By stephfoster on September 18, 2008
People always say you should start a home business that you’re passionate about. If you don’t love it, it’s going to just be too hard to keep on going. That doesn’t mean you’ll always enjoy what you do. Sometimes even the best home business can get you down. When your business gets harder to work, [...]
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By stephfoster on September 17, 2008
I’ve written often enough about saving money. There are some standard tips just about anyone will give you – cut the cable bill, drop to either just land line or cell phone, spend less at the grocery store. And of course, quit buying coffee at the coffee shop. Each of the above can seem like [...]
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By stephfoster on September 13, 2008
Running a home business is often frustrating. You can feel like you aren’t getting anywhere for months on end. Is it time to give up? Honestly, that depends on how hard you’ve tried to work on your current opportunity. Have you really given it a fair shot? So much of the frustration of running a [...]
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By stephfoster on September 11, 2008
It’s not for everyone, but if you have what it takes and the interest and the basic skills to start with, medical transcription can be a wonderful career choice. 1. Learning medical terminology can be a great mental workout. There’s a lot of medical transcription terminology to pick up as you study. If you don’t [...]
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By stephfoster on September 7, 2008
For most people, the answer to this question is “YES! Obviously!” Having one parent stay at home can be quite the sacrifice for the entire family. Despite the popular myth, many stay at home moms do not have husbands whose jobs pay extremely well. Many live on an extremely tight budget. And while sometimes staying [...]
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By stephfoster on September 6, 2008
On the whole, a low APR is a wonderful thing. Who doesn’t want to pay little to no interest for the money they borrow? But some deals are better than others, depending on your needs. The problem comes quite simply down to balance transfer caps. You’re generally paying 3% for your balance transfer, and more [...]
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By stephfoster on September 4, 2008
A complaint I hear very often from working friends with kids is that they can’t afford to have one parent stay at home. They need both incomes in order to meet the car payment, mortgage, food bills, daycare and so forth. And some of them are right. Others just need to rethink things. Daycare, for [...]
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By stephfoster on September 1, 2008
how to explain it to someone who just doesn’t get it. This can be challenging even if you have a work at home job rather than a business. I had quite a time explaining that yes, my work as a medical transcriptionist was real work to my mother-in-law back when I did that. The idea [...]
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By stephfoster on August 25, 2008
It’s one of the first rules of looking for a work at home job: “don’t pay for a job.” But when should you consider spending money on your goal to work at home? For Work at Home Jobs If you’re definitely thinking in terms of a work at home job, the answer is not quite [...]
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By stephfoster on August 24, 2008
When people hear about the possibility of working at home as a medical transcriptionist, they’re often intrigued by the possibilities. There just aren’t that many at home jobs where you have such good odds of getting benefits from your employer while still having a flexible schedule. What frustrates them is when they find out that [...]
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