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Work from Home Opportunities

Updated: Jan 11, 2024


📁Work from home/side gigs📁

We have compiled a list of work-from-home jobs, or side gigs that offer flexibility allowing parents and caregivers to balance their responsibilities while earning income.


✏️Helpful tip - Use the right keywords in your job search✏️

When navigating through job-listing platforms, using search terms such as "alternative schedule," "compressed workweek" and "flex time" can help you find jobs that match your schedule preferences. For work-from-home jobs, you will want to search for “remote work”, “work from home” and “side gigs”.


🖥️Work From Home Customer Service Representative🖥️

Handle customer inquiries, provide support, and troubleshoot issues via phone, email, or chat from the comfort of your home. Places you will want to look for these job listings are:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/remote-customer-service-representative-jobs-SRCH_KO0,38.htm











💻Chat Agent💻

Customer service is moving increasingly from phone calls to messaging services, which will be a relief to anyone who would prefer not to talk to customers directly. The main requirement is the ability to type quickly.


https://www.thechatshop.com/careers (UK, and USA)



✈️Virtual Travel Agent✈️

A travel agent is another traditional job that you may be surprised to hear can be performed solely online – after all, this is a role that revolves around talking to customers. However, consultations don’t necessarily have to be in-person. They can also happen via phone calls or chats.



👩‍💻Virtual Assistant👩‍💻

Virtual assistants provide personal assistant services in the digital world and handle tasks including appointment scheduling, customer emails, travel bookings, data entry, and much more. If you’re organized and tech-savvy, this side hustle is an ideal way to make money from home in your spare time. You can find virtual assistant gigs on the following websites:

https://www.upwork.com/hire/virtual-assistants/

https://www.fiverr.com/categories/business/virtual-assistant-services https://www.taskrabbit.com/become-a-tasker

https://backoffice.chatterboss.com/careers

‼️Free virtual assistant Training‼️


🎙️Transcribing and Captioning🎙️

Many businesses need audio transcribed and videos captioned. As it is a time-consuming task, it’s common for them to outsource to freelancers and independent contractors, making it a great flexible work-from-home option. Transcription agencies like Rev pay $0.30-$1.10 for every audio minute transcribed, but it also depends on whether you’re transcribing audio or video. It’s ideal for getting your transcribing feet wet, but it’s probably not something from which you can make a full-time income. For example, if you earn $0.30 per audio minute, that’s only $18 for an hour of audio. Remember that you will repeatedly be replaying parts of the audio to get the transcription accurate, which means making that $18 could realistically take closer to two or three hours.





🚗Gig Workers🚗

These types of jobs offer the flexibility to pick your own hours, you are your own boss and are considered self-employed.


🍔 Uber Eats/Uber🍔

Delivering with Uber Eats is a great alternative to traditional part-time delivery driver jobs or other part-time employment, temporary jobs, or seasonal work. Or maybe you drive with Uber or are an Uber Eats customer and want to supplement your income.


🍔GrubHub🍔

Unlike a usual part-time or full-time job, Grubhub gives you the flexibility to work when you want. Use scheduling to reserve blocks of time and secure dedicated delivery hours to help boost your earnings and your driver level.


📦Amazon Flex📦

Flex is a delivery program where delivery partners or independent contractors deliver the required Amazon orders and get paid for their efforts. Signing up as a delivery driver in Amazon Flex, you deliver Amazon packages with your own vehicle to earn some extra cash. You can also opt for this as a part-time job, so you do not have to leave your current occupation.


🚗Spark🚗

Become a delivery driver on the Spark Driver platform, you can shop or deliver for customers of Walmart and other businesses.


🚪DoorDash🚪

DoorDash, the food delivery service popularly used among gig workers, allows Dashers to earn their pay by the hour.


🛒Instacart🛒

Full-service shoppers manage the entire order from shopping to delivering to the customer. Earn money by completing batches and always get to see the upfront earnings before accepting a batch. Sign up today and enjoy the flexibility of choosing when, where, and how much you earn.


🛒Shipt🛒

Shipt is a community of thinkers, dreamers, and doers who help people get what they need with fast, friendly delivery of groceries, household essentials, and more.


🚗Roadie🚗

Turn spare time into extra cash with Roadie, earning up to $13 per local trip and even more on multi-stop deliveries.


📆Side Gigs📆


🐶Rover Dog Walking and Pet Sitting🐶

Rover brings pet parents and pet sitters together on one innovative platform. Pet parents get to choose a pet sitter according to reviews, and pet sitters can earn money by caring for other people’s pets. It is a win-win for everyone! https://www.rover.com/ca/become-a-sitter/


👶Babysitting & In-home Childcare👶

While it may not be for everyone, babysitting, and in-home childcare are in demand, and this side hustle is a great way to earn extra income in your spare time or on a set schedule. While certification isn’t a requirement in most areas, the American Red Cross offers online and in-person babysitting certification courses that cover CPR, first aid, and behavior tactics that can bolster your credibility. Babysitting is another low-cost side hustle. You can market your services and manage gigs and payments using apps such as Care.com, Sittercity, and UrbanSitter, or set up your own bookings and payments using Square.


🗒️Online Surveys🗒️

Many marketing research companies are happy to pay for your opinion on various products, systems, and topics. This side hustle idea doesn’t help you build your own business, but it’s an easy way to make extra cash in your spare time. Most survey websites have you create an online account and connect to a PayPal, Venmo, or CashApp account for payment. Then, you can search and sign up for surveys that interest you via an app or online dashboard. If selected, you complete the questionnaire or project and typically get paid within a few days. Many surveys pay $2 to $10 for a few minutes of your time, and others pay upwards of $100 for in-depth product reviews or questionnaires. Costs and platforms: This is a no-cost side hustle idea. Legitimate survey groups such as User Interviews, Survey Junkie, and Dscout have no upfront or monthly fees. However, reviewing and applying for various opportunities can be time-consuming. To avoid wasting time, check survey or project descriptions to ensure you fit their target demographic.


📱Test Apps & Platforms📱

Market research firms, app and game developers, and website designers seek users of all technical skill levels to review their platforms and provide user feedback. Like online survey side hustles, testing apps and platforms doesn’t help you build a business. However, with payouts of $10 to $150 or more for a few minutes or hours of your time, it can be quite lucrative. Costs and platforms: This is another no-cost side hustle idea since it costs you nothing to apply for legitimate testing opportunities. Swagbucks, UserTesting, and Enroll are a few of the top app and software platforms to check out.


❌Side hustles/Business opportunities to avoid ❌


👩‍💼Hustles That Require Licensing or Certification👩‍💼

Salon services, real estate sales, and certified accounting and tax prep services are often touted as top side hustle ideas. While these fields can be very profitable, you must have the required education and licensing or certification. To get this, you’ll spend anywhere from $500 to $10,000, or more, to complete your initial education, plus pay initial and annual licensing fees in most states. If you’re hoping to build a career in these fields, this investment can be worthwhile. However, it’s a considerable time and cost commitment with no guarantees if you just want to make extra cash.


👧MLM Companies & Direct Sales👧

MLM companies are skilled at convincing you of easy money and big profit potential, and there certainly are many who do well in this model. However, you should carefully research any MLM opportunity’s required costs and product investment—which can be hefty—and examine their sales and profit model. In most cases, you’ll only profit if you build a large team of downstream salespeople, and that takes ongoing time and effort. If high-pressure sales are your thing, an MLM side hustle might work for you. But if not, you might end up with a stack of unsold items that you can’t return, and no profits to speak of.


👩‍💻Side Hustle Coaching Programs👩‍💻

As you explore various side hustle ideas, you’re sure to stumble across coaching programs that tout untold profits and promise to help you quickly succeed. This is another group of skilled marketers who know how to convince you to pay $100s or $1000s for their “foolproof” system. While some coaching programs offer sound techniques and good advice, none are a ticket to quick riches. Before paying for any coaching program, explore YouTube, Google, and Kindle Unlimited to find free videos, how-to articles and e-books for the side hustles ideas that interest you. In most cases, you can find plenty of free information to help launch and grow your side hustle

  • Additional resources/websites‼️










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⚠️ As a disclaimer, please use your discretion and do your own research on any of these jobs before giving your personal information. ⚠️


Updated November 21, 2023

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