Part 1 - The Perception of Working At Home

By Peter W Fish

Working at home has numerous perceptions. These perceptions are based largely on the flashy, high dollar Internet Guru's out there saying that it's possible to make enormous amounts of money working an hour or two per day. These are the people who give a poor public perception of the realities of actually working for a living, which is what internet marketing and working from home is really about. These are the people who "guarantee" fortunes if you pay them $29.99 (or whatever amount) and they will provide you with the key to wealth. That is the perception - because these people are everywhere on the internet. They are just predators taking advantage of their prey (that would be you and I).

That is the "dark side". The bright side is that there is a possibility of earning an income working from home. But like any thing in life, you get out of it what you put into it and it takes a great deal of work to make it happen. And it doesn't happen with a payment to some company and the push of a button that results in waking the next morning with riches in your bank account. This is the reality - it takes weeks and months to begin to generate any income and even years to really make it to the top.

The Perception

The perception of making money from home is actually two-fold. First is the perception that you will be rich overnight. As previously referenced, there are people out there who prey on others and essentially steal their money. This is really no different than in any other part of life where there are predators just waiting to lighten your wallet in whatever you do. It just becomes more apparent in the internet marketing world because most of those looking for work from home are unemployed people who, due to the current economy, are looking for alternate revenue streams. These people (in full disclosure, me being one of them) see the flashy videos promising an easy income in your spare time. As a person who's current job is to find a full time job, and utilizing the internet to perform job searches a couple of things happen.

First, the Guru's are all over the job search engines with great promises of an income, which are words that one definitely wants to hear. Second, the promised ability to produce this income in only a few hours a day works well with a job hunters schedule. So the $29.99 sounds like a pretty sweet deal to generate some needed cash to provide for the family while still being able to search for a job. The promise of flexible hours also works well with being able schedule and attend job interviews. Except it isn't just the initial $29.99 to gain access to the "gold mine", after that there's another $100 or so to get hosting and a domain, then another $79.99 to upgrade to the video package, and on and on until you've got nearly a thousand dollars wrapped up in a website that is completely controlled by someone else that just used your thousand dollars for their profit.

The second part of the perception is the reaction from family, friends and other peers who look at the work from home business like you're a traveling snake oil salesman. Trying to convince them that there is a reality to working from home is very difficult due to the poor reputation that the industry has gained - once again due to the Guru's out there stealing money from the people who need it most. And you can't blame those around you, who have a regular income and have heard about the internet scams, to think that you're crazy for attempting it. And they are correct if you follow that path.

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