R.J. asks from McKinney, TX on September 29, 2008
What Do You Work at Home Mom's Do?
I need to get some extra income coming in here and I have a newborn baby and a toddler. Not exactly worth paying daycare to go back to work full time. What do some of you do to make extra money. I don't want to sell anything from home. I don't have the patience or personality. I'd rather put the kids in daycare if it came to that. Any other suggestions?
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S.A. answers from Dallas on November 12, 2008
I am also looking to working from home to stay home with my son...have you started working for any one of these companies or another one? If so which one and how's it going?
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M.G. answers from Dallas on September 29, 2008
I just started working for West, and my husband is in training for Arise. Both are work from home legit companies, and both allow you to create your own schedule and work when and how often you want. West takes longer to get started, but there's no cost at all up front. Arise is immediate, and it costs a little for the training, but you get paid much better than with West (west is little more than min wage). Anyway. . .I highly recommend either company. My husband's aunt has worked for both companies for over a year now.
www.westathome.com
www.arise.com
Check them out. They are pretty easy jobs. It's basically answering phones for thos infomercials you see and taking orders.
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R.R. answers from Dallas on September 30, 2008
I work for a web based text in search engine. Basically, I sign in, and receive questions that people send in, I search the answers and send them back with a link, and the person receives it on their cell phone. I get paid per message. I work only evenings and some weekend hours, and make $200 to $350 per month.
If you are interested, pm me and I'll tell you how to sign up.
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B.P. answers from Abilene on September 29, 2008
I am a producer for an internet based health insurance broker, which was just small leap from what I did in a Bricks and Mortor office.
I have friends who are medical transcriptionists and do medical billing and coding.
There are actually companies now that hire individuals to work out of their homes to take their inbound calls for customer service. The only thing is that it cannot sound like you are in a home based office (no kids, dogs, doorbells, etc). You would probably need someone to watch the baby or schedule yourself to work when your hubby is home.
I've also done some mystery shopping. I'm in a rural area so it's kind of hit or miss, but I cleared almost $90 last month. It's not a huge amount but it does help!
Best of luck to you!
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M.M. answers from San Antonio on October 03, 2008
I am currently looking for personal assistant for my growing home business...a mom to work from home doing online email work and customer service phone calls for me.
I have been working from home for 4 years now and my business has done so well that I can't keep up. I only work part time putting my 2 small children first so I need to find someone to help out now that my income has increased so much I can afford to hire someone to help.
You can pm me if you are interested.
M.
www.WorkatHomeUnited.com/JOBS
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T.B. answers from Dallas on September 29, 2008
If you have a creative side you could get into graphic art (creating logos, ads, brochures...) There is free software available for download (Gimp being the most reputable that I know).
If you have some creative flare and are good with computers, you could get into website design. All you really need to learn is html and css.
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T.O. answers from Dallas on September 29, 2008
Paralegal.
But you really need to do whatever you did before kids at home. That's the best way to make decent money.
Around here there are:
-Sales people at home/when they don't travel.
- A marketing programs director from a very big financial/banking group.
-Event planner.
-Aflac sales person, when not out on calls.
and me.
So find how to do what you did before kids at home and pitch it to your old company or to a new one.
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J.M. answers from Dallas on October 01, 2008
I'm a photographer. I used to do home-daycare, but when I started giving photos of the kids as gifts to the parents, they all suggested I do it professionally. A couple of years later, I'm photographing kids, babies, families, weddings, even industry parties for some local radio stations, and I love it!
Think of what YOU love to do, and figure out a way to turn that into a career. Be realistic, though. I love kids, which is why I tried the home-daycare thing. But, as it turns out, I HATE cleaning up the poo, pee, and vomit of non-relative-kids...which is really the biggest part of home-day-care. Ick.
S.A. answers from Dallas on November 12, 2008
I am also looking to working from home to stay home with my son...have you started working for any one of these companies or another one? If so which one and how's it going?
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