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Working From Home - What a Mess

It seems simple enough, really. Almost everyone has at least once computer and a cell phone. Most people that are willing to work also have a place to call home, a roof, power, phones, and so on. If a company were to outsource to at home workers, it would certainly save money and increase profits.

I have been looking in to working from home for some time now and I find it appalling. Working from home obviously has its benefits, at least in theory.

A recent webinar I attended had me excited. Finally, a realistic opportunity to work from my home. No commute, set my own hours, have all the luxuries of home to occupy my mind on breaks and at lunch. It sounds great, and indeed it would be, but it seems there are many costs associated with working from home.

You need a POTS, or plain old telephone service to work a customer service job. That isn't a huge investment, but it is an extra expense each month I don't need. You also need a headset that can hook up into a USB port, and an additional noise cancelling headset to hook up to your phone from the wall. How about a background check? An assessment fee? Yes and Yes. Paid Training. I suppose the answer is yes if you're asking does the company you'll be working with require you to pay for training. So far, I have heard nothing about the job opportunities, but the fees are stacking up. I have never had to pay to find a job. I can see paying a fee from each check, which, by the way, is also part of the deal, but having to pay for a test, a background check and training? No, way. The real kicker here is that you have to be available during the training hours for the training you just paid for, and while there are evening training hours, many of us get home from our dead end jobs, tired and worn out. Who wants to train for nothing when they could be catching up on the latest Family Guy on Netflix?

The sundae is topped by the fact that these jobs pay less than what I make at my current job, which paid for my background check, drug screen, training and assessment. So ultimately, the opportunity wasn't worth the 15 minutes I spent listening to this presentation.

I have decided to take a different route by looking into affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is basically like a beehive. You have the main company, the queen bee, then all the drones sent out to gather the honey for the queen. The best part of it is, you get paid when the company gets paid. Not a bad deal when you consider that your paycheck is always a week behind your pay period.

I think working from home is a dream that may never die for me, and the idea that even replacing my current income with hair brained ideas from home would be enough for me. I'm not trying to get rich, but I definitely want to have my own life back.

I will keep researching the work from home ideas like the one I found recently and report back as to how it is going.

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