Do any of you work from home?

[Justyce]

I work from home doing medical editing, but my field is being offshored to India rapidly... I really like working from home though & am wondering what other real jobs you can do from home. I've tried to google it, but I'm mostly finding scams, so just wondering if anyone here works from home and would like to share what they do. :hi:

[old mark]

1. I checked into it several years ago, found probably the same scams

you found. Only thing I have been even mildly successful at working from home is selling stuff on eBay.

mark

[Lorien]

2. My sister does textbook editing from home

I work as an illustrator from home-but that's hardly the sort of thing you can just pick up! Maybe by approaching some textbook companies or publications you can pick up a bit of freelance. Check to see if there are any publishers in your town that you can work for in house for a while until they comfortable enough with you that you can take work home (that's what my sister did).

[flvegan]

3. I telecommute.

I'm a bit of an anomaly in my field though because I designed my job and department from the ground up to exist this way.

I'm of the opinion that a good percentage of corporate/office jobs can be done via telecommuting. The "officeless office" I like to call it.

[Midlodemocrat]

10. 44-6

Same here.

[Akoto]

4. I worked for Alpine Access before I quit due to disability.

I was performing customer service from home for one of their client companies. Though you get the usual jerks from CS, the company itself was very good to me. The people were nice, pay was timely, and they did everything they could to accommodate my health problems in order to retain me. Unfortunately, I just couldn't do it anymore.

They are a legit company. You're considered to be an employee, not an independent contractor, and you get paid hourly whether or not calls are coming in.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. I work from home, but here's the catch...

...I own my own company (strategic marketing, with a big part of that being Web Design)...

...and as such, I am also my sales force. It's one job, but it's two...I have to constantly and aggressively "fill the pipeline" with new business and new clients, which means my "actual" work...Web Site Design, Digital Photography, Desktop Publishing...often takes a back seat to prospecting. There are some days in which I will work all day on a Web Site. There are other days in which I will be in "sales" mode all day. I have to do both, but doing both allows me to survive and work from home, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I paid my cubicle dues over the course of my career, and will never go back to that world. It's not as humorous or entertaining as "Dilbert," "Office Space," or "The Office" would have you believe.

:toast:

[hobbit709]

6. I repair, upgrade, clean computers.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. I don't even work from work, if I can help it.

[crispini]

8. I work from home; I'm a software designer.

You might look into call center answering. Jet Blue has all remote agents, I believe, and more and more companies are doing remote agents.

[unsavedtrash]

9. My ex does

Works for chacha and is able to support herself.

http://www.chacha.com/

Another is http://www.kgb.com/

[RagAss]

11. Fridays....the day I can sit back and just code without the Bullshit !

[Crazy Dave]

12. I used to do computer drafting and printing from home, 2 years

But haven't had any CAD work for over 7 months. Had to get a real job again. Sweet while it lasted though.

[Ivan Sputnik]

13. I have a full-time job, but I also do some freelancing

from home -- copyediting. Some people do make a living at it working exclusively from home, but you have to be highly skilled and have contacts. As far as off-shoring goes, I suppose more technical types of editing can be off-shored, but anything that requires a detailed knowledge of Western culture and American English would be difficult to farm out to India, I think. Maybe you could explore other types of editing?