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At one time or another, many home-based workers are asked, “What exactly do you DO all day?”

Many believe that those who work at home don’t really work. Their lives are seen as endless vacations; enjoyable joyrides envied by those who are forced to punch a clock each day.

A home work schedule does indeed permit for a certain amount of flexibility. A home worker does not have to punch a clock or fill out a time sheet, and won’t be penalized for vacation time or sick days. No one will berate a home worker for returning late from a break, taking a nap at work, or for working in his/her pajamas.

Even so, a home worker is just that, a worker. The home businessperson has to complete his/her work assignments in a thorough and timely fashion in order to earn a solid living. Home workers have deadlines and workloads, just like everyone; if they take too much time away from their jobs, the likelihood is that they will fail in their professional endeavors.

Another point to consider is that home-based workers actually might spend less time on vacation than their office laborer counterparts. People who work in an office for major corporations earn vacation time; which means that, ultimately, they can take off for one- or two-week periods, with no need to report to the office or complete any work assignments during that time.

Home businesspeople, by contrast, often work continuously throughout the year, taking their laptops and notebooks with them wherever they go. It takes a great deal of continuous time and effort to make a home business work.

Furthermore, as home businesspeople maintain their offices inside their places of residence, they’re technically never ‘off work.’ A client or employer could call anytime, day or evening, and projects sometimes cannot be completed within a standard, nine-to-five timeframe.

A work-from-home writer, for example, might get a flash of inspiration at 4 a.m., taking them from their bed to their computer desk. A person who runs an Internet-based store might get a rush product order at 5 a.m. Sunday morning, a time when many office workers sleep peacefully in their beds. A caterer might get a call to prepare an entire meal for an event scheduled that evening.

In addition, home workers face a number of distractions not encountered during a typical office work day. While an office worker might take a coffee break at work, a home businessperson might take a break to change the diaper of his/her small child, pick an older child up from school, talk to a visiting plumber about repairs needed in the home, deal with a family emergency, or cook dinner for the family. Friends call (often assuming that a person at home has all the time in the world to talk), dogs bark and bills come in the mail.

All of this is not to say that working at home is not a fun, pleasurable experience. Ultimately, though, home-based professionals work just as hard as their office-based counterparts. They don’t call it ‘home work’ for nothing…

Lacy Foxnau writes articles on the internet about home work, that succeeds. Previously she’s written about her experience with online survey jobs, sites that offer surveys that pay money, and a host of other real home based ventures.