If your unemployed or just need some money to pay those bills, consider working online. As someone who has done a lot fo research over the past 2 years for online employment, I can direct some of you to a few helpful employers. But first, lets explain some typical duties and the work environment of working an online job.

Mostly all online employers hire only independent contractors, which is a funny term for zero benefits, vacation, and promotion. You will need to fill out a government form filing your sole proprietorship or an LLC individual. Also, you will be using your phone, email, and a lot of web based software. The only means of communication with you boss will be email and web based chat, sometimes a phone call comes your way.

Those who are hiring are typically doing information taking and upselling for inbound infomercial calls as well as HSN, QVC, and Shop NBC. Some jobs are data entry as well as outbound cold calling and telemarketing. A wide variety of companies hire online, such as American Airlines and Google.

Now lets find you a job:

One of the most respected employers is Liveops. Liveops is an inbound call center that takes orders from many infomercials as well as HSN. The great perk of working for LiveOps is that you schedule yourself in 30 minute intervals. You get paid $0.17-0.45 per minute depending on when you schedule your work shift.

Also, there are tons of job postings made daily on many work at home forums such as WAHM. Do yourself a favor and get ahead of the competition; join their forums and post around. People will privately message you job openings and the latest job opportunities are posted on their forums. Join and become knowledgeable of the online employment world.

Be careful for any job posting besides LiveOps that requests money. LiveOps asks $35 for a background check but they are legit. Others are scams and others are legit but claim their are hiring and really aren’t, just to make a quick buck from the overly high employment fees.

Here are some other legit work at home companies:

West, Alpine Access, and Working Sol.

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