Real Work From Home Jobs
Are you tired of the daily commute to a job working for someone else? Want to know about some real work from home jobs? I do a few of them which I started late last year and now in 2014 they are doing great and getting better each month. I will share my knowledge in how you can get started for little to no money.
There are many options available 
to you, even when working for someone else. However I want to tell you how to become your own boss so you can eventually break free from being an employee.
Think of how that would feel. You would no longer have that fear of being laid off or fired. Plus with the bonus of working from home, you will save much money in commuting expenses. You can start and end your work day whenever you want. You won’t even have to get dressed to go to work.
Welcome to the internet
Because the internet makes many things we do in life easier it has also had a profound impact in how we can do certain types of work. I used to be in the video game design industry and the typical work week was 3 days in the office and 2 days at home.
Now I realize that for some that would seem like a dream-job to have, but it still is work. And for those times during the winter when it would snow so hard, no worries, just stay home and work. But that type of work, known as telecommuting, is nowhere near as rewarding as working for yourself.
When you work for yourself you are in total control of everything. At first that could seem difficult in various areas like getting paid or finding work on a regular basis. However the type of work you can do at home and online can be quite profitable with little effort in the long run. So now I want to share with you some of the ways you can work from home for very little money.
Work from home jobs
I am sure you have seen many of those online scams like getting paid to answer surveys or some sort of MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) program. Two of the things that they claim that will be a tip off of them being a scam is that they will say you can make large sums of money monthly or weekly.
The other thing that tips them off is when they show you a pay check or a bank deposit. Yet if you read the fine print they never say that you can “actually” make what they are claiming. Always make sure to read the Income Disclosures of websites that claim how much you can make.
The truth is that in order to make thousands of dollars a month you have to lay the ground work and work hard to get to that 
point. Just look at every successful business person who started from scratch. It took them years of hard work to get to where they are now.
I often say that success in any kind of business is a journey. So if you are not willing to take that journey to reach your goals you will never achieve them.
The below list of online jobs are great for people who want a better financial future in becoming their own boss. The majority of them require you to have your own website and/or blog. Fortunately it is extremely easy to create your own website nowadays. I explain and show you how with the video on my Getting Started page.
LEGITIMATE WORK AT HOME JOBS
(NO HANDLING OF ACTUAL PRODUCTS)
• Affiliate Marketing (with companies like Amazon, Best Buy, Nike, Sony, Target,…)
• Blogger (you can blog about anything and make money from it too)
• Freelance Writer (Resume Writer, Copywriter, Grant Writer, Travel Writer,…)
• Proofreader (of Documents, Social Media pages, other forms of written media)
• WordPress Website Creator (build websites and host them if you are a WA member)
• Website Design Support (provide Content Writing, Keyword Research & SEO)
• Information Publisher (selling informational eBooks, newsletters, videos,…)
• Stock Photographer (and yes, you can start by using the camera in your phone)
(HANDLING OF ACTUAL PRODUCTS)
• eBay / Amazon / Craigslist (direct selling or drop shipping)
• Niche Content Direct Selling (selling products within a certain niche)
Recap
The above list of real work from home jobs is just a sampling of the types of work you can do from home. You can start all of these for very little money, like under $400, and some of these jobs you can actually start for free! Another great thing about these types of jobs are that you can start them while still being employed at your current place of work. They can all be started and even 
operated in your spare time.
So if you want to experience the joy of being your own boss you have to take action and start your journey towards the luxury of working from the comfort of your home on your own terms.
Like I said above, “Success in any kind of business is a journey.” The only way you will reach your goal of being your own boss is to start your journey and that can be accomplished by just a few spare hours a week.
If you are ready to start that journey then check out how I started by reading The Wealthy Affiliate Review and how for $0.00 I was able to start my journey in becoming my own boss.
If you are interested in setting up your own home office for your new online business, take a look at my web page called For My Office where I tell and show you the basic equipment that I use and why. If you have any questions or comments on this post, please leave them below and I will be happy to send you a reply.
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Good Article Robert,Really interesting and relevant. Thanks
You are welcome Rahul, I am happy you liked my article on real work from home jobs.
Hi Robert,
Great post about being your own boss. I especially liked the info on the legitimate online activities. I think these are easy for anyone to get started in so long as they understand the time and commitment they can take to be successful. I’m going to suggest a few to my kids as ideas to getting started online as I think it’s a quick a easy way for them to experience their own business. Thanks for the ideas.
You are welcome Advan and yes, I think suggesting some of those ideas would be great to suggest to your kids as some are quite easy to do, as long as you know that you really have to work at them. But overall, most of what I listed are easy to do.
After see your review, I join Wealthy affiliate. It is exactly like you say. Have each and every training and lessons for everyone to start from scratch. Thanks for suggesting Wealthy affiliate.
Wealthy Affiliate truly is a great way to learn everything you need to start an online business from scratch. I am happy that my review helped you to join Wealthy Affiliate. Best of luck to you in your endeavors here.
Really interesting post. I didn’t know about stockphotographer. I own a digital camera since one year. Do you have any experience on this? Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Fred for your comment. I personally do not have experience with the stock photography job but I have studied it and I am thinking of doing this. I have a friend who has been doing this for years and has had some of his pictures published. If you like taking pictures you should try it.
Dude I love this, and I love how the internet provides anyone with a way to start their own business. But you bring up a good point, that it takes hard work and commitment. Nothing is easy, and if it is, it’s a scam. Wealthy Affiliate is amazing and I recommend it to anyone who is serious about working from home.
That’s right Dennis, no work from home job is easy and if anyone claims that it is then they are probably trying to sell you a scam. This is one of the reasons why I knew right away that Wealthy Affiliate was not a scam and why I joined. They never said it would be easy but because of their training, available resources, the entire helping community, and the owners personally helping out all of the members, the training was easier than I thought. Now with the knowledge I gained through the training, as with so many others who have taken and completed the Certification Courses, I can work from home in some of the many online opportunities. It truly is a GREAT feeling!
WA is where it’s at! No “gurus”, no flashy millionaires. Real people helping real people. Best decision I ever made!
I agree Eryn! It was the best decision I ever made too because not only did I learn how to build a website, 3 of them actually, Wealthy Affiliate gave me the skills to do other types of at home jobs. Now not only can I extend my eBay business via Direct Sales but I can now do affiliate marketing, content creation and keyword research for other people, plus other online jobs that are in demand. Knowledge is power!
You hit the nail on the head. It takes determination and a very strong willingness to start something new. But the moment you get to Quit your Job is priceless.
Exactly Linda! I like to call my approach to working from home the DDD approach. Dedication, Determination and Discipline. By employing those three factors you can be successful in working from home. It truly is a great feeling when you can get up in the morning and know that you do not have to leave your home to go to work. – Thank you for your comment.
I am so glad that you have this list for those looking for legitimate ways to make money. The most important thing that you touched on was to make thousands of dollars a month you need to do the work. This isn’t get rich quick. Nice post!
Thank you Wendy for your comment. My goal for this post, as well as all of my content, is to educate my readers as to what is real in the Work From Home genre. It is very much possible to work from home but you have to bust your butt and work really hard to become successful. The only thing really nice about working from home is that you do not have to commute to a job working for someone else. Your success or failure is totally up to you.
I enjoyed reading your story Robert. It is great to see evidence that the dream of giving up the traditional working life and working from home is really possible.
It is very much possible Shell! It does require what I call the 3 Ds: dedication, devotion and discipline. You must be dedicated to reaching and fulfilling your daily goals, have a devotion for the success of your business and what it gives to others, and you must have discipline to work when you need to instead of goofing off on a nice sunny day when there is work to be done. Work hard now so you can play hard later. That is what I do and it affords me the freedom to continue working from home…plus the 30 second commute in the morning is quite nice. 🙂
Great article, Robert. I thought your list of suggested jobs to do on the internet covered a good variety of interests. Really, with all the opportunities out there, anyone with the desire and motivation could find something they would enjoy doing on the internet today to make a living. It’s good to see that you are giving them advice that will help them do just that without getting caught up in the get rich quick scams that are so rampant.
Thank you JoAnn, glad you liked my blog post. There are many real work from home jobs available to people and if you have your own website and blog there are even more opportunities that are available. But yes their are a lot of scams out there and many of the people who get caught up in them do not have their own website. Once you have your own website, which is extremely easy do have without having to program one, you pretty much negate the possibility of being scammed because the scammers are going after the people who do not have their own websites.
This is a great post. Wealthy Affiliate is where I started my online business too. It was the best online decision I ever made. I highly recommend it.
I joined Wealthy Affiliate in July 2013. Since then with the awesome Training Tools and Support I have learned and built a very successful website. I highly recommend Wealthy Affiliate.
Thank you for your comment Pauric and I definitely agree with you 100% about Wealthy Affiliate. I too went through the training and was quite surprised at how easy it was. Not only did I learn how to effectively build a website, learn keywords and SEO but I also learned various forms of internet marketing and have 3 great websites. Now because of the training I do a few different online jobs from home. It is SO AWESOME to work from home and not have to commute to a job to work for someone else.
Hi Robert, ok, cards on the table, I’m in a bit of a hole at the moment, as a UK pensioner I have £60 (about $180) in my savings account, and my youngest daughter is getting married again on 26th August, also, in order to stay in WA I need to make about $2000 in the next month. WA is where I can learn to market my novel JET!, so it’s really imperative.
Reading the home page on your site yesterday I see there are a few home jobs available (some free to join), and a few which you actually do your self. So my question is this; would one of those jobs (hopefully) help me make enough money in the next month to get back on my feet? As the man said, ‘I may be down, but I’m not out!’
Kind regards,
Chris Woollon (philp)
P.S. I have posted your site to Twitter and Facebook this morning, this will be ongoing every week day.
Chris, a month’s time is too short under normal circumstances. For example if you were to do content writing for a company’s website you would have to create and finish your project for them and have them approve your work for you to receive all of your compensation. That being said you would have to find and sign a contract with the company who you are writing content for. In two or three months, yes you could make that kind of money but you need education and/or your own website before you can accomplish your goals. Starting your own business takes time, it is not something you can expect to make a lot within a month when there is so much that would have to happen before you can earn money. The only way to make that amount of money in a short amount of time would be to sell something high end that you own on eBay.
Also, I’ll be tweeting and posting your web site to Facebook every weekday.
Thank you very much Chris! Please do! Please also share my website with whomever you feel can benefit from the free knowledge that it offers to those wanting to succeed in their own online business.
Hi Robert,
This is my second visit to your site, and I have to say – this is for me! With this and WA, marketing my novel JET! seems so much more tangible now.
Before anyone can believe in you and your novel, you have to believe in you and your ability to bring it to fruition. Wealthy Affiliate gives you the training and the tools to help guide you on the correct path. My goal for this website is to further help those who either have never heard of what WA has to offer or to expand on the knowledge that WA teaches and share additional knowledge which I have successfully implemented in the successes of my online business. – Thanks for your comment Chris.
Thank you for sharing. Very informative and well written. Great job!
You are welcome Erica. I’m happy that you found my blog post informative. Thank you for your comment.
I am probably one of the many people searching online for the ‘work at home’ job, but find out to be a scam of some sort. I have recently joined Wealthy Affiliate not too long ago, learning how to do affiliate marketing and am quite happy so far. Really recommended for anyone who want to learn and willing to learn to join WA too!
I totally agree Terence, there are many scams out there. You also definitely cannot work from home and be successful if you do not have your own website that you can create and build by yourself. By joining Wealthy Affiliate you will get the best training in every aspect of website creation and SEO as well as free hosting for as many websites as you wish to build. Another advantage to having your own website, other than being able to work from home, is that your own website can also act as your online resume for companies looking for part-time or contract/freelance workers.
Thanks for sharing some of the different work at home options available. As much as it all sounds like the ultimate Utopia, (and saving money on a daily commute) the thing that I think about right away is HEALTHCARE! Even with Obamacare in place, paying for your own health insurance can be VERY expensive! And these costs are only going to rise further. The tough world we live in today, means that we need to make very careful decisions.
Well the beautiful thing about the new healthcare law is that you can get free healthcare coverage if you live in a state that is enrolled in the Medicaid Expansion program and you earn a low income. Plus for me the form of healthcare I follow is holistic and I do not require the use of any expensive pharmaceuticals to cure me of any illness if I should get sick which is quite rare. Even my cancer was even cured without any drugs. You got to love that natural medicine that God has provided for us all. 🙂
Robert,
Your post is quite informative. You have given me ideas for my product and healthcare sites. Glad to see that you are having as much fun as me :).
Thank you for sharing.
-D
Yes Della, it is quite fun when you can not only learn how to be able to work from home but you can actually put it into practice. I’m glad you liked my post and thank you for your comment.
Nice post Robert, it gives people a great insight and heads up on what working from home really entails 🙂 Thanks for the post!
You are welcome Elliot. There are many options for working from home but you still have to put in a solid amount of effort to make it work. If you can be disciplined to do that then working from home can actually become quite fun. – Thanks for your comment.
I really appreciate how you pointed out the difference between the scams and what really works. Scams make it seem easy to make money, but if that were the case then everyone would be doing it. Making money online does require effort just like building any other business. Very well put!
Thank you James. – Exactly! Starting and operating even an online business takes a lot of effort and work. It takes time to build up to the point of being successful. If anyone thinks that they can make a lot of money in their own online business within a years time, they are living a pipe dream. Every website that is highly successful took years of working hard to become successful. It took Amazon 7 years before they made a profit and look how big and successful they are now.
Really interesting and relevant post. There are so many scams about, it is nice to have some information that you can trust. Thank you for posting. Will be looking into some extra ways to make money. Thank you
You are welcome Gill. There are so many ways to make money online nowadays. The only thing standing in the way of most people is not having their own website or blog. Once you have that you can do quite well in many types of work from home online jobs. – Thank you for your comment.
I recently retired. Since that time, I came to realize how much stress I experienced while working for someone else. I worked hard, but in my last job only received a 2% raise – this didn’t even to begin to cover the cost of living increases. Don’t get me wrong. I received much internal satisfaction from helping others while I was working, but I think that I should have been fairly reimbursed for my service excellence.
Now, I am experiencing freedom! My new mantra is “learn, apply, create, and grow.” I agree that working at home for myself is the way to go. I have used the internet as my “window to the world”. There is information about just about everything there. I think that creating something that would be helpful to others would work well there.
Thank you for supplying a legitimate list of possible income sources.
You are welcome Cindy! Yes, I too do not miss those days of working for someone else, except some of the relationships of working with your co-workers. However it is such a great uplifting feeling to work from home. No more spending money on gas to drive to work, sitting in traffic, or taking the bus and train. Depending on the type of work I am doing I can work from my bed on my laptop or iPad if I need to.
More and more people are either working from home or wanting to work from home. The internet makes that possible and the training that I offer here on this website and through Wealthy Affiliate, I hope will inspire people to make a better change in their lives. – Thank you for your comment.