Work at home or Work Online, what’s the difference and why does it matter? For many, traditional work at home jobs have been favored by stay at home moms and unemployed individuals looking to tide themselves over until they find something else more interesting. But for an increasing minority, that one day, just might challenge the majority, there are those who favor simply finding work online that they can do for a variety of reasons.
The Internet is filled with opportunities & possibilities for those looking to find credible and legitimate work at home opportunities, but the emphasis tends to be on just that, working from home. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to find a means to make money while staying home, but what is there for folks like myself, who have a sense of their own mortality and want to fulfill some of the things on their “bucket list?”
I’ve been looking at ways to earn extra income while at the same time, not being confined to one place or country for that matter, so exploring ways to make a living working from home while actually not living at home has been my primary objective over the last few years. For those of you already doing something online and putting together enough income to take care of your care and needs, I would love to hear about your ventures.
There really needs to be a transparent way for anyone who has the willingness and ability to acquire the education to apply what is out there on the world wide web and make enough to support themselves. It isn’t too painfully difficult to do, but it does require a period of humility to be willing to accept things that may take you out of your comfort zone and for many of us, we find that particularly difficult to do.
One thing that has humbled me time and time again, is traveling and living abroad for many months and sometimes years at a time. Every country that I have ever spent any time in, I have always been blessed and fortunate enough to meet my daily needs and my travel concerns from the habits I try to practice online. More than often, I find myself far away in some country’s hinterlands, where foreigners are rarely seen if ever and especially someone of my ethnicity.
It seems that I am constantly out of my comfort zone, but I’m willing to put the time in to learn new things and take those things and apply it to see to the extent that it gives me more freedom to travel. Traveling is my passion and although I still work at home, no matter where I lay my head, the work online portion of my life is just that, work online. I really don’t have any wild expectations of making enough to retire, because to do so would be like the Internet being a “static” environment where nothing changes and we all know how dynamic and forever changing the Internet is.
I don’t have the answers as to what you should do or how you should do it, but what I can share with you is that whatever you do, do you! You are “your” brand or your business online is your brand and you should do whatever it is within your ability to enhance that brand. You can always find something that you are passionate about and a way to monetize it, but only after you’ve gotten evidence that there is demand for whatever it is you want to sell or provide a service for.
I started this blog sometime ago with the intention of posting at least several times a week, but as many of you may or may not know, I’ve been on this roller coaster ride with my battle with cancer and have been too under the weather to make sense of it all-must be the medicines, huh? Nonetheless, share with us if you’d like your methods of fulfilling your ability to have more freedom from your work at home or your work online.