Question / Discussion Legit working from home opportunities?

[epicurus]

Hi, I''m not sure if this strays too far away from "beer money" (or supplementary income) territory so feel free to move this thread if necessary

I'm interested in most things earning money online but right now I'm keen to explore legit working from home jobs. I've just read this excellent blog post and it suggests the best opportunities for this are; Clickworker, Rev, and Lionbridge. I will have to research these myself in greater detail but is it actually possible to make a living with this stuff? I know that differs for everyone but right now my target is £500 per month minimum

I've dabbled with online money making stuff before and I know how these things can be unreliable at times. I don't mind dull, repetitive or thankless tasks my main concerns are being able to rely on the money coming in each month because one day the work isn't available anymore

If 10 is a full-blown job, and 0 is filling in surveys, swagbucks etc then I'm aiming to be around 7/8/8.5 territory if that makes any sense at all?

Thanks

 

[Jon]

Hi, I''m not sure if this strays too far away from "beer money" (or supplementary income) territory so feel free to move this thread if necessary

I'm interested in most things earning money online but right now I'm keen to explore legit working from home jobs. I've just read this excellent blog post and it suggests the best opportunities for this are; Clickworker, Rev, and Lionbridge. I will have to research these myself in greater detail but is it actually possible to make a living with this stuff? I know that differs for everyone but right now my target is £500 per month minimum

I've dabbled with online money making stuff before and I know how these things can be unreliable at times. I don't mind dull, repetitive or thankless tasks my main concerns are being able to rely on the money coming in each month because one day the work isn't available anymore

If 10 is a full-blown job, and 0 is filling in surveys, swagbucks etc then I'm aiming to be around 7/8/8.5 territory if that makes any sense at all?

Thanks

It absolutely is, myself and many others on here depend entirely on our online earnings as we are self employed!

I would say don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Find what pays you the most amount of money for the time available and go from there. £500 a month won’t be a problem

 

[epicurus]

Thanks Jon, I know friends who consistently make money online but I've never been able to find a way to make it work for me consistently, month in, month out. It feels like once I've done the more obvious things, stuff just drys up

I've been a long time lurker of this site btw and the resources and information on here are absolutely brilliant. Keep up the good work everyone

Currently trying to work my way through this lot, is there anything else I should know?

The Top Beer Money Sites in the UK

There are so many beer money sites available in the UK. Letting you earn from home doing everything from surveys to transcribe work and beyond

blog.themoneyshed.co.uk

 

[Jon]

Thanks Jon, I know friends who consistently make money online but I've never been able to find a way to make it work for me consistently, month in, month out. It feels like once I've done the more obvious things, stuff just drys up

I've been a long time lurker of this site btw and the resources and information on here are absolutely brilliant. Keep up the good work everyone

Currently trying to work my way through this lot, is there anything else I should know?

The Top Beer Money Sites in the UK

There are so many beer money sites available in the UK. Letting you earn from home doing everything from surveys to transcribe work and beyond

blog.themoneyshed.co.uk

You will find more substantial online work here https://blog.themoneyshed.co.uk/20-work-from-home-jobs-for-mums/

also, look at the monthly challenge thread on the forum to see how much people are making and most importantly HOW!

 

[epicurus]

Any advice to get past motivation issues? I'm sure everyone weighs up the time and effort vs reward calculation when deciding whether to do something or not, but I struggle to get motivated sometimes.

It's why I dislike surveys so much - I'm sure there are people on here that make a decent amount of money doing surveys but the constant rejection/screenouts you get makes it unattractive for me. Not to mention the minimum cash out which sometimes means in reality it could take 2 months or more to get anything from it.

How do you motivate yourself?

 

[Jon]

Any advice to get past motivation issues? I'm sure everyone weighs up the time and effort vs reward calculation when deciding whether to do something or not, but I struggle to get motivated sometimes.

It's why I dislike surveys so much - I'm sure there are people on here that make a decent amount of money doing surveys but the constant rejection/screenouts you get makes it unattractive for me. Not to mention the minimum cash out which sometimes means in reality it could take 2 months or more to get anything from it.

How do you motivate yourself?

You can’t motivate yourself doing surveys - they are very very VERY low hanging fruit in terms of the pay!

 

[Sherliarty]

Any advice to get past motivation issues? I'm sure everyone weighs up the time and effort vs reward calculation when deciding whether to do something or not, but I struggle to get motivated sometimes.

It's why I dislike surveys so much - I'm sure there are people on here that make a decent amount of money doing surveys but the constant rejection/screenouts you get makes it unattractive for me. Not to mention the minimum cash out which sometimes means in reality it could take 2 months or more to get anything from it.

How do you motivate yourself?

I think you have to ask yourself why are you here? I became a stay at home parent when my kids arrived, I did some part-time work in RL when they went to school but when that ended, I wanted to look for something that meant I had a bit more control of my own life, and didn't have to commute. I spent the first couple of years doing lots of focus groups, surveys and competitions that netted me about £200-300 a month. I then found out about things like Appen, prolific and MB. My earnings stayed around this level until I got onto some long term Appen projects as well as Crisp Thinking, and for the last year and a half, I've made about £700-800 a month. I try to invest some of this to create another income stream so that eventually I can rely less on online earnings.

My tip is to apply for everything, check on here to see what works for others and then do the small stuff until the bigger stuff happens. Good luck

 

[epicurus]

I think you have to ask yourself why are you here? I became a stay at home parent when my kids arrived, I did some part-time work in RL when they went to school but when that ended, I wanted to look for something that meant I had a bit more control of my own life, and didn't have to commute. I spent the first couple of years doing lots of focus groups, surveys and competitions that netted me about £200-300 a month. I then found out about things like Appen, prolific and MB. My earnings stayed around this level until I got onto some long term Appen projects as well as Crisp Thinking, and for the last year and a half, I've made about £700-800 a month. I try to invest some of this to create another income stream so that eventually I can rely less on online earnings.

My tip is to apply for everything, check on here to see what works for others and then do the small stuff until the bigger stuff happens. Good luck

Thats solid advice, thanks. I got made redundant recently but fortunately I have a significant amount of savings. My partner works full-time and I can still contribute to our monthly rent and outgoings without worrying (for now) but I want to earn money online so the dent in my savings is less significant

I've never been out of work before and I want to take these last few months of the pandemic (fingers crossed) to just rest and rethink about what I want to do. A lot of my friends are working remotely for their employers now (as are a lot of people) and that really appeals to me, so my eventual aim is to try and get a job remotely on a permanent basis - but until then dip my toes into the making money online world and see what I can do.

How much effort would you say you have to make for that £700-800? In terms of hours and intensity? If my calculations are correct you would have to work 22 hours per week at minimum wage to get around £767?

 

[Sherliarty]

I'm paid $14 an hour by A. When I first started it was less as I was taking longer than the time they allowed but now I'm more or less at $14. Sadly we are at the mercy of the exchange rate, so that has an effect but I think it's about 15 -17 hours a week. The available work can be up and down too. It isn't perfect which is why you have to have fingers in a number of pies. Other things I do pay less but I only put time into those if I have no work on the above project.

 

[epicurus]

Yes the fingers in a number of pies is very true. It's just sometimes its hard to know where to begin there is so much out there. So much information too, some of it helpful, some of it less so. I guess it's a case of trial and error and trying to find your niche. So glad this site exists though, seems a great community of like minded people.

I absolutely loathe all of those 'get rich quick' and 'make easy money' people whose only aim is to get you to sign up and its usually a load of nonsense.