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Are any moms working from home? What do you do? I am having such a hard time finding work from home positions and I have one month of savings left (not including bills or food). I think I made the best decision for me and my family in resigning from my job to be home with my baby and care for my mom. I’m just freaking out on keeping up with bills. My partner is so incredibly supportive but also don’t want him to have to take on my own personal bills (car note, insurance, etc). What are you guys doing for income? I’m a nurse but I have so much anxiety about leaving my baby. I literally get sick, nauseous, migraines, etc. at the thought of leaving her.

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Following, I'm also super curious

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Fleet Manager I have been working from home a little over 3yrs however I wasn't always remote. Prior to covid I traveled all over and worked on site with the pandemic my job became remote and I was lucky enough to where it stayed that way. I am not sure how easy or hard it is to find remote jobs as I mentioned mine wasn't initially remote and I've been with my company a long time.

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I work for Arise- you can get certified then contracted with multiple companies (currently I service for Agero Roadside and soon I’ll be in my certification class for TurboTax)

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Ttecjobs.com I was hired for customer service at the Texas Dept of transportation. All paid training. just keep checking for a wfh opening. If there is one, apply, msg me, and I can refer you.

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I'm going vto do part time tutoring with varsity tutors

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I was in the same boat I decided to do what I love and that was become a digital freelancer. I would say find something that you love and can give you that flexible opportunity from home.

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I feel like there are work from home nurse positions. My cousin is a nurse and she works from home. I’ll try to figure out what she does

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I'm a nurse who works from home. I still need to use daycare, though, because I need to be available to talk to patients over the phone. Our daycare is close to home, so I can easily walk there and get the kids.

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you create content, social media post. Partner with company’s, you can create YouTube channel and share a hobby, you can create other things like create e books about how to make sourdough bread. Digital world is endless I have do social media management for small business to help them grow the page while they focus on their products. I love what I do.

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but also if I am having a rough day with my son 90% of my stuff is automation so I don’t have to stress about any work.

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Another job idea is to be a virtual assistant. You assist businesses with emails, calls and other things

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I keep running into jobs that need more than one license and I’m only licensed in California. I literally can’t afford any other license right now.

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if that’s the case, my partner has a flexible job and can be here with the baby while I work. We are in California and daycare cost as much as rent

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My job is through our local clinic, so I did not need any further licensing than if I reported to work in person. I would definitely look into your local clinics! That's really helpful if you can avoid daycare, too. We just use it part time and it's still 1.5 times our mortgage payment.

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oh okay! Yea I’ve been looking. I’m going to gather a list of clinics in my city and surrounding and check. Yea the daycare industry is capitalizing for sure!

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With a medical background, you could look into medical billing and coding

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A lot of insurance companies and health insurance. I wfh but I can say it’s NOT easier w the baby. By the end of my shift I am exhausted and I feel as if I’ve neglected my responsibilities with her through the day

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I work from home with my little one she’s 7.5 months. I work for Trinity Health they usually have a lot of WFH jobs you’ll just have to search the site. https://jobs.trinity-health.org/

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Is it just my husband that does this? He is able to work from home via his computer and in the mornings and evenings he is on there doing his job. When he is done for the day he tends to stay in the room and either play video games or watch something. He will occasionally come out and play with the girls for a few minutes and that’s it but when I really need him he says he is busy. My daughters are both 1 year old now and I am just wondering how much involvement should he have with them now?
Idk if this is the norm or not…..

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Saying NO to buying toys etc

5 year old is getting really envious of others. He is obsessed with items that other kids have at school. I am pestered daily to buy these things in a different style when we already have 3 others. I have seen parents just buying stuff their kid likes which I don't necessarily agree with even when i can afford it. How do you deal with it?

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Daycare?

Thoughts on daycare?? Truly, I am SCARED to be leaving my kid for daycare. I literally do not trust anyone, not even family (they haven’t given me a reason it’s just trust issues on my end, you never know). He’s turning 3 and I’ve been a sahm the whole time but tbh my man doesn’t make enough for us to move out somewhere more calm . We live in a ‘not so safe’ area in LA and I’m just not used to living here so I just want us to give my son a better life and in order to speed up the process I would have to work.. I do lashes at home and I’d be open to take new clients so I wouldn’t have to look for work but I’m just scared to lose my license 😭

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Thoughts?

your soon to be brother in law (upon inquiry) told you that only a few kids from the family were attending his wedding because they are over the age cut off..

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Tablet for kids

Alright don’t need any negative Nancy’s telling me not to get my 2yo a tablet so if that’s what your gunna do please don’t participate in my poll.

We’re about to move cross country 3+ day trip and my 2yo and 9m hate the car I’m talking scream their heads off till they are out of their seats. We’ve already changed car seats and it didn’t help so I’d like to at least have one entertained and sit next to baby and try and distract her or put her to sleep. Our new car has tvs but since they are rear faced my 2yo can’t see it.

Debating getting her a tablet or dvd player right now on long car rides I end up giving her my phone because I get so overwhelmed sitting in between both of them screaming and crying.

And yes I do bring different toys I bring snacks I play songs try to distract her other ways but for the sake of not losing my mind on this move I think this is best.

-A very overwhelmed and anxious to move mama 😓

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Separation Anxiety

My baby is nearly 6 months old and has just entered the separation anxiety stage… this evening I was trying to cook dinner whilst my husband was with the baby and he was just crying every time he couldn’t see me, with full blown hysterical sobbing, and as soon as he saw me again he started giggling and smiling. Any tips on how to stop this? And how long might this phase last?
My husband felt pretty disheartened and upset 😢

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