Work at Home Education Center

Why do people think that 'online jobs to work from home' really exist?

Common sense tells me that some company is not going to pay me to sit at home on a computer all day, and get paid for it. Unless, of course, if I was running my own business. But even those have an actual office/physical sales location somewhere else. For the other people...who are say, consultants, they can "work at home." But they have to meet clients and actually do a job, otherwise they make absolutely nothing. Some people sell stuff on Ebay...that's not a 'work at home' job per se. You have to pack and ship the merchandise, and usually have to make package drops at least once a day. Writers work at home, but they have to push those ideas to the outside world and get with a company/publisher...otherwise, their writing does no good at all. Even freelancers have to drum up clients and find work.

So I'm just wondering...how come so many people on here (many of which seem to be college people with degrees, for crying out loud) seem to fall for the 'work at home' thing?
I'm sure I'll get some of those, "Well, if you don't like their questions...don't read/answer them" people. But that won't stop the ignorance of today, where it seems that people ask this question on Yahoo answers and clog up the career field with, "Where can I get an online job with a legit company that pays well?" When there is no legit that pays well and is online only. If there were, we'd all be working at home and nobody would be physically working in factories, retail stores, banks, offices, etc. So basically, our world would slowly fall apart if these 'online jobs' were real.

I'm sure I'll also get the other people who say, "Well, your post is just one more post adding to those." Yes, it is...in the hopes that maybe the thousands who ask these questions on a daily basis, will stop asking them.
This seems to really help promote the spammers on here, who of course, will post their "work at home" links. Because the person who asked the question was asking regarding a "work at home job"...technically Yahoo seems to have an issue with being able to remove those. Because it is, after all, a supposedly proper answer to the question - even if it really doesn't exist.

Public Comments

1. "There's a sucker born every minute"

2. lol i work from home and i am 16,.,,,,, checkout my business at http://www.cerbid.com/ ............ just wait till i am 18 i probably be next bill gates lol :)

3. money makes people do strange things.

Computer programmers are actually the most common contractors. Once you have clients and the trust has been built, you can usually just work from home, whether it's a web service or server/client type work.

4. Well, with the massive increase in communications technology, plus the increase in commute times and the increase in gas prices, plus the fact that most of us are overscheduled and low on free time, working at home is certainly a tempting prospect. Goodness knows that I HATE spending 11-12 hours of my day at the office, plus 2 hours in traffic... on the days when I can work at home, I can get twice as much work work done (due to fewer pointless interruptions), AND I can get housework done in between projects.

I doubt that most people who are legitimately able to work from home expect to never leave the house. My husband is in outside sales for industrial equipment. While he's able to do quite a lot of his work from home (reviewing engineering drawings, pricing and submitting bids, telephoning clients and suppliers, e.g.), he also has to put in face time with his customers.

I can work remotely from home, although my boss prefers me to be in the office. Even if I were allowed to work from home regularly, I would still have to leave the house for court appearances, client meetings, and to pick up and drop off files.

The real difficulty for would-be work-at-home candidates is that, while there ARE tons of legitimate opportunities, they tend to be of two types: (1) deals struck between employers and existing employees, and (2) entrepreneurs who are willing to take the risks of starting their own business. In most cases, employers who arrange for some work-at-home time do so because they value an existing employee and can trust them to do the work accurately without putting in as much face time. And entrepreneurship requires loads of time and effort.

What really boggles my mind are the "work at home" schemes where you get paid (maybe) for irritating thousands of people per day with junk mail and spam postings. I just can't see why anyone would believe that this sort of job pays well, let alone the lofty figures that are advertised by the purported employer.

5. That's why online scammers existed and made money out of those fools who want to "work at home" happen!!!

Unless you have the expertise and skills,(eg.contract computer programmers) no companies will pay you sitting at home and staring at your computer. You should have a "product/service" while staying at home; otherwise--NON of stay home jobs will get you money!

Get real---everything in this world involves WORK! None is FREE!!

6. Wishful thinking on their part.

7. My work from home business is simply a product that I sell out of my house. I enrolled as a distributor online. Now I set up tastings for people in order to introduce them to the product. It really works and I really make money. Not everything is a scam (although there are lots of scammers out there). A little optimism on your part wouldn't hurt. BTW, just to show that I am not a scammer, I am not leaving any kind of link to my business. I just wanted you to know that, with a little research, there actually are opportunities out there. Have a nice day.

8. It seems that if you want money to come in from the outside world, perhaps you need to interact with it in some way.

I was a medical transcriptionist working from home for 13 years. I had to sell my services because I was independent. Some MTs work for others and don't sell.

I still work from home and love it, even though I do have to communicate outside.

9. I'm wondering why " working from home" bugs you. It is not a black and white issue. I know several people who are quite successful sitting in front of their computer all day. A couple are network marketers, another one designs websites and one of them spends his time testing software for video games. The word "work" usually refers to doing something productive and "from home" means their home is where the majority of their work is done. Just because you have to go to the post office, meet a client, or talk to someone on the phone
doesn't mean it's not a "true" work from home job. There used to be a lady in our neighborhood back in the day that, I suppose, had a true work from home job. She ironed other people's clothes. They dropped them off and picked them up. All she did was iron. Doesn't sound like fun to me. I consider myself working from home, I keep the books for 2 businesses and am a distributor for a company, but I am choosing not to post my links.