Read to the end for an idea! (ctoc.co.uk/homeworking_work_from_home.htm)

Member Name: jdidlock

Product:	ctoc.co.uk/homeworking_work_from_home.htm
Date:	27/09/00 (84 review reads)
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Advantages: Flexible hours

Disadvantages: Can be a bit solitary

What puzzles me about homeworking is all the guff you get about how work patterns are changing and more people are working from home and the reality of there being so little available.

I think the answer lies in how you get going in the first place and the best way is to, daft as it may sound, to bring work home with you.

This was how I started, I worked in Central London but the company I worked for closed the office and moved it to their base outside London which was an impossible commute for me. So armed with a fax machine and eventually email etc, I moved my base to my home and it worked fine. I only went to the office about once a week and because I was now officially based at a home, I could claim the miles on expenses.

Eventually, I spotted an opportunity to break away from employment and started my own export business and I still have the remnants of this now that I have retired officially.

However, I would like other things to do and apart from some OCR work (which is on-going but a bit erratic), have found nothing. I even emailed a bunch of companies which offer OCR as a service and none of them even had the simple courtesy to acknowledge my message - not even robotic replies, though they hardly count anyway.

***IDEA***

Not strictly home working, but a short-term earner is about to emerge, being a numerator on the National Census next April. They are recruiting District Managers at present, but the "down line" jobs will become available in the New Year - info as it is released from Job Centres. I warn you, however, the pay for the DM's considering the amount of responsibility this post carries, is abyssmal! About £3,000 plus expenses, but judge for yourself.

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