Profession housewife description for children. Desperate Housewives: Should You Trade Home Care for Work? The task for the children is carried out by Marina Chapataevna

There is a fairly widespread opinion that a woman who sits at home and raises children remains unfulfilled professionally, constantly feels envy of her “career” friends and is forced to ask her husband every time for money for tights and shower gel. In a word, it evokes in everyone a feeling of pity and inner superiority.

If you ask different women, what made them choose the path of a housewife and give up their career ambitions, each of them will tell a whole story - funny or sad, chaotic or carefully thought out. But all these stories, by and large, can be subjected to a clear systematization.

The reasons why a woman gives up her career and becomes a housewife can be divided into two: large groups- when a woman does it of her own free will, and when she is forced by her husband or circumstances. The first group includes the following reasons:

The desire to spend as much time as possible with your children.
The desire to provide home comfort for your family.
A woman wants to do something creative - write a book, take up painting... In this case, the opportunity not to work is just a gift!
If a woman considers her main purpose to be the role of mother of the family, keeper of the hearth, wife, and career ambitions do not exist for her.

Co. second group reasons include:

The need for careful care for a sick, weakened child.
Often, a wife, not finding enough inner strength to insist on her own, succumbs to her husband’s persuasion and sentences herself to hard labor at home.
The woman failed to get an education - she went to an “academic school” or never entered a university.
The second pregnancy immediately follows the first pregnancy.
The habit of postponing everything until later has worked - when the child will go V kindergarten, then to school. As a result, the woman remained “working” at home.
If the husband’s work involves constant moving from place to place, the wife, following him, simply does not have time to gain a foothold in the new city.

But whatever the reasons that force a woman to choose the profession of a housewife, the consequences can also be very diverse.

What are the consequences?

The degree of psychological comfort of a woman housewife can be different - depending on whether she herself decided to devote herself to her husband and children, or whether she was forced by circumstances.

Victim of circumstances

The main problem of a woman who finds herself in similar situation- She’s cramped at home. And all efforts should be aimed at expanding the scope of the world in which it lies. If you find yourself in this situation, do not avoid communication, because lack of communication is one of the most common reasons. Use every opportunity to “break out” - various courses, hobby groups... and even going to visit friends!

Find new friends with whom you share similar interests: go up to mothers walking with strollers, talk to them, ask former colleagues to give you someone’s phone numbers, whom you can call and offer to take a walk with the children. And if you leave the baby in the care of grandmothers and on the night from Friday to Saturday or from Saturday to Sunday and break out into night club, - there’s nothing wrong with that either.

Books, the Internet, and constant contact with colleagues and friends will also help you. It might be worth paying attention to the courses. Now there are a lot of them; computer and feng shui, design and ikebana, art history and cooking. Computer courses will generally be useful to you always and everywhere - in particular, new job.

In addition, try to find the positives in the fact that, by force of circumstances, you now find yourself within four walls.

"It's so good to be a housewife!"

How lucky the child is!

A housewife mother can breastfeed her child normally, because one of the main conditions for successful breastfeeding- This is feeding the baby on demand.

When the mother is nearby, the baby grows up healthier, calmer and more balanced than under the supervision of numerous nannies and grandmothers - no matter how ideal they may be. No one will ever replace a baby's mother!

Stay-at-home mom can devote much more time to communicating with the baby than a working mother.

In the future, when the baby grows up, the mother will be able to pay a lot of attention to his intellectual, spiritual and physical development.

How lucky my husband is!

It is very important for men to have a strong back - the feeling that they are waiting for him, that he will come from work to a warm, cozy home.

It is a rare man who will refuse the opportunity to eat a normal, nutritious dinner every day - and not every family can afford a housekeeper who prepares dinners.

In addition, for many men it is very important to know that the child is under the constant supervision of a person close to him - this helps them to work calmly and devote all their strength to their career.

How lucky you are!

You are calm, joyful, busy with your beloved family and not separated from the little creature that is dearest to you.
You are seriously involved in raising a child - you read books to him, explain for a long time and thoughtfully how to behave, answer his endless “whys”, and do not break into a cry from fatigue if he is to blame for something.
You have time to prepare nutritious meals for all family members and take long walks with your baby. And also engage in self-education, visit a fitness club, meet with friends - in a word, do whatever you want, within reasonable limits: after all, the only one who dictates the time frame for you. - this is your child.
You don't depend on your relatives - and you don't have to beg them to babysit.
You can forget about public transport- especially during rush hours.

“Oh, this is not an easy job!..”

It is also possible that you will more than once hear from family members something like this: “What do you care, you’re sitting at home!” or “And you’ve settled in well!” Sometimes it can be difficult to get understanding from those closest to you.

To avoid these accusations, involve your family more often in helping you with the housework: let them see that your life is not all sugar.

A little about the most important

In order to work as a housewife and experience psychological comfort, you need a little: confidence that you have chosen the right path, and chosen not under pressure, but yourself. In this case, possible difficulties recede to the situation of free choice.

The following can deprive you of your inner comfort:

Thoughts about dependence on a husband - moral and material.
Disdainful attitude of household members towards your work.
“Career” friends are free, independent, always well dressed, with whom you can talk about everything in the world, except what you cooked for dinner today or what a mess your baby made today.
If your working friend’s child spoke earlier than yours, walked earlier or shone with some other talents, you may begin to suffer from an inferiority complex: how can this be, you only take care of the family and the baby, and your friend entrusted her child to the nanny, she herself works sixteen hours a day... and here you go!

Unfortunately, there are men who can plainly say: “Where can you get away from me? Who needs you with children?” In this case, we are actually talking about domestic psychological violence, and only a qualified psychologist can help you. Under no circumstances should you let your husband decide your psychological problems, humiliating and intimidating you!

Friends deserve a separate conversation. Unfortunately, it often happens that lonely business women come to visit a married friend in order to get a lasting “vaccination against marriage.” Do not let them assert themselves at your expense in this way - communicate only with those who are sincerely disposed towards you.

As for children, everything happens in its own time. You are not in a competition. Doesn't matter. who will be the first to reach the finish line. - it is important that your baby is happy and everything is fine with him.

What to do if your husband wants you to work?

If you only dream of staying at home and raising children, try to convince your husband that this is for you and your family the best option. Your husband can put forward the following arguments:

We don't have enough money.

The only truly serious argument. In this case, it is better not to insist on postponing the issue until better times.

I will be bored with my housewife wife.

Of course, if you watch TV series all day long, you will get bored not only with your husband, but also with yourself! But books, good music, museums, exhibitions... And perhaps an external college completed! In this case, your husband will be truly proud of you.

Sitting at home, you will degrade: you will watch TV series and read only women's novels!

What can I say? If you have been following your overall development before, then why should you degrade now?

It will be better if a nanny looks after the baby, because she is a professional, and you are not.

No nanny can replace a baby's mother - no matter how wonderful she is! Although nothing can stop us from studying literature for parents on raising and caring for a child.

You must live a full life; Grandmothers will take care of the baby.

After all, this is your child and you yourself want to raise him according to your ideas. And in what way can a woman reveal herself most naturally and fully, if not in the role of a mother? Why, if you are happy fussing with this helpless lump, should you “give up” this happiness to others?

In any case, remember that the fact that you are a housewife does not mean that life is passing you by. You create your own life and there is nothing wrong with the fact that you have chosen the most beautiful profession in the world - the profession of a mother and homemaker.

What is it made up of? family life? Any woman, without hesitation, but at the same time sighing heavily, will answer - out of duty. There are not enough fingers to list everything. Cleaning the apartment, cooking, washing, caring for children, caring for elderly parents. In addition to these basic ones, there are things that are less burdensome, not everyday, but also require a lot of time and effort - monthly payment of bills for an apartment, gas, electricity and telephone, birthdays of family and relatives, family events on various occasions. calendar holidays. Among other things, completely unexpected plots arise from time to time:

broke washing machine, your neighbors are flooded, or, conversely, your neighbors are flooding you, your child did something at school and they call your parents, etc. You can continue this list ad infinitum, remembering something of your own, special. So who in the family bears all this exorbitant burden of daily chores? Of course, a woman.

Our women have always worked. Even in Soviet time, for which many still sigh nostalgically, housewives could be counted on one hand. We have always been very proud that Russian women are the most emancipated - in the sense of the right to any profession and the right to work. This fact was considered one of the main achievements of our advanced society.

Only from time to time they complained that as a result of such “freedom” the woman’s workload became double. After all, having given her the right to earn money, no one freed the woman from the “right” to do housework. And there is no doubt that running a household and raising children is work.

One housewife I know was constantly indignant that her husband did not consider her housework to be work. She specifically found out somewhere and let her husband see the tariffs for the services of the Zarya company: how much it costs for washing, polishing floors, cooking, washing windows, nanny services, etc. This did not have the desired effect on the husband, or he pretended that it did not. He can be understood. Any man has been accustomed since childhood to the fact that everything appears as if by itself, without any effort on his part: the comfort and coziness of home, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, a clean shirt.

He was always served by women - mother, grandmother. Why should things be different now that he has his own family? Not to mention that the man is more than satisfied with the existing order of things. It was instilled in him from childhood that he was the breadwinner, the support of the family in terms of money, and debt was the province of a woman.

Our life today has become difficult and expensive, and many women are simply forced to look for opportunities to earn money. Families where the husband earns very decent money and the wife can devote herself entirely to raising children and home are still few.

A woman, as before, must work. The most capable and purposeful of them even manage to reach career and professional heights. It is no longer uncommon for a wife to earn significantly more than her dear husband and actually support the family. In light of all this, an unfair, or at least strange, situation is developing: at work, a woman is an energetic leader, a generator of ideas, a creative person, and a high-class professional.

She works with full dedication of mental and physical strength, often without standardized working hours, days off and sick leave. And in the time remaining free from work, she is also a housewife, obliged to wash and iron her husband’s shirts, feed him, protect his peace of mind, provide him with comfort, and take care of the children. As a result, everyone is on edge, physical fatigue, depression, conflicts in the family.

Housewives are also different
Is it possible and necessary to change the “division of responsibilities” that already exists today in the family? The question is not easy and, oddly enough, there is no clear answer to it. There are families, and there are many of them, where this state of affairs suits not only the husband, but also the wife.

Yes, of course, it’s hard for her, she’s very tired, but at the same time she doesn’t want to give up a single millimeter of territory to her power at home. She was and wants to remain a sovereign mistress, albeit within the confines of her small apartment. Women of this type are also completely confident that a man is not capable of anything, at least at home. He cannot even be trusted to take out the trash, let alone cook scrambled eggs or bathe a child before bed. In extreme cases, he can change a burnt out light bulb, hang curtains or nail a shelf.

There are wives, and there are a lot of them too, who agree that a situation where they have to do literally everything is unfair, but it’s easier this way. Firstly, not every husband will agree to do something around the house - he must either be persuaded or get his way with a scandal. Secondly, even if he agrees, each time you have to figure out what you can actually trust him with, then check how he dealt with it, etc. In a word - just unnecessary trouble.

Worth a try!
And yet, despite the fact that sharing responsibilities around the house will initially require some effort on both sides, it is worth thinking about and trying. Because there are many positive aspects here. Firstly, in families where spouses share childcare and housework, a healthy sense of “one team” appears.

You will communicate more with each other and, perhaps, if there has been no mutual understanding between you for a long time, it will appear again. After all, there are often constant reproaches and complaints from women that her husband does not feel sorry for her, does not participate in family matters- this is an external manifestation of a relationship crisis. By doing everything together, you will not exist in parallel, but truly as one whole. Sexologists dealing with problems married couples, believe that equal involvement of spouses in family care and child care significantly improves intimate life.

Third, a family where everything is done together is a good object lesson for your children. They see every day from the example of the two closest people that between a man and a woman there can be not only complete mutual understanding and healthy cooperation, but also mutual support, that there is no purely female or purely male work. And the last positive result of sharing responsibilities is that you will have more free time for yourself and for your children and husband.

As you can see, there are still many advantages in such a redistribution of responsibilities in the family. Maybe it's worth a try?

Some tips on how best to do this:
- Sit down with your husband and jot down a list of current chores around the house on a piece of paper, for starters, maybe for one day. Clearly agree on who will do what. Think about what you have to do during the month (paying bills, repairing household appliances, taking your child to school, extracurricular activities). Which of these can you and your husband?

Do not criticize your husband if, from your point of view, he did something wrong. Men often complain that their wives are almost always unhappy with the results of their efforts at home. In addition, the more you praise your husband, the more willing he will be to take on something.

Involve children in household chores too. Moreover, it is not necessary that boys only fix things, and girls cook and wash. Let the children get used to the fact that in the family there are no purely female or purely male responsibilities. - In about a month you will be able to understand whether it is really easier for you or, conversely, worse than it was. After all, it's never too late to get things back to normal.

If you interview different women about what made them choose the path of a housewife and give up their career ambitions, each of them will tell a whole story - funny or funny, chaotic or carefully thought out. But all these stories, by and large, can be subjected to a clear systematization. The reasons why a woman gives up her career and becomes a housewife can be divided into two large groups - when a woman does it of her own free will, and when she is forced by her husband or circumstances. The first group of reasons includes the following reasons:

The desire to spend as much time as possible with your children.
The desire to provide home comfort for your family.
A woman wants to get creative - write a book, take up painting... In this case, the opportunity not to work is just a gift!
If a woman considers her main purpose to be the role of mother of the family, keeper of the hearth, wife, and career ambitions do not exist for her. The second group includes reasons such as:
A sick, weakened child who needs careful care.
Often, a wife, not finding enough inner strength to insist on her own, succumbs to her husband’s persuasion and sentences herself to hard labor at home.
The woman failed to get an education - she went to an “academic school” or never entered a university.
The second pregnancy immediately follows the first pregnancy.
The habit of postponing everything “for later” has worked - when the child goes to kindergarten, then to school. As a result, the woman remained “working” at home.
If the husband’s work involves constant moving from place to place, the wife, following him, simply does not have time to gain a foothold in the new city. But whatever the reasons that force a woman to choose the profession of a housewife, their consequences can also be very diverse.

What are the consequences?

The degree of mental comfort of a housewife may vary, depending on whether she herself decided to devote herself to her husband and children, or whether she was forced by circumstances.

Victim of circumstances

Psychologists believe that women who, before pregnancy, led an active lifestyle - had a career, communicated with a large number of people, and had a stable income - endure confinement within four walls the most difficultly. These women may even need professional help during the adjustment process. The main problem of a woman who finds herself in a similar situation is that she is cramped at home. And all efforts should be aimed at expanding the scope of the world in which it finds itself. If you find yourself in a similar situation, do not avoid communication, because lack of communication is one of the most common causes of depression. Use every opportunity to “break out” - various courses, hobby groups... and even going to visit friends! Find new friends with whom you share similar interests: go up to mothers walking with strollers, talk to them, ask former colleagues to give you someone’s phone numbers, whom you can call and offer to take a walk with the children. And if you leave your baby in the care of your grandmothers and go to a nightclub on the night from Friday to Saturday or from Saturday to Sunday, there’s also nothing to worry about. Books, the Internet, and constant contact with colleagues and friends can also help you. It might be worth paying attention to the courses. Now there are a lot of them: computer and feng shui, design and ikebana, art history and cooking. Computer courses will generally be useful to you always and everywhere - in particular, at a new job. In addition, try to find the positives in the fact that, by force of circumstances, you now find yourself within four walls.

"It's so good to be a housewife!"

How lucky the child is!

A housewife mother can breastfeed her baby normally, because one of the main conditions for successful breastfeeding is feeding the baby “on demand.” When the mother is nearby, the baby grows up healthier, calmer and more balanced than under the supervision of numerous nannies and grandmothers - no matter how ideal they may be. No one will ever replace a baby's mother! A non-working mother can devote much more time to communicating with her baby than a working mother. In the future, when the baby grows up, the mother will be able to pay a lot of attention to his intellectual, spiritual and physical development.

How lucky my husband is!

It is very important for men to have a strong back - the feeling that the family loves him and expects him to come home from work to a warm, heated home. For a working woman, providing her husband with such careful care is quite difficult. It is a rare man who will refuse the opportunity to eat a normal, nutritious dinner every day - and not every family can afford a housekeeper who prepares dinners. In addition, for many men it is very important to know that the child is under the constant supervision of a person close to him - this helps them to work calmly and devote all their strength to their career.

How lucky you are!

You are calm, joyful, busy with your beloved family and not separated from the little creature that is dearest to you. You are seriously involved in raising a child - you read books to him, explain for a long time and thoughtfully why this should not be done if he is guilty of something, and do not break into a cry from fatigue. You have a lot of time - you can cook nutritious meals for all family members, take long walks with your baby. And also engage in self-education, visit a fitness club, meet with friends - in a word, do whatever you want, within reasonable limits: after all, the only one who dictates your time frame is your child. You don't depend on your relatives - and you don't have to beg them to babysit. You can forget about public transport - especially during rush hours. There is a saving of money on transport, on food in the office, on various bags, folders, pens, etc., which a working woman cannot do without.

“Oh, this is not an easy job!..”

The loads that lie on the shoulders of a housewife are heavy precisely because of their monotony. In fact, a person working in an enterprise or office sees the fruits of his labor, can be proud of them, and tell others about them. A housewife can prepare an amazingly delicious dinner, but it will disappear in one evening, leaving behind only a mountain of dirty dishes, not to mention washing, ironing, cleaning, and - most importantly - caring for the baby. Monotony is the worst enemy of a woman who takes care of the house. It is also possible that you will more than once hear from family members something like this: “What do you care, you’re sitting at home!” or “And you’ve settled in well!” Sometimes it can be difficult to get understanding from those closest to you. To avoid these accusations, involve your family more often in helping you with the housework: let them see that your life is not all sugar.

A little about the most important

In order to work as a housewife and experience psychological comfort at the same time, you need little: confidence that you have chosen the right path, and you chose it not under pressure, but yourself. In this case, possible difficulties recede to the situation of free choice. The following can deprive you of your inner comfort:

Thoughts about dependence on a husband - moral and material.
Disdainful attitude of household members towards your work.
“Career” friends are free, independent, always well dressed, with whom you can talk about everything in the world, except what you cooked for dinner today or what a mess your baby made today.
If your working friend’s child spoke earlier than yours, walked earlier or showed off some other talents, you may begin to suffer from an inferiority complex: how can this be, you only care about the family and the baby, and your friend entrusted her child to the nanny, she herself works sixteen days hours a day... and here you go!

The most serious thing on this list is dependence on your husband. In fact, life is quite unstable now, and if something happens and the husband loses his job... Of course, anything can happen, but why think about troubles until they have happened and, quite possibly, will not happen? Unfortunately, there are men who can plainly say: “Where can you get away from me? Who needs you with children?” In this case, we are actually talking about domestic psychological violence, and only a qualified psychologist can help you. Under no circumstances allow your husband to solve his psychological problems by humiliating and intimidating you! Friends deserve a separate conversation. Unfortunately, it often happens that single business women come to visit a married friend to get a lasting “vaccination against marriage.” Don’t let them assert themselves at your expense in this way - communicate only with those who are sincerely disposed towards you. As for children, everything happens in its own time. You are not in a competition. It doesn’t matter who gets to the finish line first - it’s important that your baby is happy and everything is fine.

What to do if your husband wants you to work?

If all you want is to stay at home and raise children, try to convince your husband that this is the best option for you and your family. Your husband can put forward the following arguments:

We don't have enough money. The only truly serious argument. In this case, it is better not to insist and postpone resolving the issue until better times.
I will be bored with my housewife wife. Of course, if you watch TV series all day long, not only will you and your husband get bored, you will get bored with yourself! But books, good music, museums, exhibitions... And perhaps even an external college completed! In this case, your husband will be truly proud of you.
Sitting at home, you will degrade: you will watch TV series and read only women's novels. What can I say? If you have been following your overall development before, then why should you degrade now?
The baby will be better looked after if he is looked after by a professional nanny, and you are not a professional. No nanny can replace a baby's mother - no matter how wonderful she is! Although nothing can stop you from studying literature for parents on raising and caring for a child.
You should live a full life, and the grandmothers will take care of the baby. This is YOUR child and you YOURSELF want to raise him according to YOUR ideas. And in what way can a woman reveal herself most naturally and fully, if not in the role of a mother? Why, if you are happy fussing with this helpless lump, should you “give up” this happiness to others?

In any case, remember that just because you are a housewife does not mean that life is passing you by. You create your own life and there is nothing wrong with the fact that you have chosen the most wonderful profession in the world - the profession of a mother and homemaker.

What does family life consist of? Any woman, without hesitation, but at the same time sighing heavily, will answer - out of duty. There are not enough fingers to list everything. Cleaning the apartment, cooking, washing, caring for children, caring for elderly parents. In addition to these basic ones, there are things that are less burdensome, not everyday, but also require a lot of time and effort - monthly payment of bills for an apartment, gas, electricity and telephone, birthdays of family and relatives, family events on various calendar holidays. Among other things, completely unexpected plots arise from time to time:

The washing machine breaks down, your neighbors are flooded, or, conversely, your neighbors are flooding you, your child did something at school and they call your parents, etc. You can continue this list ad infinitum, remembering something of your own, special. So who in the family bears all this exorbitant burden of daily chores? Of course, a woman.

Our women have always worked. Even in Soviet times, for which many still sigh nostalgically, housewives could be counted on one hand. We have always been very proud that Russian women are the most emancipated - in the sense of the right to any profession and the right to work. This fact was considered one of the main achievements of our advanced society.

Housewives are also different
Is it possible and necessary to change the “division of responsibilities” that already exists today in the family? The question is not easy and, oddly enough, there is no clear answer to it. There are families, and there are many of them, where this state of affairs suits not only the husband, but also the wife.

There are wives, and there are a lot of them too, who agree that a situation where they have to do literally everything is unfair, but it’s easier this way. Firstly, not every husband will agree to do something around the house - he must either be persuaded or get his way with a scandal. Secondly, even if he agrees, each time you need to figure out what you can actually trust him with, then check how he dealt with it, etc. In a word - just unnecessary trouble.

Worth a try!
And yet, despite the fact that sharing responsibilities around the house will initially require some effort on both sides, it is worth thinking about and trying. Because there are many positive aspects here. Firstly, in families where spouses share childcare and housework, a healthy sense of “one team” appears.

You will communicate more with each other and, perhaps, if there has been no mutual understanding between you for a long time, it will appear again. After all, women’s constant reproaches and complaints that her husband does not feel sorry for her and does not participate in family affairs are often an external manifestation of a relationship crisis. By doing everything together, you will not exist in parallel, but truly as one whole. Sexologists who deal with the problems of married couples believe that equal involvement of spouses in family care and child care significantly improves intimate life.

As you can see, there are still many advantages in such a redistribution of responsibilities in the family. Maybe it's worth a try?

Some tips on how best to do this:
- Sit down with your husband and jot down a list of current chores around the house on a piece of paper, for starters, maybe for one day. Clearly agree on who will do what. Think about what you have to do during the month (paying bills, repairing household appliances, taking your child to school, extracurricular activities). Which of these can you and your husband?

Involve children in household chores too. Moreover, it is not necessary that boys only fix things, and girls cook and wash. Let the children get used to the fact that in the family there are no purely female or purely male responsibilities. – In about a month you will be able to understand whether it is really easier for you or, conversely, worse than it was. After all, it's never too late to get things back to normal.

What profession can a woman choose? various reasons cannot or does not want to find a job in the traditional way. Thanks to the Internet, every woman can choose an activity to her liking. The most common work options.

Some are sure that housewives are happy women leading an idle lifestyle. Yes, indeed, sometimes there are ladies who are not burdened with everyday problems, but there are very few of them. The rest of the housewives are workers whose daily feats go unnoticed. People become housewives by vocation or by force.

The first ones enjoy household chores, they get tired, but cannot sleep, knowing that there is an unwashed saucer left in the sink, they wake up at the crack of dawn and prepare breakfast for the household. Women who have sacrificed their own careers for the good of the family are forced to become housewives, and are experiencing a breakdown because of this - their temperament and abilities do not find an outlet in homework, they suffer from unfulfillment and dream of a different life.

If you belong to the second type, do not despair - you can easily combine the role of a housewife with professional growth. You may not become a businesswoman, but you will get rid of torment over the monotony of life and one-sided development. In addition, you will be able to earn money, and this increases self-esteem. Finding a job that you can do while staying at home is not that difficult. Thanks to the Internet, every woman can choose an activity to her liking. We offer you the most common work options.

Remote work options

1. Copywriters, writers, bloggers

Perhaps you have had ideas about writing children's books, women's novels, detective stories? This definitely requires talent, and if you feel it in yourself, get down to business. Did you know that JK Rowling started writing the Harry Potter story while she was a housewife? You may not create a bestseller, but you will definitely be passionate about the process of creating your brainchild. Even if you come up with just a few cute children's fairy tales, your child will become the first grateful admirer of the talent of his mother-storyteller.

A lightweight but profitable option is . If you know how to write competently and express your thoughts coherently, register on one of the copywriting exchanges. You will be able to work according to your mood and will earn some money from pleasant trifles. Over time, when you delve into the secrets of the profession and become a “wolf” of copywriting, the fees will be more significant. In any case, this work will force you to seek new information and constantly develop.

2. Network marketing

You can choose between conventional marketing and Internet marketing. This type of trade is expanding every day; more and more companies prefer to sell their goods without going through retail outlets. Through network marketing you can buy almost everything: from Snickers to diamonds. This business has the same number of fans and opponents, but marketing exists and people continue to work and earn money in it. Competing companies are offering more and more favorable terms of cooperation: if once upon a time, to join the structure you almost always had to make a contribution or buy a product, now you will no longer find such requirements.

You just need to sell products and get paid for it. There are only two marketing schemes: the pyramid and the puff pastry. We are very familiar with pyramids - each seller brings several new members into the network, everyone pays everyone until the product is in demand and the flow of “recruits” does not stop. In layered structures, distributors and managers do not mix; this is how, for example, Oriflame and Avon work. The layered structure seems more promising because you can grow from sales consultant to manager.

You need a disruptive and active character and marketing abilities. Housewives usually succeed in selling cosmetics, dietary supplements, and detergents.

3. Online stores

Why not try organizing your own small online store. Of course, you will simply be an intermediary between the seller or manufacturers and the buyer, but this is not important. Choose a niche that interests you, for example, selling things self made, so popular now, or haberdashery goods. At creative approach and with sufficiently active promotion, this small business can bring in good earnings.

4. Monetize your hobby

What do you like to do in free time? Maybe you relax by doing beadwork or making crafts? Very good – hand-made is very popular. Find the appropriate group on the Internet, create your own website or submit free advertisements. There will definitely be customers if your products are original and of high quality.

5. Firm at home

Why not continue to practice your profession at home if possible? Manicurists, hairdressers, and massage therapists may well provide services at home. Remote work is often offered to accountants, journalists, designers, lawyers, etc. In all cases where the manager is interested in the quality of the task, and not the personal presence of the employee, you can count on workplace. You are unlikely to be able to climb high up the career ladder, but you will be busy with something you know well, and this will make you feel confident.

Belarusian anomaly

Unexpectedly, Belarus adopted a decree with the interesting title “On the Prevention of Social Dependency.” They want to revive the same law, or, more simply put, in Russia. Now idlers who work less than six months a year will pay tax. There are no housewives on the list of legally unemployed people. That is, a woman who runs a home does not owe the state anything if she has a preschool child or three minor children. Not all housewives were sympathetic to this government initiative and refuse to consider themselves parasites.

In Belarus, a number of works are allowed to be performed without registering an individual entrepreneurship. Such activities are subject to a flat tax, and since a non-parasite must work six months a year, it is more profitable for women to pay this tax than to file for “idleness.”

Now housewives go to work for their husbands as housekeepers, cleaners, cooks or tutors for their own children. They say that there have already been cases where wives were listed as family car washers or domestic cat trainers.