Working From the Truck

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! I am tired tonight--we've been on the go for about a week and now we are finally taking a restart, starting tonight. The best part is that we are stopped at an operating center so we have free Wifi and I get to continue my ever-entertaining search for a job that I can do online.

You see, he makes plenty of money to support us over the road but I get so bored sometimes and it would be nice to have money I earned myself. So I've been trying to find one or two legitimate jobs that I can do online from the truck. I haven't had a lot of luck yet, mainly because most of the jobs appear to be answering phones as a customer service telephone rep and it requires a home Internet connection and a quiet environment. (They also schedule your shifts which is understandable but I need flexible hours just in case we're in an area with no Internet signal and because the hours we run change with each load we get.)

 I have found a few really good resources for online jobs though and I'd like to share them with you here. After all, even if the jobs aren't right for me that doesn't mean that they won't be right for you at some point or time or that you don't know someone who it might be right for. (Also, this blog isn't just for those of us who ride along. Although that is obviously my main focus, I hope a variety of people can read this and maybe this post will help someone!)

WAHM

So far, this is the best site I've found for finding online jobs. They do their best to check the jobs out before they post and they also offer a LOT of different resources and articles for the self-employed.

Legitimate Work From Home Jobs (About.com)

This (and the related articles) are a great resource if you're worried about being scammed. They give great tips on how to make sure that a job is legitimate and how to protect yourself. (I may not have any experience with this yet, but I recommend always using a Paypal account to get paid if they have the option.)

Also, I just signed up for this website but I have seen it blowing up on Facebook lately. All of the reviews I've read rave about the product. And they have a limited-time-only offer for a completely FREE sign up.

I tried selling Avon once but I found that their quotas were impossible to meet and as hard as I tried, everyone I knew already had an Avon lady! That attempt to try to launch an independent business with flexible hours failed pretty miserably and I've never tried again, either because I couldn't afford the start-up costs (some of which are astronomical) or because they had quotas. I didn't want to get burned again!

But I read about this on a blog I've been following for a while, read through all of the extensive information they have available and it looks really legitimate to me. I asked Heather (the owner of the blog) about solely selling on the Internet and she said that would be completely fine because there's no in-home parties or anything that would require you to be home in order to do it. And perhaps the best part is that there are no start-up costs or quotas and you get paid every two weeks as long as you've accumulated $10 in sales.

Jewelry In Candles is a company that sells candles with jewelry inside that YOU get to pick. You can choose from earrings, a necklace or a ring (you even get to pick your size) or you can choose to be surprised. The candles are all-natural, 100% soy and they burn from 100-150 hours. And not only do they have the candles, they have scented wax tarts and aroma scent beads will be arriving soon.

From what I've seen and read about this company, these products are selling like crazy and this would be a great way to make some extra money before Christmas! Plus if you sign up as a rep, you get a great discount on all of the items. Signing up as a rep literally only took me five minutes and it only took me a minute to update how I'm going to get paid (PayPal, thank you very much!).

All that you have to do is click here to read about the company (I highly recommend reading the FAQ), click on the button that says "Become a Rep" on the right side of the page, add the FREE ecommerce store to your cart and then select the "FREE CHECKOUT" button. So you're probably wondering what the catch is and there is one...

Signing up is ONLY free until 11/15/2013 so you only have 5 days to claim it from the time of this posting. I highly recommend that you sign up now even if you're undecided... Since they don't have quotas, you will have some time to look into the company and decide if this is something you want to do and I'd rather you decide to let the store be inactive and eventually deleted than for you to miss out on this deal. That's why I signed up!

Okay, sorry for the sales spiel but I certainly hope that you'll check out my store and consider signing up as a rep while it's still free! Please let me know if you decide to sign up and sell and how your sales are going! :)

I'd love to hear from you, and if you know of ANY legitimate online jobs that can be done from the truck then please leave them in the comments. I'd like something else on the side!

~~Manda (Currently in Atlanta, Georgia)

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