Hey! Does anyone work from home successfully? (Not talking MLM type stuff)

I still do swagbucks in my spare time, and i-say surveys but I don't get too far with those.

I work for Leapforce but didn't pass the test for the 20-28 hours a week job so I just do about an hour a day of work for this company but it is legit and pays directly to my bank account monthly which I love. It adds up.

I've applied for Appen which is the only company I can find similar to Leapforce but haven't been accepted yet.

Does anyone else do websites like this, I'd love to apply for more. I have a part time job but I am always trying to make extra from home in my spare time. Maybe just joining more sites like i-say and swagbucks is the way to go.

Also, if anyone wants more info about Leapforce or wants to sign up please message me, I have a referal link but I don't know if I'm allowed to post it, I don't want to get in trouble lol.

https://ratracerebellion.com/

Ahhh thank you Maha!!!!

I work from home! (Since HP is my job.) So I don’t really have advice on ways to start working from home, BUT if you have any questions about what it’s like, pros/cons, etc. hit me up!

yup :)
also like sam I also work from home but aside from saying you sometimes have to force yourself to sit down and work and focus im no help

Thanks Sam! I keep trying to come up with either a good novel idea to stick with, or website/game but that's not really realistic for me at the moment. I'd love to do what you do eventually if I can ever come up with something original that would take off! Working from home is a dream of mine, at least something part time when I'm not scheduled at my other job. (I've been trying to get out of debt) - but it would be amazing to do full time. I think I'll just have to keep looking at job posting and maybe someday the perfect fit will jump out at me. Lately I've been itching to make a career change anyway, and I am already in debt so tacking more on to that isn't appealing to me, but I've become so interested in nutrition.. it would be cool to get my degree for nutrition and then get certified for holistic nutrition and have a home office... I'm not sure that's reachable though.

Thanks Maha :) I hate being bored and I love to multitask, so working from home really appeals to me. I'm sure it would be mundane at times having to force yourself to work if you are feeling lazy, but for the most part, when I'm at home I wish I could be making money instead of just watching netflix or reading. Some day an idea will pop into my head, whether it be a business idea, book idea, idk what yet but it's a goal of mine!! I've been thinking I might make a good personal assistant, but I'm not sure virtually how needed they are... I feel like you'd want someone in person for that. But I love to organize. You do the books for your company right? I think I've asked you about it before but do you have set times you sit down to work, or do you work when you want to?

i try to make myself sit down in the mornings but its mainly whenever im free or remember im supposed to be working XD
also sometimes i go from having nothing to do and then im completely swamped when paperwork comes through or if mr maha needs something done.

but in regards to virtual assistants that is a real job as well as a virtual reciptionist. :)

I think with the bored easily thing, the trick is to just find something you actually enjoy doing! I have ADD (so a very short attention span) and 75% of my job is mind-numbingly boring (running a game is a lot of data-entry and repetitive tasks), so that’s something I constantly struggle with. However, I love HP and all of the players so that’s what keeps me going! And obviously there is fun stuff like planning contests/events and new features and talking to everyone!

I think the biggest struggle with being self employed is the financial side of things. You have to put money away constantly for a rainy day, and pay your taxes in big chunks quarterly so you have to plan to put that money away, and you lose a lot of the “oh no the sky is falling it’s an emergency” benefits of having an employer outside of yourself like disability, workman’s comp, unemployment, FMLA, and health insurance. You don’t qualify for those programs anymore and/or have to provide them yourself. Also you have to make sure you’re planning for retirement since you don’t have a pension or employer contributions. You also literally pay more in income taxes because normally an employer would pay half of your social security and Medicare and you pay the other half, but self employment taxes are the full 15% on top of the actual tax table tax.

Also for me a big struggle is having a proper work-life balance, and staying social so I don’t become an anxious hermit with cabin fever who never sees real people. It’s very hard to not work 24/7 when your work and your home are the same place and when you own a business it’s even harder (especially when demands are put on you by the people you work with/your customers/whoever to get things done NowNowNOW), but you have to strike a balance otherwise it’ll kill you slowly.

It definitely takes a very specific type of person to thrive with self employment. I’m that type of person, I would waste away in an office. It sounds like you might be that type of person too. Not everyone is though, for example, my husband would melt down if he didn’t work in a more traditional setting with other people and a set schedule. Hopefully that kind of helps you have more information!

-is slowly dying inside-

hp is my hermit haha

I used to work for Sykes from home. I was contracted to AT&T. Wasn't a bad gig and it paid decent considering I worked from home exclusively.

Does anyone have tips or ideas on how to begin working from home? I've been job hunting for a place that will work out well with my student teaching schedule and working from home really seems like the only thing that provides the flexibility I'm looking for. 

I used to work from home for a text based 'any question answered' company when i was at uni, called 63336. People would text the central number any question, I'd log in on my laptop at home and choose questions to answer from the central database. I think it paid like 30p/question answered and you had to answer at least 50 questions a month and have really good spelling, grammar, add value for money etc.

Currently I do academic surveys for a bit of extra cash (Prolific Academic), the pay is actually really good for the amount of work required but I couldn't make a living off of it. I've just signed up for Leap Force but haven't completed the first project.

I am liking Leapforce so far! Some of their projects are very easy, but you can only work like an hour a day, 7 days a week max. Then the others are VERY complicated. I'd like to requalify for the map evaluator eventually but I failed the test. It was a LOT of information and I didn't get to take all the notes I wanted to in the time frame.

do you know who Clark Howard is? He is a very good list n his website of legit, safe, work from home oppurtunites. I have had 2 actual work at home jobs - Arise and Sykes.

Arise - you have to pay for training - they don't pay you. You have to pay to work for them - TWO fees - and IBO fee and a fee directly to Arise. I was promisd 35-40 hours a week and being able to pick my own schedule.. What I got was: I got to pick what was left - often 30mins at a time spread throughout the day. I hated it. I was paying in more than I ever made with this company. What sucked the most about this one was a high school friend talked me into it and I worked under her IBO. (Independent Buisness Owner). They were 10-99 (no taxes taken out during the year). One top of the crappy hours I was working with a client who's systems NEVER worked and caused even more loss of hours.

Then after complaining to my husband because way back when I first started researching them they WERE Clark Howard approved I did more research to find out he no longer approved of them. He did recommend Alpine Access (which has changed it's name to Sykes).

Sykes is a whole new ball field. You apply - much like a normal job - and if they approve you will start to get shown job offers. They have different clients from tech support (whooo what I did), sales, support for online customer service, and other stuff like that. You will be able to pick and choose what you want. They will review all applicants and if they like you, you get a phone interview. If you pass that you get the job. There are NO charges with Sykes (not even the background check) and they pay you for your training. You have a set schedule. Mine was Monday - Friday 3pm - 11pm because I had to wait on my husband to get home from work. I was making $14.50 an hour when I left due to .... issues. XD It's hard to keep a baby quiet and my husband wanted to be in my 'quiet' space with the kiddo. They have beneifits and they have full and part time positions. (Parttime: 30 hours and below. Full time 35-40 hours a week). My favorite part about this one was you could choose between Chat, Phone, or Email or choose to be cycled through all three queues varying by day - I always chose to be cycled through so every day was a little different. OHH and this is a W2 job, so no unwelcomely large tax at the end of the year.

Thank you Con!! I have never heard of Clark Howard but I will look him up today! :) I Sykes sounds up my alley XD

Thank you so much for posting this, sangre!

Also, thank you all so much for posting some places :)

I'm almost finished with my application for Sykes!

I would LOVE to be able to work from home! Like, LOVE IT!!

I didn't really think that opportunities like this existed!

So, again, thank you sangre and all other posters as well! :)))

I technically work from an office but the past three months I've worked from the hospital, from home, from the barn, from other people's homes. Literally wherever I could sit down and get a few things done I did it. Always looking for ways to earn extra cash though so definitely checking out some of the options you guys mentioned.

I still work for Leapforce, the job is only 7 hours a week but I just got my first full month paycheck from them, and it has halped. Every biut helps lol.

And last week I was contracted by Appen for a 20 hour a week job, so anyone who was interested might want to reapply with them as a Social Media Evaluator! I applied 3 times, once a month, til I was hired lol

So, just FYI.... Sykes doesn't hire in Ohio.

They don't tell you either until you've already went through the process of completing the application and submitting it...

I'm really sad :(

That sucks, Reno! I'm sorry