Any real work from home jobs?

**Rodney007** · 30th September 2009, 09:41

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** · 30th September 2009, 10:06

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

Steve

**The Pastor** · 30th September 2009, 10:21

you could rent your love from home

**Drunken Monkey** · 30th September 2009, 10:23

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** · 30th September 2009, 10:25

Hydroponics ftw!

**steve_t** · 30th September 2009, 10:29

Holy crap! I'll give you a work from home job if you pay me $24k upfront

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** · 30th September 2009, 10:35

Originally Posted by Morcs

Hydroponics ftw!

mate its almost bambi time and you know it,

maybe i should start looking when it falls back into winter

Originally Posted by steve_t

Holy crap! I'll give you a work from home job if you pay me $24k upfront

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** · 30th September 2009, 10:37

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 30th September 2009, 10:42

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** · 30th September 2009, 10:43

Start a brothel?
Alternatively move into work.

**R6_kid:Me** · 30th September 2009, 10:44

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** · 30th September 2009, 10:52

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** · 30th September 2009, 10:54

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

**Dean** · 30th September 2009, 10:59

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.