OK – so only about 2500 people in the world can pronounce the name of the volcano that had the entire globe at a near-standstill for travel in the skies. If you had been among those stranded how would your home based small business have fared?Let’s say you’re on a business trip, you’ve got a sitter with the kids at home, you’ve taken your mate with you and you’re supposed to be home Saturday. That leaves Sunday to recuperate and Monday to start a very busy at home based business week. Instead, along comes Eyjafjallajokull, spewing ash into the skies covering half of Europe and grounding planes all over the world for days.All of a sudden you’re faced with spending an extra 5 days waiting for dust to settle. No way you’ll be home before Thursday. So you faced with additional expenses:
five days more lodging,
five days more food,
five days more transportation — unless you’d rather wait those five days on a cot with 10,000 of your closest friends with zero privacy, zero quiet, and almost zero cleanliness.Add to that the cost of the sitter for your kids — assuming you could find someone who could have stayed with them longer.The point is, if you have a JOB — it would be tough. But if you have set up a system to earn extra money from home to go with that jo