Amid the sea of useless, money scamming work from home opportunities flooding the search engine results pages you may sometimes stumble across a work from home opportunity that is actually legitimate.   Naturally, you may have to spend so much time weeding through the SERPS before you find a legitimate work from home opportunity that you’ve already spent the equivalent of a full 8 hour work day!

Now, when I refer to work from home jobs, I’m not referring to get rich quick schemes. I’m talking about JOBS - whether working for someone else, or yourself - but I mean performing a service that you do to earn money for the time you spend.   NOT some work from home get rich quick scam where you pay someone for some secret bit of information then spend the next 3 months following poorly written steps out of a second rate eBook you downloaded for $47.   I’m talking about a real job - part time or full time.   You do something specific, and someone pays you for it in a timely manner and on an agreed upon rate.   This could mean actual employment for another company, or working freelance.   But it is legitimate work from home stuff.

There are many companies that have taken to farming out their call center / data entry jobs, because it is something that can be done from anywhere.  Anyone with a phone and an internet connection can do one or both, so it saves companies money to outsource this work to home bodies like you and me.  They don’t have to expand their facilities to accommodate a larger work force, and they (sometimes) can pay a slightly lower rate - which you can gladly accept because you will be saving on gas!

So, to give you a head start, I’ve gathered some of the most appealing and legit work from home opportunities I’ve been able to find.

Convergys -  Employees filed incoming calls - tech support, customer service and sales.

IntelliCare - Call center work for the healthcare communities.   Employees may field both medical and non-medical calls.

LiveOPs - With LiveOPs you are actually a self-employed independent contractor.    You set your own hours.   Calls can range from support to sales.

Staffcentrix -  This company caters to offering work at home job opportunities to military spouses.

Team Double Click - Team Double Click specializes in offering small businesses virtual assistants.   You can be a virtual assistant!

West at Home - With West you will work the phone “obtaining, entering and verifying customer information, answering questions, resolving issues, explaining sales features or offering additional products or services, all while providing exceptional customer service.”

Working Solutions - Get a home based job as a customer service agent for many industires.