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When you get back to work after a few days off, especially during the holiday season, you might feel slow, sluggish, and uninspired. Too much ham and holiday hooplah has that effect on people, so you aren’t the only one. It’s hard to get back into a humdrum work routine after holiday enjoyment. So, how do you kick-start yourself after the vacation that is the holiday season?
Make a list. Making to-do lists is often the salvation of the self-employed professional. Keeping thoughts organized, and keeping yourself on track, is much easier when you have a point-by-point list to follow. This will help you get right back into the swing of working.
Start small. Don’t overwhelm yourself with lots of projects right after enjoying a few days off. Giving yourself too much to do will make you feel tired, overworked, and will lower your productivity. Start with little projects, complete them, and work your way up. Get back into self-employed goals slowly.
Posted by KC Morgan
For the best in gift-giving holiday self-help, check out the technology section, which provides info on all those gizmos and gadgets that everyone wants. Stuffing stockings always seems like the hardest part of Christmas, until it’s all said and done. Then, you get a great feeling of accomplishment as you watch lights dance off packages of red and green.
But then come the holiday get-togethers. Getting through the holiday season unscathed seems almost impossible when family get-togethers are on the horizon. Spending time with your family, spending time with your spouse’s family, the office parties and the traffic – holiday self-help is definitely in order to get through these traumas. To learn how to deal with the best in holiday hoop-lah (and your in-laws), check out the partners and parents section.
It’s hard getting through the holidays alone. Learn the tips, tricks, and devious schemes that will help you get through the season unscathed.
Posted by KC Morgan
The Internet, which seems to make everything possible, has opened up a whole new world of freelance work to those wishing to start a work from home career. If you’ve ever wanted to become a freelance writer, now is the time. Internet content is highly in demand, and that means good writers are a valuable commodity.
If you can research a topic and write concise, clear statements about it, then you might be able to start a work from home career and become a freelance writer, too. Self employment as a freelancer means making your own hours and choosing your own jobs. If you don’t know where to start, start here. Suite101 is always hiring freelance writers, and it’s a great way to get started with a work from home career.
Learn how to write for 101, or learn more about freelance writing in general with the Freelance Writers section. Write for us at Home and Garden, Social Issues, Technology, Sports, or Travel and Culture. Read Christmas Survival Tips for holiday season career advice.
Starting a work from home career is all about finding the work. The sooner you start looking, the sooner you can become a freelance writer and enjoy self employment.
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Knowing when to take the plunge and become totally reliant upon your own self employed efforts is the hardest decision to make. Self employment is not something you should jump into, but plan for. Is it one of those things that “you just know”?
Usually, no, it’s not. Some of us may tend to be more cautious, holding off on taking the plunge into self employment. Others will be ready to jump in, feet first, without thinking twice. There’s no specific guideline for when to start your self employment fully.
The trick is in knowing how to evaluate yourself. Making self employment goals means making realistic goals that you know you can meet, and one of your most important goals will be becoming fully self employed. Evaluating yourself for self employment means realistically evaluating how much you spend and how much you make through self employed efforts. One should be higher than the other – you know which.
Don’t do it if you can’t afford it. Evaluating yourself and your spending habits can be very difficult to do, but it’s something you have to face before you take the big step into total self employment. Check out these free business e-books to get some free tools, and know When to Quit.
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No matter how successful your self employment may be, every holiday season your family somehow makes you feel inferior because you have the luxury of working from home. Bolder family members may even ask you how much you make, and other invasive questions.
They’re your family – so what do you do? The holidays would seem a little less bright if you told them off or primly said, “It’s not really any of your business.” You don’t want to reduce the discussion at the table to “pass the green beans” and “ready for dessert?” So you bite your tongue, you smile, and you patiently explain – again – the nature of your self employment.
Answering all their holiday season questions usually lasts through at least the first hour of the family holiday get-together. When you feel like you’re being put on the spot and you’re wishing the holidays were over so you could escape, your family and your self employment aren’t seeing each other eye-to-eye.
How do you get them on the same page? Or at least, get them off your back so you can enjoy your turkey? Every time they ask you an invasive question, smile, take another bite, and turn the tables on them. They’ll get the hint, and you won’t have to go out of your way to put them in their place. If they try to press you, just shrug, smile, and say “that would be telling, now, wouldn’t it?” And wink.
Let them wonder what you mean for the rest of the evening.
