Finding WAH Jobs

Finding legitimate Work At Home jobs can be very difficult, especially if you don't know where to look for them.  Most of the survey "jobs" out there don't really pay much.  I did clothing surveys for one company for years and benefit was aproximately one $25 gift card at Borders every 3 months or so.  Not too shabby for 1/2 hour a month, but still not something to quit your day job over.  If you are curious the company was Partnership-Plus.

Here are a few tips on how to go about looking for work that you can do from your home. 

Never ever ever pay for a job.  A legitimate employeer will not ask you to pay for any training materials, interviews, etc. Don't trust someone you don't know to "pay you back" for training materials either.  That has scam written all over it.  

I love www.wahm.com.   They have a Telecommuting/Job Listing section to their website and try to only list legitimate jobs.  If you want to try to find the jobs yourself check out CraigsList's jobs section and check off the telecommute check box.  Look outside your local area for telecommute jobs.  Most of the work I do is with people who live over 2,000 miles from me.  

Setting Up Your Home Office

If you're going to work from home, you need an area set aside for your home office.   I currently have my office set up in our sunroom in the back of the house.  I get up in the morning, feed the kids, get ready for the day and go to "the office."  While the area is still part of the house and accessable, it is still segregated so that the kids know that they are not to play with any of the paperwork or equipment in mommy's office.

To help promote an aura of professionalism, it helps to be backed by a virtual office service. Services like these offer professional answering services and even mail forwarding so that you can use their professional mail address in a business district and still get your business mail delivered to your home. Here's a link to a great company that I use called California Business Center.  If you are in the Fairfield area they also lease offices and have a host of other professional services you can choose from for small and large companies alike. 

The Library of Congress puts out a great resource for doing business on the internet.  They may have some resources that you need in order to get your business up and running.  Check out their article: Doing Business on the Internet