What are the best ways to make money working from home?

Here are some resources to explore and get you up and running - from home, while you are travelling, anywhere. Some of them are work from home (wfh), some are side hustles, some are part time - something for everybody:

FlexJobs:

FlexJobs links you to work from home and flex jobs which their job specialists have checked out and made sure are legitimate. Note, though they do not get you jobs, they publish information of “genuine non-scam jobs”, as soon as those jobs become available. You pay a weekly, monthly, or annual subscription for access to their job bank.

Upwork:

Jobs are posted and you can bid for them. There are many kinds of jobs, including technical jobs - all freelance, yay.

JustAnswer:

A website for doctors, nurses, cpas, lawyers, mechanics, and more, to get paid for answering questions. Worth checking out to keep your professional skills sharp and get paid for doing that, before and after retirement, and if you are unemployed, or under-employed.

Fivver:

Fiverr provides a platform for freelancers to offer services to customers worldwide, including customers like Facebook, Google, Paypal, and Intuit.

Toptal:

Toptal says it accepts only the best freelancers with years of proven experience. You have to be in the top 3%. Hence the name. A great way to prove your chops.

There are also other companies which focus on specific skills.

FancyHands:

Fancy Hands specializes in providing freelance work for Virtual Assistants - and those businesses who need them.

Feastly:

Feastly is a global marketplace for chefs to showcase and host dinners, pop-ups, and culinary experiences. It connects hungry eaters with passionate cooks, offering authentic meals prepared and served in a cook's home.

Handy:

Handy is an online marketplace for residential cleaning, installation, and other home services.

Rover:

Rover operates an online marketplace for people to buy and sell pet care services including pet sitting, dog boarding, and dog walking.

Lawfecta:

Connects law firms to experienced and vetted Legal Secretaries, Paralegals and Virtual Assistants with experience in the legal field.

Upcounsel:

Connects companies to experienced attorneys.

TaskRabbit:

Gets you connected with home owners who need help with things like furniture assembly, mounting and installation, handyman work, etc.

CoolWorks:

Love the outdoors? Get a seasonal job in your favorite destinations.  What better way to enjoy a destination for free?  Take a look at these seasonal Yosemite jobs.  What do you think?

And there’s even more…

Catalant, AmazonFlex,Wonolo…the list goes on and on.

Bookmark this post for when you are ready to take the plunge.

Put your feet up on your sofa.

And click, click, click….till you find a work from home job, part time job, or side hustle that’s right for you.

Good luck!

How do you feel when you expect to triumph, but fail to get the desired results?

It comes as a surprise, even a shock.

You believe you have done a good job, maybe even an excellent job.

You may have busted your chops.

Gone the extra mile.

Put some extra special touches.

Stretched yourself.

To no good effect.

Your efforts failed to get the desired response.

Worse, they got a negative response.

If it’s an exam, test, or assignment, you got a grade or score lower than what you assumed you would get.

Maybe even way lower than what you assumed you would get.

Take heart.

This happens.

Value is subjective.

What you think is fine or great or perfect, may not be fine or great or perfect by someone else's standards.

The sooner you learn this economic lesson (and life lesson), the better.

Value is subjective.

What I mean by that, is your audience decides whether your ability, or your performance, or your experience, or what you have to offer is mediocre, good, or great.

A boss, a professor, or someone who is used to high standards, or works in a high standards environment, may be hard to please.

A boss, a professor, or someone who is used to more reasonable standards, or works in an environment of modest standards, may be easy to please.

So there are plus and minus sides to variations in quality.

Just as some of the “excellent” things you do will sometimes fail to make an impact, some of the very “ordinary” things you do, might have a surprisingly good impact.

It just depends on the audience, and the environment. And also the factors impacting the audience at that particular time.

So when disappointment happens, just say to yourself, “Oh well. It was a tougher audience and environment than I expected. You can’t please everybody. And you can’t expect surefire results all the time. I know I gave it my best shot. It just didn't work in this particular scenario.”

One last word.

When you fail to make an impact, get curious.

Failure to make an impact should always stir your curiosity.

“Why did my efforts fail to get the desired results?”

Search for this answer.

It may lead to a sudden insight that will stop you in your tracks.

Don't you love it when that happens!