Work from Home Scam: Data Entry Job Falls Flat

My Work from Home Job Search Experience

Hi, my name is Kim. Until the birth of our son in 2003 I worked for a medical management company for 4 years. After our son was born in 2003 my husband and I decided that I stay home and raise him. The company I worked for allowed me to continue working for them from home. It was a wonderful easy job that took 1-4 hours daily. I was able to take care of my sons needs and then return to finish my work. Recently this past February 2006, they decided due to financial reasons they were bringing the work in-house. Hence my story begins.

Since February I have been on the hunt for another work from home position that is legitimate and works with our schedule. I started posting my resume on every big name job site: Monster, Hotjobs, CareerBuilder.com, Beyond.com and many more. I search on a daily basis at the various job sites. The best one I use to search is www.indeed.com. They have the ability to pull jobs from most of the job listing sites and put them all in one place. I like this because I can browse at one location rather than going to each individual website. I also search www.craigslist.com in my area on a daily basis. I was able to get a temporary job for 1 week listening to the radio for a company from Craig’s list.

The biggest thing I have noticed during all of this searching is all of the “Get Rich” promises. The majority of the work from home jobs listed on these sites are telling you to sign up and you will make money. First of all you should not have to pay someone for a job. Those companies are not really giving you a job, but trying to get you to join and promote their wares if they really have a product. Sometimes there is no real product.