How Many Friends Do I have? Am I Alone In This Virtual Base?

Are you feeling all alone in this virtual base? Do you feel that you lack information in some particular topic? Do you feel an urge to interact? Then visiting forum can be the right choice for you. Like any other forums, there are a wide number of forums for telecommuters, where they share their knowledge, interact with each other and also post about their service and any possible job opportunities. Forum is the great place for all virtual workers or people who spend a considerable amount of time on the web.

You need to register in the forum and then you are just ready to go. Here I am listing up few great forums for you to get registered. These forums have good resources for at home workers. With the help of these forums, you will be able to stumble upon new business opportunities, legitimate jobs and many more. You will get plenty of information about online scams. For each forum, there are forum moderators and administrators to help you out. Also your fellow members also help you as best as they can. Here we go.

1. http://erichw33.proboards53.com/
2. http://www.worldwideworkathome.com/forum/
3. http://workathome.madmooseforum.com/
4. http://www.freelancemom.com/forum/
5. http://www.talkhomebusiness.com/
6. http://www.workathomespace.com/forum/
7. http://wahcareer.com/wah-career-forums/
8. http://www.workfromhomeforums.net/
9. http://www.workathomeforum.com/forums/
10. http://www.whydowork.com/forums/
11. http://forums.workfromhomespot.com/
12. http://www.scam.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14

5 Myths about Work at Home Career

You might have heard so many great benefits of work at home career. But do you really think that all of them are true? Here are 5 myths about work at home career.

1. I have the highest freedom: Wrong! You have lots of bindings. In fact, self discipline can make you sometimes totally restricted. You have to go through real strict schedule that is sometimes not so prevalent in a 9-to-5 job.

2. I have to only obey myself: Wrong! You have to obey your clients. Sometimes they are simply unbearable. Their requirement can sometimes drain all your energy. You have to OBEY them.

3. My schedule is flexible: Yes, it is. But it might be sometimes an 18 long hour job in a day, if you can't manage your schedule properly. Once I missed my cousin's wedding ceremony just because I had to meet my client's demand on 11th hour.

4. I earn as much as I want: Sometimes, it may be 'as less as…'. Yes, because it is not assured as an employee job. I believe, it does not need any more explanation.

5. I can keep a great balance in my career and personal life: Absolutely wrong. We all know the reason. Statistics say that telecommuters are more affected by the stress caused by the imbalance between personal life and professional life than a traditional worker.

Freelance Writers Needed

I know you might be confused after reading the title of this post. Since direct job advertisement is beyond the scope of this blog, so I am helpless, I can't advertise any direct job here. Well, that does not mean I can't help you in finding good freelance writer's job, if you are a freelance writer. With little of your creativity and searching ability, you can easily find out some good sites with tons of jobs listed there.

Now think of yourself. When you search any items, you probably search specifically, right? Now when you search for freelance writer's job, you might have written it directly to the search box. So it is a keyword phrase. There are many keyword phrases here that give you the freedom and flexibility to find out lots of quality jobs.

Now the question is how many. The answer is countless. But how many of them are good. Well, the answer is obviously not any countless figures. But still there are apparently millions and millions of sites out there, so the definite figure is also very large. So, we need to know about the quality keyword phrases that give us more specific results.

Here are some of them you can use to find out relevant and useful search results: freelance writers needed, freelance writer needed, freelance copywriter needed, freelance writers, freelance writer wanted, freelance writing work, freelance writer, telecommuting job, and there are still more. Use your creativity. It really works.

Sorry forgot to add, I can't guarantee about the legitimacy of any job you found online through the search results.

The Strategic Management of Home Based Employees

Since the demand of home based workers is increasing, it is important to build up an appropriate strategy to manage them. To design a network of highly skilled and organized team members can be the most challenging factor for a team manager, especially when it comes about virtual home based employees.

At the first place, an efficient team manager must have an idea about different time zones, if he / she is about to set up the virtual team on a global basis. In addition, the team manager must possess the idea and knowledge about different updated technology and cross-cultural understanding.

The team leaders must possess the ability to collect contact information and have the skills to get to know each other smoothly. They must be able to make it clear the individual role to the other person concerned in relation to the goal and strategy to meet up the goal. They also set a rule of communication and make the best possible way to maintain the method of communication.

If you are about to work as a team manager, make it sure that you have broadened your communication skills to get in touch with the people sitting at the remote base. You must possess the skill to understand the people sitting at their own home couch. You must not show unnecessary suspicion. Rather you should have an intuitive skill to read the person in the other end.

Moreover, you must not count on the processes, rather put your focus on the performance measure. It is important that you maximize the communication with your remote team members and set the objectives on short term basis. Restating and reinforcing short term objective improves the degree of meeting the goal set. You must encourage your team members to use instant messaging and conference facility to improve virtual communication. Allow your team to meet you face-to-face at least once in a quarter. Scheduling a social event in every quarter can help to make the communication more effective.

Is Working from Home Free from Any Drawbacks?

The answer is 'Certainly not!'. Of course, working from home aids a great opportunity to make a worthy balance between personal life and professional life, but it has its own drawbacks. According to the research done by the Economist Intelligence Unit and IBM, working from home is not free from its own pitfalls. A survey done in Europe with 350 remote subjects revealed that the inadequate arrangement of management related support, required technological environment, appropriate measurement of performance level and proper skills and training, the subjects may end up with a strong feeling of isolation, under-appreciation, and mistrust, even though they work much harder than any 9-5 colleague working under the same environment and organization.

The greatest challenge faced by the working from home system is the coordination of work and the remote workers and meeting the required deadline. Over 40% of the subjects reported that they were feeling underprivileged, since they do not have the opportunity to take part in the informal 'water cooler' conversation, which is a significant part of the 9-5 system. Apart from this socialization option, they also reported that their feeling of deprivation includes not being able to be an active listener of the developmental issues of the concerned companies and other opportunities. Another important concern involves in relation to trustworthiness in their organization. This is especially common in the context of UK.

Apart from all these things, over 61% subjects reported that working from home does not secure the work –life balance at the level that they were actually seeking. Checking emails even in the evening or in the weekend with a fear of missing something important is mudding their work-life balance to a significant extent. Well, a considerable number of respondents reported that regardless of all these pitfalls, they do not really bother about their promotion, while working from their own home.

Occupational Health and Safety (OHAS) Issues of Home Based Workers

Working from home has become an increasingly popular option for both employers and employees nowadays. However, there are several issues that need to be considered before an individual changes his / her career option and implements home based career arrangements.

The home based career arrangements are nothing but the extension of the workplace, hence occupational health and safety (OHAS) issues should be taken under serious consideration. This implies that the employers must take the basic safety issues under effect, which are:

• Does the working space have sufficient light and ventilation?

• Does the working place have a calming environment?

It is important that your employer must verify whether your home based working arrangement passes the OHAS test successfully before you are allowed to work from your home. If not, your employer might be responsible for any injuries that will be occurred during your working hours.

Are You Getting Enough Tired of the Traffic Jam? Then Why Don’t You Take 'Work from Home' Route, Huh?

When you are joining in a company, what are the things you seek for? First of all, it is probably job security followed by company ethics and discipline, right? But have you ever considered the situation from your own perspective? I mean to say, if all these factors matter to you, what about your productivity level? Are you really satisfied with your own productivity level? Have you ever thought that you can increase it quite significantly if you are not so much tired due to traffic jam?

A recent study says that we waste a considerable amount of the time in our lives just by traveling to and from office. Not just traveling, think about the pollutions, the junk foods you are eating everyday, the stress you are taking just because of office politics. Don’t you deserve something better in your life?

Here is a brief hate-love questionnaire for you. Let us see how many of these can draw your attention.

1. I hate 9 to 5 rat race.

2. I hate waking up early in the morning.

3. I hate my boring weekly schedule of going office and coming back to home, and then again going office and then again coming back to home, and the system continues.

4. I hate my supervisor monitoring me over my neck all the time.

5. I hate to stay away long hours from my family.

6. I hate to use my cars travelling during office hours, because of traffic jams and pollutions.

7. I love to watch butterflies flying around from flower to flower while working from my comfy couch.

8. I just love eating home made food during my work break, fresh and hot served.

9. I love playing with my kids during work breaks.

10. I love to excel.

11. I love doing something that I can do in my own schedule.

12. I love peace of mind and love to work without any disturbance. I also love to stay away from office politics.

If you agree to most of this love-hate questionnaire (80%), you should be serious about making a drastic shift from your 9 to 5 'boring' career to 'peaceful' work from home job option. Don’t spoil your life, don’t spoil your emotion. Live a healthy life and choose work from home as your career option.

Do You Want to Start an Online Writing Career from Home?

Many of us are interested to start an online writing career from their home, especially those who have a strong passion and good writing skills. In this post, we will discover about 3 wonderful sites offering this exciting opportunity to make a successful online career. These three sites together can be referred to as '3 As'. Here we go.

About.com: Be a Guide

If you are a renowned expert in your field and you do have the required credentials to support your expertise, you can apply to become a guide in about.com with confidence. You must have the passion to educate other people about your subject of expertise. You can set your own hours, you can work from anywhere in the world as long as you can access Internet and you have the PC, good compensation, press access, opportunity to become renowned in the field, expert level guidance and advice, extensive promotional support and many others. According to the contract terms, a new guide is guaranteed to make not less than $725 per month.

If this interests you, what are you waiting for? Click here to start now.



Accepted.com

Accepted.com proudly announces openings for the post of editors in their site. The position is based on independent contract basis. They specifically welcome people from writing / editing background. If you have an extensive professional writing background, or if you have experience working in a mentoring role, you can consider yourself as a potential candidate for the given post. You must have PC but not MAC. This is one of the most important criteria.

Associated Content

If you have expertise in something, you can earn money from Associated Content too. Not really you only need to submit articles, but you can submit video, image and photos. The only drawback is that you need to stay in the United States to become eligible to earn money from associated content. Still waiting? Click now to register and start publishing.

Do You Really Love to be Online?

Today my question is whether you really love and enjoy your staying online. Ask your mind before you take any drastic step to change yourself from a 9 to 5 officer worker to a full-time online worker. I know many people (especially some of my close relatives and friends) who only care to pay their attention over my pay checks rather than the work load involved in it.

Even today, I can't claim myself an online entrepreneur. I am nothing but a small trader who trades articles. In more simplistic terms, I am having a good and genuine client base. They provide me their requirements for articles and I prepare them with the help of my efficient team of writers and deliver to them on time. I do it with the help of my website www.contentwritingsolutions.com. Till to this date (read 'moment' instead of 'date'), I am making my living this way.

Today, I am writing this post instead of my wife just because I want to share something with you about my love, my passion and my determination. Once again, let me tell you one thing very clearly and honestly, I am an article trader who loves to spend his time on this virtual space.

Now coming back to my heading, let me ask you again: have you ever heard to your mind? What did your mind say to you? Please take an honest personal inventory before you make yourself fool. Here are few basic questions for you, which will definitely help you in your personal evaluation. Sorry, I don’t want to hurt anyone's feelings. I just share what comes in my mind. Excuse me guys, if you find something wrong in my post. Enjoy.

Personal Inventory:

1. Are you just greedy and checks attracting you more than the workload?

2. Do really believe that online people earn more money than their actual work volume?

3. Do you really believe that you can't work alone and need someone's supervision for optimum performance?

4. Do you easily lose your patience?

5. When you are working, if your girlfriend / boyfriend asks you for a date you were longing for. In this situation, do you really go out for the date?

6. Do you really believe that failure cannot make an individual successful one day?

7. Do you really think that you are not a workaholic?

8. Do you hate studying (and learning too)?

If the answer of 4 questions or more from the above list is 'YES', I am afraid that you are just not suitable for the online world. So please think twice, before you leave your regular job. Give me your valuable comment. I would love to receive them here at my blog. Thank you for your time.

Which One You Will Choose as the Best Work at Home Career Option for You?

As statistics reveals an increasing number of people are taking interest to work from home on a daily basis. When you are reading this blog, I can easily assume that either you are running a successful online career of your own, or you are planning to break into this virtual space, right?

Not every one of us has chosen same work at home career to earn money online. While some of us prefer to test their marketing skills in the arena of affiliate marketing, some may like to build content for others. There are some others who are interested to make their career in data entry jobs, while some others prefer blog networking as the sole option for their online success. I personally prefer doing content writing business and blogging. Now my question is: which one you will choose as the best work at home career option for you? Please feel free to share using the comment box below. Thanks for your precious time.

Loneliness Can Kill You While You Are Working from Home (Part-4)

Continued from yesterday’s post

So, if you are working from your own home, it is necessary that you take enough precautions for combating against your feeling of loneliness before it becomes too late. First of all, you should register yourself into different forums that are regularly accessed by like-minded people. When you will become a registered member of a forum, you will get the opportunity to interact with people whenever you have some spare time during your working hours.

Apart from spending time in forums, you must help yourself out by registering into different social networking sites and interact with different people. However, do not limit yourself by interacting people in the virtual space. Move outside, make friends, join clubs and so on. Remember that your life is not something virtual, but it is in all sense depending on your existence in this physical world. Don’t ignore it. Spend time with family and friends. Be happy. Well, enough of this story. Take a ride or at least a small walk in the garden to stay aligned with nature.

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Loneliness Can Kill You While You Are Working from Home (Part-3)

Continued from yesterday’s post

Not everyone has the same instinct to stay alone all the day long. Although from a boss’s perspective, chatting between employees might be a potential wastage of quality time, it is not always so. In fact, research says that chatting between employees can turn out to be a good influencer for positive motivation, especially for people having extrovert personality.

Possibly, people with apparently introvert characteristics become more successful as an online worker. I am not stressing enough that people with extrovert characteristics do not succeed, but introvert people possess a lesser urge to interact people, and so they feel less lonely in that sense. Well, there are of course many other factors playing significant role to gain online success, apart from the distinction between introversion and extraversion.

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Loneliness Can Kill You While You Are Working from Home (Part-2)

Continued from yesterday’s post

When someone is missing the social interaction extensively, it may make them less motivated about working from home. Their degree of performance declines. They become unwilling day by day. Almost all of them show the major symptoms of depression. Needless to say, gradually they lose all their funs of working at home. They neither enjoy the free nor the work. And eventually they either do not stick to the telecommuting world any longer, or they simply stop working at the worst extent.

Life is not a piece of cake. So is true with this telecommuting world. Granted, it can give you lots of freedom and flexibility, but it has its own toll to take from you. It is loneliness. Many people simply feel bored while working from home. They can not stand the silence of the room. They hate only listening their own breathing every time. They find their lives monotonous.

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Loneliness Can Kill You While You Are Working from Home (Part-1)

So, are you working from home? So your mind is completely free from the troubles of getting ready on time, taking travel to a long distance, or feeding on junk food every day! You do not have anyone bossing you around. You are just free with your desk, freedom and flexibility. You can work sitting at your comfy couches whenever and wherever you want to. Loving your life while working from home, right?

But have you ever felt that a little sigh is coming from your inside, you have so many words to share, but you can not? Have you ever felt jealous about seeing your friend chatting with a colleague during lunch break? In other words, are you suffering from loneliness, so are you feeling depressed? This is not only your problem, but this is a problem for many work-at-home workers. Although they are earning handsome bucks, they simply miss social interaction while working at home.

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What Are the 2 Common Online Time Wasters for a Work at Home Worker?

Working at home can be a fun and full of freedom and opportunity. You can work by sitting at your comfy couches, while earning quite handsome bucks and be a reason of jealousy of your friends and relatives. But not everything is as easy as it seems in practice.

While working at home, you must be aware of the online time wasters that can cut a huge amount of quality time from your working schedule. If you can not be aware on time, it can put your professional life under serious threat, since some of these time wasters are really addictive in nature. Here are two online time wasters for you to avoid now.

Messenger

This is one of the most vital time wasters that you should avoid when you are working from home. Many online workers fail to control their impulses when they are online. Instant messaging service is indeed an addictive communication system. Not only virtual workers but also general people who browse internet for casual purposes can not avoid the addictive appealing of instant messaging system.

So, when you are working online, do not ever forget to close your instant messaging application. If it is important for you to communicate with your clients using instant messaging system, do create a separate professional id for it.

Frequent Email Checking

Some people feel an impulse of checking emails frequently. It is another bad practice and should be avoided. Better you fix a particular time, say about 2 hours interval, for checking and answering your email. If you cannot do that, make a separate id for your professional emails. Needless to say, your clients must not have the addictive tendency like you to open emails frequently, so make it now.

Working from Home Is Not Something that Pays You for Doing Nothing

With the current technological inventions, many people are not shifting their focus on telecommuting job, where they can work sitting on their comfy couches and earn handsome bucks. Since the work can be done remotely by staying at own home, many people become confused about the pattern of devotion involved in this type of job, and simply underestimate the hardship behind this job.

Needless to say that working from home is not something that pays you for doing nothing. Life is not always easy to deal with, so is true with our survival. So when you are doing something for your living, it is not a good idea to decode it as a piece of hot cake. In fact, working from home requires much more dedication from your end. ‘No boss over your head’ system never works for the people who are not self-motivated, which is why working from home option is not for every one.

So if you think that you are a hard-worker, self-motivated, dedicated and have a keen interest in earning good money over the Internet, it might be possible that working from home can be an option for you. But at the same time, you must have a consistent characteristic in your nature. Many people simply get distracted by discovering so many earning options, or it may also be possible that you become less enthusiastic when you find that you are earning quite slower than you actually expected before starting your venture.

No matter what type of job you are doing, you have to be a hard-worker, with full of potentiality and dedication. You must keep yourself updated at the same time. Always remember, you are competing against millions of people who are also trying their luck in the virtual marketplace. Beware: this is not a place for lazy people.

Are You Longing for Working from Your Home Office? Then You Better Know the Pros and Cons First!

With the recent advent of modern technology, many people are now getting the opportunity of working from their own home. If you are a regular 9 to 5 employee and usually sigh away with frustration and find the telecommuters much luckier than you, you must not miss reading this post.

Well I am not saying that working from home office is altogether bad, if I say so, my readers must not take it gracefully, since I am working from my own home. Actually what I would like to stress on is that working from home is not a piece of cake that everyone can eat. In fact, it is something that needs strong conviction and self-discipline from the worker’s end.

If you are not maintaining a minimum discipline for running your life, you life could be extremely miserable. So is true with professional domain. When you are going to your 9 to 5 office job, you have to be productive, since all offices have some strict rules that you must have to follow. If you are not able to follow the rules induced by your authority, you may end up by losing the job at its worst extent. Needless to say, almost all 9 to 5 jobs are done under strict supervision of the authoritative figures.

So, never ever consider that working from home will offer you enough flexibility. In fact, you have to be extremely self-disciplined and self-motivated to meet the deadline. It is true that by working from home you can spend time closer to your family by watching your children grow. But that does not necessarily mean that you can spend time abruptly with your family members and your bank account will automatically increase the earning. No, this is not true. Rather you have to work REAL HARD to make your living online.

Certainly, you can enjoy different features like working in shorts or nightdress and do not really bother about eating junk foods or snacks to feed your tummy. Rather you can love life by living on home made foods while watching the butterfly flying around in your garden and working from home by sitting on your comfy couches. Life is fun and it is beautiful too, if you can be organized and wise to it. Apply your wisdom and choose the correct path to design destiny of your own.

How Can You Earn Money with Squidoo?

Squidoo offers you a handsome way to earn money online. If you prefer to spend more time with your family members, while earning a good amount of money at the same time, Squidoo can be an ideal option for you. Now let us find out different modes that Squidoo offers to help you make money online. With the help of Squidoo, you can make money by providing contents through ‘lens’ or you may promote your products or sell affiliate or own products. In addition, you can also drive traffic to your blog or website to make money from it.

Creating Lens

The first and foremost important way to earn money from Squidoo is definitely by writing content for Lenses. Lenses refer to the mini website focusing on particular theme or topic. You are allowed to choose topic from your own specialization and write on that. By designing a quality lens, you can surely expect some handsome bucks in the form of profitable royalty. In addition, you can also earn money in the form of advertising revenue that will be accumulated from the clicks made by the site visitors.

Promoting and Selling Products

In Squidoo, you can promote and sell your or others’ products. This is another important way to make money online with the help of Squidoo. In order to do this, you first need to design a lens appealing to the buyers. Steps are not difficult and you only need to put few products in your lens akin to and offered by eBay online shop. Just choose a few from the millions and billions of products displayed in the eBay which are related to your website theme. Alternatively, you can sell your own products likewise. Do not forget to share them.

Drive Traffic to Blogs and Websites

With the help of Squidoo, you can bring traffic to your blogs or websites. In order to do this, you first need to find out top keywords that attract a wide number of browsers to visit your site. Put quality information in your blog so that your visitors find it worthy to visit this place. It will increase the chances of getting new readers as well as subscribers. Since the traffic volume becomes high, you will definitely earn money with it.