Budget & Finance > EmploymentAugust 10, 2010

Legitimate Work at Home Jobs

I am a single mother and have been looking for a legitimate at home job that costs little or nothing to get started. To my dismay I have found nothing that is real or doesn't take my money. I have done enough of those!

Does anyone have any ideas on where I should go or try? I am at the end of my rope. Everything I come across is a scam. Please help!

By Janet from McKinney, TX

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02/02/2011

I asked the same question, I have found a few that might help you out with no money. ChaCha hires you to work from home off computer you will need to take an IQ test which is actually hard and KGB is another site to work from home answering peoples questions. Pay's low work hard but no money. I ask the same thing because I have been scamed in all forms of online marketing scams and selling items from passion partys to chef items. So I started selling wine. I just started last week. can't tell you how its going yet. I did have to pay money thou. But I did my research and this company is new and I am the only one in AZ selling wine. The Traveling Vineyard is the site if you wanna check it out. If not I understand because you have to pay for the tools. Good luck and let me know what you find.

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08/19/2010

I work with Edoc Marketing... www.edocmarketing.com. They're definitely legit. However, they seem best for someone supplementing an existing income. I average $150-$200/month when I'm working hard.

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08/17/2010

I just had another thought, if you were a good student at school, you could tutor school kids in math and reading. People pay tremendous $$$$ for this from special companies, but a lot of the time what students need is one on one homework time.

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08/17/2010

I would suggest babysitting in your own home. You would have to check to see if your state or city has regulations, but in my area there are several women who look after toddlers in their own homes. I always had this sort of care for my kids, and the women who looked after my boys became fast friends. It was superior care to daycare in my opinion. And, in our small towns, daycare wasn't an option anyway.

Another friend makes quite a nice income from doing sewing and mending for people. She puts a free ad on Kijii and has lots of jobs in a few days. This same woman does home baking for people, cookies, home made bread, and so on. There may be health regulations with regard to this, but I know there are people who do it!

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08/12/2010

Yes, I'm a medical transcriptionist working for a large clinic but from home and I just love it and the medical field and not being on your feet all day long (am 64) - but then that's me. I did have to complete a course - but those are available online, too. I began around $9/hour and am up to $15 after 10 yrs.

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08/11/2010

Have you tried westathome.com ? I did a little work for them about 3 years ago. It was completely at home work using your computer and your phone. You need a headset that can plug in to your land line phone. They direct callers to you that are calling about infomercials mostly. I didn't like it because it was scripted and you had to read verbatim.

I found out about them from clarkhoward.com

Also, something I have been thinking of getting into is a Home Inventory Service. You would have to actually be able to get out of the house to do this, but you could set your own schedule. check out kchomeinventory.com to get more info. also whatyouown.org for free software. You need to have a good computer and a decent digital camera and know how to upload pictures and stuff.

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08/10/2010

Unless you have special training in a field I don't think you will find a work at home job, that pays enough to be worthwhild. I know that some medical transcription type work can be done from home, but you need to have the training for that type of work.

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By tanyamichalski 01/04/2012

I read a lot of these jobs online. It's just too hard to tell what is legit and what isn't. Some want you to pay for them to give you a job. I never paid for a job in my life and I'm not about to start now.

I think a good way to work online is to sell items you have, can make or can get for less and sell for more. I sell items on ebay, craigslist and on my own online store at www.papersigns.ecrater.com.

I'm not getting rich but make some money. If you really put the work into it, you could make a comfortable living doing this. Also, it's free to set up your own store at ecrater. If you make any crafts, you could also sell them on etsy.com. Good luck.

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