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closeQuestion: I recently attended a training class and overheard people discussing how work-at-home jobs have become common. One was talking about using a computer to make money, but none of them could tell me how to get such a job. How can I find legitimate employers that hire people to work from home?
Answer: This is a perennial question. It's worth answering at least once a year, though the answer never changes. While more and more people are working from home, they're not earning a living through one of those work-from-home schemes you see advertised.
There are about three legitimate home-based work scenarios: Your current employer lets you do it. You're an established independent consultant. Or you run a real, live business of your own. Otherwise, it isn’t the option it's portrayed to be.
When people think of work-at-home jobs, they have visions of quick and easy money, and ads for such jobs play on that fantasy. People who really do work from home successfully will tell you it's neither quick nor easy. It's often harder than having a regular job, and the hours are usually longer. There is no secret about such jobs, except that they're not jobs. They're usually small businesses.
Those who say you can readily earn a living working at home by using your personal computer are engaging in wishful thinking, or they're trying to sucker you into a pyramid scheme in which you spend your day e-mailing similar offers to other potential suckers. These "jobs" are nothing but a racket. Be careful.
You can work from home if you can start a business of your own, or if you can demonstrate to your employer that you can be relied on to do your work outside a conventional office. But beware: Few employers will let people work at home because they don’t know how to manage remote employees.
Now I have a question for you. Those people who waxed eloquent about earning a living at home using a computer: Why aren't they doing it? Sorry. Most work-at-home solicitations are scams.
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