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Me roo me too! Ones that are Ok with LOs being home?!

@Nskillet: I don't know if I could ever handle working at home and taking care of LO at the same time. I don't know how people do it! I'm thinking about more in the future when LO is in preschool and I can do some part time work from home.

I know girls who sell Mary Kay and stay at home with their babies!

I work from home part time in an "office" type job, but it's for my previous employer, and I used to do it full time from the office. They have a lot of WAH employees, and so does my current FT employer, but to be honest I'm not really sure how they come to be telecommuters.

I don't think they actively search for them - maybe the applicants ask if that's something that would be considered for the right candidate? Like, say you are an experienced graphic designer (example - this isn't what I do) and there's a position listed for an in-office job - maybe you apply for it but say that you'd be interested in telecommuting. I think a lot more companies are open to it because it saves them $$ in office space costs, and it's greener - if you frame it like that you might get a positive response.

My husband is a computer software engineer and does that from home.

I work from home as a writer, freelance editor, and an editor for a publishing company. Writing and editing just happen to be skills that don't require face-to-face communication.

My husband is developing passive income for our family through websites and coding some computer software.

We also have jobs outside the home at this point, though it's our goal to eventually break free from salaries entirely!

There's plenty of skilled work out there that can be done from home or on a computer--just look at all the people who make a living through their blogs.

I agree with those who have said that the legitimate work from home jobs are "regular" jobs that have a telecommute option. If a job advertisement leads with "Work from home!" I would not trust it.

I'm hoping to work from home at least part-time eventually! From those I know, sometimes the best way to get one of these jobs is either to propose it to your current employer, or a future employer in the job interview process. Though I think most employers would hesitate if you don't have some kind of child care.

I work at home, but I worked at the office before we moved and they offered to let me keep my job.

Keep an eye open for flex-jobs and read up on online reviews of companies to see if their employees work part of the week at home. In DC it's pretty common that people spent 2-3 days in the office and the rest of the week at home. Everyone I know, however, has full-time daycare.

I had several work from home part time jobs when I was unemployed, but none of them could have been done without childcare in place. All of my work was done either during night/weekend hours when Wagon Sr. could watch the baby or on days when I had paid childcare in place. Two of my jobs were freelancing with previous clients or coworkers who had their own companies, and one was ad sales for a blog.

I think a lot of WAHM jobs stem from a job that used to be "in-office".

I nanny for a family and the mom is a WAHM. But she worked for the company in their office for about 7 years before she had kids, so when she had her first daughter she transferred to WAH, she got a part-time nanny and juggled care of her daughter and her work.

Now they have two kids and I'm their PT nanny. She is really good a prioritizing and balancing mommy-hood and work.