OT: Anyone do any part-time or work-from-home work?

[flere-imsaho]

I have a full-time job, which is great, but I've been musing about getting something part-time (off-hours or work-from-home) to add some extra cash. Things that have sprung to mind include shifts at Home Depot or a coffee shop, editing/proofreading from home, maybe even retail.

Has anyone else been in a similar position? Any experience/advice?

[Franklinnoble]

Clearly, you need to consider "freelance cartoonist" in your deliberation.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

I think you should set up an FOFC shop on Cafe Press or something. Sell your Flasch diagram.

[flere-imsaho]

Haha! I doubt people would pay good money for those cartoons. :)

[scooter]

My sister is a stay-at-home mom with 3 kids. She does some copy-editing work for a couple publishers. She seems to really enjoy it. She fits it in when the kids are taking naps or after they go to bed. Her husband is really busy with his work, but when he can watch the kids for a while, she works then too.

I think she just got into it by cold calling a few publishers. They sent out a test project for her to do and she went from there. She gets paid by the page or by the project. She also happens to know a lot about punctuation, the English language, etc.

Something else to consider (I'm self-employed and work from home) is your local state's tax laws. Make sure you figure out what you have to declare as income and to whom. Good luck.

[Thomkal]

I'd be curious about this kind of work too. I always see those web-ads for work from home sites and never knew if they were legitimate or not. Anyone have links to some, or sites with more information on them?

[revrew]

I work from home, though through a business I'm building from the ground up, NOT a "work-from-home" deal. Interestingly enough, the work I do is copyediting, proofreading, freelance writing, etc. See my website (shameless plug to follow): www.storycraftcommunications.com

Having clients set up before you launch into the biz is exceptionally helpful. Though I work for a variety of clients, 90% of my work is for a client that I had set up before I moved the office home.

[Radii]

I'd be curious about this kind of work too. I always see those web-ads for work from home sites and never knew if they were legitimate or not. Anyone have links to some, or sites with more information on them?


A few years ago I subscribed to a work-from-home job listing site to try to find ways to make some extra money. The jobs posted seemed legit, but they were few and far between for what I wanted. Also, the number of people looking for jobs vastly outweighed the actual jobs available.

Most of them were 1-time secret shopping requests, and medical transcription, which from what I understand is a very legitimate work at home way to go, but is expensive to get certified and then you still have to market yourself and get work for yourself.

In short, I sure wouldn't pay for any work at home job listings ever again :D

[rkmsuf]

Play poker. You can make at least $1,000 per month in site bonuses alone.

You are only 75 months away from a Porche.

[Subby]

Play poker. You can make at least $1,000 per month in site bonuses alone.

[Thomkal]

Subby,

I'd have to be good at poker first. :)

Thanks for the info here still looking for more opinions/websites if anyone else wants to chime in.

[Icy]

You can also design online casino sites and make $2000 per month from the guys who are looking to make $1000 in bonus :)

Out of jokes, graphics design/web design/programming if so easy to do from home, i started as hobby 5 years ago and have been living exclusively from it for the last 3 years.

[judicial clerk]

my brother-in-law works from home except the occasional trip to China. His job is awesome. He manages some kind of contract for his company and HP where they essentially take orders for parts from HP production sites then orders the parts by the gross. He manages a team of about 10, none of whom are in the same place. His job was an office job, but he pushed for work from home and the company allowed it on a limited basis. Then the company saw the work from home as a banefit and allowed him to work from home as much as he could. He brings in a healthy $150K and he goes to work in his flannel pj's.

I guess the moral is that to get a "good" work form home job, you should find a job where it would be feasible to work from home, then make yourself valuable to the business, then push for work from home. Of course this would be a long term plan.

Threadjack: The contract my brother in law manages is worth about $20mm and he is the guy with all the knowledge in how to fulfill the contract. I have been pushing him to nut up and start his own company and then take the contract with him. He could be filthy rich. I even offered to quit my job and manage his posse