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.