Do you earn a living from home

Hello Mayka, For the last four years, I am doing home-based online job in medical transcription. Nowadays, there are many fields where one can earn good living from home. Some can be listed as follows: 1. Animation and graphics. 2. Software development. 3. Web designing/hosting. 4. Online counseling. 5. Private online coaching. 6. Online marketing. 7. General and medical transcription. 8. Consultations on horoscope etc. 9. Freelancer 3D Max/Auto CAD designer. 10. Online legal consultations or Legal process outsourcing. and so on... There are multiple benefits of doing a home-based online job, like: 1. Save travel time: One might spend one to two hours or more in a day to commute to the office. This time can be used in a more productive way which in turn can increase one's monthly earnings. 2. Save travel cost: One might be spending a good amount on fuel or transport to commute to the office, which can now be converted into one's monthly saving. 4. Avoid the risk of traveling: In today’s chaotic traffic, home based job is best way to avoid road rage incidents, to avoid air/noise pollution. In this way we can go Green and be responsible to our environment. 3. Stay with your family: This is an ideal opportunity for all the people who have relocated to bigger cities in search of better jobs. Through home-based jobs one can stay with family and enjoy his/her work. 4. Reduce your cost of living: We always have an option to relocate to a smaller city where the cost of living like monthly rental, land value, vegetables, fruits, etc is much lesser than the bigger cities. Home-based job also gives us an option to relocate to a city with lesser pollution and in turn we can enjoy fresh air. and so on...

Hello mayka, long time no see. :) Ok..as to your question, it depends upon how much you need, and how disciplined you can be. When we work outside, we are constantly fearing somebody above us, so that fear is what makes us regular. Can you be confident about yourself that you wont make excuses to quit working and start surfing, or watch movies? If and only if you can, you should consider online or work at home. A major drawback of online earning is the tax treatment. It wont get you the deductions that you would get as a salaried individual. So you do need to consider that aspect as well. Similarly benefits like PF, ESI, would have to be fogone. In my case, my employers didnt implement them but if you are working where such rules are applicable, please dont consider leaving job as yet. You can think of it after you are able to earn regularly at least 20 to 30 percent of what you earn in you full time job, and any such online job should have good potential. Okies? All the best.

I had a full time job and now left everything and do my job at home itself as i get peace of mind now and also no headache of overtime and scoldings from higher ones as here i am my own boss and don't have to worry about anyone.I do get online projects and also do other things like this one here and for now it is going on fine and just planning to make it very big here as my aim is to cross $500 mark within a month which is possible with coming times

I use to work at home making things to sell. I made a good living for my children and myself. I also made signs. That was years ago. Now I just do online things when my health allows it and my husband makes the majority of our living now. When my health was good and even better we both worked and made about the same. I wish I could make a living completely from working online because if anything happened to him then I would not have to worry.

I think it's possible mayka. It may take time and a lot of hard work but it's very feasible. I'm earning a few dollars online. I'm looking forward to make a big purchase out of it, hihihi... I'd be very happy though when the time comes that I can earn a living out of my online works.

Me too! I have a regular job which entails me to put in most of my time. I only do online earning when I have the time and during my leisure hours. The thought of trying to earn solely online caught my attention, but with what I have now and my experiences doing so, I think I won't be able to earn much and sustain living if I try to do it. But I know some users in here living out the life on purely online earnings. They have a nice base of sites and ways to earn online. And of course, they exert much of their effort doing so. With my current situation, I feel that I cannot exert such effort in trying to earn online. Also, I want to use up the things I learn from the university, that is why I am sticking on my regular job for fulfillment and apply the things I have worked hard during the college years. I just use online earnings to be productive while on the internet. A few extra income while having fun on the internet won't really hurt, would it?

Well I guess as per this discussion, there are ways thru which one can sit at home and earn BUT I really have my doubts. As I’ve replied to Nishant, I come across so many sites that are offering working from home opportunities, but knowing the virtual world and the scams and India specially, I’m doubtful about the veracity of such sites. Most would require me to empanel my name thru an initial signing up amount (anything between Rs. 1250 to 2500) and then supposedly the work would start coming in! but what IF the work never came??? Like you Mayka, I would really love to know of a tried and tested authentic site which offers people like you and me the opportunity to spend time with our family yet, put our skills to good use and earn well enough to support a family.

I use to be a customer service/sales rep from home and it was a living. I hated being on the phones though and I hated having to try to sell the customer extra's if they were placing an order. It seemed to always be crunch time and you had to sell X amount of extra's in order to keep your job. With the strictly CS jobs it was a pain because people would call in angry about their service and then the companies would expect you to keep them calm and keep them with the service. I guess I am just not that sort of person. Now I do all of the free things online like MyLot, Gather, InBoxDollars, SendEarnings and MyPoints and make as much extra income as I can. I actually cashed out for $60 this week which is not too bad. I wish I could do that every week. I also babysit 1 child from home and that brings in extra income. I am thinking of becoming an AVON rep too but I still have not decided to do it for sure. The wheels are turning though. I have a few people that said they would buy from me if I was to become one. We will see. I do know of plenty of people who do earn their income from home. There are all sorts of customer service and sales jobs out there to be had as well as writing gigs. If a person were to break into those fields and be good at it then you could earn a living from home. Good luck with what ever you decide to do.

i think its possible i have seen in the mylot that one of the users is earning $50 per day she is earning online.how far it is true i dont know but she might be joined in all online earning sites and her total time is being spent for that only....about me i have joined in some of the sites only and mylot i prefer to trust

I have a full time job and at the same time I also work on the net during my free time. If you will really focus and be full time with your online jobs, i think you will be earning a lot more. I have earned more than $100 with my online jobs.

No it didn't happen with me yet but I am sure some people are doing it. Some people sell there own products like ebooks etc on the internet. Some people say that they earn from the blogs. For me it is nice to hear all this but I am far far from earning my living from the internet. All the best to you.

It is possible, but it has demand more research work,investing the money and spend the more time in the internet.Secondly guideness is take main role to earn handsome money from internet.After 3or4 month hard work to begin earning from internet.It is not easy task coz mostly websites are scam and peoples falls in the scam for some pennies.

As of the moment no. I looking forward to do it. I just started a website and I'm really put a lot of on it. I also just started doing this thing posting a comment or answer a question and I hope by doing this as a part time I can earn even if it's a little bucks..

I have a full time job and same as yours, I still need to make an extra income for my family. It's just a matter of patience whenever you wanted to have a part time job through the net. Of course, the first thing you need to do is to find a legit company that will pay you for a reasonable price. There are several websites that offer extra jobs. Good luck in finding one!

Besides mylot, there is no online activity for me that earns me money and you know very well that it's not enough for running a home. I do not have a full time job (unless you count taking care of my family and running errands as a 'job').

well for me beside of net earnings you will have to work even if it is a parttime job so that you can have a wealthy life for your family