I have to confess that I spend hours at my keyboard and work multiple opps.

The great thing about freelancing is that it allows us to work from home; however, that doesn’t necessarily mean fewer work hours–on the contrary, if anything, we probably work harder.

Your site is a great resource for writers.

As my business expands, I’m trying to build a list of potential subcontractors to work on items that I can’t either due to lack of time (my oldest had a lot of health issues about a year ago, causing me to outsource some work) or lack of subject knowledge. If you’d like, send me some background on yourself at spenterprises@wowway.com.

I’ve been in touch with a few others here that I expect to work with in the future, but it sounds like you have a background that offers some different capabilities.

Before I had my son, I’d been a travel agent for four years. I’d gotten out of that business (horrible pay–people think $2 articles are bad – try $6 an hour after four years with a boss who says she can’t afford to give anyone a pay raise, but then went right out and bought a new Caddy because her car was two years old and needed replacing…) After that, I landed a job as the right-hand gal to the president of a mailing firm just in time to find out I was pregnant. Thankfully, my newer boss was the kindest man on the face of the planet and even though I was a new employee and he knew I’d be leaving when I had my son, he spent the 8 months I was there teaching me all about payroll, corporate taxes, and how the postal system really works, so I learned a lot in those 8 months. I still have friends in travel and it’s easy for me to write about different places – especially when Texas, Louisiana, and Florida are the only states I’ve never visited. So travel is certainly my niche.

I do have other clients, but this is a blow to me because the articles were paying $80 for 2,000 words and the subject matter was something I could easily do two articles by noon and then have time to myself and then be ready to help my daughter with her math homework struggles as best I can–I’m not fond of that new math that the school is using which makes it hard to teach her anything.