SaneAmongInsane said:
babinro said:
Have you looked into self employment working from home?
I do this myself through this website: http://www.contractworld.jobs/
Certain contractors are always hiring (Pizza Hut) and it requires no background skill or education. It's entry level stuff of course so expect your pay to be awful. In fact it's pay per call and things aren't always busy so earning less than minimum wage some hours will be a real possibility.
Still, you essentially choose your hours (self employed remember) and work as many as you need to in order to survive.
I've never worked with contractor personally...I was fortunate enough to get in with the equivalent of AAA emergency roadside. It's a much better contractor IMO but I've worked under that website for 3 years now.
Some money is better than no money and they are hiring now.
Not much to lose.
Is that really legit? I'm facing temporary (hopefully) unemployment due to bankruptcy, so any quick thing I could fall into would be great.
Yeah, I was referred to this site from a co-worker at a call center a while back and opted to try it out when the center later closed down. I've been working from home for about 3 years now through that site. First with Direct Energy and now with AAA emergency roadside.
It's not a scam and it works for me but there are reasons why this type of work isn't exactly ideal for everyone.
1) You're considered to be self employed. Meaning you receive absolutely no benefits and are naturally responsible for your own work expenses. You'll get some of this back at tax time but all of it is out of pocket upfront and you'll still be paying most of it. You have to PAY for training as well. It's their only real means of weeding out application trolls. It sucks to pay for training and earn nothing while being trained but from a business perspective it makes sense for them to do this. You'll also earn less at first as you adapt to the job but this improves with time as you'd expect.
2) Contracts that are pay per call rather than pay per hour can easily lead to hours or entire shifts where you earn less than minimum wage. This is naturally very frustrating but the contractors are good at letting you leave early when call volume dies down. On the upside there are times you'll quite a bit per hour when calls go smoothly. I'd say it averages out in the end but you'll definitely want to focus on working peak times.
3) A few people who work on this site full time (I only work part time hours) will ultimately work for more than one contract because of reasons mentioned in point number 2. A second contractor with unique sets of peak hours means you'll have more peaks hours to earn optimum pay.
4) The contracts that are hiring frequently (the fast food ones) are likely doing so for a reason. They are the least desirable of the projects available and likely the most mundane of the jobs as well. Being a fast food order taker over the phone likely involves doing the same repetitive action every 60 seconds for as long as you choose to work. But if you need money right away they are what's available. You can get your free to play mobile gaming face on while working, lol. Once a year or so one of the more in depth contracts might open up and you should jump all over it. More engaging and satisfying. More potential for pay as well if it's in sales.
Those realities aside I love the obvious benefits that come with working at home and being largely in control of what work schedule you want. As well as being able to change that work schedule as you please to plan ahead for things outside of work.
Note: This site has naturally made me curious about a LOT of other online jobs but I always assume they are either scams or tremendously misleading about potential earnings so I've never bothered taking the chance on them.
