We're at-home mommies with amazing skills and talents: Not idiots

This should not come as a shock to anyone who reads this: I'm a mommy blogger.

I write to maintain some sense of creativity and individuality while I stay home with my kids. Just because I made the choice to stay home, along with the support of my very loving, doting, and amazing husband, doesn't mean I'm a brainless idiot who will jump any chance to make a little money.

My kids are old enough now that entertaining the idea of working again isnt' all that scary. I still have until fall of 2010 before my youngest is in Kindergarten, but still: I'm a pretty smart cookie and am pretty sure I'm competent enough to work from home. Heck, I was working from home before I was pregnant with my first, and I had a boss who swore I was more productive when I dialed in than when I showed my pretty face in the office.

I had to be: I wanted to work from home! The last few weeks of my pregnancy with baby number 1, guess what? I worked from home at least half of the time. And I was able to get more done too.

Go figure.

I was just visiting a site I'd never heard of before: Momforce.comI'm frequently looking for good places that list jobs for moms... especially positions open to telecommuters. But the really irritating part about most of the "opportunities" that accept telecommuters for writing, marketing, or editing assignments (which is what I'm most interested in) is that they're few and far between and more often than not, have no affiliation with an actual business. They're usually commission based positions that are very vague with their descriptions.

For instance:

Work from home, kids by your side. Have more time for those personal interests and the time to enjoy them. Improve your families quality of life. Enjoy the teamwork and coaching from successful women who are already living their dreams.

Yeah, here's what this means: Our grammar is horrible and we're hoping you won't notice that the only thing we're doing in this ad is trying to sell a life that may or may not be attainable to you.

You'll be partnered with an International manufacturing company that has become the Premier Wellness Company in the world today. The Wellness Industry is exploding with opportunity and according to experts an estimated one trillion dollars of the North American economy will be devoted to the Wellness Industry annually within the next 5 years. We are at the forefront of this growth; The right place - at the right time. I can help you set yourself up for life - while you help us share the answers families need to improve their quality of life.

Translation: You will be selling products - and you will need several thousands of dollars worth of inventory that you will first attempt to sell to your friends and family and once you've practiced your sales pitch on people who absolutely can't tell you no, then hopefully you will have a collection of other potential customers, who hopeflly don't already know some who is currently selling for the same company.

We are really about two things - Your Health and Financial Wellness. Which could you live without? Which could you use some help with? What about everyone else out there? The market potential is endless, as EVERYBODY wants Wealth and Wellness and the time freedom to enjoy both!

What we really mean here is that if you've read this much, we still haven't told you who we are, what we do, and what we need from you. We're mostly hoping we grabbed your attention and that you haven't been jaded by enough of these misleading types of ads that promise more than they actual are capable of delivering. And, if we've managed all of that, we know you'll contact us.

But, we're smarter than that. We can see through the fluffy text and empty promises.

Most of us mommies at home left good jobs making a healthy salary. And most of us can organize, schedule, delegate, and complete tasks better now than we ever could. There's something about spending a significant amount of time time home alone with children younger than 5 AND we've figured out how to get the house clean and shiny while changing diapers, wiping noses, kissing boo-boos and supervising play dates.

As the children have grown, the day-to-day tasks and chores have become easier to manage and many of us are chomping at the bit to modestly re-enter the workforce. I would hazard to guess that many of us can manage our time better than most of the nine-to-fivers who spend more time than you realize checking email, updating facebooks, taking a smoke break, or staying up to date with the latest celebrity gossip.

So trust me: you want to hire us. We're skilled in ways many of your traditional employees can only dream of being. And we have much to effectively offer the workforce. All from the comfort of our own homes.