Carmen's Random Tips: How to Avoid Work at Home Scams and Make Your Work at Home Dream a Reality

Tips to Make Your Work at Home Dream a Reality

So you want to work from home, but you don’t even know where to begin looking into legitimate ways to make this happen. Well, guess what? 

There are a ton of legitimate ways to earn money from home to support your family. You just have to know how to avoid the scams and you also need to know where to find the right resources that will aide you in your search efforts.

How to Avoid Scams

The number one way to avoid a scam is to know that you do not ever pay to do work for anyone! With that said, however, if you choose to join an MLM business opportunity there is an investment. Why is there an investment? Because you’re starting your own business and starting your own business doesn’t come free. You should also know that some employers (some…not all) require that you pay for your own background check if a background check is a requirement to employment.

What are some things that you don’t pay for? You do not ever pay to work for anyone as a data entry operator. You do not pay anyone to do any work, whatsoever, other than starting your own business and the example stated above as far as background checks go. But other than that…never pay anyone to work for them. Run from those types of opportunities.

Carefully Research an Opportunity

Before deciding to join anything or to work for anyone carefully research the company and also research whether or not it’s the right fit for you personally. The money might seem appealing, but is this something you actually enjoy and are good at? If it’s not, then you will not be successful in the long run, hence wasting your time.   

I don’t know about you, but wasting my time is a huge pet peeve of mine (it's actually number two on my list of pet peeves!). However, you may give something a try if you think it might be a good fit and if it doesn’t work out, well then, at least you know that you tried and gave it your best efforts.

How to Find these Jobs

When doing a work at home job search I personally always head on over to my four favorite hot spots that I mentioned here. Two very popular work at home forums, along with two popular work at home blogs. Because those are the places to look to avoid scams, to find the legitimate job opportunities, to see if anyone else has heard of a company that you’re considering, and just to connect with other moms (and sometimes dads) in the same boat as yourself.   

You can learn a lot with all four of those resources - I did. I found all four of these resources over the past five years doing my own research. And I’m glad that I did, because it’s enabled me to make my dream of becoming a wahm come true! I hope that these tips and resources enable you to make your dream come true too!!