If you are educated and skilled in a particular area, you might try this home business idea: consulting. If you have the credentials to help others in a specific area, you can do a little consulting as part of your home business. Or even as the sole purpose of your home business.

I started thinking of this when I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal about SAHMs and how they are being tapped by the corporate world now:

The decision among some highly educated women to stay home with children is sparking a countertrend: The rise of the mommy "SWAT team." The acronym, for "smart women with available time," is one mother's label for all-mom teams assembled quickly through networking and staffing firms to handle crash projects. Employers get lots of voltage, cheap, while the women get a skills update and a taste of the professional challenges they miss.

I thought this was really cool. And it made me think: If many of these women are so qualified, what's to keep them from making more as consultants?