Apr 27 2009
My Work-at-Home start
I used to work at Wal-Mart. I liked it, at first. Then I began to realize how truly horrible Wal-Mart is to their employees. I’ve actually worked at 3 different Wal-marts, never for more than 6 months. I actually quit the second WM because I was so tired of their practices towards female employees vs male employees & because I was going on the truck with Hubby. But my working at WM did have 1 good result - I don’t like not contributing financially to our household. Hubby says that what I do is enough, but I’ve never really been one to not work. I know, that seems kind of opposite what I say about being a stay-at-home mom, that its hard work & many people don’t realize how hard it really is. I never said that I made sense, now did I?
But to me, I went from earning an income to staying at home, being able to clean when I want, cook when I want, do whatever I want when I want but not earning any money. Hubby jokes that he works to pay me to take care of the house & him - The first time he said that I about blew a gasket, I took it totally wrong! I thought he was trying to make a snide comment about me pretty much being a prostitute. We fought about that for nearly a week, I think. Eventually (18 or so months later), I realized that he wasn’t being mean about it, he actually felt proud that he was making enough for us to live on a single income in what most people consider a two-income world. That’s when I decided to show him that I can be responsible with the family money & set out on my mission to be as frugal as possible. But that’s another story.
Eventually though, things happened & our bills started being more than his checks were, not much more at first, but enough for me to worry. That’s when I started looking for work-at-home gigs. Most were phone jobs, which I couldn’t do because 1) we didn’t have a landline phone (still don’t) & 2) I didn’t have solid internet yet. I was using my mom’s router from 3 houses down. She knew about it, so its not like I was ’stealing’ her internet, & I did pay half of her monthly internet bill. But it wasn’t reliable enough for most WAH positions. But I kept looking. At the time, I was doing alot of PTR’s & PTC’s (paid to read emails & paid to click sites) but they don’t really pay enough per click to make a decent monthly income. Maybe if I had more time to click, maybe if I had faster internet or computer, it might work. But at the time, it wasn’t doing much to help, just an occasional $2-10 dollars. Plus my survey sites, they were about $7/month average but again, nothing substantial.
I found this forum, WPLH , that listed tons of work at home jobs, many non-phone. There were other forums but that’s the one that I’ve stuck with from the beginning almost. My first try was MPAM, I told y’all about it in an earlier post. I spent more time trying to earn enough to cover the monthly membership fee than I did actually making money there. After nearly a year, I had to give up on it. It was costing too much time for the lack of income. Now, it needs some major updates, but if the owner can get things up & running again, I’ll give it another try. The idea behind it is solid & good, but it definitely needs updated. Before I gave up on MPAM, I found ChaCha. And that’s where I’m going to stop for today… Tune in next week for my ChaCha story.
