Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Working from Home Jobs: The War between Working Online vs. Traditional 9-5 Office Work

The landscape where to earn your next dough since the start of the millennium has been altered by the coming-of-age of the Internet as a venue not only for sharing data but also as a source of income for many people. It used to be people has no choice but to leave their homes and be employed by a company to grind from 9-to-5 working-hours just to earn their income. Now there is a choice on working from home jobs mainly propagated by the advancement of the uses of the Internet.

 

For some people, or old folks for sure, they will surely question the existence of available jobs online giving the possibility that you can comfortably do it inside your own home. For them, working means waking up in the morning to take a bath, don a nice suit or working clothes and travel all the way from home to your workplace. When you say you have a job online and doing it at home, their sure reaction is to raise their eyebrows.

 

Nevertheless, what is the advantage of working online compared with having a job like most everybody else? Let’s list them down so we can gauge with clear comprehension the benefits of working online.

 

First. Working online means you hold your own time. You own your time. Unlike the traditional working structure of going to a workplace, an employee or a worker has to be in the location for a specific period of time. When one has an online job, he can tell when he will work or not. Of course, part of the deal is that he can have a break anytime that he wants to without worrying about the watchful eyes of a superior.

 

Second. You can earn as much as you can online. The amount of your income depends on how you market yourself as a writer for example. The cash coming in in your bank account depends on how productive you are. In short, the possibility of earning a lot of dough is in your hands. In the structure of the traditional 9-to-5 office jobs, you are limited to a certain amount. More than that means either you have to spend extra hours at work or be promoted, which as many know is something that does not happen everyday.

 

With these two points advantage of working from home jobs created by the Internet, it is not at all unexpected that many are straying from the traditional jobs and opt instead to stay home and have their jobs there.

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