Posted on 07/02/2017 10:58:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ryan Heenan used to make $30,000 a year as a preschool music teacher. Now he makes $30,000 a month producing jingles and videos through a website caller Fiverr -- and he does so from the comfort of his home in Orange County, California.
Heenan is part of an explosion in home-based work opportunities occurring thanks to the Internet. Consumer reporters such as myself used to struggle to offer people legitimate work-at-home options. In fact, most of our stories on the subject were about work-at-home scams. But now there are all sorts of solid opportunities to make a living in your pajamas.
Websites that connect workers with clients are the game-changer. For example, on Fiverr, Heenan's venue of choice, freelancers list their services -- many starting at just $5 -- for companies to browse. On FlexJobs, companies list jobs for freelancers to consider.
FlexJobs charges a monthly fee of $15 for membership, or $50 for a year. Fiverr takes a 20 percent commission on earnings. Both sites cater to a wide variety of professionals, but Fiverr seems to attract creatives such as graphic designers, writers and videographers. FlexJobs' list of categories includes more technical options, such as accounting, project management and engineering.....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyherald.com ...
Hmmm.
I set up an account months ago and forgot about it.
It seemed like I filled out everything.
I’d like to do more with my old TV production stuff than stock submissions and saw Fivrr as one way.
I’ll look into Flex.
Thanks for posting.
For later reading and thanks for posting!
“My main hurdle is the necessary internet access. I live in a remote area where I’m not near regular internet. I have to save enough from my $10-an-hour Home Depot job to install a satellite dish, and commit to an expensive contract. That’s a major gamble for me.”
There is a fascinating book you can get from the library; “The Millionaire Next Door.” America has thousands of millionaires, most living in modest homes in ordinary neighborhoods. The author interviewed a representative sample and they have much in common.
Read the book. Then, given the circumstances you described, pen a plan that involves what you do have available. Working at the Home Depot is a huge advantage as most of the millionaires are self made and many started in a menial job. The poorly dressed guy* you see weekly buying plumbing supplies who owns his own business is a good place to start. You might begin moonlighting with him to learn the ins-and-outs of his trade and gain customer and supplier contacts.
* The book reveals that many of the millionaires appear much less wealthy because they only spend their money on things that truly matter. For example, on average, their cars are 10 years old. It’s an eye opening book. Try it.
Best of luck.
Gen.
bkmrk for later
Another one?
I must be a millionaire. None of my cars are less than ten years old and almost all are defunct brands. At one time, we owned four Pontiac’s and a Mercury.
Mercury got wrecked and replaced by a chevy.
Perhapz if I get really hard up.
Bookmark
Problem:
When I was working in my office downstairs I was aware of the children upstairs and all the tasks that needed to be done there.
When I was upstairs I felt the tug of all the things that needed to be done in the office.
bookmark
P4L
Good headhunters charge between 30-35% and they earn every penny because they deliver where others could not. So 20% is not “usury” as you put it.
Good headhunters charge between 30-35% and they earn every penny because they deliver where others could not. So 20% is not “usury” as you put it.
Personal observations from making a living this way:
* Pay for tasks that can be done remotely by almost anyone with the skills is causing pay rates to decline. Someone in India can make a living being paid a tenth that of an American and are.
* Stay at home mothers, retirees, extra income earners can do this for extra money but it is unlikely you’ll make minimum wage unless you have the right credentials/expertise. Translation work, transcription of audio, writing as a documented subject matter expert are still above that threshold.
In the gig economy, like what these websites represent, the headhunters fee isn’t a one time commission for finding a qualitied salaried employee like a normal headhunters fee, it’s a kickback for using the site unconnected to the value of the service actually provided (being a classified ad host).
My point isn’t so much that headhunter services are useless. They should be useless these days, but they are theoretically filling a market need. The point I was trying to make is that with these sites, a person’s skilled labor is being chomped on several times, and the real value of the labor isn’t being realized by the laborer and the real cost of the labor is inflated for the buyer. I hate thinking of a future where that is the norm. Technology should be eliminating middle men, not entrenching them.
It is the reason people take vacations when they have a perfectly nice home. When you are home all the chores yell at you until they are done.
You have to learn that when you shut the door on the office that you are leaving "work" and leave it there.
When you open door to go into your office you are at "work" and nothing else matters unless the house is on fire.
It actually helps to set up your office outside of your home but it is mostly a mental trick that some people can do and some people can not.
Oddly enough being home schooled seems to help develop this skill as you are accustomed to setting your own goals and working at them while ignoring all other distractions.
bump
Good point.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.