Bad News

I may have mentioned that my goal in finding something from home, is to bring my husband home. I also would like to find something my 63 year old dad can do from home.

My husband recently started a new job and really likes it. I, on the other hand, hate it. Not because I am clingy or because I can't stand for him to work outside the house, but because since he started there, its like he never has any free time. I will be forever grateful if he can come home and do what he really wants, which is comic book art. He's really good and he has been pursuing his BA in gaming for over a year.

My husband is great at his job, but he has always made it a priority to be off when he's off and to make family time his number one thing. Hopefully we can find something that will allow for this.

My dad, on the other hand, was at his company for over eleven years, and the day after Christmas, was called in to the owners office and laid off. He is 63 years old, as I mentioned before, and nobody will hire him. He is on unemployment now, and he already had to file for early social security.

Isn't it a shame how our people are treated? Isn't it a shame how these companies own us and then discard us because they don't think we are useful any longer?

I am determined to find something that these men can do from home. I am determined to find something that will allow them to stand up and say, you don't own me.

Stand up with me today and take your life back.

(If anyone has any ideas let me know please. LOL)

Are we studying the right books?

On Sunday mornings I run down to Starbucks in Barnes and Noble, with my mom. We drink our coffee and wait for the book store to open its doors. So lately I have been looking at the books marked Start Your Own Internet Business and 206 Jobs You can Do From Home and all the rest of the books in the work at home section. (Yes, the bookstore has a work at home section)

I'm sad to say I didn't find anything good. Most of the jobs are outdated and some of the sites listed don't even exist anymore. I realized the problem at once. See by the time someone writes a book, gets it published, and sees it on the bookstore shelf time has gone by. What people that have great resources need are ebooks, so that they have ever changing information. I have even found a few on the web, like Stacy Perez's free ebook that is updated constantly. I originally saw her ebook on another work at home site, and I have requested that I get a link to it for this blog. Hopefully you will be able to see this wonderful resource soon on this blog. I will certainly send out a post letting you know when it officially becomes available here. So stay tuned for that.

In the mean time, be careful what you read, and if you get a published book regarding work at home jobs or starting your own business, make sure you check the dates on the book. Make sure its new and remember because its on the market in bookstores all accross the nation, they are most likely going to be be picked over jobs anyway.

Cha Cha after the shine wears off.

The happiness we all felt at finding a new job at Chacha a while back has officially lost its luster. Although, still at great search tool, it is not such a great job.

While it definitely allows you the flexibility to get on to work whenever you want, it doesn't not pay you enough for you to consider being at work.

The new rule is that we won't be paid after 6 minutes. We have so many crank queries that I have given up even trying to take them. Its actually more of a hassle to work there than it is to go through and tighten up my budget.

At most, I have been getting paid $5.00 an hour. It is literally .50 cents every 5 minutes. There are some people still trying to work it out, but the vast majority of us have dropped it due to low pay and the irritation of never getting a real search.

Well, I guess it was just to good to be true.

Blog money...The Wave of the Future

It seems that everyone I know is trying to make money from home somehow. Crystina was talking to a few people from Chacha the other day about GDI, when she was told about payperpost.com. Now I have heard that some people actually make money from blogging, but I had never actually known one who did.

This guy explained that the business started out slow in November of 2006, but now he is making a little over $4,000 a month. How you may wonder? Well so do I.

I tried to do a blog business last August, but to my disgust couldn't find a way to get people to my site. So it was great for Crystina and I when the guy offerred to help us start our own blogging business.

We both got set up with payperpost and he is going to give us more companies to get started with when we get the basics down.

Payperpost.com has some definite must haves to get your blog accepted by them. The two I know about are 1. The blog has to be 90 days old or older, and 2. It has to have a minimum of 20 blogs on it in the last 90 days. The reason I know about those two is because those are the two reasons, so far, for which, they have rejected my blog. (SMILE)

I don't mind, because once I get the hang of this thing, I can tell you guys too. In the meanwhile, I have the link to payperpost.com on the right hand side of this page, so check it out. I will be back with more, but don't hold your breath, it could be a while. (lol)

EBAY and the millionaires its makes!!!

Ebay, one of the fastest growing money makers ever, is supposed to be a shoe in for anyone who wants to make money. Well, I ask you, why not me?

I love ebay. I love to buy on ebay, sell on ebay, and I would LOVE to make money on ebay. So why can't I?

Well through all of those thousands of ebay marketing schemes, the courses offered by various successfull ebayers, and the tutorials given by ebay themselves, I still can't figure out what to sell, who to trust and where to start.

I sold my childrens go carts on ebay, and a few pair of jeans. But I certainly don't have enough stuff in my home to make a million dollars. I don't even have the money to go buy a bunch of things to sell on ebay. I have heard of the drop shippers and have looked up a few, but I am not sure which one to pick.

Admittedly I am just a chicken and maybe even a baby for wanting someone to hold my hand through this phase, but it doesn't change anything. Its not that I'm not motivated. It's not that I can't do it, its simpy this, I am not sure what to do.

I expect that I am not the only one, and for those who are like me, well hopefully we'll all figure it out, but until then, I am asking, if you know what you are doing on ebay, can you please help the rest of us? Can you help us and tell us what to do in the simplest terms, for a reasonable price, if any?

Workplace Like Home

This site has a comprehensive list of a ton of companies that hire for telecommuting. I mean, this site is AWESOME!!!! The jobs are listed mostly by people who are currently working for a particular company and what the individual has to say about both the job and the company. They even go as far as to explain how to fill out the application, or what to expect after the interview.

Telecommuters are welcome to post and place their job on the site also, so it is always growing. In order to post a job, one must register for free, of course. You can ask questions about a particular job in their chatrooms and they have so many people willing to help you out.

This is one resource you don't want to miss. Take a glance and you'll be surprised!
http://www.workplacelikehome.com/forum/index.php?s=e7e237e3366450848cdeb293b21c4f5a

At Home Professions

My mother, Sherry, my sister, Crystina, and I went to a seminar a while back for a correspondence school called At Home Professions. While sitting there listening to the motivational speaker explain how each of us could get a home profession and have the job we'd always dreamt about, I realized how big the desire was for people to want to work at home. That room was large and it was full of people. I think there might have been 2-6 seats still available and that was it. We all sat scrunched up in little seats and avidly paid attention to that speaker.

At Home Professions offers several certificate plans, and they also help you get a job once you are done with your certificate program. My mother immediately signed up for medical transcription. She thought that with the training program and the help the school would give her, after completing her program, that she couldn't lose.

She did her studies and even began to take another certificate course in Medical Coding. When she finished, she had her certificates and no job. She ended up going to work in an office for Medical Coding. She wasn't dissapointed. You see, in the medical field most employers want experience.

Regardless of finishing a course or having a certificate, doctors want to know that you know your stuff. So, she made her way back into the commuting world and eventually gave up the medical field and went back to titles.

My point is this, schooling isn't enough. You need experience in the professional jobs today. Don't let this get you down because as you have seen, there are far more opportunities out there for people with no degree, or certifcate, than we had originally imagined. We'll all find something at some point, it just depends on how hard we look. (SMILE)