Legit work from home opportunities

Started by Daphne R.
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Daphne R.

I work, go to college full time and have two kids, all the jobs I see online seem to be scams. Does anyone have any tips on finding a legitimate source to make a livable income working from home?

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@Daphne, I'm not suer about livable income, but when I was in college (and then again in my first post-college job), to subsidize my income I would:

  • Grade/edit papers for former classmates
  • Find website consulting gigs
  • Do social media management for up and coming websites and bloggers
  • Be a virtual assistant (this one is the trickiest because you have to find the right people)

I'm rooting for you, Daphne! It's not easy trying to juggle all of that.

The one thing I strayed away from was MLMs like Younique, Arbonne, and Herbalife because unless I got into the program early on, I knew that I wouldn't be making any money or very little. There's a big fee to essentially buy into the company and resell the products, and it's not worth it. I had a few friends who got into MLMs in college, and it actually cost them more money than they made :/

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Joan S.

Use government job search sites like Careerlink (for your state) or usajobs.gov. I know Indeed and LinkedIn are recommended a lot and come up on website searches. I question the legitimacy of some of the jobs offered there though I know they have legitimate jobs as well. If I try to search local jobs, they tend to throw jobs in other areas into the mix as well. If I wanted to find a job in any other area, I would expand my search to include those areas.

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@Joan - Yeah, I totally agree with you! Indeed has way too many jobs that might be scams, but I find that LinkedIn has become a lot easier to use since you can look up the legitimacy of the company right on the site. When I found a job I was interested in on LinkedIn, I also looked up on the company's site to see if that job was legit/still being offered.

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Shannon M.

I would love up get my self employment cleaning business of the ground this yr..

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