There are, however, a few things you need to consider when starting that “dream job”.

1. Children will always bother you. If you need a quite minute to get work accomplished, expect to be up either really early, or really late. It’s like the telephone syndrome, everyone is happy and quiet until you are on the phone and then all hell breaks loose…If you have a major project with a deadline, children will naturally have the inability to be quiet.

2. The working day is far beyond eight hours. With every little interruption, the glass of water, the trip to the park, breakfast, lunch, dinner, the housework – all those daily “mom” jobs all need to be intermixed during YOUR work time. Expect a 16 hour day, but you’re only getting 4hrs of real work accomplished, maybe…

3. When you are working really smoothly and the children are quiet and good…expect a disaster. Motto: If you can’t hear them, something bad is happening.

4. Everyone will assume you have it easy. Why shouldn’t they? YOU get to stay at home; there is a luxury in there…somewhere. Do they realize your working, watching the children AND keeping up with the house? While they are off at work, there is nobody IN their house!

5. When you isolate yourself to work after your husband comes home, expect some resentment. Husbands are funny…when they come home not only do they want to see their spouse, but you are still required in “mom” mode. If you’re absent that means he needs to change a dirty diaper…by himself… Poor thing, he’s been at work all day and needs a rest – note the sarcasm.

Now don’t get me wrong there is joy in the ability to work from home, did I mention the pajama’s? Just keep in mind that it may not be all it’s cracked up to be sometimes.

This post originally appeared in the CTY Mean Business Blog