Unfortunately, most people can’t find these jobs.  Worse yet, when they do finally locate the perfect job to work from home, they don’t get the gig.  I feel there are a few misconceptions about what these jobs are, where these jobs are, and how to get them.

Work at home jobs look like office based jobs.  What do I mean by that?   There are no office based jobs that consist of stuffing envelopes.  Or assembling crafts.  Or filling out surveys.  Since those jobs don’t exist in the office, they aren’t going to be sent to anyone’s home.

Legitimate work at home jobs have the same characteristics of their office based coworkers.  Assistants – virtual, personal and otherwise, accountants, customer service representatives, paralegal, transcribers, copywriters and writers exist in multinational corporations and in your local mom and pop operations.  So, just like a conventional job search, when you are looking real work at home jobs, keep your attention on work that requires actual skill and experience that you can bring.

Work at home jobs are posted where office based jobs are posted.  Legit work at home jobs will not be found in the listings of a search engine.  Just like I said above, they look like office based jobs and are filled the same way.  A hospital that needs medical transcriptionists posts a job opening for that position the same way they do for any other – on their own websites, in newspapers, on legitimate job boards like Monster.com or through other reputable well-known career websites.

Any work at home job you find on a search engine that is charging you for information or the opportunity to work at home is a rip off.  Real work at home jobs don’t require any money from you nor do they need your credit card or banking information in order to do business.

Work at home jobs are not bought, they are earned.  You don’t just ’sign up’ for a job anywhere else in the world.  Why would you think you could do so online?

You need to apply, be interviewed and hired.  You will be up against other people who have real life resumes and experience.  Successful home based workers will have their documentation crafted and matched up to each job they apply for.  It is important to follow a prospective employer’s application directions to the letter.  This not only shows that you are a professional but that you can follow direction and work unsupervised.  This is extremely important for the manager who will have employees who are not under direct supervision.

Real work at home job do exist.  Of course, there are scam artists and home business opportunities but if you keep your wits about you, you will see those coming a mile away.  Just like it is out on the streets, your best chance come from finding the right work to match your skills in the right arenas and make the best impression possible when you meet your prospective employer.

It is really becoming a win-win situation for companies facing cutbacks and reduced revenue. Trusted employees are given the opportunity to keep their jobs, save on commuting expenses and possible increase their tax deductions by using home office. The companies keep the productivity levels they are accustomed to and lower the overhead needed for an on-site employee.

Now, this news may not be any use to you if you have already been laid off from your job but don’t despair. There is increasing opportunity for work that companies are increasingly outsourcing and that doesn’t mean the jobs went offshore!

Marketing, accounting, order processing, customer service and a host of other office functions can be done cheaper and easier by a home based worker. Whether you have found freelance work or a company that has hired you to work at home, here are a few tips you need to increase your chances of success.

Create a space in your home that serves as your office. This is a necessary step if you plan on utilizing a home office tax deduction. In addition, your family members will be on notice that once you are in your office space, you are working. You will have time to spend with children or your spouse when you have completed your work.

Your office should be off limits to children even when you are not using it. You cannot afford to lose important papers or data. Neither should you have to worry about the state of your equipment while you are out of your office.

Create office hours. This is as much to train you as it is to train any members of your family that certain hours of the day are reserved for work. It is extremely easy to get distracted by children, pets, the pile of laundry or a sink full of dishes. You can give them their due attention when your office hours are over.

If possible, reduce the time you spend on other household task such as laundry, food prep and cleaning. Enlist the help of your children and spouse to keep order in the house and find economical ways to reduce the amount of time you need to spend on these activities allowing you to devote more time to your business.

As your work from home job becomes more profitable, you will even be able to hire out many of these tasks to others.

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Medical transcriptionists, for example, work from home by transcribing the recordings of medical records that doctors make.  Other types of transcription work would be to type out the minutes of board meetings, interviews, conference calls or seminars or other audio events.

This type of work often leads towards administrative work or work as a ‘virtual assistant’ which would, of course encompass duties beyond just typing.

The benefits of such an arrangement are numerous.  You get to skip the commute, stay in your pajamas all day, if you wish and no one is looking over your shoulder.  You listen to whatever music you like and you can catch your favorite TV show if you want as long as you get the work done.

These types of situations are highly sought after by moms who chose to stay at home with their children but want to make a living while they do it.  You will also find that it is more cost effective.  I joke about working in your pajamas but you don’t need an expensive wardrobe or its associated expenses, you also don’t spend money on gas, tolls or parking.  Your meals will be prepared at home and that is a great cost savings, right there.

If typing as a work from home jobs is so great, how do you get one?  Well, the reality is that you probably need a background in office work and more specifically in transcription.  There are opportunities in the medical transcription arena but you will need to prove that you have some familiarity with medical terminology.

Because typing/transcription as a work at home job is so desirable and possibly lucrative, there is a lot of competition for the available work.  It is not, as many online marketers would claim, easy to get a typing job.  The more experience you have in the field, the easier it will be, because you outshine the competition, but it won’t be easy.

Be particularly wary of training programs that promise you a job when you are done.  Unless they are the ones hiring, that kind of promise is illegal.  If you decide to get training it is recommended you attend an accredited local community college – not some book you bought online. Your teacher will most likely be in contact with people who actually do hire for this kind of work.

Keep in mind, this is a job and must be treated as one.  If you are lucky enough to get one, a medical transcriptionist job does require a certain amount of professionalism.  If the demands of your children interfere with your ability to get the job done, you may find yourself looking for a new job soon.

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Writing.

A lot of people scoff at the entire idea but websites like this and everything you read online was written by someone.  Pick a topic you are interested in and write four or five articles about it.

Follow a standard format– Introduction, Point #1, Point #2, Point #3, Conclusion – and make sure each article  is at least 350 words long.  Submit each one to AssociatedContent.com and await your payment.  When you submit your articles you’ll be asked if you want to give all rights to AssociatedContent in hopes of getting a few dollars more (but more likely, a few cents more).  Do NOT give them all the rights to the articles.  You’re going to use those articles again for more income.

Now, after you have done this four or five times, create a website.  Either your own domain name or a free blog at one of hundreds of blogging sites. Make sure you can host advertising on your site.  At the moment, I believe that free WordPress blogs don’t allow this but if you use WordPress on your own domain, you can do what you want.

Create your site using the articles you just wrote.  Apply for an AdSense account and put some advertising on your site.

Next, re-write your articles so that they are original.  You can test for originality at copyscape.com.  Submit them to ezinearticles.com.  In the bio box at the bottom of your articles, include a link back to your new site.

Lather, rinse, repeat.  You can either start on an entirely new subject or add to your existing site.

I strongly advise that you do this with your own domain because if you start generating income, you would want the ability to sell the site to someone else (for ten to twelve times its monthly earnings).

The money works out like this.  For five articles, you’ll get $15 at the low end from Associated Content, if they buy all of them.  You spend $10 getting a domain name.  So, you’re now up $5.  With some minor link-building and article writing, you can end up making $1 or more per day in advertising revenue.  Not a lot but at you can easily create one of these sites every other day.

Now, you can either keep the sites or sell them.  Apply yourself and in one month’s time you’ll have 15 sites of five pages each and submitted each page to Associated Content for $375.  You spend $10 for each domain name and you have $225 left.  And lets’ say each site only earns only $0.50 per day and you’ll earn $225 each month

All because you started writing a few articles. This may not seem like the road to riches but a couple extra hundred dollars each month is money you don’t have right now and after say, ten months, you’ve got $2,250 coming in off of AdSense.

This is a work from home job you can start today.

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