medical coding training at home.
Working from home can be absolutely the best decision you've ever made for your family. As a work at home mom, you can attend school trips, volunteer as a teachers aide and play mommy nurse when your children get sick without fear of losing your job or lost wages.
If you are considering working from home, first think about what you are good at. Do you have strong organizational abilities? Consider becoming an administrative assistant. Do you type fast and accurately? Transcription would be perfect for you. If you have a proficiency in a certain academic subject, you can find work as an online tutor or teacher (degree/certifications required).
Whatever your interest, there are jobs--it's just a matter of finding one that's legitimate. If you do a Google search for legitimate work at home opportunity. How many results appear? Over 700,000. That's a lot of results to sort through and the vast majority of them are membership based websites which charge a fee for free information.
For example, one website boasts that you can earn $5000 /month from your kitchen table. All you have to do is join the website at $39.95/ month to sort through their job listings. Then there are other companies who actually do hire at home workers but they either have no intention of actually paying or reject all of your work as inferior.
In order to find a legitimate work at home job, you will have to do your due diligence. Any company that requests payment upfront so that you can begin to work for them is a scam. Any company that requests payment upfront so they an train you is a scam. Any company that charges a fee to join so that you can find job listings is also a scam. Where do you think they get their listings from? The internet, of course. You can do the same thing for free you just have to know where to look and what to look for.
You can start by going to large employment databases like Monster and Careerbuilder. Type in the phrase "work at home". Companies who hire home workers often post their jobs at reputable websites like these.
Another alternative is searching on free work at home websites. If they don't charge a fee, you have nothing to lose. Some of these websites even have forums where jobs are posted frequently by the members. You can also gain a lot of insight into the lives of a work at home mom to see if its really what you want to do.
If you are certain that you want to work from home, consider the list below. Included are real jobs in a variety of fields. These companies are all looking for motivated individuals with basic computer knowledge and a efficient home-working environment. If you meet these requirements, please consider applying to the following companies.
Customer Service
Alpine Access
LiveOps
West
Medical Transcription and Coding
LexiCode
In Record Time
Health Information Partners
Typing
Speak-Write
NetTranscripts
Teaching/Tutoring
eSylvan
Kaplan Higher Education
Online Learning
