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I am 41 years old, and I am a WAHM with two teenagers, a grade-schooler, and a toddler. I juggle cooking, writing, PTA, diapers and design on a daily basis. I work for a pittance and I never get a day off. Crazy? Yes! Rewarding? Absolutely! Challenging? All the time. Would I trade it for anything in the world? No thanks...
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What Mompreneur Really Means

According to Wisegeek, http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-mompreneur.htm , mompreneur is a newly coined term for women who establish businesses at home while also acting as the full time parent of their children. The mompreneur movement is one steadily growing in the US as mothers try to find ways to make money, express their creativity or business acumen, and also to parent their children.
This is my secretary, sporting the latest fashion... Panty Hats.
Ok, so cut the crap... What mompreneur really means is that you get up at the butt-crack of dawn, wake up disgruntled, sleep deprived children, and hopefully get them off to school with their teeth brushed and hair combed, wearing clean clothes. You have your toddler hanging off your boob while you try to type an article, all the while avoiding flailing feet that are trying to drum on your keyboard. When home, your teenager comes in the office (which happens to be a corner of the laundy room) every five minutes because you just have to see this Slipknot video on YouTube. You check your email. You discover your article has been rejected because you used the word boob in an article about breastfeeding. You see another article has been approved, and rejoice at the $1.99 that has been deposited into your PayPal account! WooHoo, get that breastfeeding one approved and you may have enough money for a frappachino from Starbuck's. You express your creativity by venting about your family on your blog, and practice your business acumen by trying to keep your grocery budget down to under $500 a month for a family of five, including diapers! You parent your children by turning on Yo Gabba Gabba for the toddler, and keeping a 4-pack of Monsters in the fridge to help the teenager stay awake and get his homework done. Your true business hours are between Top Chef and 3 am in the morning, which is when you have the least amount of distractions. Crazy? Yes! Rewarding? Absoulutely! Challenging? All the time. Would I trade it for anything in the world? No thanks... I have worked for someone else since I was 14 years old, and I love being my own boss, being able to do PTA (yea, they actually let me do that.. who knew?), be home when the kids are home from school, and listen to whatever music I want while I work!

You may just wanna know that even Mompreneurs get overwhelmed.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

I haven't been posting much here on "My Mompreneur Life" the past few weeks.  It turns out that my DoozieLife has been a bit overwhelming lately.  Although I have been working, I just haven't felt the "umph" to write about it.  Now, I have been whining a bit on my DoozieLife blog just as a form of self-therapy, and damn, it does really help!  However, despite all this wallowing around in a funk, I have been actually working as well (just so you don't think I am just a lazy couch potato, drinking beer and eating ice cream all day.

Here are a few of the things I have been doing:
  • Mystery Shopping through Market Force (contact me - I would love to refer you)
  • Freelance Article Writing
    • Way fun.  I just wrote 10 articles about parenting for a client who happens to run the biggest Blink182 site I have ever seen.  I am still trying to figure out the correlation between the two
  • Paid Blog Posts
    • I get paid $2 - $3 for a small post with a link to the sponsors sit
    • I just received an offer today for $10 a post about various parenting and health related topics.  They provide the topic, the keywords, 1 required link.  I get to write a short post, add artwork of my choice, and 1 relevant link of my choice... Think I will build a Squidoo lens for each of those links...
  • My First Squidoo Payout 
    • $11.21 for me and $1.27 to La Leche League International
  • My Son's Surgery at UCSF
  • Troll Baby's Current Cold/Asthma and Hopefully Not Going to be H1N1
  • Slowly but surely cleaning house
  • and last, but not least, 1 huge web design project and 1 small one coming tomorrow
    • Yippee!  My dear client just left, and I have a $50.00 cash deposit for making some small site updates!
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Posted by Doozie Mom at 9:31 PM

2 comments:

Dominique Goh said...

Great to hear that you are doing well as a mompreneur. I'm too am trying my best to be one.

October 15, 2009 at 2:09 AM
Doozie Mom said...

I am not sure you would qualify it as great, lol. I am spread very thin right now and our budget is spread even thinner. But, things are definitely picking up, and I would be more than willing to share my hits and misses with you. I will be going more in depth in my blog as things move along. One thing I can say, is diversify and layer your efforts. If you have a blog or online store, tweet about it, post updates on facebook, submit articles to Ezine and Associated Content... and much,much more.

October 15, 2009 at 7:14 PM

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