Stay-at-home moms are overwhelmed with ads for companies promising big money from home for minimal work. Though I vouch for none of these personally, here are two of the companies making work-at-home headlines right now.
Home with the Kids
One of the latest in a list of work-from-home job opportunities, Home with the Kids, is offering stay-at-home moms and dads the opportunity to make some money while enjoying family time. They have jobs in every line of work imaginable. If you have a marketable skill, you will surely find a paycheck here.
Virtual Assistant
There are also sites like Virtual Office Temps and Virtual Assistant Jobs that reveal the hows and whys of becoming a virtual assistant for public companies and private individuals. A virtual assistant is a person who does office work from home on a project-by-project basis. There are generally no contracts, and the pay scale is minimal. It is cheaper for the employer because they do not have to pay a full-time employee, and it works great for the employee because he or she can work as little or as much as they want to.
Other opportunities
For a list of potential work-at-home jobs, check out the blog on Achieve Your Career Goals or the Fox Business report on "real" work-from-home opportunities.
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Comments
Why run the rat race working at home for someone else when you can run your own race and start a home based business making money online like I did?
There's an incredible amount of money to be made out there and you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself. You can take control of your life and start your own home based business. Here's where I got started StartMySmallBiz.com. Hope to see you on this side of the desk.
I started my own business, Edge VA, to provide virtual assistance to small businesses from my home office. I agree that there are some opportunities for employment on a telecommuting basis for some companies, but those considering virtual assistance as a part-time job should do more research.
Most VAs I know work as contractors, running their own business. It is straight-forward to start your own business, but you need to have the mindset of an entrepreneur, not an employee. For example, you may not find clients or make a private immediately as a business does take time and patience to build.
I work from my home office, and adjust my schedule to accommodate my family's needs; something a regular 9-5 job didn't allow me the freedom to do. It is doable, and definitely rewarding. I just wanted to put it out there though that Virtual Assistance isn't something you can just pick up because you have a computer and an internet connection.
Crystal Coleman
www.edgeva.ca
VAs bring real value to the businesses that they support. Clients can free their time to do the work that they love to do. A dedicated VA who loves to take care of administrative work will take care of the details as well or sometimes better than the client can. As entrepreneurs, many VAs are well-compensated and should be for the quality of work that is entrusted to them. And many do use contracts for their own and their clients' protection. It's just a good business practice.
Sharon Anderson
Beam Virtual Assistance
www.beamva.com
I work as a Virtual Assistant in Scotland but find my clients are worldwide. There is also a fantastic resource out there for VAs and one I use frequently is VAnetworking.com which has really useful forums and articles.
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