Kathleen K.

Kathleen started working from home, initially, from 2002-2004, due to some medical issues she was facing in her life at that time. She then decided to look for telecommuting jobs that she could do on a more permanent basis in 2005. She’s been working from home ever since.

She made her decision to find telecommuting work after she had her daughter. She started out working and putting her child in daycare, but she found that it was too hard to leave her there. She wanted to spend more time with her family and less time with work.

It took her about 2 years to find a legitimate company to work for from home. She says that luckily she never fell for any of the internet scams that are prevalent throughout the online world; but she admits that it’s mostly because she didn’t have the extra money to spare to pay for those types of jobs.

Kathleen utilized many work from home websites to gain enough knowledge and acquire leads to find the telecommuting jobs that she landed. She owes a lot to those informational telecommuting websites as she says she wouldn’t have found anything without them being available to her.

In the 5 years that she has spent working from her home, she has found many different companies to do various types of jobs for. She worked in the virtual call center/customer service field and technical support through her own phone line. Today, she is currently doing non-phone type work. She works as a quality rater and an independent contractor for a market research company.

Kathleen has successfully implemented her telecommuting experience as she not only is able to work full time from home, but says she could actually work more hours. She chooses not to, as time with her family is her main focus and why she wanted to start working from home in the first place.

Kathleen’s advice to anybody out there looking to work from their home is to utilize the many telecommuting websites that are available on the internet. She encourages those searching for jobs to join their communities for information to aid in their search. She also offers a tip that she has learned along the way, which is, “Never pay to work for a company unless it is a known company and you are only paying a nominal fee for a background check or equipment; find a space in your home that is organized, comfortable and quiet to have your office in and take your time- eventually you’ll find the perfect job, but there is a learning curve!”

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