10 TRAITS OF SUCCESSFUL WORK-FROM-HOME PROFESSIONALS (Prelude to My FemaleNetwork.com Article)

To tell you the truth, I never imagined myself to be a plain housewife - the kind who stays at home the whole day, cooks the family's breakfast, lunch, and dinner, cleans up the entire house every single day, sews up curtains, pillowcases, and bedcovers... and monitors the daily progress of the soap operas that we have an abundance of on local TV... and oh, take care of the kids, of course. I don't have anything against plain housewives, none at all. My Grandma has been a plain a housewife since time immemorial and she's the best one in the whole wide world. But for some reason, I didn't see myself as one... Nor did I see myself as a career woman. I once dreamed of being a teacher, a nurse, a doctor, a lawyer, even an astronaut and a scientist. But never did it occur to me that marriage and family life would have anything to do with it... that getting married and starting my own family will affect the career choices that I would have to make.

Or maybe I just didn't know what I wanted to do with my life...

Until I left my previous job, not immediately hopping off to the next one. I had lots of time in my hands during that time... Time to cook, time to sleep, time to read, time to relax... time to reflect...

Time to write...

And just like that, it came to me like a flash of lightning... I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life...

BUT...

They say that writers don't get rich... Well some actually do (Does J.K.Rowling ring a bell?) but you've got to be ONE GREAT WRITER to be really rich. Maybe someday I'll get rich too. Maybe I'll find my name printed on the cover (and spine!) of one great book... or maybe two... Maybe...

Meanwhile, I'll think about helping out on paying our bills... while doing what I love the most - WRITING...

Right now, working-from-home is the best way to go for me...

Are you thinking of shifting from an office-based career to a work-from-home one?

I wrote an article for FemaleNetwork.com entitled "10 Traits of Successful Work-From-Home Professionals". Perhaps you would want to check it out to see if you're ready to make the "Big Leap" too. (Click HERE.) I am yet to master these 10 Traits and am still a long way to go before I can call myself successful but it's nice to visualize how and what I can be in the future, as a work-from-home writer. This article is based on conversations, observations, and readings I've made in the hope of helping myself grow in this new patch I've planted myself on.

I'm so excited for what's to come... ☺