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You sound like you have a system that works for you. I tried getting more hours in at night after the kids went to bed and found that I was too tired, would get bad eyestrain and was just not that effective when I did not get enough sleep. 

I actually make more money at home as an MT than I would in an office.  Like I said below, mine are in dc. If it were just my 3yo daughter, I would be able to do it with her around.

Even though I have a 2 and 3yo in daycare, the benefit of working from home with a flexible schedule (have to get 35 or so hours in per wk, but whenever as long as its steady) is that I can pause my workday at 3pm when my 7 yo gets out of school - I pick him up, then I pick them up. I am also able to send my 3yo to preschool 3 mornings per wk and take the time to drop her off and pick her up.  I have also been able to work on sick days.  I estimate that since December, I would have had to take 8.5 sick days to care for my children if I worked in an office.

After being a SAHM for a long time, I am enjoying having some time where I am working and the kids are in school. 

To each his own - I have fielded opinions from both sides on this one. 

I didn't even realize I was on the Newbie board.  I've posted this before and people always thank me, some argue with me, but it's my stand and I'm sticking with it!! 

Newbies especially get suckered in by this line the companies feed and it's not right.  Sounds good and emotions take over and then the spider has you right in its web.  How can a woman hold her baby and think "If I'll just take less pay I can stay home with him/her and watch them grow up" and then say No to that!  All I'm saying is go for BOTH -- stay home with your baby or for whatever reason you want to work from home but DEMAND for yourself and as a group with all of us the best wage you can get as well!  Go for the cake AND the ice cream.  You DESERVE both!  Just be professional about your work responsibilities to prove to your boss that you DO take your job seriously and CAN do both and are worth the pay which isn't likely to get any better when this tactic works so well. 

Many seem to forget this is a PROFESSION.  We're not at home making home-made preserves to be sold at the county fair or something.  Sometimes we come off sounding like that, though.  I'm sure the doctors and lawyers on the golf courses talk about the benefits from working from home too but they don't share that with their patients whom they still charge the same.  We keep shooting our cause down all by ourselves.  If MTSOs were not allowed to read this site, it would be a different matter.  But, like I said, we're being watched. 

If you want to move this to the Main Board go ahead.  I don't know how to.  I've only replied to threads. 

Good luck to you and all newbies!!! 

It appears that everyone can agree on M-Tec or Andrews School--by the way is that Linda Andrews and not Andrews/Holbrook?

I want to get started with training soon and I'm having difficulty deciding.  I've taken both their tests and they both seem like good choices.  Decisions, decisions...