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I think we can all agree that every now and then almost everyone gets dreams of working from home – and I don’t blame them.

Why work from home?

With some clever thinking you can look like this in no time!

Despite not being able to socialize with your friends and coworkers (which you can do after-hours anyway – which is why “Happy Hour” at your local bar was invented) as much as before, there are some reasons why you might want to work from home:

Think of all the money you save by staying at home. No need to fill up the gas guzzling truck with $20 worth of ridiculously expensive fuel just to get to work and back.

No need to spend money on a lunch, which usually consists of deep fried, genetically modified organisms which tend to induce heart disease anyway.

No one is there to annoy the hell out of you on the most ridiculous of reasons.  We all had that – “BOB, where’s the paper for the printer!!!???!!” screams whoever, just to realize that it’s neatly stacked under the table…where it has been for the last ten years.

And finally, you make your own schedule. How long you work, sleep, watch TV, surf the web, eat and slack off will depend entirely on you. For once in your life there will be no one to blame for stealing your chair, cutting your keyboard wire, soaking your mouse in a pint of beer and throwing paperclips at you across the office.

How to work from home a.k.a. in your underwear

We’ve all seen those unbelievable ads that claim to make you thousands of dollars by working a few hours a week. Be wary of them, very, very wary. Of course, not all home-based work ventures are scams. Here are some of the legitimate working enterprises:

1. Data Entry

Companies love outsourcing all possible jobs out to people that wouldn’t mind doing it in the leisure and comfort of their home. Having a bunch of employees filling out forms all day long isn’t the way a CEO sees his workers working. Companies produce the data that later on needs to be put in forms. Not only is it an inefficient way of spending company time, it profoundly undervalues the employees full potential, since a 5^th grader msn addict can do the job. All it usually requires is good typing skills and being attentive + the ability to follow instructions.

2. Customer Service Representative

Simply put – telemarketing from home. Once again, companies love outsourcing jobs, and instead sending the job overseas, companies pay decent money to people in their own country knowing that businessmen as well as homeowners would rather talk with someone with whom they can actually understand the words coming out of their mouth.

3. Mystery Shopping

Yes, this still exists. You provide priceless information to companies about the experience you had in a particular store. How else do you think is it possible to survive in this world of fierce competition? Stores have to know the best way to sell you whatever a store sells. Hence, they will pay you to visit their competitors or even their own store without telling you that, just to be sure that what they are doing is something customers would like.

4. Surveys

Companies need to know what you like to make more of what you like. Many are willing to pay to acquire that information. They vary from frozen chicken producers to detergent – all want to know what you think of their product and what could be changed for you to like it and buy it more.  Surveys can be an easy way of adding a tidbit more to your pocket in your spare time and all it takes is an honest look on the products described.

Working from home for yourself (written by Mr. Moneybags)

Now, if you’re an egotistical prick like me and can’t bare the idea of working for anyone else, even if it is a faceless corporation or internet start-up, then here are some ways you can make money in your underwear by working for yourself:

1. The Stock Market

Probably didn’t see this one coming, eh? (That would be sarcasm) Anyone that knows me knows that I am a fan of the stock market and all of the big fat moneybags that potentially come with it. The beauty of the stock market is that it’s like having your own business without actually having to show up at work.  The amount of money you can make from stocks is only limited by your ability to choose good stocks, so get reading!

2. Start your own blog/website

There are a million other websites in the world that can do an infinitely better job of explaining this than me which actually specialize on the subject, so I’m not going to go into too much detail here. All you have to know is that if you work hard and are actually good at what you do, your blog can pull in over $20,000 a month (as 9% of blogs do).

3. Kidney Harvesting

This is one of those things that most people will scoff at and throw heavy bricks at me for, only to be bounced back in their face by my shield made entirely out of hundred-dollar bills. As I mentioned in my article “21 Ways to Make a Million Dollars” one kidney can net you $50,000! So, go start drugging random people on the streets, cut out parts of their body without their consent and go buy yourself a yacht!

4. Consulting

If you constantly find people coming to you for advice about a specific subject, there is a good chance you know what you’re talking about. So, instead of handing out free information willy-nilly and just wasting your time on ungrateful mongrels, why not make some money off of them? You’d be surprised how many people would be willing to pay good money for some good information, you just have to be able to show them that what they pay you in your consulting fees will be covered many times over in what you actually teach them.

In Closing

There will always be ways to make money from home, an office, the back of a moving truck or wherever else. It all depends on your creativity to think of ideas to make money followed by your determination to see the ideas through.

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