along with keeping up my own blogs and some occasional freelance writing. For those interested I have added links below where you can view some of my samples online.
For more information on my role as a community manager for ShesConnected, visit their website and feel free to visit my Disclosure Policy for more information.
Disclaimer:
Disclaimer regarding jobs posted on this site: The author and publisher shall assume no responsibility or liability with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to be caused, by the application of the information contained in this blog. The author is not endorsing any companies listed herein and all information contained herein, is true and accurate, to the best of my knowledge, as of the date of printing. I have researched these companies and present them as legitimate to the best of my knowledge but please do your own research. Thank you
