Associated Content: Write and Earn!

There are an overload of websites that raise your hopes of earning large paychecks for sitting at home in front of your computer or participating in other activities you already frequent in.

Take Surveys and Earn: Marketers Pay for Consumer Feedback.)

(After you complete 50 sponsor offers and buy a membership for only $39.99 you can start taking surveys until halfway through you are told that you 'aren't eligible for this study but thanks anyways.)

Work as a Secret Shopper: Get Paid to Shop and Keep What You Buy!

(Membership for a one time charge of $69.99 will give you full access to our list of 5 companies always looking for secrets shoppers in an area states away from you.)

If you are like me, then you are fed up with these 2 'opportunities' we encounter on a daily basis while working on a computer.

Even if you are not a stay at home mom like me, with piling bills and an unrealistic hope to ever someday have the extra money (extra money?! what's that?!) to buy a snow mobile/clothes that fit/new car that will fit the whole family/house... Even if you work a full time job or are okay with the money you have, you still find false hopes raised by these and other similar ads.

It is not possible to make a live-able income by any of these pleasurable activities. Although we know things are too good to be true, we are still hopeful enough to day dream that someday, just maybe, one of these sites will lead to a very profitable future.

No such luck. And if you are a day dreamer... tell your spouse to hide your credit cards from you (if your spouse is a woman, she will have no problem with this!)

There is nobody earning any money in those situations other than the site that gets yours.

However, there are a few real ways to make online money for doing something you enjoy... if you enjoy writing (like I do.)