A lot of people right now are probably sitting at home bored out of their minds, having exhausted
their supply of watchable movies and feeling what we might call the “isolation blues.”
Some folks are no doubt worried out of their minds, because they aren’t out working and
don’t have much of a financial safety net if any at all to fall back on.
So we are going to tell you who’s hiring right now, and more importantly, are hiring
for work you can do from the comfort of your own home.
We based this information on job websites where we could identify companies actively
hiring for remote jobs and we found quite a few, a number of which will probably surprise
you.
Some of those jobs required the person to have a great deal of experience already, but
we found others that would hire a person without any experience.
All you needed was a high school diploma.
One of the most popular jobs posted is for customer support at a remote call center.
You can see job requirements, such as this one that is currently on Glassdoor:
“Candidate should have the drive to learn and excel in their position.
Communication is the key to building relationships with the medical providers.”
Ok, so you have to be self-motivated and good at communicating, but you can get this work
right now!
We found many jobs that paid between eight and fifteen dollars per hour depending on
where they were based.
Many of these jobs are part-time and others are temporary positions, which might just
be ideal for someone who’s been asked to take some time off from their other job.
Transcription work also looks to be a growing industry based on the number of job posts
we found, and it’s yet another where workers are able to do their job from home.
Plenty of companies are still looking for remote transcription work, and you will find
lots of companies.
If listening to audio and accurately typing it out sounds like your kind of job, then
we have good news because you can often get $15-$22 per audio hour or more.
We actually know someone who does this kind of work, and they’ve told us it can be tricky
at the start as you are getting used to the systems and guidelines different companies
use.
The person we know almost gave up, but once she had learned the ropes she actually started
to enjoy it.
We noticed many companies warning that there might be a large pay difference depending
on experience and how fast you can work, so beginners might expect to only get $250 a
month, while someone experienced and faster at translating might be able to make something
more like $2,200 a month.
And beside the money, the real beauty of this job is you can usually choose the number of
hours you want to work.
Most of us have been online and needed some kind of help and the robot you were connected
with just wasn’t up to the job.
We don’t know why they aren’t able to make a chat bot that understands that I want
to return the shoes I bought eight years ago, but that’s just the reality we live in.
If you’re like us then you were eventually directed to a real life human to chat with,
and this is yet another perfect job you can do from home.
Look for “chat agent work” and you’ll find tons of job postings.
The pay seems to be anything from ten bucks an hour to 15 bucks an hour.
We’re mostly talking about jobs in the USA by the way, but we are sure other countries
need chat agents too.
You’ll have to learn something about the company, and may have to be a bit tech savvy
to operate the chat software, but the most important skill you’ll need is the ability
to communicate with people in a clear and friendly manner.
We found one job where the requirements were a high school diploma, a decent internet speed,
and a quiet place to work since you might also have to speak with people on a voice
or video call.
The basic skills required were: “Strong verbal communication and problem-solving
skills.
Ability to multitask, as needed, to get the job done.”
Ok, you can do that, we know you can.
The starting wage was $16 an hour.
Alright, maybe you’re not the best on the phone, or over chat, or just at communication
in general, but you’re a great writer!
But you’re thinking you could never make money writing.
Wrong!
Turn your job search to “Entry Level Copywriting Jobs.”
Ok, some of these jobs do require experience, but others will just ask that you have good
writing skills.
Some of the easiest writing work to started with is product description.
When you shop online there’s almost always a description of the thing you want to buy.
Well, someone like you, probably working at home, actually wrote that description.
You can go to websites where people post jobs that can be done remotely, and we are talking
about all kinds of jobs.
We just looked at the website UpWork.com and there were lots and lots of product description
jobs.
You might do some writing work even when you’re not stuck at home to get some extra cash,
and who knows, it might even turn into your full time career.
What’s that, writing isn’t your thing?
Well we’ve got three words for you: Search Engine Evaluation.
It’s basically typing a search word into a search engine and then evaluating the results.
Analyzing things like whether the websites that came up were relevant to the search word.
There are lots of companies posting Search Engine Evaluation jobs and there are many
you could do right now from your home.
You’ll need at least a high school diploma and need to know a bit about current events
or pop culture, but if you can prove that you have some decent research skills and are
Internet savvy, you can start doing this kind of work quite easily.
In the U.S., people doing this job will usually be getting paid $12 to $15 per hour.
Keeping with the theme of internet focused jobs, next up is content moderation.
In the simplest terms, it means looking at content that gets posted online and determining
whether it meets certain criteria or should be taken down.
Some of you have heard about issues the teams of contracted moderators that worked with
Facebook experienced, mostly due to the graphic nature of content they had to review but the
world of moderating is bigger than just Facebook.
Think about how many different forums, boards, and comment sections there are on the web.
And almost all of them need to be moderated.
We found several websites hiring right now, and we think if you are mature, intelligent,
reliable, ethical, you stand a good chance of becoming a moderator.
If moderation isn’t for you, but you’re either really good at certain subjects in
schools or great at picking up a subject and explaining it to others, then online tutoring
might just be the perfect job for you.
In addition to tutoring on regular subjects like math, science, and history, there are
also lots of opportunities for tutoring on English.
We found many jobs that basically require you to have conversations with people in English,
correcting mistakes and helping to make your student feel comfortable conversing in English.
And while we’re on the topic of language, are you fluent in a second language?
If you are, then you should also be looking at “translation jobs”.
Ok, so there are expert translators in the world who are highly skilled, but they often
only take on huge or difficult projects, leaving lots of smaller and easier translation jobs
for the average, run of the mill, multilingual, work from home person.
One job we found online was translating English to Korean.
This was the job description.
“Simple text translation.
The articles do not have to be translated 100% exactly using the dictionary etc.
The sense and logic of sentences must be preserved.”
That’s it, so if you have a good grasp of Korean and English you could do that job easily.
We found a bunch of similar jobs, and while six to eight dollars an hour isn’t that
great, it’s the kind of job you can do while hanging out at home with some music playing
in the background.
Speaking of jobs you can do while relaxing with some music playing, do a search for “Website
and app testing jobs” and you will find a bunch of companies that hire people to test
websites.
This is one of the easiest jobs we found, since all you’re required to do is go to
a website or use an app and then provide some feedback as to what your experience was like.
Did all the functions work, was it easy to navigate, etc.
The problem with these gigs is they are sporadic, but if you sign up to multiple companies out
there offering this service, you might find yourself getting regular work.
The pay is usually ten bucks for 20 minutes of work.
Not a bad hourly rate if you can get enough work to fill your days.
We actually know another person who once did this.
He was instructed to use an app that aggregated airline flights and listed the prices of those
flights.
Then someone would call him and ask what he thought about the app.
Was it easy to use?
Could he find what he was looking for.
That was it.
Easy money.
Similar to testing jobs, surveys are another great work from home job.
Yep, you actually can get paid just for completing surveys.
There are plenty of them out there, but we should warn you that this is probably the
lowest paying of all the jobs on this list, but it’s still extra money and just about
anyone can do it.
One of the biggest issues with this work is that many of the websites won’t pay you
in cash, but in some form of gift card or vouchers.
Not an ideal situation when you’ve just lost your job and your landlord won’t accept
a Cheesecake Factory gift card in lieu of rent.
Another issue is that we’ve seen lots of warnings about fake or fishy companies using
the allure of easy money to steal information from or scam people.
We found several websites that claimed to have researched a bunch of survey websites
and list the best of them, explaining just how much you’d get paid, but do your homework
and look into the websites and companies in depth before giving anyone your information.
According to one of these review sites though, one website offered about 30 cents for each
survey, and the surveys took around three minutes to complete.
That’s about six dollars an hour if you could do surveys non stop.
Again, not the best, and the issue is that you’ll probably be hard pressed to find
enough surveys to fill a day, so don’t count on this as a full time job.
But again, when you need money every little bit can help.
Finally, there’s a number of websites that offer miscellaneous freelance work, and you
never know what will pop up that relates to the skills you have.
There might even be jobs posted right now that require a skill you have that you didn’t
even know was something people pay for!
Websites like upwork, flex jobs, and even craigslist are filled with random tasks people
need completed, many of which can be done from home, with minimal experience, and don’t
require a college degree.
There are also sites like remote.com that specialize in placing people in entry level
work from home jobs.
You may also want to consider reaching out to a professional recruiter.
Even during a back job market, there are plenty of companies hiring and now more than ever,
many of them are open to hiring people who can do their work remotely.
Recruiters and job placement services will have leads on which companies are hiring for
positions that fit your specific skills, and again, you might have monetizable skills that
you’re not even aware of.
And there are lots more than just entry level jobs you can do from home.
We’ve focused today on a lot of jobs that most people can do, but there are lots of
highly skilled workers right now sitting at home.
The online world is your oyster, and if you have some skills, there is likely work out
there for you and it can be done remotely and sometimes on a temporary basis.
We hope this helped you on your job hunt, or maybe gave you some reassurance that if
you lose your job you’ll still be able to find something new that you can do from home.
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