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Hi all!
I've been unemployed for 9 months and I do not have much work experience. I would like to work in the customer service field, in a call center type of job;however I get the interview but not the job. Recently, a friend suggested that I try and do some research online about working from home. I did that, and everything I found from taking surveys online, data entry, home typest..etc they all want you to pay money for one reason or another. Since I don't believe in, "paying to get paid," and I'm always concerned with scams, what can I do? Does anyone know of any working from home web sites where you do not have to pay to work?
I have tried going to college after I graduated high school, however I went for a year and realized that college isn't for me. I have not shut the door on getting an education, however I am just not sure on what to do.
I would like to work in an office, however I am looking at all options. I'm on disability for a certain reason (I don't want to disclose that here, but just know that i can walk/hear and nothing mentally is wrong with me)
Suggestions anyone?
If you have questions just ask;
Thank you for any advice

There are any number of things you can do from home. I would expect that most that involve an employer would also require some experience.

On the other hand, entrepreneurial enterprises don't require an employer. I'd say you should go to a newsstand and look for some magazines that cater to entrepreneurs. That might give you a few ideas.

I'll throw one idea out. I have a neighbor that buys overstocked golf supplies from golf courses and pro shops in the north. Then he re-sells them to the same sort of places in the south. Or he just puts some of the items on ebay. This might work with all sorts of sports equipment.

short of starting your own business you are going to be hard pressed to find anything real you can do to work at home.

There are cheap ways to start a work at home business though (well, cheap businesses that you could start) it would depend though on what type of work you want to do, how hard you are willing to work, and how much capital you have to start out with.

Most businesses that you can start from home are in the service industry and the easiest ones to be sucessful at are the ones that nobody else wants to do (like housecleaning, landscaping, poop scooping, ect.) or that people don't have the time/knowledge to do (like book keeping, doing taxes, fixing computers, ect.)