Organizing Your Business Around Another Job
December 20, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Many people with small or home businesses work at them around another job. They may have a full or parttime job working for someone else. How do they combine the two efficiently and productively?
- Set down a business plan for your business.
- Decide how you can get it started parttime, utilizing the hours when you’re not at another job.
- If it’s an online business, it’s much easier to juggle your activities, fitting your business into the time slots you’re not at your “away” job.
- If you’ve opened a business in your home, decide what hours you’ll be open…in other words, when you’re not away from home, and try to stick to them.
- See if anyone in your family will help you with tasks that must be done while you’re away.
I have two parttime jobs away from home, and the schedules for these are constantly changing from week to week. With one of them, I’m on call, so don’t always know when I’ll be working there. My writing/blogging business is online, so my writing times can be fairly flexible. I also help my husband with his online business and fit these hours between my other work. It requires much juggling of time and family commitments, too. However, life is never boring!
What suggestions do you have for juggling a business and another job?