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Home › Articles › Child Care › To Work or Not to Work

To Work or Not to Work

The Mother's Dilemma

By Tamar Krantman Weiss

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The Work-at-Home Mom's Guide to Home Business: Stay at Home and Make Money with WAHM.com (I'm Expecting, 2000). When she was pregnant with her second child and her first one became ill, she decided it was time for her to leave her engineering job and stay home. Cheryl first considered Web site design, but she soon realized that there were a lot of "scams and schemes aimed at moms at home." She began writing and posting her thoughts and experiences on her own Web site, and this gave birth to her online magazine for work-at-home moms. The site features lots of telecommuting job opportunities.

Working at home is no fairytale, though. Mary Lou*, who does telemarketing and consulting for the natural food industry and is mother to four daughters, says one of the disadvantages of working at home is isolation. Without associates and co-workers to discuss ideas and problems with, things can get difficult.

"You have to look for an alternative support system," she says. However, for Mary Lou, the advantages absolutely outweigh the disadvantages. She does not have to deal with the expenses of traveling, childcare (or the trauma of childcare) and she loses no time commuting. "Life is a matter of sequencing," Mary Lou says. "Women are changing the work force to be more family conscious, only because the work force can't afford to lose trained, educated employees. We should continue this trend for the health of our families."

* Last name withheld to protect privacy.


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