A WORK AT HOME MUM?MINUS THE KIDS - The Modern ...

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Looking into my crystal ball I can see the future I want to have.

I want a nice home and a happy, healthy family and the luxury to be able to contribute to our lifestyle while working at home and raising our children.

When these topics come up in general conversation, I usually get the standard nod from all my friends whom themselves, would also love to be working from home in some way when children come along.

But when I dare to say that I would like this to be my lifestyle now, without the 2.5 children in tow I am usually greeted with a stampede of ?Why now? You?re still able to go to work!? and ?But you don?t have any kids!?

The truth of the matter is I love being at home. I am truly the person I want to be when I am there. It?s inviting, there?s never anyone drinking the last pot of coffee and, what?s more, track pants and messy buns are ok for the Monday morning meeting at home.

After a few long-haul travel adventures, and actually realising that I can make the world as small or as large as I want it to be, the answer is clear. I can finally see the trees through all the forest.

The internet and social media are increasingly making the lattes in Manhattan and the brunches in Dubai easier to experience. And, let?s face it, no one is forking out $1500 to fly to New York just for a coffee.

But with the click of a button and a swoosh of a mouse I am simply transported to a world where as long as I have my wits about me and comfy pants on, I can be earning the same, if not more, from the comfort of my home, with re-runs of Friends playing in the background. It may not start out as the money spinner all those pop up ads promise, and the Carrie Bradshaw life of typing articles and looking at the topless muscular men in Central Park running around definitely won?t be happening in the small town in NSW where I am from.

But who?s to say I need kids for it to be acceptable to work at home? I have a fairly reliant dog that I treat like a child, and I don?t feel the need anymore to defend my desire to be a successful businesswoman of the world, from my living room.

Imagine it. You wake up in the morning, help the hubby get ready for work, send him on his way, and then you can really start the day.

I would like to begin with some air guitar while doing some light cleaning, with a vocal solo to bring crowds to their knees. Followed by a quick workout and some yoga to freshen the mind and body, then hopping into the shower where yet another vocal solo rings through the acoustics of the bathroom.

Dressed in my finest sweats and a hoodie loungewear, I skip, hop and swagger to the laptop/IPad/tablet/desktop/smartphone for some work. I can do an hour of data entry than an hour on my blog and an hour freelance writing.

Follow that with a home cooked lunch, coffee and Tim Tam slammer while watching Ellen, and the afternoon reserved for research for the next day?s musings.

Dinner on the table by 7, washing up done and, as I?ve been home all day, a programme viewing schedule set up ready to go.

And, all the while, I was in my slippers and I gave myself a facial.? I?m selling a lifestyle here aren?t I?

Now I?m sure there will be days when the sunshine calls me and I lounge in the garden reading Fifty Shades of Grey, but I?m only human.? The option of working from home is a lucrative one, mostly offered to WAHMs {work at home mums}.

I, however, am looking at setting myself up for this lifestyle before the whirlwind of sleepless nights, sore nipples and milk stained everything beset our quiet abode.

It?s no different to an athlete preparing for the Olympics. The prep work starts well in advance with training, an eating program, coaches and mentors, all offering support for the one race that can last anywhere from 11 seconds to 2 hours, depending on your preferred discipline (personally, I see myself as an equestrian rider).

I?d like to think of starting to work at home now, pre-children, as prep for the big games. To be the best mother, wife and equal to my family, why can?t I start now?

Society has placed a big old ?W? on me for worker, and that?s fine, but a job is not the four walls of an office building; the mediocre conversation by the coffee maker or the tedious emails about the pot luck coming up and what the weird lady in accounting is making {mostly cheese based}.

I want a career. I want freedom to change my role every hour if I choose.

I want to be a work at home M.U.M. Motivated Unique Mandy.

I?m not expecting to change the whole world, just mine, and to be wearing my pink leopard slippers while I do so.

GUEST POST CONTRIBUTOR

My name is Amanda Edwards and I would like to describe myself using three adjectives:

Passionate; about so many things it?s hard to keep a track of them myself.

Fun; so fun in fact I have scars on my body from maybe a little too much fun.

Honest; proverbial what you see is what you get.

I love my friends, family and all things pink. Life?s just cuter with a bit of pink. I would call myself a bit of a hoarder with a minor addiction to antiques, second hand stores and vintage items. Entertaining is the name of the game at our house and I will usually bellow ?I?m the hostess with the mostest? after a few wines; but cooking, feeding and spending time around a dinner table are truly magical with witty conversation and good company. I am looking for the golden chalice of having it all and looking fabulous while doing so. Let me know if you find it. I?ve Googled it, it offered a few suggestions.

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