There are basically two options before you when looking for work from home opportunities, freelancing and telecommuting.
Freelancing means setting up your own independent business where you are your own boss and workforce. After you are successful and your business grows, you can look at getting people to help you, but that comes later. By being a freelancer you are leveraging your domain knowledge into a sellable product. But what are the products that have a market? We can break these down into a few sections.
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First of all and most common are writing / content development and editing. What these need are language and writing skills. Other work from home opportunities require more specialized skills. The rapidly emerging fields for freelancers are software development, graphic and web designing, copy writing, digital photo editing and conducting online surveys. This list is growing everyday. The classifieds in the newspapers and the Internet are both huge resources for finding work from home opportunities. Once you learn to search the Internet for freelancing work, it is not difficult to find the kind of jobs that suit you. The best option is to try to find regular or ongoing projects that will reduce the amount of time you spend searching for work and will give you more time to produce work that translates into income.
Downsizing is a current buzz word. This does not mean companies are reducing the size of their operations. They are not. What they are doing is reducing the number of people on their payroll to reduce costs and have a more compact and dynamic structure. The amount of work that needs to be done remains the same and this is where freelancers enter the picture. If you are flexible and willing to modify your domain skills to meet emerging requirements, your future as a freelancer is bright.
Telecommuting is the other of the major work from home opportunities. Unlike freelancing, here you are a regular employee of a company with all the attendant benefits. You have an assigned job function or role which you execute as directed by your boss. Just like working in an office, except that you do not. You work from home, usually using a computer and the Internet. You rarely go into the office. You are assigned work to do and are then left alone to complete it within a specified deadline. Within these deadlines, you can usually work at your convenience. Of course, you need to be available on the phone should your colleagues need to discuss things with you.
Many companies are switching over to telecommuting since it cuts down on overheads. Many in-office jobs are now being converted to telecommuting ones, sales (where direct client interaction is not required), documentation, human resources, customer relationship management, copy writing, various types of consultancy operations, stock broking and financial planning are just some to myriad work from home opportunities that are now opening up. New options emerge every day. Keep a track of the opportunities that keep appearing and you are bound to find on that suits you.
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