What do you guys think about working at home in the internet?
What about working for your company at home?

And what about those surveys and other things that you can do online for money? Do they work? Or they are all scams? Have you tried?

PS: This should be in a Business section....... :rolleyes:

What do you guys think about working at home in the internet?

Depends on what the "work" is. Some jobs are easy to do via the Internet, some ain't. I.e., it's pretty hard to be a welder or a ditch digger via the Internet!!

What about working for your company at home?

Depends on what the "work" is. I worked at home for about 3 months and it was not satisfactory for anyone involved ....and I was the vice-president AND partner of the firm! Outside, face-to-face meetings seemed to increase drastically when I worked at home ...clients have the general idea that you ain't workin' if you're not in the office, so they wanted to meet all the damned time.

Internet scams? There are many ...just don't get caught up in one.

Baron Max

Oh did you ever hit a nerve with me. It's absolutely insane that we have to "go to work" every day. Probably eighty percent of the workers in America spend almost all of their workday huddled over a computer and talking on the phone. Guess what? We all have those two things AT HOME!

It's a real sore point with me. I had to go three thousand miles from home just to find a job at all. For various reasons at our age, my wife can't just move out here with me, so we only get to see each other occasionally. My dogs, my wonderful home, the lovely weather, they're all on the other side of the continent with her. And I don't spend two hours a month doing things that I couldn't do just as well AT HOME!

Fifteen years ago many companies experimented with telecommuting. And we didn't have broadband connections and webcams back then! Yet it worked! In a lot of places people could work at home three or even four days a week, then come in for the meetings.

Suddenly, right around 2001, we all got these terse little broadcasts: "The company telecommuting program is suspended as of the first of next month. All employees must resume working in their offices."

What was different? We got a goddamned motherfucking Texass president whose only qualification for office is that his daddy has a lot of dangerously powerful friends who have been buying his way through life. And they're all tycoons in the petroleum industry. Including the faggot Sheikh from Araby that he loves to hold hands with and go walking through the daisies--the only country whose planes were allowed to fly the afternoon of 9/11.

These assholes could see that if telecommuting caught on, it would reduce America's energy consumption by half or more. Their profits would be affected! To hell with families that never get to see their daddies during waking hours, condos on the edge of metropolitan areas selling for a million dollars, people living fifty miles from their jobs in real houses they can afford but spending five hours a day driving, steady diets of convenience food, round-the-clock nannies, and STRESS.

The oil barons need their profits. Bush will make it so. Every corporate leader got the message: keep your employees on the freeway and everything will be great. Let them work at home and your taxes will be audited, your suppliers will hold up your shipments, your unions will go on strike, your internet connections will be intermittent, your banks will fuck up your accounts, your kids will be busted for smoking pot, and your own nanny will be deported.

I almost wish that those hurricanes really had destroyed a major chunk of America's petroleum infrastructure. They'd have had no choice but to let everybody who CAN work at home do it, there just wouldn't have been enough gasoline. And now that we have broadband and webcams and videoconferencing and NetMeeting and hardware is cheap enough that you can have one computer for a workstation, one for a video monitor, and one as a display board, EVERYBODY would realize how easy, productive, and profitable it is to work at home. They wouldn't be able to get us to go back no matter how many threats they made. The energy companies' stranglehold on the American economy would be OVER!

It would have been worth suffering through a much stronger hurricane that would have done a lot more damage, to see that happen. Especially since the only area that would have been damaged would have been motherfucking Texass, the home of the MORON-IN-CHIEF and his oil slick buddies.

My apologies to my dear friends on SciForums who are from Texas and are nice people nonetheless. I'm sure you make plenty of nasty jokes about California. Everybody else does. :)

To be honest, with the right software I could easily do my job at home. But they would need a trojan on my pc to make sure I was actually doing enough work and doing it properly.

Fraggle Rocker ......

Probably eighty percent of the workers in America spend almost all of their workday huddled over a computer and talking on the phone

Well I beg to differ with you but anyone who works in the trades or in manufacturing would object to that wording. Over 60 percent of Americans work with their hands whether driving a cab, digging a ditch or uncloging a stopped up sewer line allot of people don't use a compurter at all. Doctors, Medical technicians movie producers and boat captains are more that don't use a PC for their jobs primarily. Teachers, police and the military also need to be in the field to do their jobs. So you see that there are so many more people that you forgot about when you came up with that statement.

What do you guys think about working at home in the internet?
What about working for your company at home?

And what about those surveys and other things that you can do online for money? Do they work? Or they are all scams? Have you tried?

:) ... Well, I wouldn't give much for those latter sorts of notions of working from home, but I've been working exclusively from home now for the past 10 years and hugely recommend it.

Success depends upon what it is you actually do - if you work in publishing or media, home is definitely the Office today.