Looking for a LEGIT Work from Home Job

There are jobs like this. I know for a fact that JetBlue is famous for having their whole booking team staffed by work at home moms...so these opportunities do exist.

You may want to try this site:

https://www.flexjobs.com/

And also this site which is good for contract work:

https://www.upwork.com/

100% there are plenty of opportunities out there for this type of work, take a look at those two sites to start and good luck!

ain't we all, honey. ain't we all.
khairete
S.

What are your skills? What is your experience?

My husband has worked at home as a freelance copywriter for decades. I work at home doing some education in a specific field (nutritional epigenetics), some Spanish tutoring (just to keep my skills sharp), and also doing some freelance editing/proofreading. We both get some work through Thumbtack, which has some up-front fees (you buy credits to use to bid on jobs) but they aren't excessive, and you can choose what to bid on. If we get repeat clients, we don't pay for subsequent jobs for them, so it's very reasonable. I can work the schedule around my other activities, BUT I have skills in these areas, references, etc. I don't know what you know how to do or what your background is.

Data entry won't pay you what you think. Things like medical coding have deadlines and educational/training requirements up front, and you have to work uninterrupted.

Phone work (making appointments, etc.) is impossible to do if you have a child at home. I know people who do this, but their kids are in school or in daycare. Period.

No one will pay you to work while you watch your child and certainly not while you supervise his schooling on top of that. Teaching is a full time job! If you are developing the curriculum yourself, you have more hours to put in to make sure he meets state guidelines. You shouldn't even have time to throw in the laundry or put some stuff in the crockpot to get dinner ready! If you can team up with another homeschooling parent, maybe you can do small classes of 2 kids, and divide up the work giving you some free time, but you still need a job you can structure around that - and very few clients want to wait while you do your lessons. I wouldn't think that providing in-home daycare would work, because you'd be too distracted to provide teaching time to your child. If I had a toddler and needed daycare, I'd be very reluctant to put my child in a home where the daycare provider was also trying to teach an older child - I'd be concerned that one or both kids wouldn't have your undivided attention.

Selling things (which you say you don't want to do anyway), or doing something like sewing/crafts still mean that you have to be out of the house meeting customers, doing craft fairs, and so on, and you really won't have time to create enough inventory to make it profitable. Those jobs depend on volume, and you're looking to do something very sporadic and occasional.

Good luck!

Anyone that would hire you would expect specific hours. If you are looking for I will work when I feel like it you are looking for a silver unicorn. No one legit would ever hire you to cater to your needs, just doesn't happen

T.,

Thank you for the laugh so early in the morning!!

You need to make a decision - either be a stay at home mom or work. I am NOT going to pay you to stay home with your kid and "work around his schedule" - sorry - just ain't gonna happen. You are home-schooling? Well - guess what? You made the decision NOT to work and get paid. This is your life. Deal with it. You want more? Put your son in private school or hire someone to teach him privately. Otherwise? You can't have your cake and eat it too.

You say you want "data entry" - okay. Average pay is $15 an hour and it's only 15 to 20 hours of work a week. There are DEADLINES that must be met. Errors? Won't be tolerated.

I work from home. I have for over 10 years now. You MUST have discipline and self control. You MUST be able to focus on your work. I had to prove myself FIRST before I was able to work from home. I'm lucky - I can set my own hours because of what I do. I'm a recruiter and staffing manager. My job isn't always done 9 to 5 - there are people who call at 630 in the morning BEFORE they get into work...and then again after they get off work. My employer knows this and trusts me to do my job. When I first started working from home? My kids were 4 and 6. My employer told me that I was to put my kids in day care or after school care while I was working for them. I had to call in sick when my kid was sick. Now? they are 14 and 16. I start work at 630 in the morning. I "play" sometimes during the day. and hit the ground running again from 230 to 7PM. My kids KNOW when I'm on the phone? They are to be quiet.

You can find a TON of telecommuting jobs on craigslist. Whether they are legit or not? I can't tell you. I can tell you they will expect you to be able to have an environment with no screaming kids, no barking dogs and such. You will be expected to WORK and not be playing with your son.

I wish you luck. You need to find the balance in your life. Working from home is WORKING. I will NOT pay you to home school your kid.

What skills do you have?
How much money are you looking to earn?

You want to be home with your son? Don't many of us? I'm retired. My kids have flown the nest. I worked and I was a stay at home mom. I had a husband to help out. Do you?

Working from home is WORKING. Companies are not going to pay you to stay home with your kid. You want that? You need to open a day care business and take in other people's kids. Keep in mind in doing that? there is no down days. And you will have people who are habitually late in paying and picking up their kids.

Bank of America and one other bank have customer service positions, my son's girlfriend works from home for BofA. They gave her a specific computer to use and she can't use it for anything but BofA work. Her hours are set. They made a contract stating that her hours are set and she couldn't have a noisy background (i.e. no kids and no dogs, birds, etc.). They are pretty strict about it.

Unless you want to do in home childcare, there's not much else. People who successfully telecommute almost always do so after having an established career first (accounting, graphic/web design, writing, etc.) AND they have childcare for their kids while they do it, so you need to factor that into the cost.
Another option is to work evenings and/or weekends while your husband is home with your son, I've known a few moms who did that, working at Target and Starbucks.

what a goal! good luck as i don't think that such a job exists

I would suggest doing home day care. Maybe find another family interested in home schooling and home school another child/children. Not only will you make extra income, you will provide your child with social interaction.

That's kind of the golden fleece everyone looks for but there's no easy legitimate path to this goal.
First you find an employer and work for them for a few years to prove yourself.
Then - maybe - they'll let you work 1 day per week from home and see how it goes.
Sometimes it's not possible because the nature of the work can't be done from home - other times the manager is too anal to believe work can be accomplished when he/she isn't standing over you watching you do it (I had one of those once - they are a pain in the neck and some have a lower opinion of them).
And then if you prove you can work independently from home
(and it IS WORK - you can't be doing anything else while you're home - like watching kids or anything else - it's just like working from the office without the commute (and you can wear your bunny slippers)).
THEN MAYBE your employer will let you work from home on a permanent basis - but you might still need to come into the office for meetings every so often.
Good luck!

If you are using a curriculum such as K-12 or even Epic you can go to their websites and look at employment opportunities. I did K-12 with our girl and there were several jobs in the OKC area, non degree jobs as in non-teaching jobs. Support for families who have disabled kids, call center sorts of things, and so much more. It was very good pay too, for a stay at home mom that was just looking to bring in a little extra money.

If you are really wanting to find a work at home job the best thing you can do is google for that sort of job in your area. If they want you to pay them, it's not a legitimate job. If they want you to travel to them for training...I don't know that I would do that.

Otherwise you might have to figure out how to just make it with some skill that you have that is marketable. Like ironing, taking in laundry, alterations, cooking some item and selling it..like a home bakery or small catering thing.

There aren't any real jobs out there for people who just want to stay home and be paid for it. If you don't already have a connection to a company that would allow you to work from home instead of coming into the office there isn't much hope for you finding any reputable company.

In addition, you don't seem to realize that work from home requires that you put your child in school or child care so you are "at work" when you are on their time. No animals, kids, family, TV, cell phones ringing, nothing except you doing your job at home instead of a work place.

working at home is not for everyone. I work at home and there are hard parts about it. If you plan on working during the day you will need child care. If you can work at night you will need to be sure you get enough sleep so you can properly care for your son the next day. You will need to be very principled in following a schedule and be a self starter as no one will be "watching" you and "forcing' you to work as it is in a workplace.