Homebased Jobs?

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I wanted to ask if anyone knows how to find legitimate homebased jobs. I would personally LOVE to have one, but still am very afraid of applying for fear of being scammed somehow. Does anyone know how to tell the difference? I've looked for other kinds of jobs and can usually tell when something's a scam or not. But I just wanted to know if anyone knows about companies who hire homebased employees?

I have a related question. The only thing showing up in the around here lately is Home Assembly. I would be curious if anyone has tried that.

I would like to do a home based job but I don't know how to get one.

I think that in most cases to get a real job that permits you to work at home, the first step is to get the job. Look for one that has other employees who do the type of work you are wanting to do to work from home.

If we were hiring someone to work at home, they would be expected to spend significant time at the office for at least a few months to learn the job and to be realistically evaluated. Only if they were seen as being highly dependable and organized would they be permitted to work at home.

An exception might be made for someone who is extremely well known in their field and it was a field where they could productively work from home.

But in most cases, no way.

And people who work at home may be required to go to the office for any and all departmental meetings they need to attend.

One type of job that can work well for people working at home is medical transcription. I have a niece who does this. She worked in the hospital for a while learning the job before they permitted her to work from home.

For what it's worth, I'm getting ready to start working from home once I get the computer networks set up to make this easier. But I'll have to be ready to come into the office whenever necessary.

There are more and more telemarketing/call-center jobs being run from home these days. They'll set you up with a computer-based phone rig and you can take calls all day from home. I couldn't tell you who does, but I know a few. Telus and Pizza 73 (in Canada) have apparently started this!

A job that involves being on the phone or going in to an office at all is not the kind of at home job I mean. I would want something more like making things at home and selling them online or to one or two businesses that redistribute them. I'd want something that involves little to no contact with people or leaving the house and that I can complete at my own pace.

Landscaping then. No... still need to contact a few customers per day... Little else comes to mind. [shrug] You're going to require SOME communication with others.

Unless you make ONE product and continually sell it to the same person, you'll have to sell to someone which means talking to them when they come over to get it.

Hobby crafts will pay diddly or zero. You could knit for days on end before you can sell a lousy $20 scarf that cost $10 for yarn... [shrug]

What can you do at all?

Anyone here have experience with Ebay or selling through Amazon? I've had doubts about Ebay or dealing with Paypal but maybe I'm wrong?

Thanks to everyone who responded to my thread!
I posted this mostly because I came across a job posting for a stay-at-home payroll clerk position that would involve continuous adding up of calculations on Excel. It apparently pays REALLY well, and I've been seriously thinking of applying for it, but my husband thinks it must somehow be a scam. Although I don't really know how it could be. There's nothing on it that has anything to do with them sending you cheques to be put into random bank accounts or anything like that (I've come across stuff like that before). I think I'll apply for it, and if they send me an e-mail asking me to do something like that, then obviously it's a scam. If not, then I guess it's legitimate!

so long as you don't have to pay a cent, it could be legit. Heck, I'd do it too!

If they ask for money at all, RUN!! !

For payroll clerk at home jobs, check out the highlighted section below to find out how the scam works:

I've looked in detail about what's available several times over the years. I ought to write up a definitive article, since this question comes up a lot. The short answer for now is that it's a race to the bottom with more supply than demand. Anything you can do at home (that is not a scam), someone else will do it at home for less income than you pay for an Internet connection. There are rare exceptions to this, usually involving people who travel constantly (either from city to city like a consultant, or stay on the road every day in one location like a plumber) and don't need an office. I could go into a lot of detail about what I've found about writing novels, doing contract technical writing, etc - the usual work at home stuff - but the bottom line is you'd make more scavenging scrap metal out of people's recycle bins.

This is one reason I was interested in the thread about an AS-friendly company, since non-traditional forms of employment would likely be explored, but that thread died out because something like that would take a monumental effort to organize and fund. It would likely involve pulling together businesses who need workers, the government, health experts, highly skilled workers with AS, and investors. Even a connected, engaged, social person would have trouble pulling all that off.

I'd be happy to live somewhere that I could just walk to work - where I live, several planned communities where businesses and homes are clustered together have been planned and announced, but they never seem to actually happen. Something falls through and there is half a development and a huge vacant area. Plus it's hard to get your employer to put his office in your planned community, and stay there for the long term. These planned communities don't seem to be feasible.