Work-From-Home: Top 15 Legitimate ideas!

You've seen it right, I beg, you know of at least one person working from home. More and more companies are recruiting people to work from home. Studies show that people who work from the comfort of their own homes are more efficient, and this, for companies, is something to keep in mind.

Surely, the number of opportunities to work from home will increase considerably in the coming years. But there are already some companies that are offering very interesting opportunities.

So have you ever wondered what do you need to do in order to work from home? If you're looking for some ideas, or professions that you could use to work from here, you came to the right place.

“Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements”. - Peter Gibbons in Office Space.

Let's face it, work habits... as we used to know them are something completely different now. We often crash with new careers, new jobs, new information, in fact a bunch of new things we don't fully understand maybe at certain point many of us feel not evolving along this path the new digital era has brought wit it. So if you like me think about changing that. Learn how to be part of this and and keep up with the vibe, then this article is definitely for you! Don't be old fashioned and enjoy the perks of working remotely.

We are currently experiencing a huge change, we are witnessing more and more people working from the comfort of their houses, if we compared to the last years... and sometimes we feel... why can't we also be part of this?

Do you often feel tired of your 9/5 job? are you completely bored because you do the same 5 days of your week? Do you feel unproductive and being sold out? You hate your boss and you wish you where somewhere else? All these questions and more cross my mind when I hear the word ''work''. Being productive doesn't mean being 8 hour a day doing the same, you usually work only 60% or some people only 40% out of a full schedule, if you don't believe me, ask the dutch workers, they have established a work system where you work only part time and the statistic shows only good things. So long history short, is not how long you do it but how you do it! ''That's what she said''.

That's why I consider a full-time job a way of 'slavery', time selling and wasting great opportunities in pursuing your own dreams.

Passion

It is crucial that you know what you're passionated about. Know what you're best at, and understand what you enjoy doing. It's not that hard to find, for instance; If you try to remember your childhood and think about what you were best at or what you really enjoyed doing, the possibilities are many.

If you work only for the money then that's what I call wasting your time/life. I know! we all have bills to pay or children to feed. But when you do what you love, you understand that working shouldn't be about only getting money, but to really do what you like to do, take advantage of your passion and turn it into a full-time job.

So are you ready to start a new chapter in your life and to say goodbye to your 9-5? If your answers yes, great for you! continue reading below.

Personal Experience

If you want to find the 15 ideas simply scroll down!

While I was living in Madrid I've got myself a job working in a major company for an alarm system tech business where I was part of the Technical Support BackOffice, it was not a bad job and the salary neither. However, it was quite far from where I lived. My home place was 3 hours away so basically, I had to face public transportation on a daily basis as many of you do, and for a very long time! getting up early in the morning, taking the 1st bus, then 1st metro, then 2nd metro... in order to get to my work office... I was spending 3 hours of my day only in public transportation. ''a total of 11 hours away from home''. I don't like to complain about life in general... but that wasn't easy to deal with (I know there are people who have it worst so, remember this is only my personal point of view). Anyway, I'm usually very analytic, so I counted down how many hours I was wasting while using public transportation, 3 hours a day, from Monday to Friday, made a total of 48 hours per month! I was like what the heck, am I really spending that long time only waiting? can you imagine! 2 whole days a month just sitting while I had to wait to get work or home. Nonsense!

It was not all bad though, I could use this time to study/read interesting things while on the traffic. Anyway! my main goal here is to share how could I change that from what I did, to what I do now, working only probably 4 hours a day (remotely) and the rest using it to learn german, work out, and blog.

So you can start working from home earning a decent income and with the time and dedication even thinking about leaving your 9-5 job.

The Downside From Working Remotely

I don't consider these things as downside, but for some people I've met, these aren't things they particularly enjoy. Ok so here your first advice, working online or working from home as many people call, it's basically being your own boss so you need to be very responsible, disciplined and mostly patient! It's important to really commit to your your duties and more importantly respect your clients by meeting deadlines or simply being responsible.

You also need to understand that there are no health insurances or life insurances, in most cases paid vacations or holidays off. All these things you pay it on your own. So yes, working independently have its own downsides. But as always, it depends from the point that you see it.

If you're often using a health service, or you need it for your children or for any member of your family, perhaps you will have some difficulties since you will have to pay it independently. If you consider as many other people a top priority to own a health/life insurance or even paying a retirement pension, you can do all these just by doing some research at your location. I'm pretty sure there are many businesses in charge of handling insurance plans for people who work independently. BTW! when it comes about holidays, well, you work from home? why not travel and work from where you are at the moment.!

Payout

So we know now, that we have to be responsible and take care of our own expenses. Payout is an important topic and it usually varies depending on what you do and how much you charge for that. There are plenty of platforms that you can use to work remotely. The most used ones are:

#Upwork #Freelancer #Fiveer #Peopleperhour #Linkedin #Craigslist #Workana

Most of these platforms, you can sign in for free, simply create a profile, fill up personal details, work experience, a couple of tests, and start looking for jobs according to your niche.

About the payout, at most cases, you can measure it by putting how much money you want to get per hour. So if you work for example as a writer, and you consider $15 a decent amount for an hour, then you can set it up that way. Basically, you get as much money as you work. (worth to mention that these platforms also have their own fees) aka service fees, taxes or as you wish to call it, there's usually no price for using these platforms, unless you work, usually a platform like Upwork deduct you up to 20% from a new contract when you start earning money, there is also bonuses or chances to decrease the service fee percentage depending on the time you've have work for a company. So when you gain more experience then you pay less, probably 10% or 5%.

So moving forward with our topic, there are several opportunities for people who wish to work from home, all of it just depends on the type of work or studies that you've done in the past. But believe me, the chances that you can find a job, are countless! so don't wait any more and get started with living your live dream! 

I have listed below #15ideas of real job opportunities you can do from home.

15 Ideas You Can Use To Work From Home.

1. English Teacher

(Via #Skype or a #Zoom call) English is a language that you completely master, work remotely, practicing a new language and you need to have a constancy, and dedicate an hour per day that’s 5 hour a week and set four five plans and its very one by one, very personal 

2. Freelancer Writer

Try to reach out different blogs or join different communities such as #Fiverr try to get those little jobs out there, really promote yourself, if you know somebody that with a company that has a blog, and you get to do this from your laptop,

3. Blogger or Youtuber

They do take a little while for you to start making money, but if you can start now, keep working at it and keeping consistent, consistency is key, your audience will build no matter what as long as you are consistent it’s just a matter of time for people discovering you and discovering your content. 

The way you make money using these two topics, is basically by monetization, or by getting brands/grants to sponsor you or send you something for free and then talk about it in your blog’s be sure put a disclaimer that you are being sponsored because it’s only fear to that community 

4. Affiliate Marketing

This is something that can go hand in hand with a #Blogger or #Youtuber, and this is where you make a percentage off of products that you are marketing or say linking underneath your videos so for example: Amazon, has an affiliate marketing program when you can sign as an affiliated and then anything that you mentioned in your videos or post you can link below and if somebody clicks onto Amazon and say buys the camera that you use to film your videos on, you will make a percentage of that sale because you are considered to be an affiliate marketer.

5. Web Developer

If you know how to code, you are on a high demand, everybody is pumping out website, everybody has a business of wanting website and they’ll need someone to maintain it and add special features as time improves and more functions become available so get out there and learn how to code.

6. Virtual Assistance

So basically, you are an assistant answering emails or putting together emails or email templates and just kind of fixing up the advantage for somebody who could really use your help, there are a lot of virtual assistants needed because people have so many things to do, so if you have skills really good professional business writing skills or video editing skills that can be really good access to become a virtual assistance and specially time management and organization if you’re somebody who really values that, help people, make their life’s easier. That job is for you. 

7. Graphic Designer

This could be designing logos for people, developing PDFs, putting together outfits for websites or marketing collateral, being a graphic designer is a very creative and amazing job and if you’re really 

good at it you can really succeed. It is just a matter of stabling yourself first and using websites such as #Fiverr or things like that to get you work out there in the first and build connections and relationships with people 

8. Selling Something Online

It could be from Ebay or having a Shopify website, or having something like SC if it is something where you don’t have a storefront but you can manage everything, the shipping, purchasing, anything like that from your computer. For example, companies selling t-shirts on childhood buy. First you need to build that brand story and have a meaningful message behind any product in order to get people to invest in it. You could use something that you’re passionate about.

9. Personal Trainer-Couch

Whatever you do that gives you the opportunity to train someone else is good, first you need to start off by building an amazing brand for yourself and create value for different people that may be interested on your service. If you are somebody who’s a certified personal trainer, you can really situate yourself anywhere in the world and build a clientele and if you are an ongoing positive person you can help them achieve their goals either via Zoom Call or Skype and schedule meetings throughout the week just to make sure that their progress is on track.

10. Social Media Community Manager

This is somebody who manages all the social media account for a brand so it could be some type of clothing brand, it could be a base good, it could be a jewelry brand, anything like that if this company has an Instagram, Snapchat maybe a Facebook page, a twitter, you can manage all that. And I bet you know how to use these social media pages. So being a community manager is definitely a job that all your need is your computer and probably a few Skype calls to resume with your clients every week or two.

11. Freelance Digital Marketer

This encompasses a little bit of graphic design, website stuff, a little bit of community management and writing and blogs. So you need to start first stabling yourself, go from different jobs and gain a lot of knowledge, connections and start building freelance clientele until you achieve the ability live and work remotely. 

12. Photography

If you are somebody who’s very passionate about photography, it is a huge demand in the world, there is always any weddings, birthdays, is always going to be couples that would like photo shoots or individual people who like photo shoots, so get out there and start building up your instagram and showcase all of your work, create nice website for yourself on WordPress or Wix and really start to market yourself and your photography style. For example if you are in Bali, try to reach out to local magazines in Bali or maybe a local hotels whom would like something photography. You never know where your skill can take you, so just really hone in and really own what you’re doing. Or start sending off your works to people of places that you would like to go and you’ll get something in return.

Sell photos in #Shutterstock or #Istock Photography but they don’t pay that much but is a way to get your work out there and maybe a little bit of money. 

13. Media Editor

This is anybody who can edit videos who can edit podcast. There is a demand for this subject. This might require you to have special programs like #IMovie or #AdobeCreative Cloud in general, Make sure you’re not putting yourself out there for a job that you can’t necessarily do because you don’t the proper programs but do what you can and like all the other jobs start promoting yourself. 

14. Transcriber

This is just transcribing any kind of recordings that physicians have put together so you’d transcribe them all and this is something you can do anywhere. You get the file sent to you and you transcribe it. (You can even take courses for this) And the fact that you can get so much freedom from that is just amazing!  You can always try to find courses online, for any different subject that you would like to learn and perhaps courses that might help you to learn how to obtain clients and transcribe all their business files and helping people achieve their goals.

15. Consultant

(Person that provide expert knowledge about something in particular) 

This could be a business consultant, a financial consultant, this could be a life couching consultant. There are so many different jobs. Whatever you feel your niche is and you already built up a good brand for yourself this could be fairly easy for you to just transport your work elsewhere. You can connect with people via Zoom, via Skype, via Whatsapp Video chat, Facebook video chat. There are so many resources now that will allow you to work remotely. 

So if there is something that you are really passionate about say you are already a life coach and you really want travel know your skills and know that you can take them anywhere. 

I hope you enjoy this post and find it very helpful! If you have any question please let me a comment below or you can submit a question using my contact form.