Glazed thoughts

The decision to step out of the working world and become a work at home mom is a big one. But one of the many advantages is that it gives you a chance to reevaluate what you do for a living and use this big life change to start a new career doing something you love. There is one undiscovered gem job that works perfectly for a work at home mom and that is shopping for a living. But to the people who are employing you, they would call it “mystery shopping”.

A mystery shopper is essentially a spy. The job is relatively easy to understand. Your employer will contract with you to go to a location and shop for a specified product or service. The point is not the shopping or the buying. The point is the information you will gain which is valuable to your employer because it is great corporate intelligence on what the competition is doing.

Many times a retailer will hire a mystery shopper to go to a store with a set budget and buy specific items using funds provided by the employer. In some cases, you are permitted to keep the items you shop for as part of your compensation. But in most cases, you deliver the products to the employer along with your receipt and an evaluation sheet with questions about your foray into the world of mystery shopping