But who wants to wait for their treats? So let's get to that right off the bat.

The folks at IveTriedThat.com – an excellent website about working at home have decided to make their eBook "The Complete Guide to Telecommuting" available to you for free.

Click here to learn more about their free eBook and grab your copy.

Oh, and expect to learn a few tricks from their eBook as well, such as how to:

• Properly prepare to work at home
• Revamp your cover letters and resumes to stand out to above the crowd
• Create and display a portfolio
• Speak to employers on a professional level
• Learn to recognize a fake online job posting
• Quickly and efficiently scan through job ads for legitimate postings
• Convince potential and current employers to let you work from home
• Manage and grow a telecommuting business
• And yes, show you how and where to find legitimate work at home jobs.

Click here to learn more about their free eBook and grab your copy

• Weekly updated content
• Daily telecommuting job leads
• Reviews of work at home resources
• Articles covering various work at home topics

As usual, the forum is the place to head to quickly, but also be sure to take a look at the types of articles JustOnlineJobs.com offers

• Click here to visit JustOnlineJobs.com main page.
• Click here to visit the JustOnlineJobs forum.

"eHomemakers has been around for a long time and is a very professionally run site that really cares about your work-life balance.  You can get a sense of how much they care by reading through some of the

Founded in 1998 by a single mother, eHomemakers started as ‘Mothers for Mothers’ – a voluntary group of mothers from multi-ethnic communities. Against the backdrop of the Asian economic crisis, the group consisted of “housewives” who managed their home-based businesses using ICT. Members were involved in women-connecting-women activities to promote the concept of working from home.

The network, while helping its members gain self-esteem through mutual support activities, had to overcome public prejudice about useless “housewives” who did not contribute to the household income. It became obvious to them that more homemakers needed economic empowerment to uplift their gender status."

Although the eHomeMakers site is focused on South-East Asia, most of the topics covered at the site are universal in the world of telecommuting and work in general.

Click here to visit eHomeMakers.

The forum is especially active with genuine dialogue which is usually a great sign for a site like this.

I love the fact that Real-Wah-Jobs is extremely well organized and seems especially adept at keeping up with the flow of what must be an enormous amount of information. The only glitch is for some reason Real-Wah-Jobs doesn't make it obvious how to get back to the home page (you have to click on the big "Real Work at Home Jobs" letters at the top of the page)

• Click here to visit Real-Wah-Jobs.com's home page
• Click here to visit the Real-Wah-Jobs forum (you'll need to register for free).
• Click here to see Real-Wah-Jobs' list of companies that hire telecommuters on a regular basis.
• Click here to see telecommuting job leads at Real-Wah-Jobs.com

A good thing to pay attention to when visiting all the recommended home job sites are how the job descriptions are written up. This can be helpful when coming up with search terms to search on when you use the job boards, job search engines, Craigslist, etc. in order to find legitimate telecommuting work.

You want to identify parts of the job description that are specifically related to telecommuting – i.e. phrases like "must have quiet area in the home" or "must have stable, high-speed internet connection", etc. Ideally you should keep a list of such phrases and start to guage how effective the searches are in bringing up relevant results.

• Click here to visit the WorkAtHomeSpace forum
• Click here to visit the main page of WorkAtHomeSpace

While there is a section on TelecommutingJobs here, the real gold is in the postings that the owner of TelecommutingDiva – Valencia Hiquera – makes about her own telecommuting decisions and experiences.

Click here to visit TelecommutingDiva.com and explore the realities of telecommuting.

Most of you will want to jump directly to the Between Mom's message boards here and check out the Telecommuting Jobs section as that appears to be where the telecommuting job leads are posted now.

Note, the site lists a Telecommuting Jobs section here, but it really seems that most of the job leads are posted on the telecommuting job board mentioned above.

• Click here to visit BetweenMoms.com
• Click here to visit the BetweenMoms messageboards

As with some of the other sites on the recommended home job sites list, probably the most valuable section is the forum at WorldWideWorkAtHome which has a section where telecommuting job leads are p0sted.

There is a section on the main part of the site that lists companies that have been known to hire telecommuters on  a regular basis, but those lists are fairly widely known now so your best bet is still to use job leads sections such as the ones found at WorldWideWorkAtHome or learn how to develop your own job leads through techniques like those discussed at WAHM for searching CraigsList here or more extensively in the InYourPJs eBook that Debra Turner reviewed here.

FreelanceMom calls itself the "eSource for Professional Moms" and has been recommended at CNNMoney.com here.

They have a decent list of telecomuting resources here, but probably one of the most helpful sections of FreelanceMom is FreelanceMom's forum here.

The only downside I see is her simplistic explanation on how to avoid potentially questionable work at home opportunities on the first page. Anyone who has read some of my detailed analysis of work at home opportunities in which I use tools such as:

• http://www.tineye.com (to identify fake pictures or fake testimonials)  – click here for an  example of TinEye in use.
• http://www.copyscape.com (to identify fake testimonials) – click here for an example of how CopyScape can be used to hunt down fake testimonials.
• http://www.robtex.com (to identify related sites beyond doing basic reverse-ip lookups)
• http://www.domaintools.com (to identify possible ownership via whois history (silver edition) and many other tools too numerous to list here). Click here to see the basic reverse-ip function of DomainTools in use.
• Source code analysis (various reasons) – the TinEye example also covers this.
• Tricks for identifying money laundering schemes (typically using CopyScape and Whois lookups together to identify copied sites and determine the original site – money laundering sites often copy existing sites of legitimate businesses and phishing sites are can actually be created via "phishing kits"). Click here for a blog post I did about a trick to help avoid money laundering schemes.

and more will know that detecting possible deception is much more involved than the basic rules there. And while the rules at FreelanceMom may help avoid many scams in the work at home "jobs" or "freelance" area, they could actually PREVENT you from finding many legitimate home business opportunities.

So with that minor caveat – the site is excellent in general – I highly recommend you visit FreelanceMom.com here.

"Sorry, we are not taking on new service providers at this time."

So why am I listing it? Because it's a great example of a high-quality site for telecommuting professionals…if you are lucky enough to hit it when they ARE taking on new service providers…and of course IF you get accepted as one of their service providers.

Click here to visit SmarterWork and be sure to check out the information about the type of companies that use them.