After years of working in the Washington, DC area as a professor and then as the Director of Human Resources for a major company, Anna Alden-Tirrill swapped the headache of that commute and lifestyle for a work-from-home situation. The flexibility of working from home gave her the balance in her professional and personal life that she had been missing.

Happy to leave the daily rat race and long commute, Anna worked as a telecommuter, a freelancer, and an independent contractor, on-site and off-site, part-time and full-time, long-term and temporary. She has worked from home in a long list of areas including journalism, copy editing, desktop publishing, medical transcription, proofreading, blogging, customer service, sales, writing, virtual assistance, etc. Now, among her other projects, she is helping other people to find work-from-home job opportunities at her website freelancersoasis.com .