Tag: work from home
Posted on March 4, 2021
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Working from Home is new for many but not for me. Take it from me – here’s what you need in your home office (and what you don’t!)
Posted on September 28, 2020
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With so many people working from home during the pandemic and a number of companies exploring longer term work from home policies here’s a few ideas for creating a work from home routine that doesn’t suck.
Category: blogging, Uncategorized, WorkTags: Feature, Featured, home office, remote work, routine, teaandwork, Work, work from home, work life, work routine
Posted on September 17, 2019
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Let me start by saying I always resented that phrase – “real job” – as if the way I earned my money wasn’t actual work. People loved to ask if I was applying at “real jobs” or if I’d thought about giving up teaching… Continue Reading “Getting a “Real Job””
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Posted on June 6, 2019
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Working from home – or earning a living working from anywhere, therefore allowing you to travel while working – is definitely glorified in our culture. When I tell people about what I do they often say I’m lucky or that it must be nice.… Continue Reading “What Nobody Tells You About Working From Home”
Category: Uncategorized, WorkTags: business owner, entrepreneur, Feature, Featured, freelance, freelance work, home, home office, house, nomad, teaandwork, Work, work from anywhere, work from home
Posted on November 7, 2018
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One of the biggest mindset shifts that has helped me successfully make a living by essentially freelancing services that I’m interested in providing is thinking of myself as managing a personal brand. In this mindset, any service I provide – anything I do in… Continue Reading “What’s your Personal Brand”
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Posted on October 22, 2018
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As I was writing “working with less” and thinking about what we as online teachers put out there to other potential online teachers, and each other, it got me thinking. I said with that post that you shouldn’t be intimidated by veterans and the… Continue Reading “Carmen in Canada’s Top Ten Tips for Teaching Online”
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Posted on September 26, 2018
by Carmen
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So if you’re out there doing your research about working from home, especially as an English teacher, you might notice the same trend I do: over-freaking-complicating what’s physically needed to do this job. If you watch online videos about teaching online you’ll see crazy class… Continue Reading “Working with Less”
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Posted on September 4, 2018
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When you choose to make a career for yourself that looks and feels different than the beaten path it’s a choice that comes with a lot of questions. Wanting to blog and make money online from home is different than either of my parents… Continue Reading “Those whose Career is Building Your Career”
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Posted on August 16, 2018
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The biggest misconception people have about working from home or working for yourself is that you work when you want or need and can take it easy the rest of the time. The reality, for online teachers at least, is that we work at… Continue Reading “Working from Home and Setting Your Own Schedule”
Category: Uncategorized, WorkTags: english, entrepreneur, esl, Featured, ohmywork, online, online job, online teacher, teacher, teaching english, technology, Work, work from home
Posted on June 6, 2018
by Carmen
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When I write about working from home I caution my readers not to romanticize the reality – I give up stability, normal working hours (although I am slowly building towards normal hours, more on that another time.), and many of the perks of a… Continue Reading “Sincerely, Carmen in Canada”
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