Work at Home Mom

There was a period of time in my work at home mom tenure when I was very self-conscious about what other people thought of my career choice. Especially other professional people. It wasn’t so much the being at home…I mean, who could disdain a mother’s desire to be with her children?

It was more the foray into network marketing…an often misunderstood and often under-appreciated business model. It wasn’t even considered a valid business model by some. I was affected by these perceptions of other people, and I know of other work at home moms and would-be WAHMs in the same boat. For myself personally, I find it tinged with sad humor in retrospect. The advance of home-based business is now touted as a driving market force, and it has been a wonderful fit for me.

But I think there are still some professional women out there who are stymied by this old stigma. To them, I would say: do your due diligence. Educate yourself on the current state of business affairs among the forward-thinking. Be careful who you allow to be your “who saids” (who you listen to in forming your self-picture). And then remember these wise words from a man who is the Director of International Business Development for a highly successful network marketing company: “Any major change is ridiculed, opposed and then becomes self-evident it would happen anyway.”