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Add to FavoritesEmployment that involves typing from home can be very enjoyable and profitable for the right people. It does take discipline and willingness to stay on a schedule, but the rewards can be bountiful. The pay is not the only thing that matters, even if some pay below minimum wage for your state, but there are certain *perks* for this type of employment. Many people look down to this as menial work but they are not seeing the bigger picture.
Setting ones own hours can be the largest benefit from typing at home. Some people are not able to work outside the home because of disabilities or children. Some people like to see the rising of the stars in the morning and then go to bed, or just the opposite. Working forty hour weeks may prove to be a benefit to your pocket and in this type of work you can have all the over time you would like. Alright, let me revise that into no over time hourly pay, but hours of abundance. So setting your own hours whether you work two three or seven days or nights a week is one benefit.
Another benefit is not worrying about your wardrobe. No one will know if you are dressed up, wearing sweats, pajamas or nothing at all. That in itself is a cost reducing factor. You can don the natural look for your make-up and the rest of you if you desire. It does feel good now and then to don work clothes to keep your focus that this is work time and not play time, but that is for those that lose focus easily.
Having company during the day? No problem. Put your work aside and enjoy. If you have put yourself on a schedule, count the hours you need to make the lost hours up. If you have no schedule and are not worried about how much you need to do in a certain day, then do not worry about it.
The largest benefit to this is that you can also have more than one job intermittently. Say you work part time typing at home and get another work at home job as a Customer Service Representative. This will give you a chance to interact over the phone and also do your typing at a different day or time. Maybe you are a graphic Designer, Insurance Agent, Cosmetic Representative or just have another type of employment outside your home, then the typing is giving you added pay along with your other type of employment. In some employment types, there are leaner times and this can pick up the lost pay that you need.
Do not forget that the using of the computer or Internet is tax deductible for this type of work. If you have your own office remember the electric and gas bills , too. You can also deduct the cost of picking up and delivering your work if that is how you are doing it. Tax deductions always come in handy at the end of the year and are a great benefit.
The only downfall is the lack of insurance, although many companies are cutting their group health. You can pick up either a health plan, put money away for emergencies or look at the Hippaa plans. You can usually get a decent group plan for 280 or less, depending on health issues.
Typing at home can be very rewarding. You can make your own blog or newsletter in your spare time, or work on your website. You can even take an online class or two in your spare time. The benefits can be endless.
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Typing jobs from home are not worth it, because for the most part employers are paying next to nothing to have people type for them. By typing, correcting and redoing others work most prospective employers pay very little actual money. A person is better off getting a real job in the workforce that pays decently.
Sometimes a person is better off getting a minimum wage paying job that isn't far from home, to get out of the house and get paid to work. This way a person can make more money working for minimum wage than what they would get paid working for super low pay for employers.
Writing for blogs, doing product reviews and writing for hire jobs for the most part pay next to nothing. I actually had a so-called offer to write well-written articles of 400 to 500 words for less than minimum wage. The money the employer was willing to pay was $2 to $5 a story. Once I found out this wasn't a typo I said, "No thanks."
Writing for other sites that pay per story can be lucrative. But, your story has to get picked over other people's stories, and it has to be very well written. To make it worth it, a person would have to crank out over 30 stories a week and sell at least ten of those.
Some sites lure a person in with showing the stories one can write and how much they can get paid for them. But, by the time I went through the signing up process, that was overly lengthy, all the supposed paid stories were suddenly gone when I went to choose one. I think that's called bait and switch, as in the advertising business and I don't believe for a second that all those stories after 20 minutes were completely gone.
Obviously I didn't write anything for them, and I probably never will. There are plenty of sites out there promising the moon, but when they promise a lot, it's probably not going to happen. A person could start a creative, imaginative blog and advertise it on certain sites such as Digg, and even Google. A person might even make decent money, by having a blog that is made from their area of expertise.
But, working typing for hire gigs on the Internet, one would have to type 100,000 words a day to make it lucrative. I figured to make any real money for that one employer that was willing to pay under minimum wage, it would have cost more for the electricity I was using, than for how little I was getting paid.
Typing from home gigs that are advertised all over the Internet are not worth it from my experience. They would be if the employer paid decent money for a person's hard labor. Why is it that they advertise in the first place, why don't they just do the work, instead of wasting the money advertising for hard working, creative types like us?
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