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Why do a typing job from home? If the answer is "money money money" than the answer to this debate is an uncompromising no; a typing job from home is not worth it due to job security, career opportunities and networking limitations.

Typing from home jobs are contract based for the most part. You don't come into the office, you don't get the salary, the health care or the opportunities for advancement. Working from home the worker loses valuable opportunities to mingle with coworkers, get support on projects, and show everyone how hard he or she is working. A faceless employee, the contract typist can do multiple jobs, work hard on all of them and end up being the first to be cut when the job market goes sour. They are the least connected and their opportunities suffer for it.

These setbacks and difficulties mean that a home typist does not have a career, they have sources of income that aren't reliable or long term. A typist who wants to get rich is much better off investing in the stock market or betting on horse races. For the monetary obsessed, working typing jobs from home are not worth it. However, that doesn't mean work fromhome typing jobs aren't worth it for everyone.

People who like working for themselves, have a reason to want to be home most of the time, or have other long term goals they are working for will find a work from home typing job to be the ticket to what they need. Parents who need to work but don't want to miss their child's first steps will benefit greatly from work from home jobs like typing, though it would still be recommended for security reasons for at least one spouse to have a higher paying profession. People who chafe under their boss and are self motivated would also benefit from getting out from under the corporate heel. Yes, they still have to work for somebody, but if a working relationship doesn't work out, they don't have to stick with it.

The last category, people who have other long term goals, are people who need money to get by in this world (everyone) but who also have specific goals with their life that they need time at home to achieve. Novelists would be one example. A novelist can do typing at home jobs to pay the groceries and eliminate precious time spent commuting that instead can be put to work on a book. Another example would be an entrepreneur who wants to start her own business. Working from home will pay the rent but also give them that smidgen of extra time that can be spent developing a different line of work. Time could be slowly siphoned away from the typing profession and spent on the personal business, allowing for a startup that isn't as much of a risk to their lively hood as it could be if they put one hundred percent of their money making time into it.

Typing from home jobs can be worth it, but only if the job itself isn't the important part. If the job is there to help other dreams become reality than it is a great option. If it is there to be a sole source of income and a career than the typist should be serious about looking for a better job.

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