Working Online From Home

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I am just wandering if anyone experiences this, "Working Online From Home"?

Where would you start to look for a good salary paid job, what options are there? I have always been interested in this topic, they are not a great deal of jobs going where I am, but I am alright for the moment.

I am continually on my PC all the time, this would be perfect for me but just do not know where to start and where to look?

Help is needed and appreciated, thank you.
 
Do you mean working from home, as in connecting to the office at the place you work, or working from home as in "I make $4000 per day using one simple trick!"?

It's possible to be self employed, and work from home, but you pretty much need some skills and business sense. Working for someone else from home is less viable.
 
Unless you're self employed then your immediate options are likely going to be limited to some low wage nonsense.

If you want a well paid salaried job working from home then you'll likely need to establish yourself within a company first - most places won't hire someone then let them work remotely right away. Get some experience and build up some trust within a company and if your job allows it then tis feasible.

I work in software and we've got a guy who lives in a castle in France another guy who lives on a ranch in Texas and a few people scattered about the UK. All of them have been with the company for some time though, proved themselves first etc... Tis quite common for most of us to work from home occasionally though its generally only an option to do it full time if you're moving a significant distance away from one of the companies offices and the company still wants to keep you.
 
You can't start working from home, online.

You need to get a proper job first and then find your way into a company that's so bloated and huge you can get away with not actually being there, then you can work from home.

I have a friend who gets to work from home every now and then and I am hugely jealous of her because it seems to mostly consist of doing whatever she pleases all day and occasionally answering the phone. That's what I do on my days off!

Unless you mean filling out surveys, in which case a glittering, £2k a year and 100 hour week career awaits you.
 
I am currently 18 years old. Been working as a chef for 2 different restaurants and my dad's company, that was a Admin position. Is there any courses you can take online?
 
Drink said:
Yeah I see what you all mean, what is the best jobs to go for then, that can expand to this?
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My friend's in insurance, if that helps. I suppose any office-based job where you could feasibly perform your job outside of the office has this possibility, but you would need to be experienced and competent enough at your job for management to decide you could do it in your jim jams.
 
I have not got the greatest jobs going for me in my area right now, need something totally different. Other then YouTube which can take time I cannot think of anything else.
 
Drink said:
Yeah I see what you all mean, what is the best jobs to go for then, that can expand to this?
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potentially anything that only requires your computer...

i.e. if you've got to meet clients etc.. then its not really going to work

if you're just writing code as part of a development team that's scattered across different offices anyway then being at home isn't much different to being in a different office - as long as you're still producing stuff and sticking to your deadlines then it doesn't matter
 
As has been said generally you need to be 'established' some way to get what I'd call a good job working remotely from the off.

Be it by working at a company for a while first, or being skilled in a certain field etc.
 
I work from home.

Job experience is like this:-

Company1 - Working in an office doing support - 8 Months
Company2 - Working in office doing code - 2.5 years
Company3 - Working at home, most people in an office - 2 years.
Company4 - Working at home, like everyone else in company - 6 months.

Its not impossible to work from home, but the jobs come along a lot less often and there are advantages to office work. Honestly, I doubt you'll get a decent home working role without at least some prior experience.
 
Took me 4 years of doing consultancy for my company and switching to single handedly running the IBM support to be able to work from home 4 days a week.
 
My first job out of uni was working from home (full time) as a web developer and I did that for 3 years. The pay was also good.

The last 5-6 years I've been working in an office but given a viable opportunity I'd go back to working from home if I could. Those opportunities are quite rare though.

Even when I'm in an office now, all of my work is done remotely anyway as our web servers aren't here either so a web developer can work from anywhere with an internet connection really.
 
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