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The Work From Home Revolution

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By Iria Vasquez-PaezPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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The work from home revolution is upon us. Indeed.com is the most trustworthy website to find decent work from home gigs. This is because some websites are not to be trusted if they have many scams listed without fact-checking their jobs. Apparently, in 2015, 24 percent of American workers are work from home people. Fields such as management, business, and financial operations have work from home allowances with 38 percent of people working from home. People 25 years of age or older have bachelor’s degrees, with 39 percent of those people working from home. Working from home is a new trend out there. It means that people are sick of commuting to a typical office environment where there is politics.

You can find administrative assistant work from home positions out there. Etsy is a work from home job option. You can work as a telecommuter or a salesperson. There is any number of ways to carve out a living at home. However, there can be work from home job scams. If somebody sends you a check with money, to buy a computer with, don’t fall for this one. Envelope stuffing is part of a work from home scam. There are e-commerce scams, kits, listings, courses or certifications.

You can also work on medical billing but for that, you have to have the skills to build their own business. Rebate processing asking for money is another scam. Don’t pay a fee for mystery shopping. There are also many identity theft scams. Re-shipping is another work from home scam, a scam involving shipping a package out as soon as you receive it. Online surveys are not necessarily a scam but they mean that you make minimal amounts of money while hacking away at it.

With a work from home job, commuting becomes non-existent. You go from the bedroom to the desk, or maybe the bedroom to the bathroom to the desk. Some people know what keeps them productive. Office politics are also non-existent because you know how to deal with chatty coworkers you don’t actually want to deal with. Multitasking effectively is an important work from home trait that requires use. Everybody in your household has to have clear boundaries about when you are working but if you have children you cannot ignore them or you have to get consistent child care so that working from home is to your advantage, not to your detriment.

Having a home office works for everybody involved when you have a family and you work from home. Sticking to a schedule means managing your time effectively. Sometimes though you have to go to the office in order to nurture relationships with coworkers. Stress needs to be appropriately managed while you work from home or in an office. Work from home is a huge trend right now. More people are practicing it and more jobs are opening up. It is a great time to have a disability and work from home. Work from home has evolved from a new trend into a viable option. There are many people who swear by the work from home, even if they have kids. Some people’s kids actually know when to be quiet or at least understand the boundaries their mother has set for them. Work from home is trendy now. It is not seen as a last resort or a freak option but rather something that people who do not have a conventional job can do. You can also be a work from home travel agent if you want to, making equal the salary of somebody who works in an office.

Works Cited:

TheBalanceCareers - "Work at Home Scams to Avoid"

TheBalanceCareers - "The Work at Home Revolution"

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Iria Vasquez-Paez

I have a B.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State. Can people please donate? I'm very low-income. I need to start an escape the Ferengi plan.

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