My determination to spend time with my daughter more

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I have a wonderful daughter that is 6 years old and I have been a single mom for the whole 6 years. I seperated from my ex husband when she was 2 months old when I found out that he had been living a double life (sort of).I was one of those career women that spent her life at work before she was born. After she was born I decided that to survive being a single mom I would have to stay on the 60 hour work week because of the bills he so generously left behind. Before she was born we had decided that I was going to take the first year off to be with her becuase she had complications when she was born. After her first year I got tired of missing her first's she was having. I was so lucky that I had the support of my grandmother, who thinks I can do anything that I put my mind to. One day myt grandmother made a statement that struck a chord and made me start thinking. She said that it would be great if i could work from home. I had been so busy I never had time to think of a career change. I would think about it and if I ended up having an extra 5 minutes of so I would look at the internet and get disgusted because of all of the work at home scams out there. I was smart enough to know it was a scam before they could scam me. I kind of stopped thinking about it and thought that work at home was a dream that would never happen. I soon got offered a job with a smaller company and thought that it sounded like I would have more time with my daughter so I took it. That move was a big mistake. I ended up working even more hours some weeks. I was so fustrated and realized that 5 years had passed since my daughter was born and I had not had the time with her that I had wanted. I did something bold, one day at work my boss canceled my upcoming vacation that I had planned to be with my daughter for a week with no interuption before she started school. After pleading my case, he still wanted me to be there to work a what would possibly have been a 80 hour week. I gave him my keys to the building and told him that he was my wake up call and I realized that I had to make a change for my daughter and I walked out with a smile. I have since done more research on work at home and I am better for it. I clean houses during the week and still can pick up my daughter from school. I do some typing work for a friend and keep my neighbor's lawn manicured to perfection. I also do things on the internet to make money. My daughter is so happy that I have made changes. She gets to see me more and I get to help her with her studies every afternoon. It is a life that I would not trade for anything. Sure it is hard but well worth the pains.