How to Find Rewarding Online Employment as a second Job
Are you bored with your day job? Do you need extra money? Then supplementing your income with an online job may be just the answer for you!
These words pop up for hundreds of offers online for easy work for big pay. But before looking at that, there is a more important issue to address.
If you want to supplement your income, that means you already have a job. If you are lucky, it is a steady job and you are paid a decent salary for your work. Above all do not let any other work get in the way of this job! This income is bigger, more secure, and more important that almost any income you will earn online.
What jobs are there online?
This is a question that everyone asks because it is a good question to ask. Roads and sewers cannot be built online. A stopped-up toilet cannot be fixed online. Writing, reading, reviewing, data entry, administration, customer support, selling products, marketing, testing software or websites, creating art, creating videos and tasks like these make up the bulk of online jobs. To confirm this, look around online for jobs and see what skills they are looking for. That is really what people are asking with this question – what jobs can I do online?
Access your skills and availability
Everyone has skills. Before looking for any job, you need to sit down and take a look at what skills you can offer an employer. Can you draw well? Can you program? Maybe you are good at writing newsletters, or writing reviews for products. You need to determine your skills so you can match them to a job, and then do well at that job.
The next question is how much time you can devote to your online job. Do not let your online work affect your regular job. If your regular job has regular hours, its easy for you to plan what hours you can work at your online job. Be reasonable – you will not be writing reviews for products for 12 hours a day solid, every day of the week. Then again if you are desperate for the money, you might be that one person in a hundred who can do that amount of work. Be realistic.
Access online job postings
There are many good and bad job postings online. The general rule of thumb is the old saying that if its too good to be true, it probably is. Nobody can offer lots of legal jobs where you work for 5 hrs a week and earn $200 an hour. But there are lots of $5 an hour jobs for as many hours as you want to work.When looking at a job posting there are three basic questions to ask: do I have the skills to do this job, how much can I reasonably expect to earn at this job, and how does the employer make their money from this job? If you can't answer all these questions to your satisfaction, don't take the job.
There are websites that put people with work and people with skills together such asFreelancer.com. There you can take tests to show you are qualified, and select the kind of work you want to do. As jobs are posted, you are notified if they match your skills and type of job requested. Then you bid on the jobs, and if all goes well do the work. Freelancer.com ensures that both the employer and the worker act in good faith, and they hold the money until the work is confirmed to be completed. Some people make this kind of work their full-time job.
Other online jobs, like buying and selling items oneBay.comor freelance writing onHelium.comnormally don't post any jobs but can still be rewarding work for you.
How will you get your money?
Most online jobs hold on to your money until it reaches a set amount, and then pay out. This prevents them from making hundreds of tiny payments that get eaten up in service fees. This hold amount can be anywhere from $20 to $100.
Since the work is online, generally payment is online as well. Nearly all online money is exchanged throughPayPalor similar online “bank”. They are established, and nearly everyone already has an account. But be prepared to give them 3% of your earnings in fees.
Beware of any employer that wants all your credit card information so they can pay you on your credit card. With your information, they will be able to charge your credit card to the limit. Its better to go through a third party like PayPal even though you have to pay that extra fee.
Now that you are supplementing your income online
Things are going well. You have been paid a few times. You are good at the online work. What now? Every few weeks, check the online opportunities again. You may find a better paying opportunity, or you may have new skills that can get you a more rewarding job.
Figuring how best to supplement your income online is a big task, but it can be a rewarding one both financially and with the satisfaction of a job well done.
