Stay at home...please 11.18.2011

For most of my daughters' lives, I have been able to earn an income from home.  I've been a Medical Transcriptionist for 21 years.  The pay has changed significantly since I started out but I very much enjoy being at home.   I have worked out of my home a few times and everyone was miserable, including me.  The problem now is that my income no longer supports my lifestyle.  Not that I have an extravagant lifestyle, because I don't.  Simply that prices have gone up and companies have found a way to get us to do the same work for a lot less money.  Sigh....  Anyway, it's time for a change but I have to be honest, I don't want to be out there working.  I'd much rather be at home in my office working, home when my daughters need me, home when my sweetie needs me and even home when my dog has to go potty LOL.  I like being home.   I have to admit, I have lost some of my discipline to work efficiently so that has become my long-term goal.  If I could focus, and get everyone else to realize that I'm working and not really here, I'm sure I could be more productive.  At least that's how I see it.

For years, I have had to literally convince my neighbors that I do work, a lot actually, and the only real difference between my job and their job is that I only have to walk downstairs to my office to my computer instead of driving to my job.  I still have a set schedule, breaks, a lunch break and yes, I get dressed every day for work.  I tried working in my pajamas but that only seems to work when I'm doing extra work for an hour or 2 on a Saturday morning before heading out to run errands.  Otherwise, I'm completely dressed, right down to my accessories, like someone is going to see me.   The benefit to that is that if I have to run to the store, or pick my daughter up unexpectedly, I don't have to make time to get dressed.  It makes perfect sense to me.

Anywho, it's Friday, my day off but I'm choosing to work for a bit because tomorrow will be spent at the mall with 2 teenage girls....fun right?  Not.  LOL, really, they aren't bad kids, my daughter and her best friend, which is why although I despise driving far distances, I really don't mind taking the 2 of them to the mall.

Until next time,

~Pamela Denise~