ABOUT ME
I have three wonderful children who are now 14, 18 and
21. Two of the three have learning
difficulties, so I tried to be available for them the best way possible. That’s when I started working at Home. Before I started Working from Home, I did
like everyone else, found the regular 9 to 5 job and sent the kids to
Daycare. This was before they started to
go to School. I’ve been working at Home
for approximately 14 years now.
I have an Accounting and clerical background, and do
my family’s Income Taxes every year, therefore; I started doing Income Taxes
for another company from Home. This worked out for the first Season in
1999-2000. The next season I did them on
my own, seeing it wasn’t really working out with the particular company I was
involved with; and I had moved. I also
offered other services such as; translations (from French to English), Resumes,
School Projects, etc… This also worked out for one season.
Then I moved to a small town for approximately 4 yrs,
the first years there I took a break, internet was really slow, and so I did a
lot of researching. Then for the next
three years I opened a company with a friend and we worked together at her
house. The company we formed again was
in Accounting and Income Taxes to start out with. She had one client that demanded the full
services of Accounting, and slowly we built it up to 5 more clients, plus a 100
or so Income Taxes every year. With this
company I was the detail oriented and Tech-Savvy part of the partnership, and
she was the Sales person and Administration side of it. This worked out for 3 years, until we both
changed lives and moved to the bigger city again. I continued to do the Accounting for two
companies, and some Income Taxes, until I found a full time job in 2008.
During the time I did the Accounting work from Home; I
also found legitimate work at Home jobs as well. I worked for a company named SOM Research and Surveys; (This is a Job offered in Quebec,
Canada) . They offered everything you
needed to start up, this included the computer and the headset needed. Their special program is in their computer,
and if a problem arises they could fix it easily by getting in your
system. This was mainly outbound calls,
yet the full text was there every time you called, it was really simple. The
reason it didn’t work out eventually is that it was always in the evenings, and
I preferred inbound calls as to outbound.
Also I found something better at Network Omni; (This is a US
company that hires Worldwide) I was doing live translations (French to English
and English to French) over the phone for $30hr, yet this is according to the
time spent on the phone. It was really
interesting work, a lot of inbound calls from many well known companies.
The reason I opted out of this one is that there were
not enough calls coming in for about a month.
They’re jobs that I did were part-time while I was doing my Accounting
job from Home from 2000-2007.
From 2007 to 2008 I worked for two different agencies
to replace employees at a Bank. This was
a good job to be available for the kids since the shifts were mostly from 10AM
to 4PM max, and one day from 10AM to 8PM.
I loved working there but yet again didn’t get many hours, and was
offered a really good job at a prestigious job downtown Montreal, which offered
great benefits. So I jumped back in to
the Rat Race Again….for a year and a half.
Then in 2010 I was diagnosed with Cancer (Multiple
Myeloma), which will be my next book. I
had no choice but to find something to do at home, I did a lot of research and
even before this and got SCAMED a lot with; Survey jobs online, Affiliate jobs,
Free Websites, a lot of Free EBooks…only to have my email overload with SCAMS
again. Therefore; I had a passion to do my own Nails, took a Course and bought
all my equipment mostly from EBay, put up my own Website, got into the Yellow
Pages…..and opened my own Nail Salon at
Home. This worked out for about a
year, until I realized I was too slow because of the pain my Cancer was causing
my (Back and Rib pain), it’s a lot more work physically than you think.
Then
I found something else, really thinking I could do this, a company called Sykes (ICT Marketing). You get 5 weeks paid training, and then you
start at a salary of about $12hr, but I don’t think that’s everywhere, plus you
get your benefits after three months which are great.
This is a great company to work for, but it was too
much for me. Seeing I had my Cancer, yet
again it slowed me down, and this is a full time Job and I would have preferred
part-time. That’s when I’ve decided to
become a writer, since I have so much to say and offer. I hope you enjoy my Books as much as I
enjoyed writing them!!!
GOOD LUCK IN YOU
JOB HUNTING! J
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