Work at home jobs are mostly scams with a few exceptions. If you are willing to act as a call center customer rep there are companies like Aramark and Live Ops that qualify, train and hire work at home reps. You'd need high speed net access and a voip phone setup. Hours are flexible and you can make a living at it. Usually no benefits though and you are a 1099 er. Thing to watch out for is if they say you have to pay for their training its a scam. Reputible companies (like Aramark and Live Ops) don't do that, they make you take online tests (free) that look for your education and intellegence level and then they also have phone interviews and test calls (all free) before they certify you to be hired so there is some work involved time wise. Once you get hired you connect to the client network via a VPN or net connect, call into the clients ACD system as a remote agent then sit at home in your shorts taking orders etc. A lot of times they look for people to work odd hours like at night etc which frees your days up for auctions. You ask how do I know these things? Simple, the company I work for manufactures and sells the systems that the whole ACD process runs on and I am the National Sales Director.
I have to agree with Ironman...
For the last year I have been working from home....buying and selling things. Usually its attending estate auctions...You can make a living at it. Its taken me a while to figure out what to buy and where to sell it. Simple things for instance: A couple of auctions ago I bid on and one a cabinet with cds in it. Winning Bid? $50 bucks.. I even showed up late so I couldnt go and inspect anything up close...all I saw were cd/s. When I picked up the stuff and took it home, I counted over 400 cds, all from the mid 90's and all Jazz and classical titles. Put em on craigslist for $500 and sold them for $400 within a couple of days. This goes on with different items.
Right now Im just doing simple things like DVD.s and small electronics. You would be surprised at how many people are selling dvd collections on Ebay. You buy those dvd collections, list them individually and triple your money. I know Im making it sound easy and there are some variables to consider, but I have streamlined, via technology, the cumbersome task of listing single items like DVD/s