Telecommuting mania – leave your brain at home

One of the things that baffles us is how many questions we get about products that clearly are likely to be of little help to people in their questions for telecommuting products versus the number of people who try to do even the quickest analysis in search of the truth.

People will consider paying as much as $197.00 for a product that know nothing about before that delivers mountains of "work from home hope" before they will tap into their own brain and use free or reasonably priced resources to achieve their goals of working from home.

The term "telecommuting mania" seems to be a decent term for this phenomenon, since the definition of mania is:"…a severe medical condition characterized by extremely elevated mood, energy, and unusual thought patterns."

Let’s take a look at one of the questions that came in recently and see if it qualifies as an example of telecommuting mania.

Q:

Processing from home rebates.Looks good but…………here is the link:

makemyincomeathome.com

A:

OK. Let’s see if makemyincomeathome qualifies as telecommuting mania:

The promise: "If You Have 60 Minutes A Day, Here’s A Certified, Proven And Guaranteed Way To Make $225 And More Every Day… The Easy Way… From Home!”

OK, we can pretty much stop right there.Apparently the person who asked about this believes he can make $225.00 in 60 minutes processing rebates at home.In facts he believes this about rebate processing jobs despite the fact that companies can easily pay people minimum wage or less than minimum wage (overseas) to do the very same work.

Seems like this definitely qualifies as an "unusual thought pattern" as described in the aforementioned definition of mania.

Hey, and wait a minute….Apparently Angela Penbrook is the #1 work at home consultant in America…but didn’t we discover earlier that Angel Stevens from ProcessAtHome was the #1 Work at Home Consultant in America?

Man, is Angel going to be ticked off when she hears Angela’s outrageous claims at ProcessAtHome.com! ;-)

Seriously though if you have some money to get rid of, I’m sure there’s a ton of people who would be happy to take it off your hands.Or you could invest in something that could actually help you find a telecommuting job like InYourPJs or Little White eBook of HomeShoring Jobs

Naah. You want to make $225.00/hour for doing "simple work at home".

For the rest of use who want to use your brain…

 

Man, finding a work at home job is HARD…

Q:

Paul,

I have applied and applied for work at home employment on your website to no avail.  I have experience in lots of areas, what is the problem?  Is there just not enough employment for people who want to work at home?  – Judy

A:

Judy,

I see it’s been 10 days since we first talked. This is the problem I have with most people.

Finding a telecommuting job is no easier than finding a regular job which takes considerable time and effort.

I get several people who find telecommuting positions – but for everyone that finds one there are probably dozens more that are still looking.

I have two goals at this site:

  1. Give people REALISTIC expectations about finding  work at home jobs or running home businesses.
  2. Point them to the best free resources and paid resources for doing so.

That’s why we like what Sylvie Fortin writes here:

http://www.workaholics4hire.com/jobseekers.htm

And why we recently did a full review of her book here:

http://www.workathometruth.com/InYourPJs-review.php

Debra, who’s a full-time telecommuter and who recently became our Telecommuting product reviewer did the review.

Does that make sense?

I’m sorry I can’t be one of those sites that promise you that you can make $1000/day doing simple data entry work at home – but I CAN’T – because it’s NOT true.

Hope that helps.

Paul

InYourPJs by Silvie Charrier – review is up

We have strongly recommended the telecommuting book InYour PJs – You Can Work In Your Pajamas – by Sylvie Charrier for a long time.

Recently, Debra Turner – our Telecommuting Product Reviewer – did a detailed review of InYourPJs which we have posted here.

If you really want to know how to land work at home jobs, we highly recommend you take a strong look at Sylvia Charrier’s InYourPJs.

Paul