Good Jobs From Home

It seems that these days, everyone is looking for a way to work from home. I can certainly understand why. Being able to wear whatever you want, wake up when you feel like it and not have to deal with traffic are all pretty appealing prospects for me, but I personally, like having a place to go during the day. For those people that are looking to do something where they don't have to leave the house, a number of good jobs from home are out there.

One of the jobs from home that I have always found the most interesting is that of tutor. I have a friend who teaches piano lessons to young students. She has the patience of Job, and is very well respected in our community. She also has a massive house and a very nice car. She learned to play piano in college where she majored in music, and never had any desire to anything besides give private lessons, She charges $30 an hour and has 48 regular students who practice weekly, so it is not hard to see why she is doing so well for herself.

For a number of years, I had one of those jobs from home that many of my friends were jealous of, and that was working as a freelance writer. I covered sporting events for local schools and wrote features and news stories. While this required me to go out into the field occasionally, the vast majority of work that I did was from home. It was great, because I could sleep until as late as I wanted and set my own work schedule. I always knew that if I worked hard, I would make good money, and if I slacked off, I would not. I love the simplicity of it!

One of the most interesting jobs from home that I have heard about recently is working as an architect. My uncle does this for a living, and while he does have to go to the construction site occasionally to make sure his plans are being followed, for the most part, he works out of an office in his basement, and does so well for himself that he will often take three or four vacations a year. By that, I mean he takes his family all over the country and world three or four times a year.

There are a number of jobs from home that can be fun to do and allow you to make a pretty good living. I have worked from home, and I loved it when I did, but have also worked at an office, which I really enjoy as well. I guess it really comes down to what one is looking for in a profession.

The Creative Ways of the Job Scam Perpetrators

In a job market that's as short on jobs as the current one, you can expect job scam perpetrators to really try hard. Only, they don't really have to try hard these days. Everyone's so desperate for a job that they will seemingly believe anything. The Better Business Bureau believes that 2011 has been a record of sorts. Job scam perpetrators have never been as relentless.

The best way to stay safe from these efforts by the scammers to defraud you would be to look at as many examples of these attempts as possible so that you can recognize how they operate. Another way to stay clear of these would be to look up every job offer you come by on the Internet. If it's a scam, someone will have said something about it.

You mustn't think that every job scam is just about asking you for a little money up front. Scammers can put a lot of effort into every job scam that they pull.

For instance, consider this job offer - a large hotel corporation wishes to hire HR managers for several new properties that they plan to put up, and the only need is a good background in HR management. This sounds legitimate enough, doesn't it?

They call you in for an interview locally, and once you go there, they seem very eager to give you the job. Only, they want you to wire transfer money to their account for airplane tickets to another city where the job actually is.

There are two things that should send up red flags here - no company is going to actually ask you for airplane ticket money. And certainly they aren't going to ask you to wire it. People who fell for this job scam also report that the interview was quite unconvincing. It was in a small, cheap, makeshift place, and the person conducting the interview didn't really seem to know what he was talking about. But they were so desperate for a job that they didn't mind.

Another kind of job scam ingeniously tries to get your personal information and makes no demand for money. The scammers just put out a job advertisement with a great pay package, and on the day of the interview, hire a reasonably nice office, go through the motions of an interview, and then, in the end, tell you that they need your personal information. Since this is for a job, you figure that they probably need the information to conduct a background check or something.

You just have to remember that job interviews never ever come with requests for personal information - certainly not credit card information. Whatever information regular jobs ask for, they ask for it only when you're actually hired and are actually working in the office.

Freelance Writer Jobs Are Diverse

I have worked as a freelance writer for the last 10 years and have done many things in that time. I have written for magazines, newspapers, newsletters, brochures, manuals and so forth. Having contributed to so many different styles of writing, I have come to learn that freelance writer jobs are diverse and can come in many forms. Since I have written in many different formats and for many different publications, I have experienced this first-hand.

One of my first freelance writer jobs was working for my college newspaper. I made a paltry $15 per assignment for the paper, but to me, it was well worth it. I loved chasing down stories and interviewing the people involved. I would often spend hours fretting over a 300-word article to make sure that it was absolutely perfect. It was one of the lowest-paying gigs that I ever had as a freelance writer, but it was one of the most memorable and enjoyable jobs I ever had.

When I started to make a living through freelance writing jobs, one of the best-paying gigs I had was through a magazine. I distinctly remember on one occasion in particular, I had a whole slate of assignments to work on for the week when the editor of the magazine for which I wrote called and asked if I could have the story to her by Wednesday instead of Friday, the original deadline. I told her I was not sure, as I had a number of other stories to write that I was working on as well. She casually informed me that she would bump my pay from $300 to $500 for the assignment if I would have it by Wednesday. Needless to say, I had the assignment to her by Wednesday!

When I became a part of our neighborhood association, I found out that we had a monthly newsletter that went out to everyone in our association. I thought this was really cool, and was going to offer to write for free, but then the president of the association found out that I worked freelance writer jobs as one of my sources of income. He informed me that there was a budget allotted for the newsletter and offered to pay me $100 each month for a feature on a local young person. I snapped that right up!

Freelance writer jobs are many and diverse. I have written for so many publications and in so many styles that I can't even remember them all. If one enjoys writing, there are a lot worse things to do with your time.