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for Working from Home

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  • 72 of 72 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    plipplopfromdooyoo

    4 Stars When Your House Is Not Just Your Home... Review with images 06/03/2011

    Advantages Advantages Saves time, can increase effectiveness and is much more flexible than office working

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Doesn't suite everyone, can be isolating

    Working from home' is one of those phrases that means different things to different people. Full-time office workers may enjoy the balance of a day or two working from home, essentially completing stuff that they would have done in the office without the actual commute. You can, of course, do that on a full-time basis and many businesses are now trying to get their permanent employees out of the office to save costs. Other people see working from home as running a business from home, full-time. For the purposes of this review, I'm really talking about the former as my experience of the latter ... more
  • 73 of 73 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 kineticspade

    Member since 07/12/2005

    Reviews written: 446

    5 Stars An easy life 08/03/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages see review

    Disadvantages Disadvantages see review

    Why did I look for a work from home job? I had to leave my previous job due to me been pregnant with my twins, I am not the sort of person who likes to be out of work. Since I left school I have always been in work. But when my twins came along life did get pretty busy. But I did miss the money I used to get from working. So I decided to try and get a job somewhere, although I was not sure what I could do with 2 young children in tow. Then I found the perfect job where I could work from home on a permanent basis. This would be ideal as I could work round the children and work hours that suited ... more
  • 56 of 56 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Morgenhund

    Member since 26/07/2000

    Reviews written: 574

    3 Stars No Christmas Party Shenanigans 08/05/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages no commuting, convenience, you can set your own hours

    Disadvantages Disadvantages lack of contact with others, no jollies

    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 (I admit that Vienna’s rush-hour is not as bad as London’s) the fact that I only have to fall out of bed to hit the on switch of my ... more
  • 36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 3 bluetedgirl

    Member since 29/01/2006

    Reviews written: 41

    4 Stars Are you disciplined enough? 28/08/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages No travel, relaxed atmosphere, less stress, more control

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Isolation, no employer pension contributions, no sick or holiday pay

    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 blood out of me to earn it. So, slowly I moved to working at home, I am by profession a Medical Secretary, but with a rather good IT background ... more
  • 10 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    dragonman101

    5 Stars Work From Home 09/06/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages make own hours, own boss, opportunity to grow, save on gas and travel

    Disadvantages Disadvantages taxes, must be willing to work, must know what to look for

    Are you wondering how to make money online? Have you been searching for hours, days, weeks, etc. and still haven't found much? Well, based off of my own experiences, I have 1 great suggestion for you: www.workfromhome.com This site is great! It provides you with a great work from home opportunity, and if you need more information, someone will contact you as soon as possible. What's even beter is that this site is more than just a work from home opportunity, you can also shop with this site (it has an amazon seach engin, and a sony shop centre) and check out the latest news. Just browse the ... more
  • 138 of 139 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    LostWitness

    5 Stars YOU NEED NEVER MISS THIS MORNING AGAIN 06/06/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Freedom, money-saving

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None for me

    There are 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 position, for which my place of work is my home. As more and more companies awaken to the potential of home working, that daily journey to ... more
  • 76 of 76 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    SusanLesley

    5 Stars My new career 15/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Freedom to work as and when I feel able

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Loss of interaction with office colleagues

    I have been thinking about writing an opinion on employment and considered my career as a Local Government Accountant with Walsall MBC. Whilst I enjoyed my work with Walsall, which in total spanned just short of thirty years, I have been happier since I left in January this year and have decided to tell you about what I like to call my new career being self employed. My idea was that I would try and work from home as much as possible to supplement the general household budget. When I left Walsall I was given three months pay in Lieu of notice together with almost another months worth of ... more
  • 61 of 63 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Cazz

    4 Stars Do your homework before you work at home 03/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages flexible, family friendly and on the increase

    Disadvantages Disadvantages need to think it all through carefully first

    This isn’t an opinion about different ways you can make lots of money, but instead intends to look 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 work full time from my own home. I had to ... more
  • 37 of 37 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Deenar

    5 Stars Usborne are the best! 05/06/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages I can take my children to work with me

    Disadvantages Disadvantages NONE

    I have decided to do another review on my job with USBORNE as it was nearly a year ago since joining...so its an update really. BACK TO THE BEGINNING........................ I had my 2nd child and wanted/needed extra cash. I couldnt go back to my current job as the cost of childcare and the complexity of arranging people to drop and collect my elder child from nursery was all a bit too much. AND this time round I didn't really want to go back to work,I was having far too much fun!!!!!!!!! SO me being me,started scouring the Interent for jobs I could do from home... I registered with Mystery ... more
  • 51 of 51 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Mischief

    2 Stars How To Make Money Working From Home On The Net 16/04/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages The traditional workplace is shrinking fast!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You have to place large bets to make good profits

    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 are a thing of the past. Right? Well, I’ve been trawling the net for bona-fide home-working opportunities for, let’s say… too long. Three thousand ... more
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