by Sammy Stein

Created on: January 22, 2008

Long term you are not going to find a lot of well paid work typing from home unless you are very lucky.

You will be competing with many markets, not all of which are competitive. For example one website offers 'guaranteed work' for writers to type from home - the work consists largely of typing out students' resumes, essays and dissertations but the rate of pay is atrocious. You get around $20 for 4000 words or so. To writers in India and other places this is not bad but for a westerner, this is not well paid at all and is exploitation.

If you type in 'home typing jobs' on Google you will get many companies advertising work for typists and writers but take a close look and what many eally are are scams. Some of them even give you a topic to research and write about for a paltry sum - and these are then sold to students to help them with exams or studies so be wary of being used.

If you think about it logically, you are looking for work where the employer has no idea of your writing skills, they are looking for the cheapest workers who will type as much work as possible for the least renumeration.

Would-be employers take advantage of the fact that there are many frustrated writers or people who are at home and looking to make a little extra income on the side but you are also open to exploitation.

The best way to get well paid work typing from home is to concentrate on a particular field where you have some expertise - science, history for example are all areas where good writers are few and quick typists even fewer and within these industries you can get reasonably paid work but long term ist is far better to get out there, put yourself on the market for a proper job and meet people.

The other thing about typing from home is that you may spend far longer checking, editing and re-doing material than you would if you were office or business based. To a great extent, if employers are genuinely looking for typists for long term work with good pay, they will employ them in the usual way.

An exception to this rule is casual part time work for organisations like committees who may meet a few times a year and need someone to type up notes, minutes or similar. If you can get work doing this kin dof thing and be recommended then you will find you gain regular work, reasonably paid and varied.

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