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You're being suckered. This work takes both eyes - both ears, both hands,

Posted: Aug 31st, 2017 - 2:50 pm In Reply to: flexibility - hansenhomemaker

and your whole brain. It's intense work for anyone able to make any kind of living at it and very stressful for those who are still trying to learn and actually earn more than minimum wage.

Plus, and this is big, employers expect you to be available -- NOT just on your scheduled hours -- but any and all hours required to complete your agreed number of hours when there is no work to do during your scheduled hours. The laws have been written by business-friendly legislators (supported by the idiocy of the "have to get off the backs of business" voters) especially for those who work at home -- our time while waiting available to work is paid nothing and sacrifices made while required to be available are considered worth nothing. Make up the hours or be fired.

As a part-timer, and part of a crowd of under-skilled newbies who came for "flexibility," you would also often likely wait to be assigned jobs while good managers tried to take care of their best producers first.

But the really huge thing is opportunity cost. You sacrifice what you would have earned at other work -- every week, every month, every year. That's thousands, and then tens of thousands. If you stayed, which you wouldn't -- you'd either quit in disgust or be forced out before too long when this work disappears entirely. Which it will before you get really good at it. And at whatever that point is, you will not have developed a single real skill you can take anywhere else (this is too specialized) and any you currently will have become obsolete.

By the way, a lot of people entered this field after it was dying for the sort of reasons you're considering it. They were needed because young, competent people walked away, and they ignored posts just like this one to follow the siren song of working at home. Take a GOOD look at what they are saying now. Does this sound like happiness an extra pocket money to you?



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