There are many different types of work offered, some of which seems extremely attractive, but may not be what it seems, and a very good yardstick to adopt is: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! While the free to join schemes might sound attractive, and some are, there are a growing number where real caution is needed.
This is particularly true of the data-entry jobs.
You get free membership of the initial site, one where they introduce you to the companies requiring the data entry (typically filling in the details for ad sites).
However, before getting the work itself, and therefore the opportunity to earn, they require you to pay, often as much as $49.
95.
And it doesn't stop there.
Some of these scams actually require you to pay this sum for each and every opportunity they offer.
Do not touch these offers.
Please.
The only paid sites I support as an affiliate, are those where unconditional money back guarantees are not only given, but they have been tested out as well, to ensure that they live up to the promise of the guarantee.
These sites are totally upfront about being a members' site, with fee payment, one-time-only, and experienced users have said that they are usually able to recoup the membership outlay within the first job and certainly by the second.
A typical one-time-only membership fee is around $24-$39.
One of the reasons these sites are genuine in their requiring fee payment is that they incur fairly substantial costs by employing staff to maintain and very regularly update the directories of jobs on offer.
The majority of the free sites cannot do this and as a result fairly large numbers of the jobs on offer are no longer available.
Ok, so what types of jobs are offered? Well, there really are many, too many to mention here, but here are what I believe to be some of the most popular: * Taking online surveys * Telecommuting * Typing * Surfing the Net to review websites * Reading emails * Freelance photography * Website designers * Translators * Internet shopping * Writing articles * Data entry * Testing games * Online tutors * Software developers * Telemarketers * Financial services sales Currently, it has to be said that the greatest choice or work-from-home jobs is within the USA, but the internet has few borders, and some jobs will be open to people from just about anywhere, as long as they have a computer and an internet connection.
Opportunities abound too in the UK, and I am also aware of good opportunities in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and throughout much of the more developed parts of Asia.
That said, Asia (where of course I live and work) is not too well served by home-grown working from home schemes, and the "imported" schemes I've reviewed are nearly all outright scams.
Many Asians, especially in S E Asia, are pretty new to the Net, and it galls me immensely to find these terrific people being taken advantage of by unscrupulous scammers, but perhaps that is a topic for another time.