Is there any REAL way to make money on the Internet...

[gregor7777]

Hi All,

QUESTION:

Does anyone have any first hand expierence with any ways to work and make money on the internet?

Are there any stay at home jobs that aren't scams? It seems that most are...

Any ideas anyone? AT is usually a good place for ideas, good and bad. So I though I'd throw it at ya.

EDIT for the kiddies: Non-pornographic please, lol





STORY: (feel free to skip past)

My wife stays home to watch the kiddies while I work during the day. It's a great situation, because I want my kids to have family looking over them and caring for them instead of strangers. At least until they go to school.

But, we're damn near broke now lol.

Putting children in daycare is prohibitively expensive (usually $400+ per child/per month). So for my wife to get a job during the day is difficult for us because she hasn't had much on the job expeirence.

BTW, she is a certified home day care professional, and we did that for awhile in NY, but we're in FL now and would need to go through the certification process again. That usually is a pretty common idea for stay at home moms, and it is a nice way to earn a living.

 

[akubi]

buy a webcam and work it

 

[tranceport]

Is she hot? I know one way.

 

[gregor7777]

Originally posted by: akubi
buy a webcam and work it

LOL...yes, she is hot but we'll count this as a last resort. lol

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: gregor7777

Originally posted by: akubi
buy a webcam and work it

LOL...yes, she is hot but we'll count this as a last resort. lol

teh lies!!1!11
pics?

 

[gogeeta13]

I don't mean to be a jerk here, but nobody is going to give you any great ideas.

Making money on the internet can be done in one of the following ways:

1. Find a niche market. Start a business. Profit.

2. Start a site with some new idea which will draw millions of visitors. Profit thru ad revenue.

3. Scam people (j/k)

 

[StevenYoo]

buy inkjet ink by the gallon and sell it for $20 an ounce!

 

[Atheus]

Learn some relatively simple software development skill and take freelance jobs. HTML/CSS, photoshop, databases, etc.

 

[keeleysam]

Sell her on eBay.








Whoops. Have her sell on eBay.

 

[OutHouse]

my wife wants a work from home job and all of them are scams. she just wants something to do and make a little money at it.

 

[MisterJackson]

I KNEW I had to check in on this thread.....it has great potential!

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: gregor7777

Originally posted by: akubi
buy a webcam and work it

LOL...yes, she is hot but we'll count this as a last resort. lol

I think last resort would be CL erotic services.

 

[LeonarD26]

Threads like these seem to come up every so often and the conclusion is usually the same. People don't know of any legit was of making money online, except maybe for e-bay.... or they wont tell you because who needs more competition.

 

[cavingjan]

Not specific to the internet but how about transcribing medical records for a doctor/dentist's office.

 

[Phokus]

IBM has some telecommuting jobs. I don't know what your wife's skills are though.

 

[maximus maximus]

I dont know how good this idea is.. but as you mentioned she is already daycare certified professional and she stays home to watch your kids.

You can as well watch a few more kids and make a small business out of it. Your wife not only gets to watch your kids, but if she can watch a few other kids too, she will end up making money.


edit : didnt read the part where she will have to get certified all over again. sorry!

 

[Ramma2]

Amazon's Mechnical Turk... the work sucks, the pay sucks, and they're all time intensive, but it's out there.

 

[PaperclipGod]

Originally posted by: Ramma2
Amazon's Mechnical Turk... the work sucks, the pay sucks, and they're all time intensive, but it's out there.

Works out to around $3/hr if you're really fast.

 

[sager66]

Originally posted by: gregor7777Are there any stay at home jobs that aren't scams? It seems that most are...

Related Article:
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[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Learn some relatively simple software development skill and take freelance jobs. HTML/CSS, photoshop, databases, etc.

No offense, but I wouldn't call that "simple".

 

[Queasy]

Most "advertised" stay at home jobs are complete and utter scams. If your wife has any customer service experience she can contract herself out of her home. Those jobs are tough to get though.

Additionally, there is always eBay stores or finding a market or hobby that you can make some side money off of. My wife does embroidery and cakes for additional side money.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

A former next-door neighbor makes decent money transcribing medical records. I don't know that it actually requires 'Net access, but the basic requirement, that is a computer, is the same.

 

[PaperclipGod]

If it was easy to make enough money to live on with little skill and never having to leave your house, then a lot more people would be doing it.

In other words, unless your wife wants to learn some useful computer-related skills, she's SOL.

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: Atheus
Learn some relatively simple software development skill and take freelance jobs. HTML/CSS, photoshop, databases, etc.

No offense, but I wouldn't call that "simple".

Yea well, it would be a lot simpler to learn MySQL or something than become a programmer, and you could still earn decent money with just that one skill.

Software development is really the only way to work from home, unless you're running your own business.

 

[Nightfall]

Originally posted by: PaperclipGod
If it was easy to make enough money to live on with little skill and never having to leave your house, then a lot more people would be doing it.

In other words, unless your wife wants to learn some useful computer-related skills, she's SOL.

QFT

You aren't going to find many positions that are going to pay you to work from home on your own time. My advice would be to learn a trade or computer skill and use that from home. Heck, since your wife has experience being a day care professional, why not get certified all the way and make a business out of it? Thats what I would do because it would take the least amount of learning curve for your wife. Plus, if you put the time in and get certified, its a business that can REALLY take off.