Stay At Home Jobs - An Idea Whose Time Has Come

So if a stay at home job is what you want, the first place you should look is at your current employer.  Is the work you’re doing now something that you could stay at home and do, then send to the office by email or upload to the company server or FTP site?  Often, with just a few adjustments by both you and your employer, you’ll find that it is.  And if you have a good work record with your employer and a few of years of service there already, your employer is quite likely to be willing to let you stay at home and work, at least part of the time.  You still might have to go into the office for meetings and planning sessions, but you could stay at home and do most of your work. So before you turn in your notice to pursue a stay at home job, talk it over with your present employer and see what you can work out.

Too, before leaving your current job, it’s a good idea to start with a part-time stay at home job first.  There are many reasons for trying out a stay at home job part-time, but the main one is so that you’ll have a true idea of what your earning potential will be at a particular stay at home job.  Many times stay at home job recruiters or advertisements for stay at home work “oversell” the income potential of their stay at home job opportunities. 

Sometimes this is stay at home job “oversell” is intentional because the whole deal is a scam to begin with, but other times, it’s just that the company uses the earnings of their top stay at home job employees or salespeople to show you the income potential you have performing their particular stay at home job or by taking advantage of their stay at home business opportunity. Either way, you want to beware of any company that tells you that can make hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of dollars a week at their stay at home job.  It may be true that you can make oodles of money at that particular stay at home job, but it will probably take quite a while to build up to even a reasonable income. Starting a stay at home job part-time will let you to do this while you still have a steady paycheck coming in, which means you’ll feel less stress and pressure.

When choosing the best stay at home job or stay at home work opportunity for you, you should always take into consideration what you love to do and what your skills and capabilities are.  Virtual assistants, transcription, data entry and accounting are great areas for stay at home work and are good places to put those administrative assistant skills and office skills you have to work for you in a stay at home job.  All you really need for these types of stay at home jobs is a computer with Internet access and email, which more than likely you already have since you’re reading this. 

Email processing, survey taking and ad placement are a just few of the many other online stay at home job areas that you might want to look into.  Of course, be sure to research the company offering the stay at home job you want first.  Find out as much about them as possible, including their payment history, before taking a stay at home job with any online company.  And never pay anyone to give you a stay at home job or stay at home work.  It’s one thing to pay a recruiter to help you find a stay at home job, it’s quite another to pay someone to hire you.  Requiring you to pay to start a work at home job is the number one way to spot an online stay at home work scam.  Don’t waste your time—or more importantly, your money.

Charles Fuchshttp://www.charlesfuchs.comhttp://charlesfuchs.blogspot.comI grant permission to publish this article, electronically or in print, as long as the bylines are included, with a live link, and the article is not changed in any way.