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Wow really thoughtful question. I work out of my home too but make a nice income. I wonder if that question is trying to say – do you work besides being a Mom and wife?
Yes, I’ve always assumed the question actually meant ‘do you work in return for money’ and was designed to determine whether you were ‘just a housewife’ without offending militant feminists
I, of course, would answer ‘yes’ because I travel the world from my computer everyday.
‘First I had a teleconfernece with Bombay, then I had to fix some problems in New York then I spoke to my agent in Birmingham this afternoon…’
I work from home and always find that people SO
I work from home and always find that people SO easily discount it because you don’t punch a time clock. What they don’t realize, is I probably work twice as much as them. Just because you don’t actually “go” to work certainly doesn’t mean you don’t work.
I quit my day job last week to try and make a living from blogging. I’m going to give it a go anyway but that is one of the drawbacks of working from home that I hadn’t considered.
Dealing with this is simple. If the company you are trying to work with, whether it be a bank, insurance carrier, etc., asks such a question and attempts to penalize you based on that… then take your business elsewhere, and let them know why you are doing so. This is the strongest way to send them a message that they need to change their policies.
Working from home means self employed I think.
But the question is really do you work for someone else so we can garnish your wages if we have to sue you to get paid.
If you work for someone else then banks love you. Why because they can go after your pay check if you don’t pay.
Anecdotal evidence: I have a relative- a young architect- who is married to an engineer working in the Railways. She told me that her husband had a staff of 10 people who had absolutely no work to do and were therefore unofficially designated as his domestic help. She didn’ t know how to gainfully employ these people at home either. On being coaxed by the husband, who was tired of having these people sitting around, she tried to keep them busy at home: one person to water the plants in the morning, one in…
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