Work From Your Home!

I’m looking for a “work from home” job any ideas?

Hello,

I’m in the process of making some major changes in my life, and my financial status needs some help. I’m looking for a little job, which I can do from home, or how to start my own little business.

Any ideas? I have searched online, I’m just note sure how legitimate these sites can be.

Thank you for your advice.

How do you discourage a local friend from inviting himself over to your home or just dropping by?

I think this person is great, and I value his friendship. However, I am very busy and I work out of home. This friend has a habit of calling and making “spontaneous” requests to stop in for a glass of wine. I always thought it was rather rude to invite yourself to another person’s home? Any ideas on how I can delicately navigate this awkward situation without alienating my acquaintance ?

any ideas how i can work from home?

with the job market looking well crap at the moment i need to find a good source of income, i am thinking about working from home but not to start my own business does anyone know of any good companies who pay well for someone to work for them from home???

thank your you help in advance xx

What do you do to work from home?

I have three children (ages just 5, 2 1/2 years, and 4 months). I would love to babysit in my house, but nobody seems to want to have a sitter outside of their homes. What do you to make some extra money from home? Thanks for your ideas?

Does anyone have legitimate ideas for my wife to work from home?

She does not want to sell anything. We have 2 young kids, so customer service postions really aren’t feasible because there would be noise in the background. We don’t want to pay any money because those are usually scams. Thank you for your help!

How can I work from home? Please give me answers!?

I work 40 hrs a week, work very hard and like my job, I am married and want to plan to have a baby. I sincerely want to be a stay at home mom but we wouldn’t be able to pay all of our bills if I didn’t work too. My husband doesn’t want to have a baby unless I can stay at home with her or him. What can we do so we can live happily ever after?

What are some GOOD work from home opportunities?

And how do you go about getting involved? I ask b/c I’ll want to stay home with my child as long as possible after the baby‘s born – but I still need a reliable income.

Hi, I am a stay at home mom looking for opportunites to work from home and not having to pay money to get scam

Hi, I am a 25 year old stay at mom of 3. WE ARE LIVING ON A VERY TIGHT INCOME. My husband is the only one working. I am looking to work from home and I have had no success in finding legitimate work that doesn’t require putting tons of money into and that isn’t a scam. Any helpful advice on working from home that requires no money for me to pay and that is totally legit? WE are broker than broke and I need to find something. My 3 month old was born with some heart problems which put our family in the position of me not being able to return to work due to her not being able to attend daycare. Which as any mother could relate, I didn’t feel comfortable leaving my baby with heart problems in a daycare to begin with. I have worked at Bank of America as a teller for two years and I worked as a hazard insurance processor for a little over a year. This is some of the experience I have had in the working field. I do know how to type, customer service, hard worker, willing to learn. Please help

how can i work from home?

wanting to work from home so i can stay with my baby, i dont want to make tons, just a couple hundred a month, dont want to pay anything up front and want something legit, im in the east texas area if that helps

Moms who went back to work after having a baby…I would like your input?

Dear Moms,

I am 6 months pregnant and financially will need to work after I have the baby. I will only be able to take 6 weeks off. I’m going to try to take 3 months off…but we will see. I am in private practice, so if I don’t work, I don’t get paid…no vacation time for me I haven’t found a way to work from home, so my work will have to take place out of the home. How many moms went back to work after only 6 to 12 weeks and how did it go? Was it full time? Did you get a nanny or drop your baby at a daycare? I am a little sad when I see moms with their babies because I want to be home with my baby, but need the $$$. Suggestions from the moms who made it work and still had plenty of time for the baby? What were your hours? Long hours?

I just got an email from careerbuilder.com – is it legit?

It says it’s that a company called Hill International has reviewed my information from careerbuilder.com and is offering me a job. It is a work at home job, and one of the requirements is the employee must have a good credit score. It goes on to say that if I am interested, I have to reply to the email. It also says that to speed up the hiring process I can go to their website, www.TheBizz1.cc, and apply for the job there. The only thing is, on their application it asks for my Social Security number (as most employment applications do). I don’t want to go around giving that information unless this is a legitimate offer. Have any of you heard of this company or worked for them, and if so, is it any good?
BTW: the website says the position is a work-at-home position. They have you physically go out and place orders for clients who are having trouble getting certain products. It says you will place the orders with your own credit card(s) (AFTER they’ve given you the money), and you keep like 5% of the order total. The company guarantees you will make $2000/month.
This is the address it came from:

noreply_position4380@careerbuilder.com

The thing is, I don’t remember if I’ve ever signed up with them, but it’s very possible I could have, since I was looking for a work-at-home job at one time.

What if a job I’m applying for wants to talk to my current employer?

I’ve been employed for close to five years at my current job. It’s at a very small business. My employer has known I’ve been pregnant for several months. When I recently spoke to them about maternity leave and my return to work schedule, I tried to discuss with them a work from home schedule (1-2 days a week) for after my maternity leave, I received “we’ll really have to think about this” as an answer. Note too that my job is pretty much answering emails – something I could very easily do in any setting.

Having this up in the air has really got me concerned. Based on past experience, I have a strong feeling that I’m not going to get an answer either way for quite some time, and I need to start planning now.

So, with this major dissapointment from my employer (and my generally unhappy opinion of my current job) I’ve decided to start looking for a new one. I went to the employment website for a large local employer and went to fill out their online application. This application requires me to fill out the name of my current supervisor and his/her contact information and notes that they have the right to contact them during the application review process. Since I’m still employed at my current job – and may very well keep it if I’m allowed to work from home – I don’t feel comfortable sharing this information. I don’t want to tell my current employer I’m looking for a job elsewhere, and at the same time, I don’t want to avoid applying for any jobs at this new potential employer. What do you think I should do?

I need help, Is this a scam job?

I inquired about a job on craigslist and this is the email I received. My email marked it as spam and I am just curious if others think it is a scam. I don’t want to get involved with anything that is risky!
Attn:

Hope you’re having a pleasant day today, I am in search of dependable individual with a high pedigree to help me handle my Business errands. Do take time to go through this introductory mail and feel free to pass any questions on.PETER KING is My name. I have been a photographer for over 30 years and also has been teaching photography for 20 years. I bring a unique teaching style to students which will guarantee creative and fun learning by all student photographers while elevating them to new, exciting photographic heights that they have only dreamed of.I often conduct LIVE slide/talk lectures on Understanding Exposure, the Art of Seeing, Macro Photography and Photographing People throughout the USA,CANADA, Great Britain and Asia.At the moment, I am in a work-ship in the Great Britain.I will be here for a month after which I will fly down to TURKEY for a Live-slide/talk show lectures with some students.

YOUR DUTIES AS MY PERSONAL ASSISTANT.

While I am out of the states,I need some one who can stand in the gap for me.His/her duties will be:

-To receive letters and mails on my behalf.

-Receive Payments from clients who want to attend the forth coming workshops or Live shows.

-Schedule appointments for me.

-Book my flight tickets. Send letters and mails from my clients.

This position is home-based and flexible part time job,you can be in any location you will be working from your home doing all the activities.All you need do is to check your emails twice daily and keep your phone on most times in case I might need to call you from anywhere I may be.I do have a number of things you could help me with this week if you will be available to start.This can act as a stable foundation to our working relationship.Let me know if you have any of the office equipment (If not),I will make arrangements to send them to your address

Printer:

Personal Laptop/Desktop:

Internet Access:

Scanner:

Fax machine:

Laminator:

Paper Cutter:

For proper review(since i am not available now to set up a face-to-face interview) supply out correctly the information below .

FULL NAME :

Full Street Address(Not PO Box) :

City, State, Zip Code:

Age:

Present Occupation:

Cell Phone Number:

Home Phone Number:

Email:

Scanned copy of your IDYou can provide that later when you are employed)

Note: It will be of added advantage if you can provide 2 references from your past employments.

QUALIFICATION:

-Educational background is not a criteria.

-You must be Organized and able to take instructions well Dependable, Reliable, Trustworthy a must

-Must have excellent English language skills (both spoken and written)

-Have great work ethic and attitude, as well as people skills, pay-attention to detail, capable of multi-
tasking, and works well understress at times.

Benefits:

- Yearly performance bonus

- Paid vacation/sick/personal days

- Medical benefits

Salary:
$400 weekly($1,600 monthly)

Also,there will be compensation for efficiency and hard working.

PETER KING Photography

PETER KING

Does this job sound legitimate?? I took out some of the basic information.?

This is the email I received….

Dear Keri
My name is James. Today i received your Training Application with pre-interview form and after detailed review your information with your Resume from CareerBuilder, i have processed your application and accept you for our training program.

During one week i will be your personal manager in iCommerce training. After the training you will be employed to the company and will work from local office in full-time position or from home in part-time position. With office direction, thats 8 miles close to your house, i will provide you on Frist Training day in second part of the training.
My office phone number is +1 (???) ??? ????, i am at office from 9:00 AM till 4:00 PM daily. If am out of office on business conference or lunch, please leave me voice mail and i’ll call back you during few hours.

It will be more easily to provide you with information about training, our company database and finance system access, if you will setup Google Talk program.
If you never used it, that wouldn’t be a problem. Go to the http://www.google.com/talk/ and download the program, setup and register a new account. It is free, you dont need to pay for anything.
I prefer using the instant messaging service because of the time-sensitive tasks. The e-mail is too slow for our purposes, and the phone conversations and all information about training would cost too much.
When you will setup your account, please provide me with your Google E-mail account, i’ll add you in my contact list and we can chat for free.

INFORMATION ABOUT FIRST TRAINING DAY

Because you will work in Customer Service for iCommerce clients, first training day will be in iCommerce services for the Western Union system. During the training you will understand how it all works and how you must assist company clients in Customer Service if they will have a questions during transactions and operations.

Tomorrow you will receive money for the training from our company side directly to your bank account. Out of this money you will take payment for your job and benefits (payment for your home internet and cell phone bills). Another money you will use for training transaction in iCommerce to company client. Like this you will understand how our clients processing transactions, how you must to assist them when you will be employed in iCommerce section and also will get valid MTCN number with receipt to access company database with your personal local manager in office location (tomorrow, after first part of the training in iCommerce i will process your information and provide you with any available local managers in your area)

Please call me at office (???) ??? ???? and provide me with your checking and routing account numbers, i will process your information.
Also setup Google talk account and provide it to me in email, i’ll add you in my contact list and will inform you by it about our training process, company database access, amount that company sent you for the training and other information.

I will wait for your information today during the day.

Our First Training Day we be held like in instructions:
—————
- You will receive and withdraw money from company side for the training in iCommerce section
- We will done our training in iCommerce section for the Western Union to understand how you must assist company clients during all operations and you will get valid MTCN number and receipt
- I’ll process your information and provide you with any available local managers in your area
- You will meet face to face with your local manager for the second part of the training in iCommerce section and will use MTCN number to access our Financial operations control system. You will get company manager ID card and your dental and medical coverage card.

Please take with you your photo 3×4 (like on passport), your local manager will need it for your Manager ID card.
—————

Yours respectfully,
James,
Company Personal Manager, International Finance Corporation

Should I continue with this company??

This is the company website: http://www.ifc.org/

Do I have the right to a review/raise at work?

Here’s the situation – I have worked with the company I am working for as an in-house accountant since December of 2005. I quite my job in August of 2009 to move 100 miles away & help with our family business, but I was asked by my old boss to consider coming back to work for him in April of 2010. The girl they hired in my position wasn’t doing a good job so they asked me to work for them again. It was do-able for me to work for the old boss again because I am able to dial into their server and work from my home office just the same as I was working for him before (which is necessary since I”m now 100 miles away from the office). I do have the advantage of flexable hours now because I work from home & the boss trusts me that I do a good job & will do quality work for him… which I do. But everyone else at the company received a review last month & a raise – except for me! Even though I work from home I should still have the right to a review, right? Any suggestions on how I ask for a review? I would also expect a raise since I feel I do a good job & we recently opened up a new branch office that has put extra work on me lately! I don’t think this is fair; but I’m so shy asking for reviews/raises! By the way, I think I’m underpaid to begin with; I took a cut in pay when I came back to work for them! As a sole in-house accountant for a company with 5 locations I am only getting paid $31,200 a year right now! And yes, I am the only accountant for all 5 branches. I feel like I’m only getting paid 1/2 of what I’m worth – which is why the new girl they hired in my place before didn’t work out – they don’t pay enough money to get a quality accountant & I’m too nice to say no or put up a stink about my wages!

Should I accept job offer?

I currently work for a health insurance company in Philadelphia, PA (we’ll label that Job A). I recently got a job offer at MTV in NY (we’ll label that Job B). I’m wondering if it’s worth accepting given the pros and cons list provided below.

***** Job A *****
+ working there for 1.5 years
+ co-workers are great
+ current management is relaxed and very flexible
+ on-site gym is a nice perk
+ benefits aren’t bad. typical medical, dental, vision, 10 paid holidays (depending on year)
+ 7.5 hr per day (37.5 hr per week) instead of the typical 8 hr per day (40 hr per week). my typical day is from 9 AM – 5 PM, with a 30 min lunch break.
+ 135 total hrs to be used for either personal, vacation and sick days, which breaks down to 18 days. we’re also allowed to carry over up to 37.5 hrs (5 days) of unused time.
+ we are allowed to “buy” an extra 5 days of vacation, which is essentially unpaid time off. we can “return” any unused days back to the company and get our money back.
~ taking Septa bus is cheap, but takes anywhere from 30 – 50 minute commute one way due to traffic and various bus stops
~ although the work isn’t too boring due to various projects, i would like to work in a different industry.
- company is unstable due to economy, healthcare reform and a pretty huge business venture that failed. as a result, there has been constant internal reorganization, layoffs, employees leaving for other jobs and employees taking early retirement packages. There is supposedly another round of layoffs this coming June.
- as a result of above, company’s profit margins are very slim. there were no salary increases and only a 1% bonus given regardless of positive or negative performance review.
- as a result of stability concerns, work environment isn’t the greatest and employee morale is low
- tuition reimbursement went from unlimited annually to $3000 annually.

***** Job B *****
+ MTV! lol. for me, it’s an industry change from healthcare to media, which i think i would enjoy.
+ no official dress code; most employees wear jeans, sneakers and t-shirts to work everyday unless you have a meeting w/ clients, upper management, etc
+ typical medical, dental and vision packages, 10 paid holidays
+ every other Friday off in summer from Memorial Day through Labor Day
+ 10 vacation days, 4 personal days and 10 sick days = 24 days off per year. allowed to carryover half of any unused time as long as it does not exceed 10 days.
+ annual 5% bonus target (depending on own performance and company performance). same applies for salary increases
+ the team and the bosses (i met with directors, VP and SVP) seemed very relaxed and easy-going.
+ compared to Job A, tuition reimbursement is $10,000 annually
~ salary isn’t exactly what i was looking for, especially for a position in NY and is only a couple thousand more than what i currently make.
~ compared to my current job, core hours are from 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM (8 hour work, 1 hour lunch), but can leave early if work is completed and/or if lunch isn’t taken away from desk
- TRAVEL!! if i commute from Philly, i’m looking at a 2.5 hours one way (1/2 hour to get to bus station, 1.5 – 2 hours for bus ride to NY). so i’m looking at 5 hours spent each day on commuting. i am looking into possibly renting a studio to stay a couple nights of the week. so a typical day would be me leaving home by 6:30, catch a bus or train around 7 – 7:30 AM, get to NY by 9 – 9:30. then assuming i leave offices at 6:30, catch bus/train at 7 PM, back in philly by 9 PM and home around 9:30 PM. repeat for remaining days of the week.
- i have a 1 year old daughter and traveling or staying in a studio in NY will result in loss of family time. to comprimise, i could stay in NY mon-thurs. the only time i would travel is monday morning, thursday night back to Philly and Friday back to and from work.
- the difference in salary and then some will go right back into traveling and/or rent in NY.
- no relocation reimbursement

both jobs are pretty similar, the biggest difference is a title change. i was a consultant before traveling to various cities, but that was only traveling at the beginning and the end of the week with all expenses paid.

i really would like to accept as i want a change in industry, which will open doors to other opportunities outside of healthcare. but i also don’t know how long i’ll last if i have to travel everday. the team and upper management really liked me, but can’t negotiate a higher salary or other benefits due to budget constraints. if i decline, they’ll go with a back up candidate.

what are your thoughts and suggestions? if you need any additional details, let me know.

Has anyone done this? Is this a scam?

A company by the name of JPL Independent & Co LTD contacted me via e-mail if I was interested in a job with them. The job would allow me to work from home. By going over their web site http://jplindependent.org/index.php it seemed good to me so I agreed. They don’t ask for money what so ever only for my contact information and Bank account number to which they will deposit my paycheck too. So I e-mailed them back the completed application and my resume. They emailed me back to day telling me my training start tomorrow and via internet so one will be contacting me as well. If I have any questions to call this number (781) 241 9930. Well, I called and its not a working # and 781 area code appears to be located in Lexington, MA, when the website indicates the company is located in Buxton, Derbyshire overseas. Now am scared because they have my personal information and account # (not my SS# though). What can I do? Or What should I do? i dont want to know about any other work from home site, only if this is a scam!

Also they e-mailed me these instructions:

TRAINING COURSE BASIC INFORMATION/
The training days don’t have to be consecutive (you can make breaks
for one or several days if it’s necessary).
Your application was reviewed by the Human Resource Department and your candidacy
was approved. After you complete the free training course company guarantees your
employment within one business day.
Your daily raining wage: $50.00 (the money that you receive in the beginning of each
training day
as compensation for your time and all the expenses associated with the training -
transport,
phone, Internet connection etc.). If for technical reasons your training has to be postponed
you receive the training wage as well.
The course is distant, except for two personal meetings with one of company’s managers
in your city. While passing the course you will be permanently assisted by the phone.
While studying, you will permanently move from the easiest to more complicated levels.
Each lesson contains a theoretical and a practical part. Everyday you will receive studying materials that
you should earn and streng then your knowledge by passing tests.
The training course starts with familiarizing with payment systems. During the first three training days you
will get familiarized with all the payment systems that interact with ECSS system. Besides learning theory
you will practice with performing elementary operations (sending/receiving money, depositing on account
etc.) to be able to answer clients questions and consult them in real time.
NOTE: You don’t have to use any personal money for the training purposes. *
The 10-day training course includes the following stages:
Day 1. Initial professional level check. Familiarization with payment systems (MoneyGram, Western Union
). Day 2. Paypal. Bank accounts.
Day 3. Other payment systems. Installation of ECSS-Client.
Day 4. ECSS-Client: Requests handling.
Day 5. ECSS-Client: Databases.
Day 6. ECSS-Client: Reports.
Day 7. ECSS: B2B- and B2C- applications.
Day 8. ECSS: Exchanges between payment systems.
Day 9. Workday rehearsal 1..
Day 10. Workday rehearsal 2.
* Money for the training you will receive to an account that you specify along with your daily training w
age.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 1ST TRAINING DAY
1. Your personal manager calls you to confirm that everything is ready for the start of y
our training and money for practicing with elementary operations and your training
wage are available on the account that you have specified.
2. You call your personal manager after withdrawing the total amount.* $50 you
should take for yourself as your personal training wage
and the rest of the amount you will use for
practicing with MoneyGram and Western Union payment systems.
3. Then you go to the nearest MoneyGram location to perform an international transact
ion using
the data from the FORM1 (you will receive the necessary information from your personal
manager).
NOTE: You should pay attention to all the details of the process to be able to answe
r any question about MoneyGram and consult clients in real time.
The Receipt that you get from the MoneyGram managers has to be saved.
Then you contact your personal manager to give out the MoneyGram data for your trainin
g partner and to find out the approximate time when you are going to receive the money b
ack via
Western Union payment system. When your training partner receives your transaction an
d sends it back,
your personal manager contacts you to give you the data for receiving the money.
4.Then you go to the nearest Western Union branch to receive your partner’s transactio
n. You will use this money for t he next lesson. The receipt that you receive from
Western Union managers should be saved.
NOTE: You should pay attention to all the details of the process to be able to answe
r any question about Western Union and consult clients in real time .
5. Then yo

Why the HELL havn’t I been FIRED!!?

WTF …WHY won’t they FIRE ME already?
So for the past six months I have been working in sales at a kids radio station. The product is total BS and doesn’t work. The station manager had to lie to me to get me to come work there telling me that I would be given active accounts when all they want me to do is cold call from the yellow pages. The funny thing is, they pay me a guaranteed base salary of 35K. I have no set schedule, I show up when I want, leave when I want. I have the option to “work from home“. I haven’t really sold much since I’ve been there partly because the product is crap, partly because I refuse to be a telemarketer, and partly because of the economy. The funny thing is, they keep threatening to fire us salespeople but only give warnings and never follow through with it. I mean they’ve paid me all this money and I literally do NOTHING..I show my face in the office for a couple hours every day…get bitched at for not selling…have performance reviews where I just say “I’m trying” and nod my head. a month ago they put me on “probation” during which time they wanted me to produce about 20k in cold calling sales “or else” I sold zero…..I thought today would have been it…and it wasn’t…NOTHING HAPPENED? They asked if I wanted to leave, and I said “No” LOL. I can’t afford to just walk out. Why don’t they just let me go…this is a joke! Any thoughts? It’s not that I am lazy, its just that I am angry that I was decieved into taking the job. There’s something weird with the whole situation.