My name is Tina. I live in Sacramento with my husband Rob. Our family just got bigger six months ago when our baby girl Jane was born. I am currently on a maternity leave while my husband Rob is busy at work. The days may seem like ages when you are at home on a regular basis. Sleeping is not what I do while my baby, Jane is asleep. I keep myself busy online. I have even started a mommy’s blog! Internet marketing and search engine optimization are new things I am learning online. I plan to stay at home if I can make enough money by working at home.
I am taking part in forums such as digitalpoint.com discussing ways to improve my blog’s ranking and traffic. I make new connections with people like myself, who are stay at home moms and dads. I am hoping that one day I can learn enough to advise my husband on how to optimize his company’s website.
In my line of work, you have to have efficient tools and have a high-speed Internet connection to do the work that needs to be done. This is mainly because of the web 2.0 technology that has made huge advancements. Some interactive sites just will not work on slow connections. If I plan to continue learning and become a work at home businessperson, I need high speed Internet that is reliable.
Our older son Jimmy is now 14. He is not as active as we would like him to be. You will not see him playing baseball, but you can be sure that he is at home surfing the net, making new friends through Facebook, Bebo, or Myspace or more often playing online games. He has his favorite games to play and needs a high speed Internet to enjoy the graphics and animations.
Rob also uses the home high-speed Internet. When he is at home you will see him with a laptop looking for music downloads, movies, streaming multimedia content, searching the net for health related information, or having long Skype calls with his business partners all over the world.
Overall, TV is still a way to entertain ourselves. We are people with different tastes. I like dramas and reality shows. Our son is fond of music channels. While every one is away, Jane and I often tune into The Learning Channel, which is an educational kids channel. Because of the digital TV change coming in February 2009, we need to have digital TV or we will not have this luxury in our home unless we buy a converter box for our relatively new analog TV.
I have a sister in South Carolina. She happens to be self-employed and works from home. We call each other quite often on the telephone. As two women with toddlers, we do have many things to tell to each other. Because we all use the telephone, Internet and the television, we were looking for something that might combine all these things together and save some money.
