Are there..

toranokaze • Nov 30, 2007 4:28 pm

Are there any work at home job that aren't scams?

classicman • Nov 30, 2007 4:32 pm

yeah - sales & phone sex.

LJ • Nov 30, 2007 5:11 pm

housewife?

toranokaze • Nov 30, 2007 5:18 pm

Is it really a job if you don't get paid for it?

slang • Nov 30, 2007 10:13 pm

toranokaze;412239 wrote:
Are there any work at home job that aren't scams?

I know a handful of people making money from home but they are not jobs. A job is completely different than working your own business.

If you are talking about over the net jobs, I would suggest looking for a small business that you can run instead. IMO online or work from home jobs are very rare.

Maybe someone will have some better info for you.

Clodfobble • Nov 30, 2007 11:32 pm

I know several people that work from home (including myself,) but they were all regular employees first, who made themselves so indispensible that when they decided to stop working their workplaces were willing to compromise in order to keep them at the company in whatever capacity possible.

I also knew a guy who did tech support from home--it was set up just like a phone sex line, actually, the company had a main number that got routed to his (or some other tech's) house during his "on" hours.

jinx • Nov 30, 2007 11:37 pm

A lot of answering services work like that too.

xoxoxoBruce • Nov 30, 2007 11:48 pm

That worked for Mary Tyler Moore.

Cloud • Dec 1, 2007 1:12 pm

Here's a list I came upon in a recent magazine. The article's thrust was making extra cash while you are working at your "real" office job. Can't vouch for any of these, but worth a look.

[COLOR="Blue"]Virtual juror.[/COLOR] ejury.com; onlineverdict.com

[COLOR="blue"]Make your own t-shirt design [/COLOR](or whatever) and sell it through cafepress.com or zazzle.com

[COLOR="blue"]Audio transcriber;[/COLOR] productiontranscripts.com; tigerfish.com; contractedwork.com

[COLOR="blue"]personal assistant;[/COLOR] redbutler.com or start your own

[COLOR="blue"]quality assurance specialist;[/COLOR] voicelog.com

smoothmoniker • Dec 4, 2007 12:03 am

Sensual massage therapist?

Oh, you meant you wanted to work from YOUR home, not mine?

lookout123 • Dec 4, 2007 12:23 am

ah, welcome back SM.

back on topic. i work from home most of the time. but i had to spend my time in the trenches of a company before i could open my own financial planning practice.

Mockingbird • Dec 4, 2007 3:03 am

Cloud;412384 wrote:

[COLOR="blue"]personal assistant;[/COLOR] redbutler.com or start your own

Actually, those rates aren't bad and that's stuff I need to do but suck at.

$40 isn't a huge sacrifice to try it out.

Cloud • Dec 4, 2007 9:54 am

let us know if you try it

toranokaze • Dec 7, 2007 2:28 pm

I have been poking around a getafreelancer.com