A Jane of Most Trades

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If you work with fibers and fabrics in your at home business, you’ll need to pay attention to labeling requirements. The rules seem a bit arbitrary for instance you must label all clothing items, except for hats and socks, unless those fall under a different section of the labeling requirements (such as those from fur [...]

People who start working from home do it because they need money right now. It’s a sad fact that get rich quick schemes more often than not prey on those who are in the most desperate circumstances. Working online at home is always going to suck in the beginning because it takes a while to [...]

Or get a life without getting another job. People have this concept that being self employed requires one to be officially dedicated to a single pursuit. If you are a full time parent, a part time writer, and occasionally an artist, designer, seamstress, knitter, and dog walker people start spouting off about how you lack [...]

This is probably the hardest part of the process; deciding how specific or broad, how personal or professional, and exactly how detailed your posts should be can be a much more difficult process than just writing the posts. Actual writing skills can be helpful, but absolutely perfect written English is not a requirement. There are [...]

Actually, let’s be honest: On any given day writing is probably going to be more for fun and less for profit. I have a handful of blogs that I keep up (more or less regularly), I write (shamelessly) for a content mill, and from time to time I  actually bother to get articles published through [...]