Job opportunities, are they out there?
Has anyone been able to find the perfect job that is flexible and can fit in with the schedule of a caregiver?? Like say a LEGIT work from home job?
I am desperate. I've been caring for my husband for about 8 years now. I am young and I NEED to start looking out for myself and secure some type of income. But I've been constantly reminded that my schedule needs to revolve around him. I would do anything to land myself a work from home job. Does anyone have any ideas???
I've been trying to find one too! My husband has brain cancer and i don't know how long he has, I've always been stay at home wife and mother. Kids are grown now and I need some extra income to help with the medical bills.
I have the same problem, my dad has Dementia and is 84 years old. I need to work desperately for me and my husband. Please if anyone has or comes up with ideas for work at home, let me know. Most work at home jobs from the internet wants you to invest in there programs and I cannot afford to.
All I can think of taking some online college classes whenever possible to upgrade your skill set. Think of paralegal, ESL or something in the renewable energy fields. I've had my parent 89 yr old for the last ten years, through knees, pneumonia, celiac's disease and more... now I am home full time, and took a degree in paralegal studies. I had only one night class to attend for 2 hours and I made it work. I helped to have something on the outside to challenge my mind, and you can always work with the instructor, should a situation occur when you can't complete the class, you ask for an Incomplete, and finish the coursework at an agreed later date. Or by the last week of the semester change the grade to an Audit grade and re-take the course later... Check your local community college or search statewide community colleges for online courses.
I actually have found something that will work for me. I moved from Kansas City back to my small Kansas home town about a year and a half ago, to care for my elderly parents full time. Needing to find a way to support myself, last March I started my own website using a program that has taught me how to build a successful one (I'd previously built unsuccessful ones!). It's not yet supporting me, but it is well on its way to doing just that. I'm now receiving nearly 1000 visitors per day to my site that is less than a year old. Traffic continues to grow daily, and I have no doubt that by the end of this year (or before) it will be supporting me full time.
It's not a quick fix, but if you are able to find other methods of supporting yourself for a year or a few years, this program can teach you how to build successful, content based websites that earn money from advertising and affiliate sales. It really works, but you have to work at it. It's not a get rich quick scheme. It can be done even by people who have no knowledge of building websites.
The program is called SiteSell, and if you are interested, you can visit my website to read more about how my website has progressed over the last 11 months. It's been amazing. You don't have to visit my site to read about it though. You can do a google search on SiteSell or SBI also, and I'm sure you'll find lots of links to information about it.
It costs $300 per year, and that includes the domain registration and everything you need to build your site. You can also get it for a monthly subscription of $29.99. (I opted for the monthly option when I started, and my site was making enough to pay for the monthly subscription within six months or so.)
My story can be found here... http://www.american-history-fun-facts.com/my-site-build-it.html
I hope this helps somebody. I am so excited about this program. I finally, finally, FINALLY found something that works! I have already started my next site, and have plans to build at least one site every two years or so.
If you are looking for at home employment, if you are designated as the caregiver for your husband, some states will pay you for being the caretaker. You will have to check with your specific state. I know a woman whose husband switched from Medicare to Medicaid. She then became his official live-in caretaker and was making about $35K a year. This was in New York. Yes, they did have a house. I would check with an attorney that specifically deals with State issues and estate issues. Hope this helps.
I have been caring for my dad for a little over three years now after he suffered a stroke. For the past year and a half I have been going online looking for work at home jobs just to run into scams and lies. I took a year course of a complete medical billing course to get into medical billing from home. What I found out is that it is very hard to get a physician who does not know you to trust you. They'd rather go for a secured company. If you have any luck and find just one that will trust you, then you can rely on word-of-mouth. I have read into many online markets and different kind of opportunities and wrote a blog regarding my experiences and the things I have tried and am trying. I also post the things that go wrong. I look for legitimate stuff, talk to people who have already worked with the company, and look up any complaints in the BBB. Visit my blog and see if any of these are good for you. I have another blog under construction dedicated to caregivers who are stuck at home and are looking for opportunities where they can make an income and still be able to care for their loved ones. I will be sharing that when it is completed. The main purpose is mostly to communicate the ones I believe are more financially achievable by people like you and me, who are unable to go out and work a regular 9 to 5 job. This is a link to my current blog and within that blog, in the near future, I will post a link to the newest blog when complete. I hope this helps and hope that all caregivers know that you are not alone. God bless. http://www.tiny.cc/1223blog
Wanda: Thanks. Your site sounds exciting! Now, how does someone who doesn't even know how to "bookmark," even after googling bookbmark, learn these little tricks? Sendg/recvg emails and newspapers (ChiTrib/WSJ/NYT, etc. I know, and saving favrs are ok, but where do you learn the rest of these little pleasures? Thanks. Mimi
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I've been reading here for a couple of years, but this will be my first post. You all have some inspirational stories and good advice that I am very grateful for. Finally, I feel that I have something worth contributing. There are some very good jobs available online, but it takes some digging to get to the information. Look at companies like www.liveops.com www.arise.com www.workingsolutions.com www.westathome.com www.acddirect.com www.alpineaccess.com www.sutherlandathome.com http://jobs.uhaul.com/default.aspx https://www.vipdesk.com/Employment/home4/employment.aspx http://www.bsgclearing.com/products/voicelog/?/voicelog/ There are many more. For some you would be an employee, for some a contractor, and may need to form a corp or LCC for a couple of these(easily done on the internet for abt. 100.00 most states) They are basically call centers that route incoming calls to a line at your business at home. You may be asked to pay for a background check (usually about 35.00) but you should never ever "pay" for a job. You need a computer, high speed internet, local phone line w/out call waiting, a phone. Each site will give you all the info on requirements. Some operators do outbound calling. Some of these calls are customer service, some are primarily taking donations for charitable causes, some assistance w/ ordering products. Some of these companies actively look for persons w/ nursing or health experience and insurance agents. Once you are up to speed and through training, you can expect an average of 10.00 - 14.00 per hour. If you work partly on commission, some people have reported upwards of 20.00-23.00 per hour. There are sites such as www.wahm.com or www.ratracerebellion.com with forums and listings that are a wealth of information and list many more companies and opportunities. The sites that charge for information give the same basic info. that the good free sites do (I've been told). I too knew that the internet had to provide some of these types of opportunities, but it just took a while to eake it out and find what was available and legitimate. You can find videos of interviews with operators on youtube. Put "work at home forum" in Google. Some of these companies have been featured on Good Morning America, CNN, and large newspapers. Yes,I have done this successfully with minimal cost. You are able to make your own schedule with most companies, and have very flexible time off, and able to usually cancel a shift if someone else picks up your time. It all depends on the company. I was doing this before moving M-I-L from out of town and have worked a minimal amount the past couple of years. My M-I-L has recently moved to a locked dementia unit,so we're attending to health issues of our own we've ignored, and I'm planning on ramping up the working time as well. Also, do you eBay? Just a thought! Do look at the work at home forums out there (like RatRaceRebellion & WAHM) and you will get the best information there. I hope this helps, and Thank You all again for all the great information and advice!
@donoharm: bookmarking is easy. usually you will see a start somewhere at the top of the page you are on or on the tabs, some say "bookmark" or "bookmark this page" others might say "favorites". I guess it depends on the browser you are using. For example, I use Google Chrome and on the right side of the address bar there is a star. You click on that star and you have bookmarked the page. You will always get a little window confirming. On Internet Explorer you will see a tab on the top of the page that says "favorites" and you click on that and then on the top of the little box that opens there's a "add to favorites" button, you click on that and then confirm. It's pretty easy. All browsers have the bookmark, favorites tab...look for the little star, sometimes they have a star. I'm not supposed to put my personal contact info here or I'd be violating the code of conduct, but if there's a way you can send me your email or getting mine, then I don't mind giving you some help. I also have some great ebooks I can share...WITH ANYONE INTERESTED.
@lesson learned (liked that name - lol) thanks, some great info. I've tried many of them but most of them are like call centers and they require some tests that although I swear I passed I didn't. But another problem with those is once you "choose" your hours, you have to basically complete them. In my position I can not sit for more than an hour in front of the computer before having to get up and do something for dad or check on him. He falls easily, he chokes easily, he has sudden vomiting attacks and being that he has COPD, I have to be able to run to him every time I hear a noise. So that's why I opted for online marketing, because it's more flexible, in my opinion. Thanks for all the info though, there are some I haven't heard of that I will be visiting the site to check out.
JulieH, that looks like a pretty steep price for something as vague as "learning to build a website". Google offers all sorts of tools and information on how to do the same thing -- for free. There are all sorts of free website building tools. I'm using WordPress. And website hosting plans -- complete with all sorts of tools for building websites and for analyzing marketing data -- run around $5 per month including domain registration and tech support. It's easy to find reviews of the best hosting sites to pick out the one that's right for you.
No offense, but SiteSell / SBI sounds like a scam.
JennyB - I'm sorry you feel that way. I was just trying to tell people what I've done. I pulled my hair out to try to figure out how I was going to make a living when I chose to move home to care for my parents. I moved from a city to a small Kansas town that has less than 5000 people. I am single and had to find a way to support myself online. I had built my own handcrafted jewelry site nearly 10 years ago, but struggled with traffic to my site. I knew that I wanted to build my own successful website - I just didn't know how to do it. I started reading about it, and came to the conclusion that SiteSell was the way to go, for me. But...I couldn't afford the $300 per year, so I didn't try it. Then they started offering the monthly subscription, and that was something I could afford to try. It had a money back guarantee, so I figured there was not much to lose.
It's not for everybody. It really takes a lot of learning and work, and some people just don't have the desire, passion or the time to put into it. But it is most definitely NOT a scam. You get what you put into it - period. If you want a get rich quick thing, SiteSell is NOT for you. But if you want to build a real business, by yourself (with the tools that are provided, plus very helpful people on the forums), it IS a viable option. My site makes money while I sleep - it's not fully supporting me yet, but it's grown by leaps and bounds in the 10 months since I started it, and I fully expect it to support me full time before the end of this year.
My jewelry website is nearly 10 years old, I think. I built it myself without the information and tools that SiteSell provides, and it is a flop. I get maybe 20-50 visitors per day to that site.
I built my American History Fun Facts site using the tools and information that SiteSell has, and it's only been up since March of 2010. Yesterday I had 1,022 unique visitors to that site (average this week is 900 per day - last week it was around 600-700 per day average - it increases nearly every week).
What's the difference between the site that I built on my own (through Yahoo Small Business, costing me around $13 per month for the hosting and software) and the site that I built with SiteSell tools (costing me $29.99 per month)? Only about 900 visitors per day - no big deal, must be a scam....
I was offering what worked for me. I wasn't trying to hard sell anybody on SiteSell (notice that I said you didn't have to go to my site to read about it - you could go to google and find out more if you prefer). I thought that just maybe, what worked for me might work for somebody here.
You can go ahead thinking that SiteSell is a scam. You are free to your opinion. I am also free to offer what worked for me here. But it won't work for everybody. You really do have to want to own your own business website in order for you to have the passion it takes to make it successful. Not everybody who joins SiteSell is successful. But there are thousands who are. Many of the websites listed on the first page of google are SiteSell sites. I know I'm there for several of my pages. And I run across SiteSell sites just about every time I use google to search for anything, and I rarely go past the first page of google.
Type in "declaration of independence text" or "facts on Thomas Jefferson" or "nostalgic reproductions" and you'll see my site in one of the first few spots on google. I could list more, but those are the top 3 that I can think of right now. How did I do that by using a scam? I haven't yet made it to position #1 for any of my major keywords, but I am in the #3 spot for several.
I'm sorry, but offense was taken. I'm sure if I told you that wordpress was a scam, you might take offense also. I'd never say that, because just like with SiteSell, you have to know what you are doing and work to have a "successful" wordpress site. Yes, you can get some of what SiteSell offers through other tools. Yes, you can build a website for around $5/month or less someplace else. And there are a ton of books you could read to learn how to build a successful site. But SiteSell has EVERYTHING you need to make your site successful - except your own hard work. The cost of the program includes hosting, domain registration, keyword tools (including one I'd pay much more than $29.99 a month for if I had to!) and so much more - all in one package. The information that I have gotten from them is priceless.
Again... it's not for everybody. But please don't call it a scam. It's not. I do understand being skeptical - I was at first also. But then I took a leap of faith and tried it. The ride since that moment has been an exciting journey that only continues every day I wake up and see my site traffic and increasing earnings from my little site.
JulieH,
I for one, would like to thank you for your input and help! I DO NOT feel that you were rude or ofensive, etc.. in any way shape or form. This site is here to help people and offer support to each other as caregivers. I realize that some folks may be having a difficult time with everything that we go thru. I just don't want to see folks like you get attacked for offering what may certainly be helpful info to others.
Please keep posting as you feel necessary and feel free to make your posts as lengthy as you'd like! After all, there's no law against it!
Blessings to one and all!!!
Julie H: Thank you for all that info. As an old-timer on this site, caring.com, I welcome fresh ideas, whether on caretaking or others. You stay with us girl. This site is a safe place -- I posted when angry, really angry, sometimes with a burr in the wrong place, when I was totally euphoric, and times just plain in the dumps. Most of the time it's very calming. Also, the counselors have very good advice and suggestions in plain English. This site works for me.
I am contemplating an adult day service so that I can be home with my spouse when he needs additional assistance. Maybe this is an option for you. Hope this helps.
Hi..I posted a few days ago regarding my blog and I was going to create another blog. I have completed it and would love to see if you guys can take a look at it and give me some advice on it. I want to dedicate it to cargivers caring for a loved one that has good information regarding opportunities for stay at home caregivers, and was wondering if it would help to add other things that had nothing to do with opportunities. Just a thought. Anyways, here is the link, I hope it's helpful. It's basically about my own experience with me coping with my dad's condition, becoming a full time caregiver, and finding opportunities to generate some income to ease the stress. Thanks for reading. PS-comments are very welcomed! http://caregiverscaring.blogspot.com/
I'm a 60 year old caregiver for a mother with Alzheimers and a father with Parkinsons. I lost my job two years ago and am looking for a way to work at home doing something interesting. I appreciate your info on SiteSell, and I'm going to check out your blog.
Hi everyone, Thanks for sharing your suggestions with each other! A couple other sources of relevant information I thought you might be interested in...
How to Get Paid for Being a Family Caregiver: http://www.caring.com/articles/payment-for-family-caregiver
Also, SmartMoney recently covered this topic in this article, "Best Careers for Family Caregivers": http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/employment/best-careers-for-family-caregivers-1298570881726/[smartmoney.com]
I hope this is helpful to you. Thanks for asking!
Since I am unable to find other work-at-home or other suitable work in my small-town area, I am going to open my own adult day services. This may be an option for you.
Try home-based jobs like medical transcription. It’s one of the most popular work-at-home career; pays decent hourly wages; and is pretty reliable once you get going. However, before you can start working as an MT, you may be required to go through formal training in the field. Consider online vocational schools[careerstep.com] to get trained as they will offer you the flexibility to create your own schedule and work at your own pace.
