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Greetings friends! Today we'll talk about the main topic of my blog and find out with simple examples what is remote work, is it real or cheating. Why work from home is becoming more and more popular and now is the time to master new types of activities that allow you to make money through the Internet.
Remote work is a method of employment in which a person (performer) performs assigned tasks remotely, contacting the employer via the Internet.
That is, any work that can be done at a distance, it is not necessary to be in the office, can be called remote.
I would also like to highlight a separate format for remote work -. Freelance - when you work remotely, but you do not have a permanent employer and you are always looking for orders.
Let me explain with examples what the principle of such an activity is and who will pay you for what.
What should be done and who will pay?
Remember in I talked about the circulation of money, and where it comes from. Now everyone who sells various goods or services does it using the Internet. Because people spend a lot of time here, communicating, looking through the necessary information, looking for answers to their questions, and so on.
To do this, we use different sites, services, programs and applications. Have you ever wondered who creates them? Millions of people are behind all this, some of whom work remotely.
Take, for example, my blog, where you are currently reading this article. At the initial stage, so that it was born, I paid people to create it. And I have never seen these people, our communication was only in text correspondence.
The first person is the designer. He drew a blog design - what you now see on the screen of your device. The designer spent about 2 weeks on this work, and I paid him 25,000 rubles.
The second person is the layout designer. He built a functioning website from a picture made by a designer using a program code. I paid him 18,000 rubles for 3 days of work.
All of them perform simple, understandable tasks for which they receive money.
There are dozens of different types of knowledge and skills that can be used for remote work.
Who can work remotely?
I used to think that only programmers can make money this way. But when I started looking for something to do, I realized that there is a lot of work here, for every taste and color. Whether for a student or a pensioner. For a long time in such a huge variety I could not choose a direction.
From scratch, without experience, I mastered several professions and came to a stable monthly income that exceeded my offline salary. It took me six months.
Of course, people who do not have basic computer skills will find it more difficult. But, I think you understand that neither age, nor gender, nor social status, nor geographical position or something else does not in any way affect whether you can or not.
I can give dozens of examples of guys who had a situation many times worse than yours now.
In addition, many do not need to change their specialty and learn something new. Most regular professions are suitable for remote work, for example, accountant, sales manager, marketer, journalist, and so on.
What are the prospects?
Compared to ordinary work, a lot can be revealed. But today I want to tell you about the prospects that I saw in my time.
For the first time I encountered remote work somewhere in 2011, but then I did not realize at all that it was possible to make stable money on it. I went to college and did an internship with a private entrepreneur. He was engaged in the installation of video surveillance and security systems.
He had his own company selling and installing security equipment, which, like everyone else, needed clients. Realizing that it was possible to get clients from the social network VKontakte, he offered me to invite people to his group for 1,000 rubles a month (at that time it was good money for a student).
This group (https://vk.com/club16076182) still exists today.
So I'm about five months in the evenings free time invited participants. A task that any student can cope with.
It’s a pity, then it didn’t come to me that there could be a lot of such work. The more unique the services that you can provide (create websites, write texts, design, manage projects, lead a team, and so on), the more you can earn.
Technologies are developing, many companies no longer have offices, their employees work remotely and are located all over the world. Keeping workspaces unprofitable knowing that it is possible to hire someone to do the same from home.
When traveling, I often meet Russian-speaking guys from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan who work via the Internet for Russian and foreign companies.
If you know English, then the world of remote control is even wider for you. It is more profitable to receive a salary not in rubles, but in dollars or euros.
Technologies replace people in production and therefore there is a reduction. Some professions are starting to die out, because they are no longer relevant in the 21st century.
At the end of 2014, I realized this. I realized that I needed to develop, learn new skills, keep up with the times, so as not to twist wires for 20,000 rubles all my life and not walk head over heels in dust, working as an electrician.
Where to begin?
It's cool that thanks to the Internet we get unlimited access to knowledge from all over the world. To master skills that will bring 40,000 - 50,000 thousand rubles a month, you do not need to study 5 years at the university and spend hundreds of thousands of rubles on training.
According to statistics, the guys who begin to study on ours, on average, make the transition in 3 - 6 months with maximum return.
The most difficult thing is to decide on the direction that you want to pursue. Very often it happens that a person rushes back and forth and from this treads water, starting anew each time.
It is difficult to give any unique advice on choosing a profession, since everyone has a different level of development and a range of interests, an individual approach is needed. The easiest way is to go on, take assignments in order to find out what works out, and what is generally difficult and incomprehensible for you.
For beginners, everything will seem complicated. Once it seemed difficult for me to make a website, banner in Photoshop or write an article. Now, having certain knowledge, it will not be difficult to do this.
Also, dozens of new vacancies are published on the exchanges every day. Jobs, like assignments, can be found with different levels of employment, complexity, and payment method. In the first project I worked on, I had a free schedule and piece-rate pay. At a distance, the employer is primarily important about the result.
Conclusion
I hope you now understand correctly what it means to work remotely and what the prospects are. Learn, learn to learn, master new knowledge and skills, switch to remote work and travel. With the internet, you can do it without investment.
If you need help and support, then come to our express course “Start at remote work and freelance ".
In the comments to this article, you can ask your questions and leave feedback on your experience of remote work. I will be happy to answer them and share my advice.
We are a new generation of homeless people and there are many of us. It is obvious. Apartments in Russia cost half your life. It is clear that people without noodles in their ears will not give half of their lives for the opportunity to live the other half in the same place as the first. Renting housing in other cities and countries is even cheaper than where mortgages await us, so there is no point in living in one place. And we go on a journey! We work wherever we want right now and look for new places to live when our soul asks for it. We do not have permanent residence and do not feel shackled to one place, we are homeless and it is so gratifying to realize it .. And whether to wash our hair or not always depends on the height to which it turns out to climb the career ladder.
This is just a trend in modern society that is becoming everyday. Most of my friends work remotely and there is nothing supernatural about it. Indeed, in fact, in most professions there is no need to come from home to work and pretend that you are working hard. This is the last century, the strange habits of society not to think about their actions, but to perform them mechanically.
It's time to drop them and start working hard to truly become more aware. And for this it is not necessary to buy books and pay for seminars that talk about "how to make money online" - it's time to open your eyes and see for yourself this very Internet, in which everything has already been written and told (at least read this free page). The Internet is not YouTube and Vkontakt is a huge library in which it is quite easy to navigate - you just need to start, not be afraid to press the keyboard buttons and take responsibility for your life.
Pros of remote work: freedom from the schedule and in choosing a place of residence. All responsibility lies only with you. You can increase your salary indefinitely.
Cons of remote work: it takes time and real effort to move from regular work to remote work. All responsibility is on you. You can live in poverty indefinitely.
The key word is responsibility. It's like no one's apple on the table. You can take it and eat it, but then all the responsibility for satiety or diarrhea will lie with you. Or you can look at this apple and decide that it is too early for you to take it, but first you need to go through a couple of trainings. According to statistics, such people are the majority, probably the way it should be).
Who can work remotely
In fact - by anyone. Popular deleted professions, about which only the laziest are no longer aware: Programmer, designer (any), artist, SEO (website promotion), seller (online stores), writer (texts to order), editor, translator (translations to order), advertiser, PR specialist, manager.
But this is too easy. Let's see what might happen next:
journalist, photojournalist (normal publications, especially English-language ones, have long since switched to freelancers),
video editor,
musician (composer),
photographer ( , ),
teacher (whatever - a tutor via skype),
psychologist,
accountant (this profession has long been outsourced - remote hiring),
lawyer,
manufacturer of hand-made clothes, jewelry, etc.,
administrator,
manager, project manager, etc.
And of course trading (cryptocurrencies, securities). Interesting direction)
There are people who make money playing poker playing on the stock exchange,
on your youtube.com channel (though not very much in Russia yet),
on your own websites (relevant if you are an IT specialist and can make and promote them yourself).
And, of course, you can come up with your own projects, produce their products and sell it over the Internet (through your site or local forums and online flea markets like e-bay.com for example). The lists of in-demand remote professions can be viewed directly at freelance exchanges.
Freelance exchanges - these are sites where freelancers and customers are registered. Freelancers post their portfolios and look for suitable orders that customers place. I give links to freelance exchanges in the following paragraphs ↓
Remote work - where to start
And now the most important thing: these lists of possible professions - in fact, you don't need them at all. Your new profession should be interesting to you. Do not settle for less, otherwise it will turn out that you are exchanging an awl for soap.
© Olga Saliy. Copying material.
Step 1. Stop watching TV
Let's clear our lack of apartments from zombies forever! For self-development, we have youtube, google, books and communication with like-minded people. It seems that this is the topic of a separate article - if you are interested - write in the comments that yes, and I will make a review: what I watch, what I read and where I find like-minded people.
Step 1.0 Find your favorite thing
For example, make your own list: what you really love to do. A person who does what he loves is doomed to success in any case. After all, then he puts all his energy and inspiration into the business. And even if he cannot make money on this, he will do what he loves all his life). If in choosing a profession we proceed from what others are successful in, then this is a deliberate loss - after all, this is another unconscious step. And we only need awareness.
By the way, before compiling all these lists of your favorite professions, think about it: is it really necessary to be where you are with your current profession? Maybe it's just a habit of going to work, but you can do it anywhere?
Sometimes an important criterion that this work is really "yours": when you see how others do it (or try to do it yourself for the first time), you internally feel that you can potentially do it better than anyone else.
Step 2. Study and professional growth.
Even if you do not understand anything at all in your favorite business, but you feel that you can do it better than others, this is already cool. Any profession needs to be learned and it's never too late. You can spend a couple of years of your life on active study, which in itself will bring you pleasure, and after that you will forever become a person free from routine. Get started now! You can search for various courses or free video tutorials on the Internet (or in your city).
It is also VERY useful for studying to meet people who are engaged in the same business and communicate with them.
For freelancers, vacation is when you can finally sit at home and do a good job while taking a break from travel.
Step 3. Getting started
So, you have determined for yourself the desired and favorite activity and began to master it (or have already mastered it). The most important thing remains: to start working (and not stop) and along the way to create and develop your portfolio, your style and your own image. Because now you will not go to the office for interviews, and others can only see what a cool specialist you are through the Internet.
For maximum effect you need to show your advantages in a quality manner: on your personal Facebook page, Vkontakte, register on freelance exchanges, forums, make your own website, etc.
To start working in the chosen specialty right now, you need to conduct a small but painstaking research on the topic “How to work in my specialty on the Internet”.
For example, you know 2 or more languages. Now you just need to open a search engine - Google for example - and enter the phrase into the search: "How to start working as a translator remotely." Or are you a photographer: "How to Sell Your Photos on the Internet." Or an artist: "How to work as an artist remotely" and so on. The Internet is already full of information with detailed instructions, or ready-made vacancies in your favorite specialty.
Take your time - collect information painstakingly and do not stop at what you have learned, get acquainted with those who are already working in your specialty remotely. It is this research and new connections that will connect you to your work.
If you want to work remotely, this means you become completely independent now. You act on your own and find your own solutions in any situation. And now the pitfall of remote work, or rather the transition to it: you are unlikely to be able to get full profit for the first six months. But all you need to start getting it is your perseverance, constant professional development (Google to help), self-discipline and confidence even with temporary setbacks. If you like the chosen business, then you will be confident.
Those who work remotely usually have irregular working hours, can work seven days a week, with a break for 7 hours of sleep and food. This often happens - after all, we are so passionate about work that does not bother us at all that we can forget about everything else.
Freelancing is not relaxation at all. This is maximum dedication - both at work and at play.
Scams in remote work
Unfortunately, this is enough, but if you turn on the brain in time and evaluate the vacancy (and it is better not to turn it off at all), then everything is obvious.
The main sign of a non-existent vacancy and fraud: an offer to make a cash contribution (for registration on the site or whatever).
Popular scam jobs: typesetters, packing anything, assembling beads, envelopes, etc.
That is, you don't need a lot of intelligence, which is what the scammers are probably counting on when creating such vacancies.
Where and how to look for remote work. Freelance exchanges
This item is very useful if you have already decided on the activity, and it belongs to the service sector. There are special sites- freelance exchanges and employers. Russian-speaking and English-speaking. For programmers, designers and translators, for example, it will be much more profitable to look for employers directly on the English-language exchange - it is possible to work there more difficult, but much more profitable. Moreover, this is your independence from the ruble exchange rate.
On freelance exchanges, freelancers can first find small orders (for example: draw a kitten, or write a text about fireproof safes, or make a toolbar for a website, etc.).
Important from the very beginning, gradually (working through freelance exchanges and in other places) to accumulate portfolio and reviewsfrom employers - put it in a daddy, publish texts on your pages of freelance exchanges (if you are a copywriter or translator), it projects (if you are a programmer), drawings (if an artist), etc.
Over time, working through freelance exchanges, freelancers usually find themselves one or more regular customers. By this time, having already reached a good level of salary and stability.
All freelance exchanges have their own forums where people share secrets successful work exactly through this exchange. Be sure to study them and communicate in these forums with colleagues.
English-language freelance exchanges for different specialties
If you know English, you can start right away with high level, Congratulations. English-speaking freelance exchanges are much cooler than Russians, and it's not just about the dollar salary. It needs programmers, translators and everyone else. This is the normal world level of freelancing. There is no freebie, you need to work at full capacity, but the salary is in dollars.
www.upwork.com is the # 1 site among English-language freelance exchanges. It alone may be enough for full-fledged work.
freelancer.com
elance.com
It is enough to register and work on 1-2 freelance exchanges. Choose the one that suits you best.
Russian-language freelance exchanges
✔ Universal largest exchanges for freelancers of different professions:
www.fl.ru - I once started on this site and worked only on it (as a copywriter and editor). A very large resource (once it was number 1), but for full-fledged work you will have to buy a paid Pro account.
freelance.ru is another large exchange site for freelancers of various specialties.
www.weblancer.net - I used to find customers here too. Large freelance exchange.
www.freelancejob.ru
freelancehunt.com
✔ Exchanges for copywriters:
The above plus for example these ↓
textbroker.ru
advego.ru
www.etxt.ru
www.textsale.ru
neotext.ru
✔Exchanges for programmers:
freelansim.ru/tasks
devhuman.com
1clancer.ru
✔For lawyers and accountants:
hrtime.ru
urtender.ru
pravoved.ru
✔For artists and designers:
www.logopod.ru
www.russiancreators.ru/job/freelance
illustrators.ru/jobs
✔For architects and interior designers:
chert-master.com
forum.homeideas.ru/forum18.html
architector.ru/lance/project/all
And much more appears on Google all the time - google exchanges in your specialty and find new and suitable ones for you.
How to find a job in another country
To find a job in the country where you are going to go, you just need to google this topic on the Internet. I can do it for you, of course, but I can't google all countries. Just write a query in the search engine, for example: "A chef is required in Pattaya" (if you are a chef) or "Working as a DJ in China" (if you are a DJ and cannot live without China) and so on.
Or you can just come to the place where you want to live, get acquainted with everyone and find out where and who you can work here. The main thing is intention and activity and work is found.
You can watch work in Thailand, for example, here: vk.com/jobthai vk.com/thaiwork
It will be a big plus if you speak English - you can ask the search engine questions in English and there will probably be more interesting options. By the way, in China, Russian DJs and soloists are in demand - my friend successfully worked there under contracts for some time. The search engine will definitely give you several forums and sites that will contain ads on your topic.
The ability to google (use a search engine) in our era is invaluable, believe me - look for everything and always yourself - the Internet already has answers to all your questions.
How to work as a hairdresser, photographer, instructor and anyone else in different countries yourself
Now this is more complicated, even if you take care of it in advance:
✔ make and promote your website about services,
✔ light up on all possible forums as a cool hairdresser or yoga instructor, etc. - all the same, immediately upon arrival, you will not have enough clients in order to provide yourself with accommodation in a new place.
In such cases, the more you live in one place, the more your income will be. And often travel and move from place to place will not work. But if you are planning to live for several years in another country, then you just need to choose your locality in advance in order to settle immediately and for a long time.
In any case - if you sell any services and do it efficiently, you will gradually be able to receive sufficient income. What should be taken into account in this case - work on a tourist or student visa for foreigners in any country is prohibited. And in order to work legally, you need to apply for a work visa and work permit.
For Thailand, for example, now this is very important - they check everyone and everywhere. And a hairdresser, for example, is generally a prohibited profession in Thailand. Although my favorite hairdressers work here illegally, with their own clientele. I don't even know what we would do in Thailand without Russian hairdressers and makeup artists).
Portfolio. Don't throw anything away
Create and improve your portfolio... Never delete the fruits of your labor: photos, texts, codes, drawings, etc. - all this can come in handy in a portfolio or find a second life after a while.
Continuous learning and growth
Don't stop study, improve your qualifications (and increase the cost of your labor) - this can be done every day or all your free time - because your well-being now depends on the level of your skill, nobody else's.
Constantly increasing the cost of your work
Increasing the value of your time is something that you need to do constantly, of course, while developing and learning and without regret parting with those employers who will pay you less than your growing bar. Without improving the quality of your work, without studying and without increasing earnings, freelancing is useless.
Take on the new and the unknown
Don't be afraid to tackle new topics. For example, if you are an IT specialist and you receive an assignment to do something that you have never done before, or a copywriter and receive an offer to write a text on a topic that you have never heard of, such as "Technique for performing parivritta prasarita padottanasana", then you can just honestly warn the employer that it will take a little more time to complete this new task for you, but you can handle it. As I already wrote, the Internet has answers to all questions, full of textbooks and information on any topic.
Timing and communication with the employer
By the way, about the timing - it is better to discuss them in advance a little with a margin, because it is better to do the work sooner rather than later.
About communication with the employer - it is better to always be in touch and speak honestly about everything right away. Do not have time to complete the work on time - do not hide, but write about it first, always staying in touch.
Don't work with people you don't like, look at employer reviews before starting to work with him. Leave without regret from those who are hard and uninteresting to work with or who pay less than you would like.
Sports and travel - nothing without them
Engage sports and do not forget to take a walk - this is very actual indeed! Sometimes while working on interesting projects, we forget to leave the house for days, if not for morning yoga and constant travel, I would have completely withered.
As the saying goes: "If you enthusiastically do what you love (for example, suck a snag), you can even miss the apocalypse."
Personally, yoga saves me (I love surfing, snowboarding, mountain tracks ...). Particularly helps to reboot your health by periodically visiting yoga detox, about which I wrote
Travel! After all, now you are a free person in space and can live anywhere. As romantic as it sounds, it is. Most likely you will find it useful to have my constantly updated page with life hacks for independent travelers (bookmark :):
By the way, about life on a journey for freelancers, a separate post with photos about the conditions in which freelancers live in different cities of the world (personal photo review) can be found here.
Technology and the mentality of modern society lead to the fact that remote work will soon become the only possible way to earn money.
But while some are already taking full advantage of the benefits of technological progress and getting money from the comfort of their homes, others are just starting to think about working remotely.
To dispel all the doubts and fears of beginners, let's take a closer look at the most basic issues related to remote work from home.
Remote work: what is it?
The principle of remote work is clear already from the very formulation of the concept: we are talking about remote (remote) work.
People often confuse this type of earnings with starting their own business. But how to understand what “remote work” is if you do not have a business, and you yourself are not a director who appears at work only to check employees and sign contracts?
As soon as the Internet began to develop at a rapid pace, the representatives of intellectual labor realized that to receive new tasks and transfer the results of labor, it is no longer necessary to travel to the office. Why not do all this through a computer and a global network?
Let's go a little deeper into history. Back in 1972, American Jack Nilles was outraged, why he, as an introvert, is obliged to work in an office (like many others), if now technology allows you to do all the work remotely? Despite the then seeming absurdity of this idea, the authorities became interested in this idea. They saw in it a solution to many problems: transport, organizational, and personal.
Now it was possible not only to solve all these issues, but also to give jobs to people from remote corners of the country, where there was always terrible unemployment.
Why is that? The fact is that all people are divided into 2 camps:
- Some people perceive the Internet as entertainment. It seems to them that others (remote employees) will do anything other than work, because no one sees them, there is no discipline.
- Others look at the world wide web as a tool for making money, a lot of opportunities for self-realization.
So what exactly is remote work?
So, remote work is:
Standard work with the conclusion of an employment contract, a tightly regulated schedule, days off, paid (sometimes) vacation, boss, subordinates, their own deadlines and stresses.
What is a Remote Worker?
A distinction should be made between the concept of a freelancer and a remote employee.
The first is a freelance artist who is hired exclusively for some kind of project without a state registration.
A remote employee is a standard employee of an organization who performs a number of duties, but from home, without visiting the office. As a rule, a separate agreement on teleworking is concluded with such a person (Article 312.1 - 312.5 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation).
What does the signing of such an agreement give him? This document is his guarantee that all the same labor laws will apply to a remote employee as to an office employee (vacation, sick leave, etc.).
Forecasters claim that by 2020 about 20% of people in Russia will work remotely. Already today, we can note the massive transfer of employees large companies into a similar operating mode.
Another important difference a remote worker from a freelancer - work for one company with the possibility of part-time work (if the employer does not mind). A freelancer can complete as many projects as he wants at any time, even at the same time. He is forced to constantly look for new orders, while a remote employee always receives assignments from his organization.
Are remote earnings on the Internet and remote work the same thing?
It is necessary to distinguish remote work on the Internet from regular remote work.
Remote earnings on the Internet is an area in which the Internet is not only a tool, but also a material for making money.
That is, there are certain actions that will bring profit, but the process of work itself and the result of work will remain within the virtual world.
For example, performing certain tasks on the Internet and receiving money for it (comments, clicks, likes, subscriptions to publics, etc.), binary options or other financial transactions - if you understand them, you can get money.
That is, remote work and freelancing can exist without the Internet if you perform a task at home (for example, accounting reports, design development) and bring the solution to the office. Earning money on the Internet will not do without it.
Misconceptions about telecommuting
As in other areas of human life, the world of remote work has its own myths. Let's find out what are the delusions and why they are delusions:
- It is extremely difficult to find a remote job. Finding it is as difficult or easy as finding a job. The main thing here is the level of your knowledge, experience, goals, personal qualities. When looking for a remote job, you will have to perform tests, pass interviews, acquaint with the portfolio.
- Remote work is not for everyone. Already today, there are cases when positions of applied professions are suitable for remote work: teachers, doctors and even cleaning women. And every day the possibilities of technology are growing, as is the range of vacancies for new and old professions.
- A remote employee receives less than an office employee. We do not argue that this could have been a reality before. But today such discrimination has disappeared, if not completely, then almost completely.
- The remote worker has no growth prospects. A remote employee is an ordinary employee of the company who will receive a promotion if he deserves it.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Remote Work
What's the catch? Why do you need remote work if there is a traditional one? Here are the main benefits of working from home:
- freedom of action and movement (you work in any convenient place);
- maximum comfort (no dress code, discipline, uncomfortable furniture);
- time saving (no traffic jams, crowded public transport, loss of travel time);
- maximum concentration at work (no distractions in the form of colleagues, telephone conversations others, etc.);
- perfect job for.
Hiring employees for remote work has its advantages for the employer as well:
- greater motivation of the employee (no need to sit a full 8-hour day);
- search for an employee is not limited to the geography of the company (companies can hire the most suitable employee, even if he lives on a different continent);
- significant savings in workplaces, wear and tear of equipment and other expenses.
But before you can find remote work on the Internet at home, you need to know about the disadvantages of this type of activity:
- many companies prefer traditional employment and are not ready to provide a place for remote workers;
- lack of live communication;
- purchase of computers and software at the expense of the employee;
- rigid self-organization and;
- often irregular working hours.
Most wanted remote professions
After analyzing the world's largest sites with the publication of new remote vacancies, having studied the current offers of employers, you can present the following list of areas:
- IT: developers, programmers, designers, layout designers, SEO specialists, etc.
- Finance: accountants, bank specialists, estimators, project managers, etc.
- Sales: operators, managers, etc.
- Administration: administrators, text decryptors, assistants, database operators, etc.
- Mass media / advertising / marketing: PR-specialists, SMM-specialists, journalists, copywriters, marketers, editors, etc.
- HR: recruiters, managers, etc.
- Video / photo / design: web and graphic designers, video and photography, illustrators, editing, creating videos, etc.
- Consulting: consultants, managers, etc.
- Education: tutors, translators, coaches, student authors, etc.
- Others: insurance agents, travel managers, insurance agents, etc.
How to find a remote job
We have already talked about which professions in remote work might suit you. But how to find yourself a place where you can finally start earning?
Many people still think that remote work with knowledge of a certain area is available only to residents of large cities. Wake up people! The Internet is a limitless space with no division into cities and towns. The Internet is a world in which geolocation is disappearing.
And here are some ways to find remote work from home:
- Talk to your employer. If you are a valuable employee, he will not want to lose you. First, you can try remote work with a weekly office visit. Over time, such visits can be minimized. If you have not yet become such an employee, strive for this.
- Search on specialized sites. Usually, regular job search sites have filters that can be used to select all ads based on distance. And there are entire websites dedicated specifically to remote work.
- Help from agencies. There are entire organizations for finding remote work for job seekers according to your requests. But in general, we recommend that you simply search the Internet for the query "remote work for + profession"). The search will certainly give a lot of options, among which you will certainly find yours.
Remote work for students: types of professions
Still, young people should not despair. Often, companies are looking for just such inexperienced people with not yet clouded brains. Here are the professions in which students can try to realize themselves.
Copywriting
Perfect for students of philological or linguistic specialties, since literacy and the ability to correctly express thoughts are important here.
Copywriting is writing articles to order in absolutely any direction: description of resorts, appointment of metal structures, biography of a celebrity, advantages of goods and services, etc.
The Internet is developing, so are the sites. Consequently, copywriters are in high demand in the electronic market. And in order to survive, you will need to write efficiently and on time.
How much can you earn from copywriting? The amount depends on the amount of work. A novice copywriter needs to fill his hand and a syllable. To do this, it is necessary to issue 15,000 - 20,000 characters per day. Later, when your own customer base is developed, the number of characters can be gradually reduced, while simultaneously increasing the cost of work (within reasonable limits).
On average, such work brings in about $ 300-400 per month. The cunning ones manage to bring in $ 1000, but this is not for everyone.
Where to find a job as a copywriter? Start with open spaces Advego, text.ru or eTxt. And best of all - register for everyone at once and see which service you like.
The principle of work is the same for everyone: register, select the first order, complete it, receive payment for remote work, withdraw money to your account.
Get ready for the fact that the first orders will have to be executed literally for a penny. The more you work, the more profitable orders you will receive.
Rewriting and other little thing
This is more likely not a job, but a part-time job, because they pay very modestly for it.
Rewrite is a low-grade copyright, a retelling of a text in other words without changing its meaning.
Yes, this is not theft of articles from other people's sites, but a thorough alteration of them.
There are other tasks that will bring some penny: writing comments, chatting on forums, placing links, participating in polls, inviting friends to communities, and so on.
How much can you earn from rewriting? Don't expect to get more than $ 50-100 per month here, and that's the maximum!
Where to look for such a job? As in the previous case - Advego, text.ru or eTxt, or better - all at once.
This unusual type of income is only suitable for those who have their own home. However, in some cases it is worthwhile to strain even when you are filming.
Let's give an example. If in the near future serious film festivals, sporting events (the world ice hockey championship, say), Oktoberfest or other events that attract tourists are planned in your city, it's time to register for booking or AIRBNB.
The cost of decent housing per day can vary around $ 35 (for a one-room apartment) and higher. Even if you rent an apartment, sometimes it is more profitable to hurry up in time and go to your friends for the night. This kind of quick wits can pay off some of the cost of your stay.
Earnings in the photo
If you love to shoot nature, others or whatever, it's a sin not to make money on it. It is enough to post photos in one of the photobanks, adjusting the pictures to suit their requirements.
Before uploading a photo to the public, familiarize yourself with the target audience of the selected photo bank. As a rule, each of them has its own specialization, which is rather difficult to understand right away.
Get ready for the fact that you will not start earning in this way right away. It will take some time before a penny starts dripping into your pocket.
Experiment constantly and upload new photos. This will help you better understand which photos the audience likes best.
Usually, on such sites, photos of the following direction are fastest:
- people and expression of emotions;
- work, leisure, sports;
- images of life situations (quarrel, friendship, ball games);
- photos of food, drinks, items;
- images of tourist places (Kremlin, Eiffel Tower, Tower);
- seasons and seasons (Halloween, New Year, Christmas).
With normal activity, remote earnings can go up to $ 600. But remember that this is a professional level to strive for.
Where can I find photography jobs? Pay attention to the sites depositphotos.com, shutterstock.com and others like that.
Content-, SMM-, Social-manager
All these are very interesting professions that have their own subtleties.
Each of them is associated with the maintenance and development of a project (site or group of a social network). Here you will have to write or search for texts, select pictures for them, publish, repost, motivate people to join groups.
How much can you earn from this? As a rule, such work is not well paid. However, it will not be time-consuming, which is ideal for students. And if you are determined to earn serious money, what prevents you from running several projects at once?
A good specialist in this field knows how to find the needs of his target audience and is constantly increasing it.
Where to find a job? Pay attention to the sites freelance.ru, work-zilla.com.
Foreign transfers
If you know well foreign language, give all your strength to in-depth study of some area (business, logistics, medicine and other highly specialized terminology).
The market always needs translators with a good knowledge of technical texts.
How much can you earn from this? At first, it will turn out to earn very little. But here the more you learn, the faster you will get through. And build up regular customers. In a good scenario, an experienced translator gets about $ 600 and even more.
Where to find a job as a translator? Pay attention to the sites of Advego, perevodchik.me.
Writing a blog
Now only the lazy doesn't blog. And if you still don’t do it, then you probably don’t know how you can make money on it.
And there are many ways to monetize: participation in affiliate programs, contextual advertising, advertising links, writing custom posts and so on. Your task is to make the project successful and interest subscribers.
Anyone who begins to write from the heart, who cares about the topic, who has some zest, will be able to advance in this matter. But, as with photos, earnings will not begin to come immediately, but only after the blog begins to appear on the first pages of search results.
Skype work (consultations, tutoring)
Tutoring is suitable for specialists in a particular field (lawyers, accountants, etc.). And tutoring is for teachers and students who are well versed in the discipline. The main thing here is to be a professional and give advice that will surely help the client.
It is especially helpful to be a Skype teacher. Just imagine how great it is to study with a native speaker of the country where you are going to travel soon!
Where to find a job as a tutor? Pay attention to the sites eslcafe.com, skyeng.ru.
Work as an author of student works
This type of income is great for high performing students and even teachers. After all, everyone knows very well how low their salaries are. And help in writing various kinds of work is a great way not only to earn extra money, but also often make this type of remote work your main source.
It is recommended to make money in this way, including for first-year students. Start by writing essays to order - something that even high school students can do. Over time, you will retrain for more serious work: coursework, practice reports, diplomas. The sooner you can master these types of work, the better you will cope with writing your own.
How much can you earn from this? It all depends on the type of work and the time the author is willing to devote to work. There are those who receive $ 1500-2000. There is something to strive for, right?
Working as an author of student works is great for those who want to develop. Just imagine: constantly learning something new while writing unfamiliar essays or term papers. Constant self-education will only benefit.
conclusions
Whoever you decide to become, remember: you won't get much right away. For a normal income, you need to fill your hand, gain experience.
Reassure yourself that when you work remotely, you are your own boss and can get up at a time that suits you.
The main thing here is to learn discipline and organize the workflow. If all this works out, we assure you: remote work will allow you to manage your own life, provide you with freedom.
Despite the fact that in Russia this type of earnings is still developing, now in almost every city you can find vacancies for remote employment. And if you can't find it, we are ready to give you a job even tomorrow! And to broaden your horizons or just keep abreast of student life, subscribe to our
I am convinced that teleworking is the future of our planet. Not in isolated manifestations, as is happening now, but on the scale of the entire population of the Earth. Today technology is developing at a breakneck speed, and sometimes it seems to all of us that we are the heroes of some futuristic book.
Technological progress is stunning, amazing, inspiring and frightening at the same time. But one thing can be said with absolute certainty: never before has a person had so many opportunities in any sphere of life. This is especially true of work - the main component of human life. In this article, I want to consider in detail the consciousness-changing phenomenon of the 21st century - the possibility of remote work.
What is remote work
It would seem that everyone understands that remote work is when an employee is not tied to his workplace and performs his professional function “remotely”. The opportunity to work remotely appeared with the development of the Internet, when participants in the intellectual labor market realized that it was possible to transfer the results of work and receive new tasks using a computer and global networkwithout having to sit at a specific desk in a specific office.
The concept of remote work was developed by American Jack Nilles. In 1972, he expressed the idea that it is not necessary to keep employees in the office, since modern means of communication allow you to maintain contact between employees at a distance. The authorities showed interest in developing the idea of \u200b\u200bremote work, seeing in it a solution to transport problems that were acute in cities. New organization labor could allow to solve these issues, and at the same time provide jobs for the population of remote rural areas.
Nevertheless, in many cases, people working remotely are still looked at with a squint, identifying them with anything, but only with not honest labor. Most people do not understand the phrase “remote work” at all, despite the fact that this same majority uses all the benefits of the Internet every day.
Believe me, I know this firsthand. Every other day we are asked: “How do you work remotely? Do you have your own business? What do you do? How exactly do you make money? " People seem to have the impression that telecommuting is for a select few. This is not true! Remote work is not a business, not a hack or cheating. Simply people are divided into two types: those for whom the Internet is entertainment, and sometimes a time killer, and those for whom the Internet is a sea of \u200b\u200bopportunities and a tool for making money.
Remote work is a common work with labor contract, schedule, days off, paid leave, bosses and subordinates, workdays, stress and deadlines. Everything is like a classic work in the office, only outside the office.
How remote work differs from freelancing
I noticed that many people confuse remote work and freelancing. Nikita is often called a freelancer, although he is not. In fact, remote work and freelancing have only one thing in common - the Internet as a way of communication. All.
The word "freelancer" is literally translated from English freelanceras a "free worker". This means that the freelancer is not affiliated with any company, he works for different companies, different clients, and is looking for them independently. Perhaps the freelancer is registered as individual entrepreneur, he has his own website, where he describes his services, or the fame of him circulates on the Internet, and clients find him themselves. Perhaps he is an active participant in such specialized sites as fl.ru or freelance.ruwhere customers and providers of any service find each other.
Freelancer is in free flight, he does not have a schedule, a boss, a team, and most often does not permanent work... There are different projects - one to five to twenty a month - that bring him income. It already depends on the specialization and authority of the specialist. Remote worker has a permanent contract with one company, fixed working hours and fixed monthly salaries. He is not free in the choice of projects and tasks, he does what his leader tells him. Perhaps he himself is in charge of someone. Indeed, today there are whole "distributed" teams where all employees work from different cities and even countries.Why remote work and making money on the Internet are two different things
There is another big confusion in concepts. And I really want to dot the i's. What is remote work, you already understood. Now let's figure out what making money on the Internet is.
Working on the Internet means performing certain actions that are profitable, but the process of work and the results of labor do not go beyond virtuality. I will not consider everything possible ways making money on the Internet, I will give just examples. There are special sites where any Internet user can complete tasks and receive money for them: put likes, leave comments, subscribe to publics; in addition, there are sensational binary options and other financial transactions, understanding which you can get money; there are all kinds of information products - courses, lectures, eBookswhose authors also earn.
What is the difference from remote work and from freelancing? The Internet in such work is not just a communication tool, but directly material for earning money. Roughly speaking, remote work and freelancing are possible without the Internet. - specialists perform the task at home (for example, they do cadastral calculations or accounting reports) and personally bring them to the office on a flash drive or send documents by mail. No internet needed. Namely, "making money on the Internet" without the Internet is not possible.
Remote work myths
Myth 1. Remote work is very difficult to find.
Reality: Finding a remote job is as difficult as finding a regular job. It all depends on your knowledge, experience, personal qualities, goals, etc. For remote positions, you also need to pass interviews, tests, show a portfolio.
Myth 2. Remote work is not for everyone.
Reality: The distance labor market is developing every day. I am sure that in a couple of years, even typically “applied” professions such as doctors, teachers and even cleaners will find themselves in remote work. The range of remote vacancies is much wider than we used to think.
Myth 3. Remote workers earn less than office workers.
Reality: Perhaps at the dawn of remote work as a phenomenon, such discrimination took place. This is not the case now.
Myth 4. A teleworker cannot build a career.
Reality: If you understand the main thesis of this article, then this myth is no longer relevant for you. A telecommuter is a regular worker, and if he deserves a promotion, he will be promoted.
Pros and cons of remote work for an employee
| pros | Minuses |
| Freedom of movement: a remote employee can work at home, in the park, in a cafe, on the beach, and travel the world. | Constant search good internet: any fabulous place to work can be hell for a remote worker if the internet is bad. |
| Convenient workplace: a warm bed with hot cocoa, a hammock between palm trees, the sound of the surf - anything for your inspiration. You can work naked, in pajamas, without makeup or hair. | Water, toilet paper, electricity and internet costs are your concern, the company does not pay for this.  Also, you yourself provide yourself with the equipment you need to work. |
| Saving travel time and fees: no need to get to the office with traffic jams or the subway. Plus - no morning stress. The time saved can be spent on family, self-education and recreation. | There will be no more cheerful drunken corporate parties with colleagues. Although, for some, this is a plus. |
| There are no unnecessary distractions from the work process: a colleague at the next table will not be bothered with jokes, and the lunch break can no longer be devoted to discussing a New Year's gift for the boss. | You will not have New Year's or any other gifts. But in a noisy cafe, they can also interfere with your productive work. |
| If you are an introvert, then it is impossible to imagine a job that is more ideal for you. | If you are an extrovert, then you will miss the communication over a cup of tea, group gags and the opportunity to make new friends. Although you can also make friends remotely. |
Pros and cons of remote work for an employer
| pros | Minuses |
| A remote employee is more motivated: he does not have to sit in the office for eight hours. He completes his tasks, the faster he completes them, the more personal time he will have. As practice shows, more often remote employees work even more than eight hours. they are passionate about the task and want to complete it. | Setting up a competent work of a "distributed" team is not so easy. It is necessary to carefully consider the system of reports, communications, online scheduling and so on. |
| The choice of an applicant is not limited to one city: you can choose the most talented specialist in the industry for your team, even if he lives in another country. | The HR department must be prepared for the formalization of remote employees. This entails additional operations, for example, sending a contract, processing money transfers, etc. |
| Saving expenses on renting a workplace and wear and tear of equipment, as well as other accompanying expenses: a remote employee bears expenses, for example, for a computer breakdown. | If the employer does not provide the employee necessary equipment, he has no right to demand certain things. For example, in the event of force majeure: a computer breakdown, a power outage or an earthquake in the place where an employee works, work will be temporarily suspended, and this must always be borne in mind. |
The ranking of the demand for remote professions
I studied several of the largest Russian and international sites on which new deleted vacancies are regularly published, I also analyzed popular pages with current job offers in social networks... Based on this research, I have compiled a rating of the most in-demand remote professions today.
- Information Technology: programmers, all kinds of developers, HTML coders, SEO specialists, and others.
- Financial sector: banking specialists, accountants, cost estimators, financial project managers and others.
- Sales: sales managers, call center operators and others.
- Education: all kinds of tutors, coaches, authors of student works and others.
- Administrative area: assistants, administrators for collecting applications, transcripts, database operators and others.
- Media, marketing, advertising: PR specialists, SMM specialists, copywriters, journalists, internet marketers, website editors and others.
- HR: recruiting specialists, HR managers and others.
- Design, photo, video: graphic designers, web designers, illustrators, photography and video filming, video editing, video clips creation, and so on.
- Consulting: project managers, consultants and others.
- Others: translators, tourism managers, insurance agents and others.
Ways to find remote work
For most people, looking for a remote job is an unknown mystical ritual, seasoned with wild dances and joining the sect of a select few. Many have told me that remote work is only available to residents of megalopolises, although the idea of \u200b\u200bremote work breaks any geolocation link. Let's look at three main ways to find a remote job.
- Talk to your boss. He may want to transfer you to a remote position with a visit to the office once a week, and then completely without participating in weekly planning meetings. Personally, we had this experience, it works in practice. Even if your company doesn't have a single remote employee yet, you can be a pioneer.
- Browse numerous job search sites. Even on the same HH.ru, more than 12 thousand remote vacancies are currently available. There are specialized sites for finding a remote job. I will write about them in a separate article, because I have a good base of cool resources.
- Contact specialized specialistswho professionally prepare people for remote work, help to retrain, if necessary, advise, train and help with employment. Today there are many free consultants for remote work, as well as webinars, books, articles in which experts share the secrets of finding remote work.
The company provides unique trainings to help people find them strengths and apply to earn money in a new area for yourself. Company motto: "There is remote work for everyone"that I completely share.
Conclusion
Remote work allows you to manage your life, gives you more freedom, more opportunities, and this is exactly what the average mid-level manager in any country dreams of. Large multinational corporations have long been practicing partially remote working hours for their employees, and young, effective startups generally rarely consider standard offices as a workspace.
In Russia, remote work as a phenomenon is just beginning its journey. In big cities, more and more companies are opening remote positions, and people are increasingly striving for just such a job. But in our mentality, such a strange approach to work still does not fit. This is evidenced by numerous misunderstandings, myths and stereotypes regarding remote work.
Unfortunately, I have not found any polls or specific statistics on this matter. Only from personal experience, I can say that among young people around the world, remote work is not just a fashion trend, but the most acceptable way of life in which work, family, travel, leisure and hobbies are combined in a balanced way.
I have been collecting information and my thoughts on this for a long time, so the article turned out to be long. I hope you take it as a basis for reflection and own conclusions, and not as the ultimate truth. Share in the comments what do you think about remote work? Do you have a similar experience? What would you add to my thesis?Next article
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In the meantime, I’ll tell you a little about what remote work on the Internet is, how it is done and "what it is eaten with." In a word, you will learn everything you need to understand the essence of the phenomenon. I hope that the information that you read will help you determine how suitable this type of employment is for you.
A female copywriter helped me with this post. Here's what she wrote about herself as her own review:
“I am 20 years old and have been working as a copywriter for a year (that is, I write articles to order). As for me, this is not such a long work experience, but it is quite enough to imbued with deep sympathy for a remote person. Along with this, I study at the university, music school, in general, I do everything that interests me and helps to realize myself. Working 3-4 hours a day (or about 25 a week), I earn 3000 hryvnia per month - a little more than $ 120. In general, quite modestly, but in proportion to the time and effort spent. "
It seems that not a lot. But for a full-time student, this is a very good addition to the scholarship, and without the need to unload wagons or run around for days as a promoter with leaflets at the ready.
Remote work (synonyms: telework, telecommuting) - the form labor activityin which the employee and the employer are at a significant physical and geographical distance from each other. Moreover, all required documents, tasks and results are transmitted by the parties to each other using modern means of communication (earlier - fax, today - the Internet).
It is clear that with such an organization of labor, a lot of technical and psychological characteristics, which, under some consideration, can turn out to be both pluses and minuses.
In my consulting practice, I distinguish 2 types of remote work.
Remote work types
In general, remote work is a very broad concept that combines many different types of activities. But the essence is always the same - you are removed from the employer, office, "workplace", ie. stay at a certain physical distance from them. This means that you can work almost anywhere: at home, on a bed or armchair, in a park or cafe, on the beach or even on a hike.
I would like to immediately dispel the stereotype that remote work is. This is not true. It can be different: with a normalized schedule and without, with enrollment in the staff and complete independence, with varying degrees of responsibility and workload. Everything, as always, depends on what you do, how and on what terms.
Workplace in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka
Working for one permanent employer
For example, you can be an employee in a certain company and perform your work duties at home or in another place convenient for you: taking calls, programming, drawing, or even sewing.
Many companies are switching to this form of employment, especially from the IT sector. This way, the employer can save the cost of renting your workplace and give you more space for creativity and self-organization.
More often than not, you will not have a free schedule; work will need to be done at certain times. But there are also cases when it is necessary to complete a specific task in a certain time.
When I, after my enchanting, moved to a new workplace, one of the ways to organize work was just remote cooperation. True, I used it only when I didn't want to go to the office at all.
Freelance
Freelance worker hired by natural or legal entities to perform one-time tasks. About that, I wrote a separate detailed article, please see.
I must say, this is my favorite kind of remote control:
- maximum freedom in choosing activities, customers, task volumes and deadlines.
- the ability to work from anywhere in the world where there is Internet
- independence from the volatility of economic markets (it is simply impossible to fire you)
For reference, with of English language "Freelance", if you break the word into two parts (free and lance), then a free spear comes out or, without scoffing, a free spearman, a hired worker (freelancer). That is, a person with certain skills and abilities who are hired for long-term projects or one-time jobs.
Today it is the most famous type of remote control, especially popular for IT specialists, rewriters, smm and seo specialists.
What is the advantage of freelancing?
In my opinion, it is very important to change the relationship between employer and employee. They are transformed into a customer-executor or client-executor relationship. Have you noticed the point?
That's right, in the hierarchy, there is much less of it or none at all. Ideally, the client and the contractor are equal partners, working on a project or assignment, where each plays a role.
Working from home on the Internet, you independently choose the type of activity that matches your interests and skills, choose the customer, project, payment, terms. You are an equal participant labor relations and all aspects of your work are now agreed directly with the client.
Freelance pluses:
- even more degrees of freedom
- the ability to choose projects for yourself
- maximum opportunities for self-realization
- freedom of movement and mobility
- lack of bosses, bosses, hierarchies and offices
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Another important detail is communication with customers, which most often occurs through Internet correspondence (less often a Skype interview), which means that your gender, age does not matter, appearance and other aspects of your personality that can become grounds for discrimination when applying for a real job.
About the problems faced by applicants aged me too.
By the way, when looking for a job, be aware that it is illegal to indicate the gender or age of the applicant in the ad.
How to find your dream job?
Sometimes it is enough to google "freelance" and in return you will receive many links to different ones. Another option is regular job search sites. On most of them, you can select the type of employment in the search filter. I think you have already guessed that you need to check the box next to "remote work".
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Outcome
I told you what remote work is and what it is. As a result, I would like to separately highlight the advantages and disadvantages of this type of activity.
Benefits
- The ability to work in any comfortable place, and if you work via the Internet, you can be located almost anywhere in the world.
- Saving time and money on travel and quite serious: 1-3 hours every day. What to do with so much free time? You decide!
- The ability to independently organize your working day (in most cases), and ideally full control over the workflow.
- Lack of control from the authorities, which causes a wonderful feeling of freedom and an influx of inspiration.
- Saving on dress code, work even in slippers and panties!
disadvantages
For example, not all people find it so easy to organize themselves and make themselves work. For me, this is periodically a real disaster, because of which I delay the work as far as possible. An important nuance for many people is the lack of colleagues with whom you can talk and consult.
It also entails other disadvantages, such as the lack of a sense of involvement in a common cause, a sense of the team. According to many experts, professional growth slows down through remote work, since feedback from the employer does not always come on time.
Weigh, choose, analyze and decide! In addition to free working conditions, remote work will provide you with an excellent opportunity to find your own business and develop professional skills.
Or it can become a real way of life for you, when you build your life not around your working time, but in the intervals between your favorite activities.
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