Find a job to work from home with this list of 50 work from home ideas with resource links. The key to making money while working from home is to make a list of skills and interests you’ve developed over the years. As soon as you have a list of skills that you excel at or are interested in mastering, you can move forward to use this list of 50 jobs you can do from home. All of these jobs can either be done as your own business or working for someone else. The key to any of these jobs is confidence in your skills and selling yourself to others. Don’t let fear stand in the way of your dreams.
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1. Affiliate Marketing
This job is perfect for anyone with social media accounts or a blog to make some extra money. Sign up as an affiliate with all of your favorite brands and spend your days sharing the affiliate links online to earn a commission from each sale. Read my interview with Torche’ Nash to learn how she has made a full-time income with Affiliate Marketing via her blog “Being Eco-momical.”
2. Graphic Designer
If you have artistic skills and are able to design graphics on your own then you could easily start your own online graphic designer job to sell designs to website owners and bloggers. Check out Fiverr or Upwork for freelance jobs! You can watch this interview I had with a successful graphic designer/videographer who gets work on Upwork.
3. Bookkeeper
Whether you start your own bookkeeping company or work as a remote employee for a business, you can use your bookkeeping skills from the comfort of your own home to help keep other businesses’ finances in check. Tiffany Higgins has made a career as a Bookkeeper and she even has a Bookkeeper academy to help you get started with your own bookkeeping business and find clients! Watch my interview with her in my Success Stories.
4. Childcare
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5. Consulting
If you have an education in a specific field such as nutrition, education, or even holistic healing you could easily start a consulting business to have your own job at home offering consulting services in a virtual setting. Starting your own blog in addition to your services would provide additional passive income when you provide answers for Google Search engines.
6. Dog or House Sitter
This job from home would require you to go to another person’s home or welcome a pet into your home as a means to provide dog sitting or house sitting services to other people in your local community, but it can be rather lucrative.
7. Customer Service Representative
Many companies hire remote workers to work in their own home
8. Data Entry
You can search the internet for companies that hire people to work at home providing their data entry skills. From research to inserting product descriptions into people’s online stores, data entry is one of the easiest jobs to do from home.
9. Editing & Proofreading
You can work as an editor or proofreader for anyone who has an online blog, magazine, or book that needs some proofreading. There are also some online courses that will help teach you how to become an editor and proofreader so that you can say you’re certified to provide this job from home. Learn more about how to become a proofreader.
10. Instructional Videos
Start a YouTube channel to make your own do it yourself videos or other instructional videos that help other consumers do things on their own. Once you get the required traffic you can apply to ad networks and sponsorships opportunities.
11.Virtual Assistant
There are some businesses that realize the savings that happen when they hire an assistant to work from their own home office. Apply to be a virtual secretary for a business that needs someone to handle their day to day phone calls and other data entry tasks. You can watch this interview on how Sara not only made a
12. Online Juror
You can become an online juror where you work for a lawyer who hires a mock jury to review their case before it heads to the real courtroom. https://www.thebalancecareers.com/online-jury-profile-companies-3542848
13. Website Tester
www.UserTesting.com hires people to work from home testing websites. This site is hired to have people just like you navigate a new website to provide feedback on ease of navigation, design, and other information to ensure the business has a good website that will keep consumers on their page longer.
14.Event Planner
Everything from a birthday party planning specialist to a travel agent and even a bridal party planner are all options to become an event planner as a fabulous job to do from home.
15. Tech Support Specialist
Many companies seek tech support specialists to work in a remote setting as a means to have tech support 24/7 for their customers. If you have tech knowledge and enjoy a flexible schedule this may just be the perfect job for you to do from home.
16. Translator
There is a high demand for translators, so if you know many languages you may just want to sign up for this job you can do from home. Look for online sites that hire translators, apply, and sit back while you make money translating for other people.
17. Medical Transcriptionist
This position will require knowledge in the medical field as well as quite possibly some training, but it’s a very lucrative job that you can do from home. You can find courses on becoming a Medical Transcriptionist on Udemy.
18. Teacher or Tutor
There are many children who attend online school and need some help. This is where your educational background will come in handy as a means to work from home. Apply to be an online teacher or tutor as a job you can do from home to make some extra cash. Watch this interview on how this teacher made a side income by creating a blog and tutoring.
19. Peer To Peer Lender
If you have some cash saved up of your own then you could join sites like Lending Club or Prosper to lend money on a peer to peer basis making some money from home being a personal lender.
20. Blogger
Start a blog and make your own money being a blogger who sells promotions to brands or works with other online platforms to make money while writing high-quality blog posts on a regular basis. Read how I started this blog post and the coach who helped me.
21. Freelance Photographer
If you have photography skills then you’ll be happy to know that there are many ways to make money with photography from the comfort of your own home. You can learn multiple ways to make money with photography on this post or my recommendations on what equipment you need on this post.
22. Research Analyst
Many brands need someone who’s skilled with doing heavy research on topics assigned to them. Search for research analyst positions to collect data from the internet for brands while getting paid for your time.
23. Virtual Assistant
This is an open-end job that you can do from home offering skills that you’ve learned throughout the years as an administrative assistant or secretary. This job you can do from home can be a self-employed business or you can apply to various companies online that hire virtual assistants to work for them as a remote worker. I have two interviews
23. Product Reviewer
Companies often want to get some insight
24. Nielson Consumer Panel
Get paid to take surveys from Nielson as a means to find a job that you can do from home without any money invested. ( https://join.ncponline.com/ )
25. Registered Nurse
There are many online doctor sites available now for the average person to call or chat with to get non-emergency advice if you’re a registered nurse you can work from home as a nurse in a virtual setting like this.
26. Therapist
With many online therapy sites, there’s a need for more virtual therapists to help others move forward in life. Apply to be a therapist with an online counseling service provider or start a blog that answers a therapy need like this interview.
27. Pet Groomer
Have the skill to groom pets? Start your own pet grooming business at home to provide this service to the dog owners in your local community.
28. Licensed Insurance Rep
Work as a licensed insurance rep if you have your license to do this. You can easily work for a company that makes insurance contracts for consumers.
29. Realtor
While you may have to leave your house to do home showings, you can easily get your license to be a real estate agent and work from home to try to sell houses and earn a pretty awesome commission check.
30. Renter
If you have an extra house or room in the current place you live then you could easily rent out a room or house as a means to make money from home.
31. Housekeeping
While this job will require you to leave the house and go clean other people’s homes or businesses, you won’t have to spend a ton of time outside of the home to do some housekeeping as a means to make money from home.
32. Hair Stylist
If you have a
33. Tax Preparer
Places like H&R Block train people to be tax preparers from the comfort of their own home and this service will give you a great paycheck at the end of the year.
34. Survey Taker
There are many online survey sites that will pay you under a dollar per survey and then let you cash out your earnings via PayPal or another form of payment.
35. Web Developer
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36. Virtual Public Relationships Representative
If you have the skills to work in public relations then you could easily work as a virtual public
37. Voice Over Acting
Sites like Fiverr offer you a chance to put your voice to work by offering voice-over audio recordings to people who may want to use your voice to create their own commercial or similar concept for marketing online.
38. Web Search Evaluator
Many companies will pay people to work from home testing out where they come up in search engines. You’ll have to look for work at home jobs that list this type of job you can do from home, but if you find one the pay is pretty decent.
39. Writer
Go to sites like Fiverr and Upwork or Problogger.net’s job board to find writing gigs. This helps you make money from home without having to commit to anything long term. You can also read about Top sites that pay more than $100 to write.
40. Closed Captioning
You can work as someone who writes closed captioning from home. Rev is a website that hires people to do just this task from home. (https://www.rev.com/freelancers/captions )
41. Uhaul Representative
Uhaul hires people to work from home for an
42. Speech Therapist
VocoVision hires virtual speech therapists for children so if you have a background in this arena then this will be the perfect job you can do from home. (https://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/telecommuting-jobs-at-vocovision )
43. Illustrator
Find an author who’s looking for an illustrator for their upcoming book. This is the perfect job you can do from home if you have artistic skills.
44. Selling Crafts
Start an Etsy store or your own online e-commerce store via Shopify to sell some homemade crafts/printables as a means to have your own job you can do from home.
45. Writing Greeting Cards
Work to develop your own crafty greeting cards ideas for a greeting card company.
46. Food Photographer
The site CozyMeals hires food photographers on a regular basis so you may want to pick up this job you can do from home to put your food photography skills to good use.
47. Moderator
With so many online forums it’s no wonder more companies require moderators to help sift through the spam and regular members content. Apply to be a moderator as a means to make money from home.
48. Mystery Shoppers
Call Center Q&A Hires virtual mystery shoppers who handle this job from home rather than the old school method of having to visit an actual store. My friend has a webinar to help you get started with legit jobs like this, you can read the interview here.
49. Inside Sales Person
Use your sales skills as a job you can do from home by applying to be an at-home phone salesperson for a large company. You can locate these jobs on hiremymom.com and Flexjob.
50. Network Marketing Sales
While working for an MLM(Mult-level Marketing) company often gets a bad rap, you can read about my experience as a Color Street stylist here. It really is an awesome way to bring in extra income and give you a feeling of purpose if it is a product you truly love and are going to be using anyway. I break down why MLM is a successful business venture with the principle of compound interest.
Job Boards that Hire Freelancers and Part-time workers
Flexjobs
Check out Flexjobs.com as they have certified pre-screened work from home positions that are posted daily.
Hire My Mom.com
Hiremymom.com was started by a fellow work from home mom, Lesley Pyle who was ahead of her time in seeing a need for providing quality educated employees to business owners. I got my first marketing consulting clients from this website and you can watch my interview with founder, Leslye Pyle.
