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I know that many of you would like to work from home or are currently looking for a job, so why not take full advantage of the age we live in and work from home. In this post I'm going to go through a few options and who knows, maybe one of them would spark an idea. Let's get started.
Graphic designers
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If you have a good eye on what is appealing to a customer, what would look good together and you can really draw, then why don't you become a graphic designer. You can work in a domain that you want, like marketing, technology, commercial industries and others, right from your home. Of course you might have to meet clients, but you can do pretty much everything from home, such as decide on the designs, guidelines, conduct the research you need, draw, improve the design, etcetera.
Public Relations Specialist.
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A PRS job is to generate positive plubicity for their clients and make their public reputation as good as it gets. An important part of a public relations specialist is knowing how to use social media platforms such as facebook, twitter LinkedIn and other platforms, because they're working close to bloggers, journalist and the media, they do things, such as preparing publicity materials, story pictures, press releases or online interview.
Writters and Authors
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Bloggers, authors, and journalists, they're all writters in different ways and if you decide to take this path, you can work from home for sure. There is no need to explain why novel authors can totally work from home, it's self explanatory, right? You can write whenever you feel inspired to because it's your story and you can publish it anytime you want, that is if your publisher doesn't pressure you. If you're not an author and you go for the media side of writing, you might have to go to an office from time to time, but the things you can do from home are countless including research, preparing your stories or having all the materials ready
or promote your writing on social media, all you need is a laptop.
Post Secondary Teachers
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Since the online world is expanding and evolving, it's only normal for teachers to get involved in this environment too. Post secondary teachers are those lucky ones, who can stay at home, drink their coffee and tutor student through the internet. They can communicate with people all over the world and give them advice using video conference, phone call or email making it easier and more convenient for both themselves and the students.
Marketing Survey Researcher
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In order to be successful, company are constantly trying to figure out which product sell the best or appeal most to the public and that's where a market and survey researcher comes in. The job requires you to analyze and study market conditions for the companies in order to improve the effectiveness of their marketing and business strategies.
Registered Nurse
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I know what you're thinking, how can someone be a nurse and take care of people from home? Well, it's possible. Nurses don't necessarily need to work long hours in the hospital, they can also work in a medical call centers doing telephone triage or help coordinate care plans and providing care and assessment also, if you're a registered nurse working from home, you can recruit new employees to fill open position (This isn't applicable in most African Countries).
Computer Software Engineer
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Commonly trained in the different technologies, computer software engineers are really well paid even if they work from home. They usually report their work back to a team or management structure. If you decide to to follow this job, you'll create, package software and customize applications. Some of the certification programmes to become a computer software engineer includes CISCO and Microsoft Training but don't imagine it's all fun and a lot of money, statistics say that 17% of computer software engineers work more than 50 hours a week, even if they're home based, so think twice about choosing this job.
Financial Manager
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Even though it might not seem possible, in some cases, financial managers can do part of their work from home, their main responsibilities are to oversee the finances of companies or agencies and provide financial reports. If you want to pursue this job, you need to know that in order to complete all of the financial analysis, you must be time efficient even if you decide to do all the work from home. Financial managers usually have a degree in finance, economics, business administration or accounting.
There are of course, plenty of other jobs that you can do from home these days; from creating music to creating artwork, or delivering web services, but these 8 I've outlined have a strong background within their industry.
Are you currently working from home? If not, do you think it's more fun working in an office than working from home?
