work from home

[pymmint]

After YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS of searching for a job I could do from home, I finally found a bunch, from all places on aarp; after YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS of having a landline and "connected" internet, I am now on wifi and cell phone ! When we take off in early 2014 I was wondering if anyone has "worked from home" in their RV ? Is there a way to get "connected internet and landlines" for 4-6 months at a time until I go to the next place, where ever it might be. As I recall the phone company wanted a year or two commitment and although that would not be a problem, it just wouldn't be in the same place for the whole 2 years. Does this make sense ? Any thoughts or ideas ?

[Bethers]

Why do you have to have the landline? I've been doing work online for 8 years with just my cell phone and internet. Oh, and yes, you can get landlines at some places - especially in the south (winter parks). I can't imagine wanting a landline ever again, even if I ended up in a house again.

[pymmint]

I don't want one, but that is the requirement for some of the jobs; a couple of others are search engine research, and although they don't seem to require a land line, one of them wanted either unlimited internet download or if there was a cap on download, 100GB was required. Verizon Wireless only goes to 10 GB.

[JudyJB]

Do make sure that these work from home jobs are legitimate, because much has been written about the ones that are not. They should not make you pay a fee to get the job or invest money in anything.

The land line requirements sound very difficult to meet.

I teach a college class online, and need only internet access. But that is something I did for 10 years before I retired, so it was a regular college and a regular job that I just continued.

Many people run businesses online, so you might want to check on that as an option instead of working for someone else. There are also a lot of regular jobs that can be done online, just as I am doing.

[retiredhappy]

Don't know why any company would require a landline. I would never have one again - have used my cell phone exclusively for five years now. Be really careful of work at home jobs even those advertised in AARP. AARP will accept any ad if its paid for and doubt that they check them out.

[pymmint]

I took this to be an article, not an "ad", but the ones I have checked out do NOT require any money to be paid to them; I also found on on WomansDay.com that look very promising. MOst of them do hire as employees, a couple are independent contractor.

http://www.aarp.org/work/working-after- ... ees.2.html
http://www.womansday.com/life/saving-mo ... bs#slide-1

I the past years I have tried direct sales, even one that sold pet products, but they are not for me; I looked into being able to get 'retrained' for close captioning or medical coder; close captioning cost about $18,000 for training and the medical coder was $2300, but the person I talked to said it was very hard to get into coding without years of experience. Both of them required several years experience, so I was willing to train now and hopefully get the going when we hit the road, but between the cost (close captioning) and entry it's not possible. I work "full time" now with my pet sitting and dog walking business, so not much time to be available to work during the day. I worked 30 years at the phone company and the last 13 in Pat's Pampered Pets; although I love being with the 'kids', I would like to be home with my 'kids' more and not have to work 360 days a year any more. Hence, the work from home, although one of the jobs (that requried the landline and connected internet) also required ZERO noise, which may be difficult in an rv with 2 dogs and a bird and limited space to keep them quiet. A couple of job2 I found was an search engine evaluator, which looks promising if I pass the test.

Is this more than you wanted to know ?

[WickedLady]

You might want to check out these jobs with the Better Business Bureau (BBB.com I think) just to be on the safe side and be sure you would get paid.

[pymmint]

thanks for the advice from everyone !