Comments on: Why is it that everything relating to working from home, branded as hogwash?

By: ijeoma e osuji

ijeoma e osuji — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:33:07 +0000

i have been looking for a trusted work from home for months now,by this above mails,i don’t know if there is truely any true homejob. there mails is very good to me at least the have opened my eyes. if there is any one trusted homejob,let me know.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:26:06 +0000

What I can say is frustration, and I somehow try to believe that there are some non scam work at home jobs available, am yet to get the available ones too that dont ask for subscription fee.

Why am I saying that its frustrating? I have been searching for work from home jobs to supplement the little money I have to be able to pay my university fees, I have come across those that appear to be genuine, but the question about their real genuinely (sic) comes when you come across “register now for only 49.99 dollars”. The other frustration is when you find a wok from home page that asks you for your personal information in order to view the content of the job only to find out later that its some sort of pyramid scheme or “Network Marketing” as they call it.

Anyway, I still believe that I will be able to find a genuine work from home job that will not require subscription fee to join or buying a product to join

By: Shelly Brown

Shelly Brown — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:29:45 +0000

Confusion! Frustration!!! Are there REALLY legit. work-at-home jobs available?!? I went from “where do I begin?”, to “how do I stop all these people from calling me!!!!” (All scams, of course!)

A word of advice for anyone just starting out searching for the “perfect” home-based job…thoroughly do a back-ground check on the company. Start with BBB. Most work-at-home jobs will be listed through them, HOWEVER, 99% of them will NOT be affiliated with or registered as an authorized BBB Business. BBB will also list the complaints filed against a “business”, be sure to read those thru, so you will not become a victim yourself. Finally, always remember “if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is”! Does that make me sceptical? Yes, and in doing so, I may miss out on a really great job. But, it will also keep me from becoming another victim of work-at-home scams.

So, are there any real home-based jobs to be had? I think so. I, too, am still looking, but I have the faith to believe that I will find one soon.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:42:45 +0000

It’s tough to make money online, but the question I’ve is there’re juicy offers that come around in the email. One funny thing about them is they all charge good money and it’s not only that they charge when they can deduct their charge from the money they’ll enable you make. If they are honest they’ll wait until you make money and charge you for it, but at times the employers might not know their existence and that could cause a problem where those who get the job through these guys could disappear without paying them. In your case you should try some of them “work from home” offers that you can google and find a good number of them. But they charge money in advance. Some of them charge as little as $29, while there are others who charge up to $190. As enticing as they’re and full of testimonials from people who claim to have made money through them who could be fake, it’s difficult to say you can’t make money online, you can if you know how to go about it. There’re many people who claim to have made a lot of money on Ebay, although I don’t know what they do. But if you’ve been spending money to get work online, try these folks too and you might break even.

By: Paula M.

Paula M. — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:35:34 +0000

I can relate to the difficulty of finding work that I can do at home. My elderly mother moved in with my husband and myself in 2004. At the time I was attending school full time to learn about office work and to update my computer skills. After a year had gone by, I went to work for a tax service full time. However, I worked there a year when my mother’s health got steadily worse. It got to where I was missing a lot of days at work so I could take my mother to her doctor appointments and the frequent trip to the emergency room. I had to quit that job before they let me go. I started searching for work I could do at home while on the Internet. I came across many scams and common sense and experience tells a person when someone is trying to scam them. I did not lose any money until my husband and I tried to start an Ebay business. We spent thousands of dollars, a lot of wasted time, and frustration when we found we were not going to make our money back any time soon.

To make a long story short, I stopped nickel and diming myself to death and got me a “regular” part time job outside the home. But I am still keeping my eyes open for something I can do legally while working on the Internet, and not having to pay to work for someone.

If anyone knows of an legitimate job that actually pays someone to work for them instead of a “business opportunity”, or telemarketing, or sales, please let me know. I am very proficient in computer operations and navigating the Web, however, I am not much of a sales person. Thank you very much.

By: Monica Frasier

Monica Frasier — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:20:01 +0000

I think the rule of thumb should be, “Don’t Quit Your Day Job!” So many people turn to the internet when they suddenly find themselves unemployed…and panicking. Scared by the long lines at the unemployment office and coasting on fumes due to the high gas prices, many people see telecommuting as the Magic Carpet that will take them to their heart’s desire.

A person wanting to make good on a telecommuting job should do what he would do if he, say, wanted to slowly pull away from a 9-5 to open his own business. He would build his business, expand his client base, and THEN make the move to rely solely on his new business earnings.

If you have a comfort zone, you are able to make better, well thought out decisions based on research and soul-searching instead of the fight or flight straw grasp.