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Where to Find Honest Home-Based Employment on the Web

© Bonny Albo

Finding work to do at home while surfing the Internet would seem to be an easy task. With the explosion of the Internet into our homes, schools and communities in the past couple of years, it would just make sense that there are a lot of jobs that need to be done to keep everything running smoothly. All of the following, you would think, would be factors encouraging to individuals looking for home based employment:

A free e-mail account is easily available.
A couple of megs of space for a web page is also easy to come by.
Real-time chat is commonplace.
Privacy and security options are becoming more and more sophisticated daily.
The amount of web sites "advertising" home based employment number in the millions.

However, most of the opportunities listed are either MLM, or require a fee to access the information. (Not that either one of these opportunities are lesser in quality - many are excellent!) But we have all seen our fair share of the advertisements that claim "Make $1,000 a day, in your spare time!" and "100% Money Back Guarantee!", usually in CAPS, and joined by a lot of exclamation marks. And when you are on the hunt for home-based employment, these are not the type of sites that you are looking for.

After countless hours of searching the Web, newspapers, magazines, and other sources this past week, I have little to show for my effort. Most of what I found was the same thing, just presented differently. And I refused to admit to myself that if I wanted a listing of companies looking for home based employees, I was going to have to either contact them one by one myself, or pay for someone else to do the work. Neither of which sounded very feasible, or practical to me.

So, I decided to take a break, and just walk away from it all for a while. As I looked up from the computer, I saw my daughter crawl across the living room floor, smiling at me. Wait a minute . . . crawling!?! I did a double take, and looked again. Yes, she was crawling towards me, and yes, she was smiling. And with tears in my eyes, and a smile on my face as well, I went over to hug her, and savor the moment.

A couple of hours later, I sat back down in front of my computer to finish this article, and remembered what I had witnessed earlier. Nothing could replace the fact that I had just witnessed my daughter's first "crawl," while working. Nowhere else could I have experienced such a momentous moment while at work, and be able to stop everything to enjoy it. And for just a few seconds, everything was absolutely perfect in my world - I could ignore the housecleaning that desperately needed to be done, I could blank out the fact that I really needed a shower, I could forget about the phone ringing in the background. My chest swelled, my eyes glistened, and my heart pounded. I was exactly where I wanted to be. With renewed enthusiasm, I searched once more.

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