The Reality of Working at Home
I have spent the last five years trying to work at home and have
had some success. The following are a few facts I have to share
with people who are either trying to or have given up trying to
work at home. Q. What about places that put up "pay money to get
a job" postings? Are they worth the money? Will I get a job if I
spend the money? A. If a job asks for money, then it is not
really a job. Think of it this way, would you pay to fill out an
application for a job outside the home? No, of course you would
not, so why you would pay someone for a work-at-home job? Let's
say that a listing says "Buy our software and you can work at
home." This probably means that you buy the software up-front
and they give you a list of places that might hire you. The
software is usually something similar to what you already have
in your computer, like a word processor program or something you
could buy in a local office supplies store's discount section.
The list of jobs they give you is usually a list of companies
they found in the phone book and you can find the same companies
yourself just by using the Internet Yellow Pages. And if
companies were really hiring work-at-home people, then why would
they give the software to another company to sell? They
wouldn't! They would list the software requirements in their
help wanted classified advertisement. Fact to remember: If they
ask for money, then it is probably not a real job. Q. What about
these places that advertise "Pay to join our group and we will
help you find a job" or "We have hundreds or thousands of jobs
listed" sites? A. I spent over $500.00 on those during my second
year of job searching and never did get a job. I'm not saying
they are all bad or tried to rip me off. Some were an
all-and-all-out scam. Others honestly tried to provide a good
job list for me to send my resume, but if you don't have the
requisite skills, it doesn't matter how many honest job listings
are provided. Still others provided job listings that were so
old, they were no longer hiring or no longer in business! These
sites used old job listings so they could say they had
"thousands of jobs" listed. There were also some that listed
jobs found listed by "monsters" and headhunters. My best advice
is if you want to join one of these places, then you should go
to a "work at home"-type message board and ask for other
experiences with the company. Ask questions like: Did you really
get the material they promised to send to you? What kind of jobs
do the sites offer? Did you find a job? Remember that the people
who run these companies often go to these message boards and
reply to the questions posted by people like you , so be sure
and wait till you get several replies so you can get to the
truth. Fact to remember: Do your homework before spending the
money