The fast paced-lifestyle of today’s technologically advanced society calls for
a strong commitment to work and career that’s unprecedented when compared to prior decades. We the people, have had to shift our priorities in such a way that budgets for live-in nannies and interactive gaming systems that keep our children occupied while inadvertently teaching them life-skills. The increasing competitive nature of our industries keep us at work for longer hours and follow us home when we get there. The bills pile up and we have to work because our lifestyles call for it.
According to Eileen Applebaum, the codirector for the Center of Women and Work at Rutgers University, “Many more woman now, than at any time in our nation’s history, are either the primary or sole breadwinner in their families.”
What factors strain the balance between caretaker and high-powered executive?
1. More women are raising kids on their own.
2. The majority of the job loss in during the recession has been in men’s jobs. This makes families even more dependent on the earnings of women.
In the quest to find a balance, even-keeled women end up sacrificing something. Two very basic truths stick out: Children have only one chance to grow up and they need their mothers. The mortgage and the light bill are very real realities.
The worldwide web is an immense landscape for finding and sharing information. It’s beginning to take the place of traditional education while acting like a virtual assistant whose intuitive, algorithmic nature understands our needs and desires. It’s also a place to earn income and millions of people are doing it everyday.
My brother, Jason called me the other day ecstatic about his first time earnings online through an affiliate program. Never did he make money before outside of the conventional ways of a 9-5 hourly position that he usually obtained through a temp agency.
There are hundreds of thousands of ways to do it. And it can be done. Not just making money online, but having fulfillment in all areas of your extraordinary womanly existence.
The Internet can be an effective portal to buy you more time with your family. You can’t put a price on time with your family. Once you’ve identified what you’re strengths and passions are, then using free resources such as a wordpress blog can get you started.
1. Set up a blog and link to it.
Link to your blog from your Facebook page, Twitter and You Tube, etc.
Tell your friends and family about your new site and have them offer suggestions and give you feedback. Listen to the potential needs and adjust accordingly
2. Learn about the power of affiliate programs and how you can incorporate those programs within your niche and blog.
3. Once you build a decent amount of traffic coming to your website, begin to monetize that traffic.. Sell resources that they can use to do what you’re teaching about a bit better.
Remember that it does take time but tools and resources to help you create systems will be on your side.
