subject: How To Make The Most Out Of Your Life - Work From Home! [print this page] Regardless of where you are in your career, you should make transitioning from being a paid employee to being the master of your own destiny a high priority. Who doesn't want to be able to sleep until noon and then work in their pajamas? Here are 4 good reasons why you should start a home-based business sooner, rather than later.
1. Staying employed is far too risky - especially when the economy is unstable. If your income is solely dependent on your job, if you get fired, you're going to be in a rough position. Maybe you're already a little too familiar with this. If you work for yourself, you can put your eggs in several baskets, and develop multiple streams of income. And you can't be fired.
2. When you have a job, you only get paid while you're working. You can develop those multiple streams of income to benefit you 24 hours a day, whether you're working or not.
3. Having a job actually limits your opportunity. How often do you come home after a nine to ten-hour day brimming with energy to scheme new income-producing ideas? While you're at work, you're limited to $20-30 per hour (or whatever it is your income comes out to hourly). Those $100-$1000 an hour ideas are put on ice when you're working a 9-5.
4. When employed, your income is limited by your salary - and pay increases are determined by your boss. If you don't mind having a cap to what you can earn yearly, then being employed may be the best place for you. But for most people, the exhilaration of income limited only by their effort and imagination is one of the best parts of working from home.
Ok, you're asking, but what if I don't have any idea what to do from home? There are a few excellent opportunities available that just about anyone can start. First, if you are a literary type or have other marketable skills, a good place to start is by picking up some freelance jobs from sites like elance.com. This is a great way to get started, and there's enough work for just about anyone to get by on from home.
Another fabulous way to make money from home is by becoming an internet affiliate. While this can take some time to grow, this is the ultimate "set it and forget it" income producer available. Find a product you know something about, write articles and ads to promote it, and you'll make a commission every time you sell something. The sky is the limit for the income potential in this field - and you can get started on that today.
Interested in real estate? Consider becoming a money finder. The government is holding billions of dollars in unclaimed funds that rightfully belong to U.S. citizens. Real estate unclaimed funds are skyrocketing because of the foreclosure rate. When more is bid for a foreclosure property at auction than is owed in back taxes or mortgage, that money is due back to the original owner.
Unfortunately, these owners almost never know about the money, and after a while the government gets to keep it. If you can connect these owners with their missing funds (often in the tens of thousands of dollars), you can keep 30-50% for your information and assistance in collecting the funds.
