Work At Home Jobs

[erpowers]

Has anyone here had any experience with work at home jobs? I know that many of them are scams. Does anyone know of some that are legitimate? I have found a few that look good, but I was hoping to find a few more.

[Horse with no Name]

1. Medical Transcription.

It can be very lucrative.

[npincus]

4. do you have any particulars?

links? Have you done it or know anyone who has?

I think if any output of money is required, it's a scam.

[Horse with no Name]

6. Actually yes.

I have several friends that do it and I did it for awhile when I was out of work with an injured back.
There are many job listings on www.mtdaily.com as well as a marketplace to purchase necessary books, etc.
Ebay is also a very good resource to buy materials.
Some companies (if you browse through the ads) will train someone.
Many community colleges have transcription programs that last a few months for training, but you can also purchase training materials from different companies.
It isn't a scam.

[npincus]

9. thank you.

I really appreciate it.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. My sister had a home medical transcription service

I actually worked for her for a while- it's not extremely hard, but it helps to have somewhat of a medical background. Some of the terms they use are NOT in general usage, and doctors tend to mumble and/or talk extremely rapidly. They also tend to dictate anywhere and everywhere, so you get all the background noise. You need a great sense of what I guess I would call aural discrimination.

[JVS]

5. would you pm me about how to get involved in that?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

17. another Medical Transcription vote

My roommate got into it because his elders needed his help around the house.

Some "work-at-home" jobs are scams, but not the one he got. It does help if you go with a big business(you know..benifits)

Also with HIPPA, working as Medical Transcripts at home, you have to keep your PC up to date.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. I did transcription for years.

Made $12 an hour, not the $.05 - $.06 a line that is pretty standard now.

I don't think it is as lucrative as it once was because people keep undercutting each other with their prices.

[DawnIsis]

2. There is a book called 'The 48 Laws of Power' it's not a great book

but one of the laws is "Despise the free lunch" Meaning if something seems to good to be true it probably is. My understanding of those things is most of them involve sending spam from your computer all day.

I work at home. I am a crafter and make all kinds of stuff. You gotta find something that you love and do that for money.

[JVS]

7. money for spamming! sounds good

[DawnIsis]

10. Not if you believe in Karma

[JVS]

23. Karma, ha good one.

[TlalocW]

3. They tend to be scams

I requested information for various ones when I was in college - some of them work at home and some of them along the lines of "Mystery Shopper." Only two of them were valid - one was getting assignments to count people attending certain movies, and I worked that for a while for extra money, and the other was for stuffing envelopes, but what I would be stuffing were religious pamphlets claiming the world was only 6000 years old, and I didn't take that.

Basically, if it's too good to be true, it is. If these jobs were really worthwhile, there would be a huge glut of people wanting these jobs.

TlalocW

[qwlauren35]

12. Keep in mind that Mystery Shopper isn't "at home".

Even those jobs require you to get out of the house. My husband does them. He counts movies, audits displays, etc. It can involve a fair amount of driving, and several hours of serious work, and no, you're not at home at all.

I had a cousin who tried to assemble jewelry boxes. She couldn't do it; she didn't have the skill.

HOWEVER, with that said, you can run a fairly successful e-bay business out of your garage. You just have to hunt down the merchandise.

You can also run a catalog business from your home, as long as you can deliver.

You can run a tax business from home, or a resume service. You can write novels or illustrate children's books. But these things definitely take skills.

If you're extremely good at what you do, and it involves sitting in front of a computer all day, some companies will eventually let you work from home. But you usually have to come in to work on a regular basis, even if it's just weekly or monthly.

[Horse with no Name]

13. I am relocating to a new state

and I have already interviewed for a position out there.
It is an office position in nursing that after being trained, I will be allowed to do some work from home.
Many places are beginning to offer this as an option because it cuts their overhead.
As you said, I will still be required to make occasional appearances at the office to meet with the medical director--but it sounds good so far.

[TlalocW]

19. Keep in mind I didn't say it was

I said some stay-at-home and some along the lines of mystery shopper and then also threw in the movie counting as well. These are all examples of jobs I've seen listed in the same area as the work-at-home ones.

TlalocW

[Akoto]

8. I started my own.

My home business advertises for other home businesses. :) A lot of people get into home business not knowing how to do that adequately, particularly on the internet. It has worked out well for both myself and my clients.

There are many things you can do at home, though. Many MLM companies are legit, but they require that you give a lot (in effort, money and time) to establish yourself. Transcription (medical/legal), research and virtual assisting are also quite popular.

If you want a job, rather than a business (two different things), that's somewhat harder. The easiest at-home job to get is with customer service for companies like Alpine Access or TeleTech. There are other types of jobs, but they tend to require that you have degrees and other special qualities.

[hockeygirl]

11. I work at home

I am an editor. Most of the real work at home jobs tend to be contract jobs. Not as many that would hire you as an employee with benefits.

[hiaasenrocks]

15. Don't do the "stuff envelopes at home" deal.

As the great Dave Barry wrote: "They don't tell you what you have to stuff the envelopes with. It could be poisonous spiders."

:)

[meldroc]

16. A lot of software engineers can telecommute.

It depends highly on the employer, and certainly depends on whether you have the requisite qualifications, but lots of software engineers, computer programmers, sysadmins, etc. can and do work from home. It's not particularly difficult to use a VPN to get your home system on the company network and start working.

But this is real work, that pays a real salary, not some envelope-stuffing scam.

[MazeRat7]

18. Thats what I'm doing right now... well not "right" now... I'm reading DU -nt

[bleedingheart]

20. I do that..

and while I wait for stuff to run or compile I post on DU or perhaps throw in some laundry...
but in the end I work longer hours...may sound funny but I actually put more time in with my work since I have no commute.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

21. I work from home

with an answering service out of li ny. Where do you live? It depends on if they would be able to train you in your state. You can pm me if you want any more info.

[stranger81]

24. never do ANY that require YOU to send THEM money

for any reason . . . . they're absolutely not legitimate. My mom got scammed by a few of those kinds of envelope-stuffing "jobs" in her twilight years . . . .