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Where to Find Honest Home Based Employment on the Web II

© Bonny Albo

On my search this week for home-based employment on the Web, I came across many sites that offered a handbook or newsletter which listed companies looking for home based workers. The only problem was, there was a fee - usually under $25.

Now, I was faced with a dilemma. Do I purchase the handbook, and then just post the listings here for free? It did not seem ethical, and I honestly did not want to undercut someone else's home-based business by doing so. But I was also very frustrated that I could not find the exact same resources that these people were finding in mass quantities. What was I doing wrong?

As I sat to ponder the situation, I could hear my frustrated husband in the background trying to console my daughter. Since the advent of her starting to crawl (see last week's article) she has been getting into everything that we had "thought" was babyproofed, and became extremely upset when either she or the situation would be removed. Still too young to understand why chewing on the sole of Daddy's boot is not acceptable, she cries until she becomes distracted by something more interesting.

Remembering the days when I wished that I could understand what my daughter was so upset about (she was very colicky the first three months) - I smiled. I had gotten exactly what I had wished for!

Then, as it always seems to when I am contemplating my life as a mother, realization struck. And as my daughter is hoisted over the couch to me, complaining about the unfairness of it all, ("Ba ba ma na NA NA ba!") I understand why I cannot find what it is that I am looking for. It is not the resources that elude me, it is time. The time to search every company, every database and every newsgroup for the ultimate jewel of a job. I have already spent over 10 hours searching for sites, resources and employment opportunities just this week alone - with what I feel is still lacking in both depth and quality. (Not that the positions here are not quality - to the contrary! But I did want to speak with the recruiters, employers and companies personally to qualify each position. Of course, I was not able to do so.)

Time. How ironic that the reason why I stay at home to work is the very same thing that I lack when I get there.

Anyway, I think that I have now spent more than enough of my precious time on

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