This story will come in parts. I chose to share this story so that you can learn a thing or two from it and also in case you are going through something similar. If you are going through something similar, don’t be easily discouraged. You see, online work success is a marathon and not a dash, so read and be encouraged.
When I came online to look for a way to make money online I was actually a newbie. I needed to raise money for something and I thought that it should be possible to work online. This was what started my online job search. But when I got to the internet, I saw that it was a different world entirely. It was a strange place for a newbie like me. And if you are new, you are likely going to get scammed (you can read work from home blog: Article 1, don't get scammed and identifying an online work that is not legit, they will truly help you). I should have been scammed several times over. But two things saved me. The first was that I didn’t have enough money to invest in the scams. The second was that my country was not listed in paypal which was the method of payment for most scam sites. I kept using the word ‘legit’ whenever I used a search engine to find a job. It was not working because I came to discover that most of the online job scams made used of the same word.
The closer I got to finding a way to work online the farther the job seemed to move away. But what I didn’t know was that the more I continued my search the more I was learning a lot about online work and online scams. Also, the more I searched for an online job, the more I became familiar with scams and how not to fall for them. It is this experience that I once thought was just time wasting that has now given birth to – work from home blog.
I came across online writing job scams, data entry job scams and online survey job scams. I registered in several scam sites till my scam box was overflowing with scam mails. All of them were providing me with information that could make me a millionaire for just $50 – yea right. I just ignored them and sometimes their mails even entered into my inbox, and I deleted them with frustration. It was then that I heard someone say that all work from home opportunities are scams. I believed this statement then and you now know why.
I then decided to add the word ‘free’ to the search engine while searching for online work but this didn’t stop the scams from showing up. It was like the scams where everywhere I turned. It was like the scams where the owners of online jobs. They have fake testimonies that can make you to be 100% persuaded. They take advantage of our vulnerability and our ignorance to get our cash. They tell you that they are not scams, yet all they do is to take your money to give you junk information – they are SCAMS.
I saw several opportunities that said they were free. But what I didn’t know was that they only meant the job opportunities that they offered were free. But I will have to pay a token to get this opportunity – SCAM!!! This really pissed me off. I then came across some other legit opportunities, but they were either not applicable for members of my country or the expertise required was way out of my league. It was after all this that I found freelance work. This was when my online job search started to come to an end; and I earned my first $30 working as a freelance writer. My experience and skill in online work, doing freelance jobs, and indentifying scams has really improved. Please read how to work and earn money online and finding a legitimate online work, to see some ways that can help you to work and earn money online. My skills have continued to improve but I had to do some things. One of the things I did was to educate myself. To be continued...
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