A New Opportunity for Work-at-Home Moms

One of the greatest advantages of working freelance is the flexibility of managing my own time. I really love having to manage time myself, rather than getting employed at fixed 8 to 5 jobs plus overtime work on weekends. Most US employed workers have the advantage of working 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday, but here in the Philippines, most workers employed in private institutions need to spend 48 hours per week.

I am a single parent and it is all the more challenging for me to juggle my role between a family breadwinner and spending time with my kid. I was employed for three tech companies for a decade before trying out to be self-employed. In all the times that I was employed, I had to always be away with my kid. The last employed job that I had was three hours away from my permanent home – I had to be away from the kid for a week or two for rotating day and night shift work.

Making It Into Freelance

One of the sites where I had been getting my monthly earnings is from SocialSpark, a new paid blogging site that is still in beta testing. Despite that SocialSpark has definitely attracted a number of advertisers. Although I had been writing for other paid blogging sites such as Sponsored Reviews and PayPerPost, SocialSpark is a lot different: it requires the users to put a disclosure badge at the end of each post. Each required link is always a “nofollow” link, which does not violate the Google’s terms. For those advertisers who like to put on more buzz on their product then SocialSpark is the way to go.

I’m proud to say that, despite a zero pagerank for this blog, I have monetized my blog with several posts done with SocialSpark. I highly recommend this to mommy bloggers like me, who are exploring ways on how to reap residual earnings online through blogging. My earnings through blogging alone had exceeded my monthly salary as a previously employed engineer in the Philippines.

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