Anyone ever tried any of the work from home gigs - and had any type of success with them?? advise? to me most of them appear to be somewhat scamish
I am seriously considering going back to school to finish my degree - just to say that I did it. and I have no desire to do it one class at a time.
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We must get them to understand that government solutions are the problem!
>>most of them appear to be somewhat scamish
only somewhat?
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Sales consulting is sort of work from home. You get an office, but you don't have to always work from there. I almost did that a few years ago. I changed my mind because of the warnings about a crash coming. My mom had a job working from home most days as a training coordinator. My dad had an in-house chiro clinic.
I knew someone who did 'mystery calling' as a work from home job during the bubble. She did pretty well with it, made real money. Of course, it was during a bubble.
I worked as a programmer this summer from home. It ruled. The hardest part about getting those "gigs" is informational. The consumers of your labor don't know they need it!
Most work at home stuff are scams. Most work at home stuff on Craigslist are also scams. Once marketers get you into one of these programs, they target you over and over again, trying to sell people one useless system after another.
The real value is learning that there is a lot of money in providing knowledge to people, an enormous market for teaching people how to be more self-sufficient and become their own boss. Even the distribution of publicly available knowledge, by moving it to a new format or marketing it with a new spin, and/or to a new audience can create opportunities.
If you want to work from home, there are situations online. You will have to compete with people in asia who will work much cheaper, but cheap english speaking labor is also in demand in the right situation. It all comes down to how bad you want it, and how much you want to work for it. You can certainly find employment and wages on your own in the digital age. The question is whether you are willing to work 60 hour weeks to stay off unemployment or welfare, or to keep from having to go back to a regular job.
At the end of the day, a lot of people have degrees and limited experience outside narrow career paths and that is really dangerous in such fragile economies. The ability to network, hustle, make do, make themselves useful to others, manage stress, get along with others, be pleasant, punctual, organized, well spoken, capable of reading and writing well, self-starting etc are tremendous assets to have in all situations regardless of formal training or certification.