I couple of months ago, I wrote about how my work from home job is, in fact, an actual job. Kelly’s post today on having a home business and marital stress brought it back to me. I can relate. When I first started working from home, my husband didn’t realize that how much money was beginning to make. I thought of the whole freelance writing thing as a "hobby."

Now he knows better. But he still has the same problems Kelly’s husband has: When he has a day off, he expects me to be able to drop everything. He also gives me a hard time about how much time I spend on the computer. "You spend a lot of time on the computer," he says. (I spend 4-5 hours a day working on the computer.) "That’s like those people who are addicted to it."

He seems to have trouble wrapping his head around the fact that I work when I’m on the computer. I’m not surfing around looking at stuff for fun. And when he asks me to buy something online, and I put it off til later, he freaks out. "What have you been doing on the computer all this time, if you’re only just getting around to ordering (fill in the blank)!"

Um, working.

It’s a completely different outlook on work, and one that requires one to step back and rethink the traditional concept of work. Because a work from home job is a job. And it has its own set of challenge that are completely different from going to the office.