The words, ‘Work from Home, Part Time,’ have become such an overly used buzz term these days. Many people who hear that phrase nowadays immediately put their guard up and assume that the information being advertised must be some get rich quick scheme aimed at not helping you earn more money, but taking their money instead. This is a good form of intellectual evolution on society’s part. You, as a wise human being should be on your guard. There are many people who thrive, and become rich on people they can take advantage of. Chances are you could open up your junk-mail folder in your email box right now and find a handful of messages making their attempts at enticing you into giving the mystery writer money, so that in return he will show you a super, secret methodology of generating huge amounts of income. This method is so secret, you of course were the only one privileged enough to receive this most generous offer. After getting barraged so many times by these rip offs, and possibly even becoming victim to a few, it’s easy to become discouraged or think simply that it’s impossible to conduct business and earn money from home. But, believe it or not, there are legitimate ways of actually working full, part or spare time at home that can generate income.
I do however hope I won’t disappoint you in saying that the ways that you can actually work at home is not going to be simply starting zombie faced at your computer screen playing solitaire. If you don’t want to get scammed, and you do actually want to make some money, you’re going to actually need to buckle down and work for it. I will use eBay as an example because it is widely known the opportunity eBay brings.
EBay, upon its inception brought something completely new to the table. If you had something to sell, conventionally you had to hunt down a buyer, negotiate price and make the sale. Now, you have access to a very unconventional means of selling products. Whether they are things you pulled out of your garage, or a product you make. People are out there hunting and looking for your product through this portal. Now where people fall short many times on eBay is by not looking beyond a couple of days. More often times than not, when people are going to use the online auction house to generate themselves extra income, they hear the opportunity and dive in head first without looking too far ahead and noticing potential pitfalls. Sure we can all think of a few things we have sitting around somewhere in our house, that is no doubt dust covered that we could put up and sell on eBay. Good first step. What about after you sell the one thing you thought of? You now need another item to sell. After that you will then need another, and another, and another. You only have so many trinkets and gizmo’s hidden away in the dark corners of your basement that you can display for the world to bid on. At some point you’re going to need to source more products for you to sell. And this is when people fall on their face, and there, ‘work part time from home,’ turned into, ‘work part time from home and clean out your basement.’ It isn’t a very workable or profitable long term business model.
However lengthy that explanation was I wanted to make the point that somehow over time, the term work from home started translating in people’s heads as ‘make easy money without doing much.’ This is simply not the case. The term still has the one little golden gem in it that people seem to miss. That little gem is the word ‘work‘. There are many people who make very good incomes with eBay. But they have also put a lot of work into it, to obtain items that are profitable. They may have needed to research and find a drop shipper or possibly multiple drop shippers. They may have negotiated their own pricing. Or some of the really big go getters have probably made contacts in China, or Japan to get their items directly from the manufacturer. My Point being: is that generating a worthwhile income from your home is definitely not always simple, nor is it usually easy, and straightforward.
Let me go over a few ways that can get your creative juices flowing and hopefully help you find or think of a great way for you to actually work in the comfort of your house as much or as little as you want. If you are looking at working from home, but are ok with not being your own boss, telecommuting could be a good fit. Check out online job boards such as craigslist. Upon writing this, I quickly looked and was able to find a technology company offering $16 an hour. There are also a few companies that hire customer service representatives to work from their house. One such company is liveops.com or there is also the company, workingsolutions.com. From what I’ve heard, you can expect about $15 an hour from liveops.
If you already have a job, is it a possibility to do it from home? The biggest reason why there aren’t more people working from home is simply productivity. Employers are worried that once an employee is working from home, they will become less productive and too distracted with the luxuries of home such as a refrigerator nearby, or the TV remote. Prove to your boss that you have the self control and motivation to do carry your work load from home, and there is a good possibility your only commute for the day could be from your bedroom to your den. If you would like a new job that allows you to work from home, there is a good resource called WAHM.com. It is a great place to look and find legitimate opportunities to do your business from home.
Depending on your skills, there are many different ways and opportunities to work freelance. This would allow you to set your own hours and work at your own pace. Finding work isn’t that difficult if you know where to look. There are many places to find freelance jobs online in graphic design or programming, content creation and other areas. A few places include: Elance.com, FindAFreelancer.com, SitePoint.com, DigitalPoint.com…etc. It may also be beneficial to look again at places like Craigslist if you’d rather deal face to face with someone. If you are into work types such as photography, connecting with people who are looking to hire for a family portrait, people who want to break into modeling but need portfolio shots. Looking on local online bulletin boards would be very beneficial. You can use these types of websites to find more ‘freelance’ type jobs for just about anything you’d be surprised at what you can actually do from your home and make a decent and sometimes great income from it may just take some time and thought to find what works for you.
Look at what you have, right in front of you, skills, knowledge, everything that makes up the person that is you. How can you take all of that and mold it into an opportunity for you to help yourself out financially. Getting caught up trying to find a ‘system’ that makes big promises about making huge amounts of money will more than likely leave you feeling taken advantage of. Instead, work on what you already know and have. If you need to go out and fine tune those skills and abilities a bit, but spending money on buying an instructional book on how to program PHP isn’t the same as spending money, buying a “bullet proof system to make you filthy rich.”
Be wise in choosing which route you want to go, and don’t get sucked into something that sounds too good to be true. Put actual thought into it, plan out your attack and if you need to spend money, only spend it on things that will directly benefit your plan. Books, instructional DVDs, advertisements for your services… These are worthwhile things that can actually make the age old dream of working from home come true. You just need to be smart about it because the opportunities are there.
I’d like to point out that with a little Google search knowledge you can use Google alerts to help you find jobs also, it will automatically send an email when it finds a match. If you use opearator tags you can poll Craigslist with a tag such as this…
“wriitng” OR “write” OR “writer” -serv site:craigslist.org
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