For Stay at Home Moms, Online College Courses Are a Path to Success

For a vast majority of stay at home mothers (or fathers) who are in the lower income bracket, finding a job is something that cannot be done. The prices of daycare are high, gas prices are soaring, and for many mothers the cost of having a starting wage job outweighs the alternative of staying home. In fact most mothers I know prefer to stay at home with their children anyway, so this is where the benefits of online college are paving the way to higher paying careers for stay at home mothers.

For a very long time I have been a stay at home mother, eight years to be exact. Many of these years I have wondered what I will do with my life when the kids are all in school and I actually have an opportunity to work. Throughout the past years of financial struggles I have tried just about every home based business and none of those made me rich like they promised. I tried working as a cashier on an opposite shift from my husband. I don't recommend the opposite shift thing because that was a disaster, I was always exhausted from staying up till three in the morning then getting up with three children at six. Another thing that I attempted was doing some house cleaning on my own and this didn't work out due to the fact that I still had to pay daycare costs.

As you probably already know a lot of stay at home mothers feel stuck. Most colleges now offer a large variety of online courses that enable you to take your classes from home. Granted some of them require the tests to be taken at a proctored test site, but that is only a couple hours compared to traveling back and forth to classes. This opportunity offers us stay at home moms a chance to have a career of our choice when we finally enter the work world.

I will be starting my second year of college this fall and I am extremely proud of myself for accomplishing the first year. Yes, it was tough to make the time around my already busy schedule to study, but knowing that I am that much closer to my journalism degree is all I need to keep going.