Celebrating the Work-from-Home Lifestyle
Do you know what day it is?
If you have a traditional job, you’re probably thinking, "Yeah, it’s Monday. Big deal. It comes around every week about this time."
But if you’re one of the many people who work from home, today is your day! Today is the sixth annual Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day, a time to celebrate the freedom offered by home business ownership. If you don’t believe me, go to http://www.businessinyourbathrobeday.com and see for yourself! While you’re there, you can even enter a contest for some really great prizes, including – you guessed it! – a bathrobe. I actually found out about Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day from Red Deer College’s Virtual Assistant Program who also held a contest, which closed yesterday.
Some home-based business owners, when hearing about Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day, laughed and said every day is Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day! Yet others expressed concerns about creating a negative, unprofessional image. After all, there are people who teach that to be successful, you should dress the same as if you were going out to a corporate office every day. There may be some people who need to do that in order to apply themselves to their work, but I suspect that how they dress is not going to make or break the deal! Personally, I am happy to dress slightly more casually than I would if I were going out to work, but I love the fact that I can drink my morning coffee and check my emails before getting showered and dressed for the day – and that is the type of freedom that Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day is all about!
