How to best search for work at home job opportunities
By ebowers23
@ebowers23 (2)
United States
July 31, 2010 8:25am CST
I recently became unemployed quite unexpectedly and have been searching endlessly for jobs such as work-at-home opportunities. The problem is finding legit jobs that don't require you to pay for some type of training material or start-up fee.
Most of the opportunities I've found are call center jobs but I would prefer to do something that doesn't involve spending 8 hours on the phone with disgruntled customers -- I've had enough of that for awhile after my last job.
I'm not looking for any get rich opportunity -- just a way to make some part-time income while I wait for a full-time job. I'm interested in clerical/admin. type work or anything that can be done without having to do any call center work.
Has anybody had any luck finding such jobs and if so, where is the best place to search for them? I've tried craigslist, monster, careerbuilder, etc...All of them mostly generating just sales/telemarketing and call center jobs.
Any advice is appreciated!!
8 responses
@rajeshfgh (1629)
• India
8 Sep 10
There are quite a few money-making sites on the internet but you need to be really good to earn good amounts from them. It also requires dedication and hardwork as their rules are very strict. Many such jobs are writing jobs where you need to have a flair for writing if you are to do good in it. I have some sites on my profile page which have paid me, if you want to give it a try! I wish you all the best. 
@angryeve (684)
• Philippines
2 Aug 10
Hi, welcome to mylot. You can actually find a legit full time job online even without spending any money. I never liked to pay a site in order for me to start earning cause its usually prone of being a scam site. Anyway, I'm currently working as a freelancer. Freelancing is one good way of earning something nice online. How much you'll earn depends really on you and how much you charge. If you want to know more about freelancing, feel free to drop by my blog. Either way, there are lots of jobs there to choose from depending on your skills. =)
@manbir84 (134)
• India
2 Aug 10
Try to spend your time in learning the nature of share market this is the best money earning method from home if not then try making friend circle in freelancers or something like that because it is not make any sense for you to find good job like this you are trying.
@nthomas (43)
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1 Aug 10
Finding a legitimate work from home job s really tough. You bump across many scams which asks you to pay for them. So be very careful in avoiding such ones. If you are interested in writing them there are many paid writing sites like factoidz, triond, bukisa, suite101 to name just a few. May be the payout is minimal...too less to pay the bills. But worth checking out once.
@joeinfo888 (1)
• India
1 Aug 10
You can find clerical jobs from freelance sites. Register at freelance sites and keep applying for all jobs that match your area of expertise. Here are a few freelance websites that you can checkout
scriptlance.com
freelancer.com
elance.com
odesk.com
If you like writing, you can try sites like textbroker.com.
Best wishes in your job search
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
31 Jul 10
Hello and welcome-welcome to myLot. Finding any job whether it is offline or online is a full time job in itself.
Like any outside job, online is quite more challenging when you have never done it before. You have to not only find it but you also have to research and research some more. Getting online work can be easy it is finding the legit sites that become the challenge.
Most of us have many proven sites posted on our profile so may I suggest you start there. Good Luck to you and as always we here at myLot are more than willing to help all you have to do is ask.
Have a wonderful weekend! 
