Any Legit Work From Home Jobs??

I work full time but would like a part time work from home job. So many of them are bogus or just want you to pay for a pamphlet that instructs you in how to set up your own home business.

I really would like to do data entry, customer service, anything like that using my computer from my home.

Any ideas?

You need to hook up with one of our members, Sher...she has a full-time site where you can find WFH jobs, legit ones. Quite honestly though, I'm not sure if this site is HERS still, or of someone else owns it, but it would still help you, I think.

http://www.momandhermoney.com/Index.html

Most work from home jobs are multi-level marketing (MLM) jobs. Sometimes these are called direct sales or network marketing, but the concept is the same. You are selling directly to consumers and you get a portion of what they purchase. Additionally, you look for people who also want to sell your products and you get a portion of what they sell, etc. Examples of these are MonoVie, Melaleuca (I'm a rep for this company), Your Travel Business, etc. There's good companies with good products and many are legit. I've heard that if you can get in during the first five years of a company's start that that's where the best money is made.

Many women do medical transcription from home, but without experience, training is needed, and it's not easy to get a foot in the door. Many companies are requiring not only training these days, but that you become certified. I did it for seven years, and it's definitely legit (although, as with everything, I'm sure there are many that aren't legit). There's also the problem of a lot of the MT work being outsourced to other countries for -- you guessed it -- much lower costs (slave labor).

It's also time intensive, as it is production-based pay. You get paid for how much you produce, and therefore, the tendency to overwork is great.

Thanks, all good advice. I've taken medical transcription and medical terminology and passed. I'm not certified but probably wouldn't take that much to get certification.

I'm no good at sales. Tried Mary Kay and lost my patoot. Tried selling Shaklee and really believed in it..but still no deal.

I type great and love the computer and am focused so I'll look into all the suggestions. Thanks again.

I need your advice, please. I work from home as a solutions facilitor and concierge service for caregivers. What I do is rewarding but doesn't give me that extra spark inside.

Traveling to bed and breakfasts throughout the United States and offering afternoon tea, massage and friendly chatting for women caregivers would certainly start my creative mind working.

What does a women caregiver think when they want time away from responsibilities? What changes need to made in this idea and how does one market it?

Do any of you have the strengths I am missing and would like to join me in this venture? If you are already working,this can be just a side venture for now.

If corporate sponsors were brought into this, who knows where we can go with it. First, does anyone think this is a good enough idea for participation?

Phyllis, I have more than I can say grace over for now, but I think the concept is interesting. But...I've never really understood how it works, completely.

Could you explain the entire concept?

You say you would like to get B&B's across the US to give women different things. Have you contracted these B&B's and have they agreed to do so? Who would pay for it? How would you decide a person is eligible to receive this?

I would be very interested in knowing the nuts and bolts of it all. Maybe someone looking for a venture like this would be reading this and join in???

Phyllis, sounds like a great idea to me. You know there are adult daycare centers also.

But a mother's day out or a caregiver's day out wouldn't be that much different. A massage sounds nice, or a movie and a meal, someone to sit with the loved one while the caregiver is escorted to a fine restaurant with flowers and a glass of wine maybe.

A night at the theatre, a day at the flea market, car detailing, grocery shopping, errand running, nails and hair, pedicure and massage, so many fine treats to offer.

Queenjawjaw:

It has taken time to put the thoughts together. Please review my website since it has just been changed. Visit: http://www.eldercareconcierge.net.

The Wren's Nest Bed and Breakfast, near me, will host my first event: Afternoon Tea, followed by a workshop around their fireplace. Finish the afternoon off with a massage. All in a warm and friendly atmosphere.

The cost is private pay for now. If any companies would like to sponsor 10 women down the road, great. I really don't want to lose the excitment that I feel waiting for this to happen.

Sure it would be great to raffle off a gift basket with goodies such as Rick and June's hot flash products. Add my book in the basket, flyer of restaurants and shopping in the area and tie it up in a pretty bow. Just a dream for now unless someone wants to make this a business of theirs.

Networking means pulling ideas and skills together and make a good idea work. What do you think? Can anyone see a job for themself here?

New Leaf:

Love the ideas but would you like to help with these idea? Let's talk more.

Add on:

What energizes me is when there are ideas that can be molded in to what others can benefit from.

I see possible jobs, someone to call companies to sell this project for their employees and clients, creating the baskets, booking the events at different locations throughout the U.S. just to start with.

Get your thinking caps on and see if everyone interested can make some money doing what they do best.

Phyllis, I've had a dream for a long time. I used to own my own home daycare. As part of that I studied other daycares and accepted children in my home from daycare institutions. I observed the children from homes, from daycare facilities and compared the well being and social development of both types of situations.

What I found was the ones from daycare facilities seemed to be more socially mature and developed than the ones from homes. The ones from homes clung to their parents and threw a fit when the parents left while the ones from daycare facilities jumped right in and participated in all the activities being helpful and the like.

I designed a daycare facility that was like the Holiday Inn Holidome but on a much smaller scale, with an open atrium in the middle accessible from each "family" room.

Each room would be a mixture of various age groups of children, babies up to 5 yr. olds with volunteer "grandparents" visiting each family.

There would be both a male and a female as teachers and caregivers. There would be a nurse and a sick room on duty as needed.

Each family would have a name. The Brown family, the Green family, etc. Each child would have their own cubby with things from home and photos of parents and siblings.

There is a lot more down to how much the workers would earn and how much would be needed to keep the business afloat and profitable.

I just don't have the capital and the encouragement to get it started.

Legit jobs from home - Ebay and half.com. Sell your junk and books. There's no money in having them collect dust or rotting in boxes or the closet. Of course, the older the better. Don't worry about what you paid for it...get what you can and clean your house up at the same time.

chick

NL,
Your Day Care sounds wonderful...I hope you find the capitol!

Phyllis
I visted your site, but it says it is under construction. I would love to see it, so could you please post when it is up and running?

For anyone checking my website and it said "unconstruction" that is because I was making changes.

Try again: http://www.eldercareconcierge.net

Talk with you soon.

Someone sent me a private message but it comes from this site and can not be resent to the sender. So here I am! One of you has a friend who is going to have a caregiver convention. Please send me her email address. I am interested in knowing more.

It is important for me to learn how other peers tackle the problems of aging parents. What questions do they ask to get the conversation started with them. I have my technique but what are theirs. Not to critize but learn.

Newleaf and others, I came across this while reading abc news.com and it looks like it could be an opportunity to work from home. I thought I'd share it here.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/PersonalBest/story?id=2743602&page=1

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TakeControlOfYourLife/story?id=2621388&page=1

I'm going to check out this one because I love to research

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TakeControlOfYourLife/story?id=2516129&page=1

chick

My employer is an office product manufacturer I and work from home, as do many others. There are many manufacturer's rep types of jobs in many other industries. Look in a retail store, such as Home Depot, Lowes, Office Superstores and the people who represent those products usually work from home.

Hello New Leaf:

All great ideas...you may also want to consider being a VA (a Virtual Assistant); there are some great VA training schools out there or you can do it informally and just market yourself as one. Anyway, it's the wave of the future for coaches like me, consultants, business owners, etc around the country who have needed help, but there's no room in our office or we don't mind if the person lives elsewhere...we often hire VAs. VA's do a wide variety of tasks; I have a VA I love who I have never met, who has kept my biz going for several years! We get someone talented, experienced and capable and the VA gets to work flexible hours from their home for good pay.

The other thing you may want to do is check out www.craigslist.org (and click on your home state) for available jobs you could do from home.

Good luck,
KC

All good advice here. A few things I'll mention before deciding on working from home, in any capacity:


1) Number of hours you can commit. This isn't the number of hours you would LIKE to have, this is the honest-to-goodness, without interruptions, hours you can offer someone and fufill an obligation. So many people see $'s and want extra money, but they fail to take into account they have small children at home, for example, and therefore; interruptions of their time. Why not investigate at-home jobs when babies are sleeping. Just one example. Companies will expect you to be professional in every sense of the word. You care, and should, about crying babes or husbands demanding attention, but they won't. Be available when YOU say you'll be available.

2) What are your assets? List them. Then go after jobs that require those skills. Know what you're good at! Great typing skills? Good phone presence? Does the job you're looking at require programming? Some people apply for online jobs never reading the guidelines. Don't apply for jobs you cannot do. That may sound silly, but lots of people do and then they say something like, "Well shoot! I thought they just said "light programming" to make the job sound better. I really didn't think there would be any." Duh? Big Duh?

3) What are you weaknesses? If a job, for instance, calls for writing press releases and writing resumes and you're very good at resume writing, but NOT press releases, TELL THEM THAT. Or better yet, don't apply. Know your weaknesses and either sharpen up those skills, or stay away from the ones that require it. Its a no-brainer.

4) BE HONEST. I've known people who tell others they are the best, and that they have degrees, when they don't. They have also said they write for publications that they DO NOT write for. They say they have experience in areas that they DO NOT have experience in. And they actually think that people who use their services don't talk or tell others how lousy their service was/is. People talk. Period.

Some of these same people have applied for jobs and lied on the application. One in particular got the job because, I'm sure, of the glowing application she submitted. They were fired a month later. Do you want that stress for one paycheck? Worse, do you want to be branded as dishonest?

Although this Internet is a vast, unending meca of information, jobs, and people...you wouldn't believe how small it CAN be. Word gets around and people talk. Don't be the subject; capish?

So, in summary, how many hours a week can you honestly commit without interruptions? Plan for this number of hours and commit to them. Don't be wishy-washy. Know your strengths and capitalize on those skills when hunting a job. Know your weaknesses and either brush up on them, or stay away from jobs requiring those skills, and be honest. Would you want your Mamma to know you said that? If so, go for it. If not, shame on you.

Nuff said.

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4) BE HONEST. I've known people who tell others they are the best, and that they have degrees, when they don't. They have also said they write for publications that they DO NOT write for. They say they have experience in areas that they DO NOT have experience in. And they actually think that people who use their services don't talk or tell others how lousy their service was/is. People talk. Period.

Some of these same people have applied for jobs and lied on the application. One in particular got the job because, I'm sure, of the glowing application she submitted. They were fired a month later. Do you want that stress for one paycheck? Worse, do you want to be branded as dishonest?

Although this Internet is a vast, unending meca of information, jobs, and people...you wouldn't believe how small it CAN be. Word gets around and people talk. Don't be the subject; capish?

So, in summary, how many hours a week can you honestly commit without interruptions? Plan for this number of hours and commit to them. Don't be wishy-washy. Know your strengths and capitalize on those skills when hunting a job. Know your weaknesses and either brush up on them, or stay away from jobs requiring those skills, and be honest. Would you want your Mamma to know you said that? If so, go for it. If not, shame on you.

Nuff said.

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Good advice jawjaw. Yes, the Internet shrinks the world in terms of grapevine networking. People can find out in many different ways what your work record is. Anyone can find out who my past employers were because I've been belonged and been active in professional associations (related to my profession) that have websites. And if you have made a positive contribution, you would like that searchable evidence for prospective employers. It confirms your resume's details.

If a person's job involved computer technology and providing content, there is a permanent footprint/evidence of your work and expertise still there, even a few years after you have left job(s).

When I interview, I do ask questions to verify certain skills. It is possible to ask a few strategic questions just to see how the person responds. The more expertise a person claims, the more detailed questions the interviewer has a right to ask.