Hi. My name is Jacob. I live in Denmark. I’m 32 years old, and currently I’m working in a 9:00 to 5:00 job. It’s not a bad job, but I want something more out of my life, and financially that job is never going to give me that.
So I’m speaking from the bottom of [...]
By Lars Erikson
Contributing Editor
www.Top5OnlineJobs.com
As the global economy struggles to emerge from recession and U.S. unemployment approaches 10%, online job scams continue to proliferate, preying on the uninformed. Defend yourself against scammers by learning to recognize and avoid internet job scams. To that end we have compiled a listing of the top five online job scams [...]
By Timothy Scutchfield
You’ve had bosses if you have worked out in the brick-and-mortar world. You’ve probably had bosses that you considered “good” bosses and those that you’ve considered “bad” bosses. You’ve had strict bosses and easy bosses. You’ve had bosses that knew how to get a job done and how to use the talent he [...]
Customer service is one of the fastest-growing work-at-home jobs on the Internet. Every merchant on the Internet must have some form of customer service, and today’s Internet users expect that service to be in the form of live-chat or an 800-number telephone call.
While many Internet businesses are still clinging to providing support via email, more [...]
You’ve probably already noticed. The world is full of crooks. There are bad people out there who want to take advantage of good people. There are even more crooks on the Internet than there are out in the brick-and-mortar world, and the online crooks especially love to prey on those who are trying to get [...]
Do you have a degree in accounting, engineering, law, medicine, etc.? Do you have a special ability like writing or building websites or computer programming? Are you a good graphic artist? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” freelancing might be the very thing for you.
Freelancers are people who perform services for [...]
Despite tough economic times you can learn to leverage the power and scope of the Internet for fun and profit
By Lars Erikson, Contributing Editor, www.Top5OnlineJobs.com
Although we are presently confronted with what is generally thought to be the worst recession since the 1930s, the world of e-commerce continues to grow, showing few sign of peaking anytime [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor recently reported that the national unemployment rate rose from 7.6 to 8.1 percent. They estimate that the number of long-term unemployed Americans, who have been jobless for over 27 weeks, increased by 270,000 to 2.9 million in February of 2009. They also estimate that, over the past 12 months, the [...]
As our government struggles to gain the upper hand in its mortal struggle against the recession, the electorate can’t help but wonder if we’ve yet to see the worst of it. While I am ever-optimistic, I don’t believe that we’ve bottomed out just yet. That will likely happen this Fall.
Unfortunately, recession begets recession. Realizing that [...]
And while thousands of Americans currently enjoy the benefits of online careers, there are tens of thousands more who express interest, but have know idea of how or where to begin.