Any real work from home jobs?

[Rodney007]

Just wondering if there are any real work from home jobs out there?

I rang up one but they required 25k money down!!!!!!!

was just wanting some kind of data entry , or sorting of some kind for a couple of hours a day after my day job..

is there such a thing? anyone tried working from home? anyone put cash down?

churz

[CookMySock]

Hehe any home business is going to set you back at least 25-225k.

Steve

[The Pastor]

you could rent your love from home

[Drunken Monkey]

A lot of contract software developers work from home, but I suspect if you were already skilled enough to be one you'd probably already know that.

[Morcs]

Hydroponics ftw!

[steve_t]

Holy crap! I'll give you a work from home job if you pay me $24k upfront :crazy: It pays $12.50 an hour and I can give you 40 hours a week for a minimum of 9 months... WTF?! I hope nobody is getting scammed by this sort of thing and paying big money to get a job!!

[Rodney007]

Hydroponics ftw!

mate its almost bambi time and you know it,

maybe i should start looking when it falls back into winter :2thumbsup


Holy crap! I'll give you a work from home job if you pay me $24k upfront :crazy: It pays $12.50 an hour and I can give you 40 hours a week for a minimum of 9 months... WTF?! I hope nobody is getting scammed by this sort of thing and paying big money to get a job!!

I think by memory (which aint the best) it was investment into a race horse,....or something along those lines,
and yes its a real shame some get sucked in but surely some can make some decent money.

[vifferman]

A lot of contract software developers work from home, but I suspect if you were already skilled enough to be one you'd probably already know that.
Yeah, I did that for a couple of years (programming and IT support). Work was kinda patchy, but at $60/hour plus all expenses (cheap at twice the price), even though the most I worked in one year was about 10 weeks, it still gave me a reasonable income. Supplemented it by doing odd jobs (painting, plastering, picking/packing kiwifruit, unpaid house-husbanding). Used some of the money (and my off time) to build a new kitchen from scratch.

Set up costs? Upgraded the PC and software, installed a second phone line. Cost me bugger all. Worst thing is all the self-employed tax and ACC malarkey. ACC were still chasing me up for payments nearly 2 years after I stopped being self-employed. It's farkin mental: they must be one of the only organisations that can say, "Oh - we fukt up and didn't charge enough the year before last, so you'll have to pay us some more to make our books look good." In the end I sicked my tax accountant onto them.

[The Wop]

There are a lot of work from home (and get rich quick!) scams out there too. Quite a few of them are like the old pyramid selling schemes, but disguised just enough to be legal.

Others apparently teach you how to play the stock market in such a way that you will never lose!! Same for trading currencies with VERY LOW RISK.

For both of these there should be a Tui Billboard....YEAH RIGHT!!

If it was that easy, and always so successful, surely we would all be doing it?

[Slyer]

Start a brothel?
Alternatively move into work.

[R6_kid]

Not likely to get data entry jobs from home. I used to work at for a Temp Agency getting $20/hr for non-skilled data entry work. It took about two days to get up to speed and from then on it was just a matter of showing up on time, working 8hrs a day listening to my mp3 player and not hitting on the girls in the office too much.

Some companies offer evening work, but you'll most likely have to go to them - but that is the best way to fall into 'work from home'. They need to see that you are reliable, honest and trustworthy. FWIW Data Entry is one of the most boring desk jobs you can have. I was lucky in that my first job was for the Air Force (through my father) which was converting a library of aircraft parts books to a database - it would have been mundane had I not had an interest in aircraft. After that I got a job working for an Electricity Maintenance company which was also fairly interesting.

[Milts]

If you are able to devote time, money and a LOT of effort.... you could always get into online poker. Some decent money to be made in that (and also the potential to lose a lot if you aren't careful, don't control your emotions and don't focus). AFAIK you can't easily get data entry jobs at home... the search engine ChaCha was recruiting people to assist in searches for $5 USD per hour, but I don't know if they still are.

[Rodney007]

I new I shoulda stayed at uni, !
working from home would be swweeeeeeet!

[Dean]

Become a massage therapist, put some signs outside your house, have a massage table, approve your clients (the hot chicks) and say its for trust/safety reasons, get some oils, charge $50 an hour. Massagers get big time money if you do it right, you dont have to work all day just choose when you want to perform your services. Its in great need in these dire times, all these beautiful women out there need you to relieve the built up tension in their aching bones.

[SMOKEU]

With an investment of roughly $300-$350 you could buy an ounce of chronic and some tinfoil and somehow make money from that.

[nosebleed]

Sure you could "rent your love" (nice expression) but the true money is to be made in pimping.

Not nearly so physical as it only requires the occasional slapping.
Get yourself a good stable and it's on.

If you've still got that $25k I could prolly scrounge you up a couple of 'old stock' to get started.

[Rodney007]

Become a massage therapist, put some signs outside your house, have a massage table, approve your clients (the hot chicks) and say its for trust/safety reasons, get some oils, charge $50 an hour. Massagers get big time money if you do it right, you dont have to work all day just choose when you want to perform your services. Its in great need in these dire times, all these beautiful women out there need you to relieve the built up tension in their aching bones.

that all sounds real good, but i duno how walking them through my parents house, taking them to my room and then getting them to lay face down on my bed would go down :D:D

[Big Dave]

>>getting them to lay face down on my bed would go down<<

I think you're not doing it right.

[Beemer]

Just wondering if there are any real work from home jobs out there?

I rang up one but they required 25k money down!!!!!!!

was just wanting some kind of data entry , or sorting of some kind for a couple of hours a day after my day job..

is there such a thing? anyone tried working from home? anyone put cash down?

churz

Short answer? No.

I've worked from home for seven years and trust me, it's not easy. The only way you'd get data entry work that you could do from home is if you'd worked for a company before and they were happy for you to work from home. Most companies want you where they can see you so they aren't paying you to watch tv or go riding!

Any job that requires you to shell out money upfront (other than for samples or that kind of thing) is dodgy, as is any job where you have to fill out incredibly detailed online forms before they will tell you what it is. My mother used to tell me there were heaps of jobs advertised so to shut her up I looked into one and they wanted to know every detail, including my bank account and IRD number, so I didn't complete the online form.

Basically, in order to work from home you need to be doing something you can do from home using your own computer, etc. Confidentiality is another problem - some places won't let you take work home due to privacy.

I do writing, editing and research work from home but it's all from people contacting me through my website or people recommending me for jobs. Work you can do from home and make a good living from is pretty thin on the ground.

[P38]

Just wondering if there are any real work from home jobs out there?

I rang up one but they required 25k money down!!!!!!!

was just wanting some kind of data entry , or sorting of some kind for a couple of hours a day after my day job..

is there such a thing? anyone tried working from home? anyone put cash down?

churz

Have you tried taking in Ironing.

Lots of people hate that chore

Set up cost would be under $100.

All you need is and Iron, an Ironing Board and some low cost advertising.

[Str8 Jacket]

Become a massage therapist, put some signs outside your house, have a massage table, approve your clients (the hot chicks) and say its for trust/safety reasons, get some oils, charge $50 an hour. Massagers get big time money if you do it right, you dont have to work all day just choose when you want to perform your services. Its in great need in these dire times, all these beautiful women out there need you to relieve the built up tension in their aching bones.

You sound creepy...

[Drunken Monkey]

Actually if you like to play computer games, there is money to made by PowerLevelling up characters for busy working types that like to play things like WoW, but only have a few hours a week to play and don't want to get left behind. Basically they pay you to spend all day doing mundane tasks to add skills or wealth to the character. Geeky, but it pays in US$. Frowned upon as well, and may break the rules/spirit of the game, but when you're desperate a job is a job. Best of all, if you like MMORPGs, then you get paid to play!
I wouldn't know where to get started as a powerleveller, but maybe a place like this can lead you down the right direction:
http://www.wowpowerleveling.me/wow-power-leveling.asp

[ready4whatever]

A saw a job advertized and you get paid to put up trademe listings all day.

[Teflon]

Forex

I just watch those blue and red stick-thingys, wait to they all go in one direction... its more entertaining than poker