There’s a good interview on US News & World Report’s site about moms finding creative ways to work. The interview is with author Sharon Reed Abboud about her book “All Moms Work: Short-Term Career Strategies for Long-Range Success”.
Abboud’s book sounds intriguing, as the description pretty much describes my life. I left a marketing career track to stay home, but then took on part-time telecommuting work when my first child was ten months old. We needed a little extra money in our bank account, but also, I couldn’t stomach the fact that I was quickly losing all the years I had spent getting degrees and gaining work experience. So here I am, still telecommuting, slowly expanding the breadth of what I do, and desperately trying to stay on top of all networking platforms (Facebook, twitter, blogging, etc.,) which appear to be used in excess in marketing departments these days.
For more about Abboud’s book check out http://www.allmomswork.com/.
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I recently purchased a device for my wife who convinced her boss that she could work from home one day a week.
It looks like a usb stcik.
You plug it into the usb drive of the host computer that you want to use. The computer that you use could be any computer with a usb. The application WITHIN your usb stick asks you
for your password; enter it and presto you are at your office desktop.
When you finish, just close your session
and everything that you did from the computer that
you used will disappear; leaving no traces.
Homeland Security bought a few through QWEST.
The device is called Mobikey and is made by a company in Canada., called route1.com
You can order it directly from them or you could buy it from one of its resellers nerdsonsite.com, QWEST, and a few others.
There’s a video representation about the mobikey on youtube and there’s a blog on squidoo.com on the mobi key.
You could use a service like GO TO MY PC but with the mobikey there is no trace; digital footprint.
Just giving you a heads up
Mike
Mike – Thanks for the info. I’m always interested in learning about new devices to help people work from home.