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The Truth about Legitimate, Decent-Pay Work at Home Jobs

Websites | List of Some Work at Home Jobs

Working at home. That statement sounds sooooooooo good, doesn't it? Many, many people would love to have a legitimate, decent-paying work at home job. For many people, when they think of work at home jobs, they think of scams. There are so many scams out there that it is understandable. However, there really ARE SOME credible, legitimate work at home jobs. There are NOT a lot of them, but there are quite a few that some people have found. This web page will attempt to provide resources that will lead you to legitimate work at home jobs. When reading this web page, we want to emphasize some key concepts:


Websites that Try to Feature Legitimate Work at Home Jobs

Work at Home Careers.com says that they "provide no cost pre-screened work at home jobs. However, this site is supported by advertisements. We strongly encourage you to do your research for any work at home opportunity or product that requires a fee. Ultimately, our goal is to help you work from home and avoid being scammed! Hopefully you'll be able to achieve this with the job leads, articles, videos & scam avoidance information provided on this site. Good luck on your search."

As we said way above, we believe that the staff of Work at Home Careers.com honestly work hard at providing lists of legitimate work at home jobs. However, some scam jobs may make their way to the lists. There are advertisements which ARE advertisements and NOT the screened lists of jobs. There are A LOT of links for you to explore because there is A LOT of very, very good helpful information here. Please just take your time and explore the many links at workathomecareers.com.

 

Mommy Making Money.com is operated by Kelly Land who has learned a lot over the years by working at home. Like some work at home websites, this website has "mommy" in the title but like the other work at home websites, this website is for anyone who is looking for home jobs. This website is similar to "working at home careers.com" but it is operated by a different person. There is just too much to say about this website, so I encourage you to explore this website. There is A LOT of very helpful information here about work at home jobs. However, watch out for those advertisements. Some of them sure fooled me.

 

WAHM.com the online magazine for work-at-home moms is another great website that features all kinds of information about work at home jobs.

On the upper left corner of the screen is a link to "Work at Home Jobs." This link takes you to a web page that appears to be programmed to search job search engines (like Indeed) that will find jobs that have the term "work at home" in the job description. Sometimes this search strategy works and sometimes it doesn't. However, you can take a look at the list and see if anything appeals to you.

The WAHM.com Forum is another very valuable feature / resource at the WAHM website. Some helpful information about different home jobs appears in these forums.

 

The Rat Race Rebellion is created and maintained by veteran work at home experts. They, too, provide a list of screen home jobs. There are many featured articles to view. Particular helpful are the articles about SCAMS. Like I said on the previously-mentioned websites, the Rat Race Rebellion is another great website devoted to helping people find legitimate work at home jobs.


The College and Careers' Own List of Work at Home Jobs

After doing our own research, we are going to provide our own list of what we feel can be legitimate work at home jobs. A few on this list are questionable but we will address the credibility, advantages, and disadvantages of each job on the following list. This list is a "work in progress." We will be updating this list and providing more information for each job on this list.

There are some very good websites that will provide some very good information for some of the jobs on this list (SCROLL down the page to see the LIST). We advise you to visit some of the following very good career websites to view career profiles for any job, including the list of work at home jobs that is a little further down this page.

Following are some sources that will give information about careers. These sources provide information about the nature of the work, training/education, employment and job outlook, earnings, and much more.

 

Occupational Outlook Handbook is the Web version of the nationally-recognized reference book that describes what workers do on the job, training and education needed, wages, job prospects, and much more. This is an EXCELLENT source of information. There are a couple of ways to search for a career on this site. The main page is located at http://www.bls.gov/oco.
The A to Z Alphabetical Index is easy to use at http://www.bls.gov/oco/ooh_index.htm.

 

America's Career Infonet is "transitioning to CareerOneStop's Toolkit." Career One Stop provides wage and employment trends, occupational requirements, state-by-state labor market condition, millions of employer contacts nationwide, and an extensive career resource library. Please take your time to view many web pages at this EXCELLENT source for career information. Here are some web pages for accessing the website. https://www.careeronestop.org. https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/ACINet.aspx.

https://careeronestop.org/toolkit/toolkit.aspx. http://www.acinet.org.

 

CityTownInfo.com is another EXCELLENT site to spend some time exploring the links. This site features information about career profiles, colleges, featured articles, career stories as employees share their views on their profession, and a variety of much more information. The main menu is located at http://www.citytowninfo.com. Make sure that you visit the Career Descriptions at http://www.citytowninfo.com/employment. Another great page is http://www.citytowninfo.com/studies/best-careers-degree-not-required.html where you can find a list of "Best Careers NOT Requiring a Degree."

 

ExploreHealthCareers.org is a very good health career site maintained by the American Dental Education Association. Profiles of all kinds of health careers and schools that offer educational programs for those careers are listed on this site at http://www.explorehealthcareers.org/


A List of Some Work at Home Jobs:

Assembler / Assembly
Automobile Body Shop
Automobile Mechanic
Call Center (Virtual) / Customer Service Representative (CSR)
CareGiver
Computer Programmer / Repair / Support
Child Care
Cosmetology / Barber / Hairdresser
Data Entry Jobs
Dentist
Interior Designer
Insurance Agent
Massage Therapist
Medical Billing
Medical Coding (Coder)
Medical Transcriptionist (Transcription)
Mystery Shopping / Mystery Shopper
Nurse
Photographer
Physical Therapist
Physician
Psychologist/Psychiatrist
Real Estate Agent
Small Engine Repair
Surveys
Teacher (College) online
Tutor (online)
Telemarketer
Virtual Assistant
Web Design
Welder


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