Serious home work

The words home office can conjure up an image of someone tucked in a corner near the kitchen table, where they handle a few things they didn't get to at their "real" office. But a career coach friend recently told me how his wife, working from home, handles multi-million-dollar book publishing projects and said he knows someone who works from home who makes about a million dollars a year.

In other words, the home office is serious business. There are many resources available to you, many on this list. There's this AllBusiness.com assessment of when to consider moving your home work to a "real" office. If you like working at home, though, there's no harm in making a serious business of it.