Looking for legitimate work from home jobs ideas can be… well, a bit of a downer. There are so many dead ends out there, so many cons and scams, so many pipe dreams. It really can get you in a sour mood to even think about trying to escape the daily grind.
But… if you’re realistic and ready to work hard, you may not ever get rich, but you can at least make a comfortable living doing something you enjoy. Here are three ideas for legitimate work from home jobs.
Freelancing
Whatever you’re good at, you can probably find a job doing it on the web, but for best results, you may want to specialize in an in-demand area. Writing advertisements for the web and designing websites are both in high demand. Graphic design is in demand, as well, but rarely in as high of volume. You could also do video advertisements and reviews and so on at websites like turnhere.com. This work for hire stuff is often done with a ghost-writing contract, but still serves as a good way to build up a solid resume.
Online Retail
Here’s an idea: buy up a ton of printer ink cartridges in bulk and sell them individual for less than people will spend at the office supply store. These types of investments take a bit of money to get going, but if you have a few hundred bucks to get started, that can get you a lot farther than one of those pyramid schemes where you’ll be selling stuff nobody wants and paying a percentage to the next guy up.
Affiliate Marketing
If you know what you’re doing, if you have a good idea in mind, affiliate marketing means that you can do pretty much whatever you want and make a living at it. This is better to put on the backburner, because it takes some time to get some real money rolling in, but it works like this: start a blog, get people reading it, and get people buying things from Amazon, eBay, wherever, through links on your blog via affiliate programs. It’s simple, it’s easy, but it takes some time to get the ball rolling.