I was just wondering if anybody out there knows of jobs you can do from home. I am so tired of not having any money. I have nothing coming in. i was always an independent person and am tired of depending on others.
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and by the way..Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers.
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yes. i work at oDesk.com. I am building clients and can actually pay 2 bills a month now. oDesk is a ligitimate work at home business, but i strongly suggest you contact me before jumping in head first. this is a real job, and clients NEED real workers. i also have some very needed getting started advice. I looked and looked for a way to work from home. this was a God send! by the way, don't look at the jobs on odesk and think you can't do it because you aren't this or that... because you aren't a phd in computer programing! i know you can find jobs to do on there that anyone can do. (because I am doing it).
hi Ciarawyn, ty for that idea.what kind of work is it?
The year is 1992. I am on my way to being a certified financial planner coming off a kick ass year. I started the year by being named "Slugger of the Month"(which meant I lead the company in sales nationwide - it came complete with a Louisville Slugger bat with my name and accomplishments burnt into it - I still have it). I also landed the single highest commission for a variable product life insurance policy (I pocketed a nice $24,000 commission check from just that policy - thank you my 66-year old doctor who wanted to make sure his wife, daughters and mistresses were all covered should he die). I also did the retirement program for a school system with seventy schools. All of that plus whatever home/business visits I could get from referrals, cold calls, door-to-door business visits, etc., All told, I put about 750 miles per week in my car.
In college, I studied finance with the goal of working for a mutual fund company working my way up towards one day becoming a fund manager like the legendary Peter Lynch who had an unprecedented 13-year run as fund manager of Fidelity Magellan from 1977 to 1990. Forget the fact that it lost 50% in 2008. Hell, we all had a bad year in 2008. Under Lynch, the LARGEST mutual fund, the titanic of it's day averaged more than 29% annual growth. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted my face on the cover of Fortune and Money magazines
However, once I graduated, I was hip deep in a relationship with the woman I would marry and moving too far away from her family was simply not an option. I chose love over the immediate pursuit of my career goal. At the time, there were only TWO Mutual Fund HQ's in my area and neither were hiring the position I'd dreamed of for years now. I did the next best thing and checked out the sales end of these and other companies. I got licensed (series 6, 7 and 63 [I think - it's been some time]) and went to work. Bud Fox and Gordon Gekko would have NOTHING on me (reference Oliver Stone's 1987 "Wall Street"). So I set off to be a millionaire by the time I was thirty. I would gain experience at 100% commision. My father thought I was insane and refused to co-sign a loan for a new car. I'd have to prove myself to be a good risk.
As I said, 1992 was the year that FM hit HARD. I went from driving 750 miles per week to barely being able to sit in the car. It took nearly a year before I accepted the fact that I was simply unable to perform the duties that would lead to month's as I described in paragraph one. I attempted to partner up with someone who would go out ad service the clients and I would be there on the phone if there were an issue. But this was a time before cell-phones (actually, the first generation phones were coming out but were so ridiculously expensive and so bad, service-wise that it only aggravated the situation). The bottom lie was I needed to get my ass in front of a client. ME. Not a substitute. My company was sympathetic, but this was a 100% commission job and I was flat on the floor most of the time.
I started looking at options where I could work from home. I was so used to talking on the phone to get clients, certainly SOMEONE could use me. What I found it that most companies that used people to work at home, either wanted me to transcribe medical records, do accounting (the worst thing you could ask a finance person to do), or make calls to get leads for the company to have a sales person call back. I tried a few of those (mostly, they were calls to see if you wanted to lower your mortgage rate). It was mind-numbing but it was something I could easily do and if the salesperson were halfway decent, I could bank $3,000 to $4,000 a month in commission. Except at the end of the month, I learned that not one of the hundreds of qualified leads led to an actual signature (or so they said because unless I went through their records [something they would not allow], I had to simply TRUST them that no sales resulted from my leads. I was beyond pissed off, went into the office and demanded to speak with the sales manager. I wanted to see the quality of the staff calling back my qualified leads. So, he set up a role play (my request - they NEVER DID THAT!!!!) where I was the prospective customer. It took less than five minutes to realize these people had absolutely no skills whatsoever and that I'd wasted a month.
I continued looking through the want ads every Sunday but decided to change my approach. I stopped looking for "WORK AT HOME" ads and started looking at simply "SALES" ads. I would then do thirty seconds of research, find the name of the sales manager and called that person directly. Here is essentially what I said - "Hello Mr. Bossman. My name is Marc and I'm calling to see if you were willing to be a bit flexible in the type of employee you hire for your sales positions as long as the target numbers are met or exceeded?" This was usually met with some sort of "huh". I'd say, "let me explain. I am a person with a disability that makes it hard, not impossible, but pretty damn hard to get to a sit in front of clients." However, I am also an award winning salesman and I'm betting I can take what you are looking for and make it work with my strengths and minimize the parts dealing with my disabilities. So let me ask this, is this something you are willing to explore?" Most will say no, but we don't want to be in business with them anyway because they think they know everything anyway. A few will say yes.
That is where you begin truly looking for work. You will set up a time to go in and meet the manager. Between now and then, you must essentially learn all you can about the job and the company. These days with the internet, it is much easier. Make a list of seven to ten reasons why an at-home employee makes sense for this company (i.e., while other employees are commuting to work, I am already preparing for the day or already on the phone - I guarantee I will not congregate around the water cooler - I will be on time for work everyday as there is no traffic between my bedroom and my living room/office - point out that many companies are encouraging employees to work from home (including the federal government) as it makes for a much happier/productive employee, etc.,). You can site dozens of articles/studies that support companies using stay at home employees for at least part of their time.
I should point out that it does not need to be just sales. I know people that work at home that focus on accounting, management information systems, etc., Essentially, anything that does not require regular face-to-face contact with customers or employees.
In the 1993, I had to create an opportunity which was not there before. As a result, I eventually started commuting to work again, was promoted, promoted and promoted again. By the time I was forced to go on disability, I ran six departments, was in charge of all revenue generation, had broken every sales record (first as a salesman then manager then director then VP), and left a shoe print that was very hard to fill once I left (sales dropped 72% in the quarter after I was put on permanent long-term disability).
However, were I ready to take that path again, I might not have to go down that same rocky road. There are companies out there looking for people like us - people with skills willing to work from home.
Persistance is the key. That and knowing what you want to do. Honestly, it it were me, I'd start off by calling the HR department and find out if they have any job for people working from home.
I'm going to stop typing now. I wish you the very best of luck on your job search. Be optimistic because someone out there wants you as much as you want to work for them.
Marc
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