Working from Home

Advantages: Flexible hours, no commuting on trains and buses, work around family commitments.
Disadvantages: Self discipline requiried, spend a lot of time on your own, no guarantee of regualar income.

...I started working from home a few years ago so I've trawled through the websites looking for home working opportunities. I never gave a second thought to companies that asked for a registration fee or money upfront to offer me work. Instead I went for well known, established firms. I've been working as a mystery shopper for the last six years and enjoy it so much that I don't think I'd ever give it up! I must admit that unless you join lots of agencies you won't get a decent income from this type of work but you will get some extra cash and lots of free items, food and drink. Jobs offered are on a wide scale and include fast food outlets, electrical high street shops, mobile phone shops, retail outlets, pubs and bars, fitness centres, cinemas, hotels and more. I have enjoyed complimentary CD's, software, small electrical items...

scorpkel 30.10.2006 (31.10.2006) · Read review
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How To Make Money Working From Home On The Net

Advantages: The traditional workplace is shrinking fast!
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 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...

Mischief 16.04.2004 (21.04.2004) · Read review
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WORK FROM HOME REVIEW MUSIC £ JOBS

Advantages: EASY TO USE, MAKE MONEY
Disadvantages: A LOT OF TIME NEEDS TO BE SPENT TO EARN BIG BUCKS

...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 of your time however. One of the best and 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...

cavefender 05.02.2009 · Read review
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Do your homework before you work at home

Advantages: flexible, family friendly and on the increase
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 sell the idea to my new employer, which meant thinking through a lot of the practicalities well in advance. I am developing a new business for my employer which is a great incentive to me to succeed, but in some ways meant that my boss could...

Cazz 03.05.2001 · Read review
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Work from Home and get Ripped off

Advantages: At the moment, none
Disadvantages: You get ripped off

...I am a married woman due to have a baby in the next few weeks, I have given up a job as a soldier to become a full time mum. I have tried everything to try and find a home based job, but I have had no luck at all. Most of the companies I have written to or contacted by phone are saying that I have to pay them so much money 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 from the furthest location seem to be the worst...

Maria_932 12.03.2002 · Read review
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All work and no pay...

Advantages: Flexible Hours, Comfortable Working Environment
Disadvantages: Needs a lot of self discipline

...the morning (as it often does) I want to be out by the sea enjoying life, instead of trudging off to work hoping the sun will still be shining 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 the Internet. I have been in IT for 35 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...

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Ideas for YOUR home

Advantages: Ideas to fit a realistic budget
Disadvantages: only out monthly

...I am buying my first house shortly... and so as such my nesting instinct kicked in and I began researching and of all the magazines out there I found home ideas by far the best for the young person of today looking to furnish or re-decorate. Lets face it we aren't all on £30 or £40 thousand a year... and most house magazines seem to be apealing to this bracket. This magazine does stand out from others on the market. For a start it is cheaper, on sale at only £2.50 and found in most news agents (I pick mine up from the corner shop) this magazine consists of many ideas to fit anybodys budget. In any magazine there are usually articles and ideas for every room Kitchen, Living room, Bedroom, and Outdoors. It has articles on every room and the best thing is that every product or design idea has the price and usually a website attached...

zoeeve302 21.05.2006 · Read review
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No One's Decision But Yours! (Working Mums vs. Stay at Home Mums)

Advantages: Wider horizons for mum and financial independence in working.
Disadvantages: Women can feel trapped at home.

...Staying at home or going to work as mums-this is probably one of the most difficult decisions many of us have to make, and there are no right answers. I want to talk about this from the perspective of a mum who has brought up two sons and two daughters, the youngest of whom is now 17. In the 1950's this was never really the massive issue it has become today. Women in many cases just expected to be at home raising children, and of course caring for the home. The choices for child care were limited, and for many it was a dream to become a mum and a housewife. I remember vividly being a bridesmaid for my cousin when he married in the early 70s. His wife was thrilled by the thought of a future caring for a home and a family, she had been buying groceries weekly and storing them under her bed. I'll never forget her excitement when she pulled...

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YOU NEED NEVER MISS THIS MORNING AGAIN

Advantages: Freedom, money-saving
Disadvantages: None for me

...a rationalisation of office space, and an overall decrease in accommodation costs. Assuming that you have the option open to you, before you rush over to your boss in the morning, here’s a few ideas to consider before you take that big step into home employment: Is it right for me? You should 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 House Invaders is on. Working from home is not an excuse to take it easy – in fact, given that I now...

LostWitness 06.06.2001 (01.11.2002) · Read review
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My new career

Advantages: Freedom to work as and when I feel able
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 accrued holiday pay. I put this into a savings account with Egg and I use it on a month by month basis to ‘top up’ my finances. Although it was only effectively four months pay, I worked out that I could make it last nearer to twelve...

SusanLesley 15.08.2001 · Read review
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