How many people here work exclusively from home/online?

United States
February 26, 2012 1:19pm CST
I'm interested to know how many of us are here just to earn supplemental income and how many of us work only online from home, or with other businesses. Me? I have 2 thriving businesses as well as offer daycare, and work online for even more income. I'm looking forward to reading your answers.
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@mcart82 (87)
26 Feb 12
I work full time at an office, but have been looking for work from home, I have a 10 year old son, and am pregnant with my second child. I would love to have an opportunity to work from home, I just haven't found anything that has really worked. Since you're doing it I would love to have some insight on how you did it, where you found it? What do you recommend?
• United States
26 Feb 12
I would be more than happy to share my business with you. We should chat. Can you email me? My email is dlawrencemompreneur@gmail.com
• United States
27 Feb 12
Try Teletech - they hire people to work customer service out of their homes. full or part time. for companies like UPS and Home Depot. I interviewed with them once but could not fit the hours offered with my full time job.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
29 Feb 12
I work online and have for around 14 years now. I started writing for a large site, then went to some freelancing, had my own site, then went to work building a community for another site, while still freelancing. I'm "mostly" retired now, but still work a little for one of the sites, proofreading and doing this and that. I still freelance a little, too.
@anne25penn (3305)
• Philippines
27 Feb 12
I am working from home right now but will be looking at opening up a business soon. The income that I am generating online cannot even be called income because I can spend it in less than an hour. But it helps in small ways and I am also looking for other sources of income, not just online but something that I can do from home. I have asked my hubby if it's okay for me to go back to work (the call center industry) but he has discouraged me from doing so because he knows that I have health issues. Rather than looking for a job, he instead asks me to look for business opportunities that we can start even with a small capital.
@Mashnn (4501)
27 Feb 12
Iam working online since I am a stay at home mum but I really do not know whether to classify my earning as supplemental. I have not earned much to count on right now but only a few dollars.
• United Arab Emirates
27 Feb 12
Right now I am a stay at home mom...my child is 5, planning to join job again ...so now a days I am into study to enhance my skills for interviews. But sometimes its too boring ...and this online working option is very good...I am enjoying the work and also planning to spend some more time to earn more:)
• United States
27 Feb 12
I'm a full time mom, so my payment is in love and poop. Before that I worked full time in a pharmacy, and I recently joined this site because I'd heard some interesting things about it. Don't worry, it wasn't bad or anything! I have recently applied with a company that outsources most of it's work to home agents and have a interview scheduled for next week. It would be something I could do during the evenings/night when my husband is home and does not require I work a minimum amount of hours. My local newspaper is pathetically small and I recently contacted the editor to see if they would be interested in some freelance columns, and they liked the sample I submitted, so I also write a short column once a month. But I find this site to be rather interesting, so I figured worse case scenario, I have a new forum type area to lurk around in, best case scenario, I make a little money doing it.
@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
26 Feb 12
I gave notice on my job in the public and will be done with it on Wednesday. I am an independent contractor doing product demonstrations, but that is not a consistent income. I have lots of earning methods online that are going to require me to get a bit more organized, so they will be lucrative as well. I have some other plans to implement, but I also am always looking for better ways for me to earn. Often what works for some does not work for me.
@dodo19 (47066)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
26 Feb 12
For the moment, I'm pretty much a stay at home mom. So, any work that I do is done pretty much entirely at home, and online. At the moment, I don't work outside of my home. I do plan at some point of getting a full-time job, but it might be a little while before this happens.
@jlamela (4898)
• Philippines
27 Feb 12
I am earning online since 2008, though I have a full time job in the university I find my income so little and cannot support my tuition in the graduate school. Online job is a good source of income, just make sure it pays a lot before you apply. There are plenty of employers who are looking for people who can write for them. Just keep on searching. Article writing has plenty of opportunities on the web and it pays great too. I am planning to quit my job this summer to concentrate online--blogging and article writing.
@VRamone (325)
• Brazil
26 Feb 12
unfortunately just working online doesn´t give us really much money,unless the dollar in your country is way too high.But why not dreaming? =/
• Canada
26 Feb 12
Right now I am a stay at home mom and so I only do a few things online for extra cash but it is not enough. I would be starting to look for a job soon and would need to work outside the home to have enough income...
@ajalitus (127)
• United States
26 Feb 12
I work exclusively online. I don't really have time for a real job with college life. If I had more time, I would obviously earn more. I'm satisfied though, working online when I can. It's not as boring as an employee job....and has it's benefits.
@artauxeo (287)
• Philippines
26 Feb 12
i resigned my former job just to focus more on working online. after i got so many work invitations online, i did hired some people who can assist me with my work. i'm okay now with the job i'm having. i earn more than that time i was still employed. and i'm loving the freedom.