Working From Home [Archive]

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02-18-2003, 11:33 AM

Yeah, I'm interested. I know there are bazillions of people who work this way, and aren't getting screwed, but I have yet to find any source of home employment that I didn't think was shiesty.

Has anyone (except Lisa, who I've already talked to :P ) had experience here, and if so, how did you find a reliable person to work for?

frggystyl

02-18-2003, 11:36 AM

... I love my current job, but when I was unemployed for like 8 months, I was interested in some of the "make $100 an hour at home" deals. Problem is... they all charge for info... so I never checked it out.

shenrix

02-18-2003, 12:35 PM

Originally posted by KnottyGirl
Yeah, I'm interested. I know there are bazillions of people who work this way, and aren't getting screwed, but I have yet to find any source of home employment that I didn't think was shiesty.

sell drugs. . .you would be providing a service that people trufully know they want. Nothing shiesty about that. . .

StarPhox

02-18-2003, 12:36 PM

Originally posted by shenrix

sell drugs. . .you would be providing a service that people trufully know they want. Nothing shiesty about that. . .

Eh, just so long as you don't have thieving friends... :D

shenrix

02-18-2003, 12:40 PM

Originally posted by StarPhox

Eh, just so long as you don't have thieving friends... :D

no shit. . .fawking gold diggers!

skloot

02-18-2003, 12:43 PM

I worked from home for a while
It was a really informal arrangement, unlike what your talking about, but I just want to say that it was boring as shit... it was convenient, tho.

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02-18-2003, 12:44 PM

Originally posted by shenrix

sell drugs. . .you would be providing a service that people trufully know they want. Nothing shiesty about that. . .

Yeah, that's exactly the kind of employment I was talking about.
:rolleyes:

186k\sec

02-18-2003, 12:52 PM

why not come up with your own business, work from home, and be the boss.!

when I was a kid, I had my own dog kennels in my folks garage.. if you like dogs, its easy work, I had the owners provide the food, & I just walked, fed, and took care of them while they were out of town.. .(lots of pet owners want something better than 'the pound' for their pets.) Its pretty easy money, & fun too... i had a nice assortment of dogs each week.!

shenrix

02-18-2003, 12:52 PM

Originally posted by KnottyGirl

Yeah, that's exactly the kind of employment I was talking about.
:rolleyes:

well, as shitty as the job market is right now, you shouldn't rule any options out.

HexRei

02-18-2003, 01:02 PM

I had a decent job working from home ($12/hr, 40 hrs/wk) doing email support and QA for MusicMatch. However, they didn't advertise AT ALL with "work from home" in the job description.
My advice is to look for respectable companies that would logically have work-at-home employees, any ad that shouts WORK FROM HOME!! is suspect IMHO.

StarPhox

02-18-2003, 01:04 PM

Originally posted by HexRei
I had a decent job working from home ($12/hr, 40 hrs/wk.

That's dope. Then you could work from home *and* be a dealer! ;)

bandicot

02-18-2003, 01:35 PM

I'm a consultant. For the first year at my company, I worked mainly from home when I wasn't at the client's site. Now I split time between the office and home. Small consultancies are great for flexibility - as long as the client is happy and the work gets done, there really isn't any reason for the company to be inflexible. . .

lisam

02-18-2003, 04:48 PM

we should start our own business and walk people's dogs for 25 bucks an hour.

and if you really want to work from home you can come over here and sell drugs with me! *rolls eyes* normal people call it telecommuting not drug dealing. sheesh.

people are stupid, it sucks you haven't gotten any worthwhile replies yet (mine included), but that's the board for ya.

nate

02-18-2003, 05:08 PM

Originally posted by lisam
normal people call it telecommuting not drug dealing.
I met a guy who told me he was in "E-commerce." If he hadn't been rolled out of his skull, I wouldn't have even gotten the joke. Well, not until he tried to give me his pager number anyway...

Peace.

D-d0g

02-18-2003, 05:20 PM

Originally posted by 186k\sec
why not come up with your own business, work from home, and be the boss.!

when I was a kid, I had my own dog kennels in my folks garage.. if you like dogs, its easy work, I had the owners provide the food, & I just walked, fed, and took care of them while they were out of town.. .(lots of pet owners want something better than 'the pound' for their pets.) Its pretty easy money, & fun too... i had a nice assortment of dogs each week.!

Cool deal. I agree that making one's own "home" employment is a good alternative to working for someone else from home. It isn't always glamorous, but for me doing a job well is glamor enough.

If I had one word of advice for folks thinking of careers it'd be "data security." Seriously, anyone who can do decent security work on compooters is going to be in high demand for many years. A little consultancy doing security audit work for home businesses would go over well, does not require uber coding skills, and helps keep Big Brother from spying on people's shit, to boot! For that sort of work, I'd think to charge $30 an hour or so entry level, and up from there. A few ads in the WW, Mercury, in local online directories, a half-decent website, and off you go.

I paid for room and board all through graduate school and through part of college by taking care of dogs at boarding/breeding kennels. For some, it was "cleaning up shit." For me, it was honest work with a tangible result (clean kennels!) that allowed me to focus on my schoolwork and think alot about where I wanted to go with my ife.

<sigh> I still get all emotional and foozy when I clean kennels. . . how's that for Pavlovian conditioning?

Peace,

D-d0g

nouseforaname

02-18-2003, 10:50 PM

works from home... Even though it sounds really gay she makes alot of money at it.. She makes light switches with designs on it.. She prints up pictures of whatever and than uses some sort of glue to put it on the light switch.. Than she sprays it with this stuff so than you can wash the light switch without hurting the picture.. Than she sells them on e-bay for $6 a piece... She makes around $3,000 a month.. Not bad at all..She also sells antiques in stores.. She buys crap from people and than sticks it in her booths at her different stores.. All she has to do is buy the crap and stick it in the booth.. But than again my mom and her boyfriend have been antique dealers for 20 years so she knows what to buy.. My moms boyfriend bought a squirt gun for a dollar and put it on e-bay and sold it for 20,000 dollars.. Apparently it was a original squirt gun still in the plastic from some famous tv show from back in the day.. I dont remember the shows name..

bungle bliss

02-19-2003, 05:51 AM

I worked at my comp for 9 months for about 16 hours a day.

I did data entry for charities, aka entering a bazillion people with Jewish names and their addresses into files from forms that had been filled out by hand.

I was set up with the job from a neighbor who worked for the Temple that I did the typing for. It led to me doing similar work for other temples around the Twin Cities area.

It was fun except they don't payyouuntil you're done, and what with sitting at the comp on AIM with the bong next to me talking to friends, it dragged out. I could have used more discipline. But I got to sleep weird hours and eat whenever I wanted, and nothing beats being able to work wearing nothing but your boyfriend's boxershorts and a Hanes t-shirt.

The only non-sheisty jobs from home I've seen, besides all my Microsoftie friends who work from home, are the data entry and medical transcription ones.

Jeffro

02-19-2003, 06:10 AM

Amway, baby. Amway. ;)

StarPhox

02-19-2003, 06:17 AM

Originally posted by lisam

and if you really want to work from home you can come over here and sell drugs with me!

I'm looking for work in PDX.... :D

bungle bliss

02-19-2003, 07:20 AM

Originally posted by Jeffro
Amway, baby. Amway. ;)

Lord....:eek:

mchll888

02-19-2003, 07:59 AM

Originally posted by Jeffro
Amway, baby. Amway. ;)
Honestly........due to amway my rich ass uncle only works 1 day a month and has an enormous house and a yacht. He is seriously gifted with amazing people and presentation skills though.

Jeffro

02-19-2003, 08:36 AM

Originally posted by mchll888

Honestly........due to amway my rich ass uncle only works 1 day a month and has an enormous house and a yacht. He is seriously gifted with amazing people and presentation skills though.

That's what I'm saying, man. If you have the ability to give in to the cult, sell substandard products out of your garage, and make people believe pyramid schemes work, then it's all about Amway.

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02-19-2003, 11:30 AM

lol

word to jeffro.

i'm not interested in a pyramid scheme, although someone always knows someone who heard of someone who got rich off of one.

lisam

02-19-2003, 04:42 PM

you find the dogs and i'll buy the leashes bitch!

ijji

02-19-2003, 04:51 PM

Originally posted by StarPhox

Eh, just so long as you don't have thieving friends... :D

So I take it this is in reference to your other post about your money missing but then you denied that it had anything to do with drugs?!?! Hmmm...seems pretty weird.

AliciaisAlwaysPimpin

02-19-2003, 07:52 PM

yup. i work from home doing ebay. getting these for cheap and jacxking up the price is what its about. i make as much as an average college student with a part time job, and i could make more if i wanted to put more effort into how much i sell. i never have to get up or go any where or even change out of my jammies if i want.

ahhh ebay is the life.

HexRei

02-19-2003, 08:53 PM

Originally posted by AliciaisAlwaysPimpin
yup. i work from home doing ebay. getting these for cheap and jacxking up the price is what its about. i make as much as an average college student with a part time job, and i could make more if i wanted to put more effort into how much i sell. i never have to get up or go any where or even change out of my jammies if i want.

ahhh ebay is the life.

don't you still live with your parents?

abrahn

02-20-2003, 01:08 AM

GETTING SCREWED pays,just get a webcam and sign-up,lots of people do this.

StarPhox

02-20-2003, 05:00 AM

Originally posted by ijji

So I take it this is in reference to your other post about your money missing but then you denied that it had anything to do with drugs?!?! Hmmm...seems pretty weird.

Note the grin ":D", it probably should have been a ";)"

It was sort of a joke aimed at the folks who know me a little better because so many people accused me of being a dealer in the other thread.

Originally posted by lisam:

and if you really want to work from home you can come over here and sell drugs with me!

I don't think she's actually a drug dealer either.

::shrugs:: Think what you like. :)

lisam

02-20-2003, 06:55 PM

i am fully aware that dajah doesn't sell drugs. i was joking.

poor attempt at humor on my part i suppose.

oh yeah...the part about me selling drugs was another ill-conceived joke, i work from home doing legitimate stuff, but a lot of people like to think it's something illegal. whatever suits your imagination, i don't care.

ZupanGOD

02-20-2003, 07:15 PM

Originally posted by D-d0g

Cool deal. I agree that making one's own "home" employment is a good alternative to working for someone else from home. It isn't always glamorous, but for me doing a job well is glamor enough.

If I had one word of advice for folks thinking of careers it'd be "data security." Seriously, anyone who can do decent security work on compooters is going to be in high demand for many years. A little consultancy doing security audit work for home businesses would go over well, does not require uber coding skills, and helps keep Big Brother from spying on people's shit, to boot! For that sort of work, I'd think to charge $30 an hour or so entry level, and up from there. A few ads in the WW, Mercury, in local online directories, a half-decent website, and off you go.

I paid for room and board all through graduate school and through part of college by taking care of dogs at boarding/breeding kennels. For some, it was "cleaning up shit." For me, it was honest work with a tangible result (clean kennels!) that allowed me to focus on my schoolwork and think alot about where I wanted to go with my ife.

<sigh> I still get all emotional and foozy when I clean kennels. . . how's that for Pavlovian conditioning?

Peace,

D-d0g

Yeah I agree, I think security will be big in the next few years and beyond. I'm actually looking forward to venture into this stuff, perhaps the Air force, onto college and get into writing code to protect your digtal privacy.

AliciaisAlwaysPimpin

02-20-2003, 10:16 PM

Originally posted by HexRei

don't you still live with your parents?

i dont think its really any of your buisness where i live...i said i make as much as an average college student with a part time job....probably even more on some weeks.

EviLreD

02-20-2003, 10:26 PM

I believe we can take that as a yes! :D

HexRei

02-20-2003, 10:27 PM

Originally posted by AliciaisAlwaysPimpin

i dont think its really any of your buisness where i live...i said i make as much as an average college student with a part time job....probably even more on some weeks.

I knew you'd get defensive about this... Advocating ebay auctioning as a career is fine, I just thought that the people you were recommending it to might want to know what your idea of "the life" is. Mine doesn't include living at with the 'rents.

bicentricity

02-20-2003, 10:58 PM

I read tarot for Miz Chleo and the other psychic networks. Im a real reader and after the Miz Chleo network was under fire for script reading i quit cause im good and didnt want to be associated with a lawsuit.

i worked for Premium Network for almost a year. It was OK but it takes dicipline since its by the hour you actually on the Phone. I would have an average of 40 minutes a call so i was makin $16/hr but i would have to go home and log in and be patient. it worked as a good summer job though. now i just give private readings for $40 - 60 and on donation basis for my friends.

AliciaisAlwaysPimpin

02-21-2003, 12:17 AM

Originally posted by HexRei

I knew you'd get defensive about this... Advocating ebay auctioning as a career is fine, I just thought that the people you were recommending it to might want to know what your idea of "the life" is. Mine doesn't include living at with the 'rents.

good for you! your hindsight is incredible. i already said twice i make as much as an average college student with a part time job...obviously a college student with a part time job isnt going to be living on thier own, paying bills, and paying for school at the same time. the fact that you are even bringing up that i live with my parents has no relevance whatsoever, so stop acting where i live is such a horrendous crutch

ZupanGOD

02-21-2003, 12:38 AM

AliciaisAlwaysPimpin

02-21-2003, 01:42 AM

well im not saying it isnt possible, but youd have to have a pretty good paying 20 hour a week job to manage such a thing.

ZupanGOD

02-21-2003, 02:06 AM

Originally posted by AliciaisAlwaysPimpin
well im not saying it isnt possible, but youd have to have a pretty good paying 20 hour a week job to manage such a thing.

True, I didn't say it was easy..

Take care,
Jason

nate

02-21-2003, 12:15 PM

Originally posted by AliciaisAlwaysPimpin
well im not saying it isnt possible, but youd have to have a pretty good paying 20 hour a week job to manage such a thing.
And/or a shitload of financial aid, which is readily available to most people depending on your academic abilities and the institution you choose to attend. Not a single person I went to school with lived at home, and while plenty (a good thousand or so) relied heavily on parental support, I knew at least a few dozen who had no support from their families whatsoever and still lived on their own, worked less than 20 hrs a week for less than $5 an hour (ooh, I'm dating myself here), attended school full-time and every single one of them graduated in four years. Yeah, they worked their asses off. But they partied like rock stars too, I assure you. No, it's not EASY, but it's not nearly as difficult as people make it out to be.

Peace.

Star_Dancer

02-21-2003, 12:18 PM

Originally posted by AliciaisAlwaysPimpin

good for you! your hindsight is incredible. i already said twice i make as much as an average college student with a part time job...obviously a college student with a part time job isnt going to be living on thier own, paying bills, and paying for school at the same time. the fact that you are even bringing up that i live with my parents has no relevance whatsoever, so stop acting where i live is such a horrendous crutch

Syd does it very well, and she's only 17

HexRei

02-21-2003, 02:04 PM

Originally posted by AliciaisAlwaysPimpin

obviously a college student with a part time job isnt going to be living on thier own, paying bills, and paying for school at the same time.

Sure they can. I know plenty of people who do.

so stop acting where i live is such a horrendous crutch

Living at home is actually a very very useful "crutch" (your term, not mine). Nothing wrong with it, I'm just being realistic here.