No 9 to 5 and they say Unemployed?

I hear ya. People think just because I don't have a traditional job that I don't work. I hate it. I work for many hours of the day. A lot of people take advantage of my time because they think I have all the free time in the world because I don't have a traditional job. People just don't get it.

Sooo, you're referring to the meager earnings those of us online make that takes up so many hours of our days, right?

I get that and agree with you. How people work is changing so much these days and there is no reason anyone should work 9 to 5.

No, people do not seem to understand. When I say that I worked as self employed all my life, people think that I did nothing. I worked most of the time more than 10 hours every day.

could just say you are self employed, or that your work requires flexible hours. lol

I think that people are build with traditional mindset in terms of job and employment. You cannot consider someone unemployed just because he do not have 9-5 working hour schedule like them. But it is a fact that people might not consider the earnings through online job or other part time basis as a fixed source of income. I had one friend of mine , who used to work from home, as she was a online tutor for a particular organization. But many of our friends do not even consider her employed despite her earning almost the same like them. This is a traditional mentally with people and if we want , we can just ignore this.

I get told everyday that I do not work. Only if they knew. You have to be part of the mainstream workforce I guess. Not my fault the economy works the way it does and in turn trying to find alternate ways to support myself without depending on anyone but me.

That's true people think of being unemployed if you don't work in a office. They don't know that today there are other ways too by which people earn by sitting at home. May you need to tell them.

For many years several in our family have worked online or elsewhere for themselves-no 9-5 for them! Especially since 2000 it seems there are many doing this-Thought it would be known about far and wide, but have seen that is not so. Try the expression 'Online contributor' as your employment.

The nine to five concept of work is quite a contemporary idea, I would have thought. Back in the old days they worked according to the season and the light. I suppose the Industrial Revolution changed that, and work laws. I would also imagine that the majority of working folk don't work a nine to five job. Teaching staff, nurses, doctors, farmers, photographers, authors, leisure industry employees, security guards, hospitality folk, airline staff, etc. The nine to fivers' are probably the minority!

My uncle actually told me that I don't work a normal job and that I should get a "regular" job. I so say now that I work a non-job to throw it back into his face. If you get paid, then it's a job. You should say that you are a freelancer, or independent contractor.

Some can not just understand that there is other jobs beyond then9-5

Very nice thought, its really mot important to work in office. You dont need to prove thst you are working .people work is say blah blah things but you ignore all this and enjoy your working.

I'm like that too with my job as a nurse, I work night shift so people always see me during the day and might think I never work.

what exactly is working remotely?