Working from Home

I have been working at home part time for the last 2 years, full time for the last 3 months. I gave up my full time job at the end of May and opted for working from home, my stress levels at work were through the roof, commuting was a pain (even when I walked to work I got tired of it in the freezing winter) and I just felt unappreciated and underpaid. To get the money I wanted I would have had to work in the city, or private clinic and they wanted ...
...So, slowly I moved to working at home, I am by profession a Medical Secretary, but with a rather good IT background also. I work for 3 companies now, transcribing medico-legal reports, clinic letters (occasionally I do non medical, transribing interviews and focus groups etc.). I am doing quite well - at least holding onto the salary i'm used to - but do not be fooled into thinking that its the best thing since sliced bread. It is isolating, being ...

bluetedgirl 28.08.2007 · Read full review
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Working from Morgenhund Towers in the centre of Vienna has proved to be a very interesting experience, and although I have earned my keep for the last six months purely by sitting at my desk and translating, writing articles for magazines, evaluating software and sorting out sponsorship deals for various causes, I still long for an office job. Let’s face it, whilst I don’t have hellish times commuting across a large city at rush-hour ...
...as it sounds. Firstly, working from home is only possible thanks to the marvels of modern technology. I have a permanent net connection, which allows me to send documents across town to people, so I can work via the net, and indeed a lot of my translation work comes over the ‘Net from foreign climes and is sent back when finished, without out ever appearing on paper. However if my connection goes down, then things get interesting. A couple ...

Morgenhund 08.05.2001 · Read full review
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...many ways and means of working from home, but my opinion is not really about the various money-making schemes pedalled by unscrupulous sales people that you see advertised in the newspaper. Sorry to be so harsh, but surely everyone realises that these “get rich quick” schemes are a complete waste of time. My experiences of working from home refer to my current circumstances, whereby I have been fortunate enough to secure a management ...
...closely consider your personal circumstances. Working from home does not suit everybody. There are a number of people with whom I have worked who have openly admitted that working from home would be disastrous for their career. The lack of immediate supervision, and the requirement to manage time may be something that you are not terribly good at, and before long you will find yourself diverting your phone to voicemail every day at 11:00 because ...

LostWitness 06.06.2001 (01.11.2002) · Read full review
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...I have been used to working in an office for 30 years and suddenly there I was on my own all day at home. I don’t have a problem with being alone and rarely get bored but I did begin to miss the interaction with other people. I have now found this at Ciao and Dooyoo together with a bit of extra cash. I have so far earned £150 in cash and £50 worth of High Street vouchers from Dooyoo and £186 from Ciao. I also do other work on the Internet. ...
...op for full details) where I am a ‘mystery customer’ testing out websites. I have earned £41.75 so far and have another £21 ready to be paid to me at the end of this month. I was also one of the very few people who worked hard and fast for Asrecby and actually got paid my £30. I now I was very lucky to receive this but it was a welcome addition to my finances. I do a set of competitions each morning including Tombola and Bananalotto ...

SusanLesley 15.08.2001 · Read full review
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...at the actual situation of working from your home, as opposed to some other place. I started working from home nearly a year ago, after the birth of my daughter made me rethink my priorities. Not working wasn’t an option, and if I had returned to my then employer I would have had to put a 6 month old in a creche for about 9 hours a day, a prospect that I found unthinkable. I felt that I was incredibly lucky to find a job that enabled me to ...
...I’ve found myself sneakily checking my emails late at night, knowing my partner will be irritated with me working so late but I can’t help dwelling on it when an important project’s going on… However if you can cover off all of the above, it really is fantastic. ...

Cazz 03.05.2001 · Read full review
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...and there was a working from home forum... On here I found lots of helpful advice,about scams (envelope stuffing etc etc ) and then I came across childrens books. This is something I considered doing after my first child was born,so I decided to look into it.. USBORNE are a legit company who are registered with the DSA (Direct selling association),there website www.usbornebooksathome.co.uk is a professional website with all the credentials i ...
...If you are looking into working from home and my advice is too research your "job" before siging anything.. have a look at working from home forums! have a look on here if its a buisness opp,someone else may have written a review on it... and when you decide which ones for you GO FOR IT and enjoy yourself Thanks for reading Deenaxx ...

Deenar 05.06.2004 · Read full review
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Sports Arbitrage Hi. The internet. It’s transformed our lives, right? Whereas we all used to troll off semi-comatose to squash ourselves onto the tube, train or bus, commuting to what seemed like a life sentence of tedious office routine, now we can all make money from home using the internet. It’s a revolution. We can be home to pick up after our kids, to wipe their noses and switch on Tracey Beaker – office politics, crushes and Christmas parties ...
...I’ve been trawling the net for bona-fide home-working opportunities for, let’s say… too long. Three thousand years, maybe. It’s hard to work out which schemes are genuine so I thought it might be kind of useful to start sharing some thoughts about these schemes. First, what is 'sports arbitrage'? It’s a fancy word for betting. Its derivation is from the world of financial markets, and it’s basically all about definitely, definitely, always, always ...

Mischief 16.04.2004 (21.04.2004) · Read full review
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...at the end of the working day. I have seen too many dismally disappointing weekends to want to miss out on the good times mid-week. But how in this day and age is such a lifestyle achievable? There is of course no easy answer (unless you still follow the lifestyle of the hippies of the sixties) - in this life it seems we only get out of it what we are prepared to put in. Some years ago I spent a lot of time researching ways of earning money on ...
...years and so had a good idea of what would, and more importantly, what wouldn't work. My research included MLM schemes (multi-level marketing), Network Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Paid to Surf, Paid to Read (E-mails), Obvious Ponzi schemes (like 12 Daily Pro), E-books, Blog Blasters, to name but a few. All of these schemes have one thing in common, you have to promote them in some way, and if you are not prepared to pay out for some form of ...

pmdunn 27.01.2007 · Read full review
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...were selling the idea of working from home, making money stuffing envelopes and sending them out, and they will pay you for every mail that you sent out. But first, you'll have to pay for a one time admin fee of $34.95 where they'll send you all the necessary things to get started. I fell for it because it sounded reliable and that they offered a refund if i'm not satisfied with the results or if i'm not making money at all. I went ahead and paid ...
...A4 sized envelope containing a flimsy looking and cheap photocopied book (28 pages) containing different silly and impractical instructions to place ads in the newspaper to get people to be interested (i.e. to get suckers to pay you and you will send them the same ads and they do the same to others) There were nothing on the envelope stuffing they advertised on the website. Immediately, I knew I was conned. It was all a scam to rob me of my $34.95 ...

marybee 08.08.2003 · Read full review
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...that do offer honest home working opportunities. I am yet to find one and I think it best to save my money as I can't see myself getting rich any day yet. The only money I have made so far is from Ciao, so it's not all bad. But steer clear from the get rich quick scams. They don't work. ...

wardenblw431 01.04.2003 · Read full review
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...before I can even start working for them. So thats what I did, I sent one company the money they were asking for, I received a letter confirming receipt of the money and that I would here from them in the very near furure. But did I? No, I have heard nothing. I tried contacted the company and I heard nothing from them. I am unable to name the companies as I am unable to remember them, but I have tried a few. The companies that are from far away ...
...Just another scam that I fell into and wasted money to try and work from home to occupy myself and earn a little bit of cash. WARNING Don't give out money to companies asking for so much money before they will let you work from home for them, as they take your money and that is that they do not want to know you anymore. I'm still trying to look for a home based job, and will not give up, but one thing for sure is that I will not be giving money ...

Maria_932 12.03.2002 · Read full review
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Hi there, I thought I would share my experiences of homeworking with you. First off, heres one that almost anyone over the age of 16 can do, and that is become an Avon Rep, I have been one for 4 years now and really enjoy it. You will find info on becoming a rep at www.avon.uk.com. You don't have to go round doors with brochures, although obviously if you do you will increase your sales! Commission of 20% is paid on orders over £45, (although that ...
...it really isn't hard to reach that amount in sales once you get started, there are loads of ways to get orders other than door to door, for example..... friends and family, playgroup/nursery/school, work (if you already have another job), leaving a few brochures in your local shop/hairdressers and once you have been doing it for a while word of mouth, you will often find people asking for a brochure for a friend. You do have to buy the brochures ...

elaine40uk 16.06.2006 · Read full review
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My partner and I have been an independent kleeneze distributors now for 12 months. And we easily pay our mortgage each month with the money we make building our kleeneze business. Kleeneze is growing from strength to strength year on year. Launching in Holland last year and soon europe. Imagine that, a kleeneze catalgoue in germany! WOW. On the surface it can look a bit of a scam at first, but i trusted the people I had met and asked loads of questions. ...
...a distributor, I didnt get it, my manager delivering catalogues, he showed me how much he made and just like they say... "the rest is history". We joined. Starting your own business will always take hard work and the system will reward you for your efforts, it will pay you exactly what you are worth. It is a network marketing company, founded over 80 years ago and is british. Kleeneze are also a founder member of the Direct Selling Assosiation. ...

stevenstel 04.08.2005 · Read full review
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...she does more work while working from home than she ever would in an office because once you leave the office you leave your work behind but when the computer is just there and you have stuff that needs doing you feel that you should. The amount of nights that we have sat there with piles of papers organizing and sorting into info and delegate packs is rather scary still good excuse to open a few bottles of wine I suppose. Working from home may work ...

barrytoplis 14.10.2001 · Read full review
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I have tried many working from home ideas rangeing from taking part in surveys to selling products. There are so many ways you can make an extra penny or two but the reality is, thats all you make. There are no quick fire ways of becoming a millionaire but there are a few ways you can earn a couple of hundred quid in a month. The best way I found is not to focus on one working from home job but to do as many as you can, this does take up a lot ...
...most enjoyable way is to review new music, The site www.slicethepie.com allows you to listen to 60secs of a song then write a review and get paid, you need to review 50songs before you start earning 3p a song then around 150songs til your earning 7-10p a song. You can also invest in new artists and if they become famous you will receive a % of their sales. Try it out and give it a go, IT'S FREE!! You can do around 40 songs in an hour which means ...

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