I have been a Watkins rep for over five years and recommend it to you. You can reply privately to get some info to look over.
That's a fact. Fox News ran a segment on this yesterday afternoon. The clearest advice given was don't accept any requirement that you pay for background checks or other services that may be required. You shouldn't have to pay for anything.
In fact, they flatly said most work-at-home offers were scams. So be careful, and good luck!
My sister is a legal scopist...she transcribes court reporter notes from home. I think if you look online you can find home study courses for this. She does okay, although not great. She brings in about $1,000 a month.
If you’re a good typist, a LOT of professional people hire people to do their typing and paperwork. I worked a spring and summer doing that from home a couple of years ago, made some money, met some good people when I did have to visit the office.
Good luck to you whatever you find!
None are reputable. Starting a home-based business is the only way to go - but requires initial investment on your part to get through even the minimal start-up.
Have a friend who does scheduling at home for traveling nurses/home care, making sure there is always someone to cover appointments. She is on a beeper sometimes and a computer with internet is a must, but she home schools and job works out great for her.
You may wish to check around at home health/senior care agencies.
Give it a thought.
If you can design and build webpages that is something you can do from home, although it sometimes takes a bit of time before the money starts coming in... and you need to build a bunch of them.
I can give you a book on the subject if you like, FReepmail me and I’ll send you a book that gives you the scoop.
I can also help with advice as I do this myself for supplemental income. I could probably support myself from it if I had to, but it would take a bit of time to get rolling... but once rolling, it’s an ‘auto-pilot’ type of business.
Good luck with whatever you do and be careful of the scamsters.
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Maybe you could tutor students in subjects you’re good at?
There are also opportunities for customer service work. I heard somewhere that Jet Blue hired people to book reservations from their home. You take the calls at home and make the reservation. That was some time ago--I'm not sure if Jet Blue even exists anymore.
What is your field of knowledge? Depending on the area, private consultancy is becoming big. I would suggest grabbing the book “Free Agent Nation”.
Be very, very, very cautious of most work at home offers. Unless you are buying a franchise, you should never have to pay money to work for someone. Avoid Multi-Level-Marketing offers. Most of these have the primary business case of making money based on ‘failure’, ie, they make most of their revenue from people buying in but never reaching the threshold to pay them commission. Very few actually have decent products and base their business on selling those (Avon and Mary Kay are few that have business models based around their actual product.)
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Some areas where you may be able to find freelance work would be editing, technical writing, proofreading, etc. Google freelancer websites.
What kind of skills do you have?
I imagine a lot of Freepers will be starting businesses and could use various skilled other Freepers.
We should start a jobs board where we hire each other!
Why bother? Isn’t Obama going to pay all our bills?