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Add to FavoritesI have spent almost the same amount of time as most people spend working all day at a job for a paycheck, looking on the computer for a way to use my talents to try and generate some sort of income to help my family. I am disabled physically so my mind works overtime. I have registered for surveys, but wanted to find something that would allow me to type. I love typing and consider it a hobby, when I took typing in 12th grade I dreamed of hand placement until the class was over and I made an A. I have looked at many sites and felt I was at a dead end as far as finding something that would allow me to hone my talent while not charging me or making me start a home business. You can imagine my surprise to find a site that actually let you write in contests on every subject imaginable. I do not know if I will make money but it can't hurt to give it a chance. If nothing else my mind might will stay sharper than it would if I were to spend my days on the couch watching television.
I would have to say that typing jobs are worth everything to people who want to express themselves and enjoy creativity. Upon finding a site that allows me to type I have found myself thinking of all the things sad and funny, that brought on my disability. For the past 4 years I have wanted to write about all the things I might not get a chance to tell my children before I die. I am an avid reader and will read just about anything but a VCR manual. I know typing jobs are worth it for mental stability. In regards to financial I hope to learn the answer is yes. I believe if you want something bad enough you will work to make it happen. Typing doesn't mean free money, remember the adage of "If it sounds too good it probably is"? A perfectly honest observation would be when you get that Christmas morning excitement in the pit of your stomach by visiting a book store and finding out your favorite author has published something new. A second deeper observation I have encountered is longing to read a favorite book again and feeling satiated as a person in the desert might receive with that first drink of water. I know I have often longed to be able to have that ability. Typing in essence is showing a part of your soul in a readable manner. When I saw that first penny appear on the earning page the spark of life was re-lit with a vengeance. Truth be told you can get something valuable by the reflection of one cent.
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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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