Work at Home (part 1)
Work at Home (part 1)
Working from home has become a trend adopted
by many people around the world due to the great flexibility that is
characterized by it, and some choose it because of the freedom it provides the
owner to work in addition to working in a full-time job.
Others choose it to provide additional income
by working in an area where they have some experience or knowledge, and where
they can use their free time to do useful work.
The areas and ways of working from home are
increasing day by day, in this article we review the most important of these
areas with a simplified explanation of each area and how to work it, but before
we start we take two very important points: the benefits of working from home,
and tips to follow before starting work from home.
Benefits of working from home
1- You are the head of yourself, and therefore
your profits from your work are all yours, as well as your success, and your
development of yourself. These features are usually not found in traditional
work.
2- Full control of your time, some people who
choose to work from home three hours a day, others eight hours, some less or
more... Each person determines the time available for work based on what suits
him, his or her family, and other activities that he or she does daily.
3- You don't need a certificate to learn most
of your work from home, and this is known even to people who request your
services because here your years of study or certificate are not a barrier, it
is how well you are proficient in your field and the quality of service you
provide.
4. Work from home is not required to learn new
skills, but you may be able to exploit the skills you already have and turn
them into a source of income.
For example, some learn to deal with image
design programs (such as Photoshop) for the purpose of entertaining me at the
beginning to improve their old images or add fun touches to them, and over time
this skill develops and can be exploited in the design of images for customers
for money... In this way, the hobby has become a source of income, a way to
work from home.
General tips to follow before starting work
from home
1. Do not leave your basic work until you have
chosen one of the areas of work at home and master it, and work with it for not
less than a year with a return equal to your salary from your basic work or
more.
2. Do not try to focus in more than one area,
especially if you intend to learn one of these areas from scratch, but choose a
field that suits you, and you see that you can master it, work it for a long
time, start learning it and specialize in it.
3. Do not hinder yourself under certain
circumstances such as the availability of a special computer, special
specifications, or even the presence of a dedicated office for you, but try to
exploit the available, and in the future, you can upgrade, and change what you
want in your work environment the important thing is to start.
4. Don't think about profit, and start to
appreciate and expect it at the beginning of your business, because this may
frustrate you, and distract a focus from mastering the field you are trying to
work in.
5. Follow the experts and specialists in your
field to see their experiences and advice, and start applying them, and then
create your strategy in the work, as the expert advice and professionals are
based on practical experiences.
15 different areas of work and making a profit
from home
Now I will start reviewing a wide range of
ways to work from home, in each way I will explain it, then, when necessary, I
will take up a range of specialized sites where you can find a job opportunity,
and then I will review a range of important points and tips that will help you
succeed.
It is worth mentioning that although there are
specialized sites in some areas below, self-employment sites are an excellent
source of employment in most areas of work from home.
At the end of the article, I will link you to
another article in which you will be able to access the most important and best
self-employment sites.
Let's start showing the areas of work from
home:
1. Transcription
Most of us listen to audio material most of
the time between songs, podcasts, and audiobooks, so why not take advantage of
this, and work from home in the field of Transcription, this area through which
you hear recorded material, and turn it into written texts.
There are specialized sites in this field that
you can register and start working with, here are the sites of
self-employment... The job market in this area is great, and reaching customers
is easy.
You can achieve it without effort or cost, as
you can reach your customers through a Facebook post on your profile... It
makes it clear that you are providing this service and is ready to receive
requests from people who wish to convert their audio material into readable
text.
Some of the most important sites where you can
work in this field:
Tips and feedback on this area:
1- Although this field does not require
investment in large tools and equipment or professionalism, the presence of high-quality
headphones is very useful in this field... Especially if the audio material you
convert to read the text in a foreign language or the quality of the recording
is medium.
2- Accuracy and coordination are two important
elements in your success in this field because the main goal of converting the
text from audible to readable is for the client to be able to see clear
structured content that can be easily read without linguistic or spelling
errors in an orderly and clear manner.
3- You can easily train yourself in this field
by converting audio materials such as audiobooks into text, this benefits you
in the tests of specialized sites that sometimes require passing several tests
and training courses in order to be accepted into them.
2. Visual Blogging (Vlogging)
You may have heard about this area before, but
not by that name, because Vlogging is the most professional name for the video
industry (such as creating a YouTube channel about an idea), and profit is
through several forms such as marketing, product review, corporate or site, or
advertising. Whether via Google or Facebook.
If you are interested in this field, I would
strongly advise you to read the articles below:
Tips and feedback on this area:
1- Continuity is one of the ingredients for
success in this field, so make sure to continue to add videos to your channel
constantly.
2- Meaningful and useful content although it
may sometimes be less profitable than entertainment content, scalability and
continuity are easier, and it also draws the attention of websites and
companies if your channel domain is suitable for promoting services and
products.
3. The name of your YouTube channel or
Facebook page should indicate your domain in one way or another.
4- Avoid using loose titles to attract
attention, especially if they have nothing to do with the content you
provide... This will negatively affect the reputation of your channel or page.
5- Do not take all negative or positive
comments on your content seriously, and select comments that you consider to be
objective, and will help you develop your content.
3- Search engine evaluation
Working from home in the field of search
engine evaluation is a fun, and very easy area, because of its attachment to
how search engines work, which is fun, and useful for anyone who deals on the
Internet.
Through this field, you evaluate the search
engine's results to see how they fit into what the person using the search
engine is looking for.
You are given a search topic and the results
for that topic extracted from a particular search engine, such as Google and
Bing, will then determine whether the results are appropriate for the search
term.
Your assessment is based on several factors,
and you evaluate the result in general based on your findings.
Search engines use special algorithms to help
people find what they're looking for, but search results always need humans to
test the efficiency of these algorithms to make sure they work properly and
provide results related to the searches that have been done through them.
This company is the best company that offers
the opportunity to work from home in the field of search engine evaluation:
- Appen
Tips and feedback on this area:
1- Most companies in this field do not require
previous experience in the field to be able to work with them, and some of them
provide intensive training to help you to qualify to work in this field.
2- If you fail to complete training or
success, don't worry, you can try again later, but the number of attempts is
limited so try not to need to retrain more than once or two at most.
3- English proficiency and some simple
technical knowledge, which will be very useful to you at work from home in the
field of search engine evaluation.
4- Correcting language errors
This area is suitable for language college
graduates who are looking for an opportunity to work in their field of study,
and to add unique experiences in their cv.
Through this field, it corrects linguistic
errors in texts, ranging from essays to books to research. For example, you can
work as a language corrector on a site or blog that publishes large content
every day, and you need to review it linguistically.
Or you can work in this field by registering
on one of the self-employment platforms, which provide the opportunity to work
from home in the field of language error correction and provide this service to
its customers.
Tips and feedback on this area:
1- English is one of the most common languages
in this field, so competition on it is large and difficult, so we recommend you
look for a less competitive language to be able to compete with it and find
opportunities available easily.
2- Improving your language abilities in this
field is necessary, and helps you increase your pay, and create better
opportunities.
3- Specialization in a particular field in one
of the languages is highly desirable, for example, some people ask for a
correction of language for certain areas of a particular language, and usually
this specialization is high lysing about linguistic correction in general, for
example, the linguistic correction of legal documents written in German is high
for Language correction of The German language in general.
5. Data entry
Data entry is an easy area, and it doesn't
require much study or experience to get started, all you need is to add numbers
and data in special tables or through Google Sheets or Excel.
For the revenue calculation, it is either by
the hour or by the number of data to be added, and sometimes a special system
can be agreed upon... This is in case you are dealing with people who request
this service outside of known sites.
For sites, you'll find a data entry section
for most self-employment sites and small tasks.
Tips and feedback on this area:
1. Google Sheets or Excel are key requirements
for this field, but you don't need to have professional knowledge of these
tools... You just need to know the basic rules of writing, cell coordination,
and this can be easily learned,
2- Speed is one of the main factors upon which
your remuneration is determined, you can always increase your speed in writing,
entering data through training, and practice.
3- Accuracy is also an important requirement
for success in this field, speed sometimes results in errors which affect your
income from this area, so the speed must be accompanied by accuracy as well.
6. Blogging
Blogging has become one of the most widespread areas
on the Internet as a form of work from home, and now we see many successful
blogs and websites in various fields, which make good profits monthly either
through profit by adding Adsense ads, or by reviewing certain products, and
profit From the commission marketing system.
Tips and feedback on this area:
1- Creating a blog that requires no more skills than
writing, and some technical skills, which you will easily acquire over time.
2- Successful blog is the one that tops the results of
search engines such as Google and Bing, and this is called SEO, which is an
important factor for the success of your blog, and making profits from it.
3- New, exclusive content is what will prompt visitors
to visit your blog constantly, so make sure you have your unique content.
7- Medical programming
The medical programmer's work is to review the medical
records of the services provided to the patient, and then translate them into
the appropriate code for easy addition to the patient's invoice.
The opportunities for income from this area are
constantly increasing among medical centers requiring medical programmers to
work from home, and the increasing demand for this specialty on self-employed
sites such as Upwork.
Some of the most important sites where you can work in
this field:
- Humana
Tips and feedback on this area:
1. This field may require some knowledge or training
in the medical field, but this is not difficult as there are many providers of
these training online.
2- This area needs to be familiar with English in
general, and the medical terminology used in this language in particular.
3. Although the job title contains the word coder,
this area does not require knowledge of any programming language to work with,
as is clear in its definition at the beginning of this paragraph... This area
only needs a high level of focus, good ability to observe, and register.
4- Sometimes people working in this field are called
Medical Biller, so if you are looking for an opportunity to work from home in
this area make sure that you are looking to use Medical Biller and Medical
Coder to be able to find all the opportunities in this area.
That's enough in this article and I'm going to
do a second part for work from home where I'm going to complete the rest of the
jobs.
Here you can find the second part for this
article
