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Work at Home Moms are not just Doing Laundry and Preparing Meals

Katherine Hepburn once said, "It is either one or the other. You cannot have a wonderful career and a great family life." Meryl Streep rebutted this by saying, "Oh no, I can’t be like Katherine Hepburn anymore. My career’s going well and my family’s fabulous."

Sure, Meryl Streep is an actress and she probably had her own ways raising her four children and earning fourteen Academy Award nominations, but the key lies in effective balancing and time management – which any mom can actually do.

A majority of people takes a shot at work-at-home opportunities that abound everywhere. A part of the targeted demographic of this lifestyle is the stay-at-home moms. Business opportunities know that with such high cost of living, only one breadwinner in a household may not be enough. Mom also has to work.

Some people wonder how people can actually work at home where there are so many distractions. Let us just say that there are some people who could work better in their pajamas than in corporate suits.

Some moms actually have a hard time concentrating when they’re away from their children. At least, if they’re working at home, they’re more comfortable and relieved, knowing that they’re at the beck-and-call of their kids. (Of course, Mommy may be home; but Mommy is still working.)

If you are an avid watcher of "Desperate Housewives", you know how up to her neck Lynette Scavo is with her four children. Then she goes off to work and starts missing her kids. At least, if you are a mom working at home, you will never feel that way.

There are some cases wherein home responsibilities go head-to-head with that of professional duties, e.g., a freelance writing work at home mom negotiating with editors while trimming fat off the chicken, or conducting interviews for stories while changing a diaper. Sometimes, the work-at-home mom locks herself in the bathroom so that the person she’s talking to does not hear children screaming in the background.

For most work-at-home moms, their jobs are done in the evening when everybody else is asleep. It’s all in the day’s work. This is the career they chose and they sure are dedicated to it.

We all want the best of both worlds. Count moms in. Not everyone will agree with what Katherine Hepburn said. Eventually, they will all want to do what Meryl Streep did – have a fabulous career and a nourishing family life. We, too, want it all. We want careers and we crave for the freedom to do what we want and when we want to do it. We want to be professionally responsible to our job’s tasks and at the same time, we want to be personally present for our loved ones.