| Anyone who has looked into starting a real home | | | | company. does charge a $15 fee to access its list, but |
| business has likely come across some scams---even | | | | it prominently displays the Better Business Bureau seal |
| when the jobs sound legitimate. If you are committed | | | | of approval and has hundreds of telecommuting listings |
| to the idea of working from home and want to come | | | | for jobs as diverse as photographers to sales to web |
| as close as possible to a guaranteed income, one | | | | design. |
| solution could be to telecommute for a legitimate | | | | Another site, also with the BBB's approval, is |
| company. But how do you find these jobs? | | | | flexjobs.com, which promises to, "give you peace of |
| You won't find many in the local newspaper, so the | | | | mind that every job is hand-screened by our trained |
| best way to find such positions is from people who | | | | staff - no scams, only legitimate work from home and |
| amass them for you. It is important to find an | | | | telecommuting jobs." Flexjobs, like Tjobs, charges a |
| organization that screens these telecommuting job | | | | monthly fee of $14.95 for its services and justifies this |
| postings for you. It can be difficult even for the | | | | cost because it does not take advertising for its site. |
| seasoned job hunter to weed out the good stuff from | | | | The site has a wide variety of telecommuting jobs, as |
| the bad. | | | | well as an easy-on-the-eyes website. Flexjobs was |
| Thankfully, there are people out there doing it for you. | | | | nominating by Divine Caroline, a lifestyle website, as the |
| One such site is The site mostly features jobs | | | | best career and money website on the web. |
| revolving around writing and graphic arts. It's a sort of | | | | Another place to check out is Telecommute-jobs.com, |
| one-stop shop for ads found all over the country giving | | | | which also gives leads for a fee of $39 for three |
| leads to positions that you can do anywhere. The site | | | | months. The site says, "For every job that you see |
| takes classifieds from Craigslist.org from all over the | | | | posted on our site, there are five other jobs that we |
| country, making life a lot easier for the jobseeker. The | | | | have rejected. That's because we do not allow MLM |
| site also attempts to weed out the bad apples before | | | | scams, jobs that require a start-up fee, or any of the |
| they get to you and rarely puts up postings of jobs | | | | job types listed on the Federal Trade Commission's |
| that are not legitimate. The site, which is one of a few | | | | "work at home schemes" warning list." |
| that does not charge a fee, promises nothing but job | | | | None of these sites guarantee you'll get a |
| leads and it's up to the job-hunter to do the rest. | | | | telecommuting job---and be wary of any site that |
| Another site for finding real work at home positions is | | | | does---but they do make it easier to find the position |
| Tjobs.com, which offers another place where you can | | | | that will work for you. |
| find telecommuting jobs and apply directly to the | | | | |