Working from home is not a new concept. People have owned home enterprises for about as long as people have been around. A hundred years ago, people worked from home as farmers, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, physicians, seamstresses, gardeners, bee keepers, cattle ranches, moon shiners, taking in laundry and ironing. Oftentimes merchants would have their home in the back or upstairs of their businesses. As the industrial age took hold, working from home took a back seat to working outside the home, factory jobs and corporate security.
Back in the 80's and 90's, before the dawn of the information age, a lot of people began to leave the rat race in favor of entrepreneurial pursuits. A wide range of books became available offering ideas for businesses to start from home and extolling the virtues of being one's own boss. Service businesses were prominent, but a lot of people tried their hand with companies such as Mary Kay, Avon,Tupperware, Rubbermaid, House of Lloyd, Home Interiors, Christmas Around the World and more.
Eventually, the Internet came into existence and the dot com revolution was born. Information which was only formerly available via books, newspapers, magazines, on videos or at the library was now readily available at the touch of a button. As technology advanced, so did the possiblities for even more sophisticated online businesses.
Today, legitimate home-based opportunities abound. When a person first begins their home-based search, they need to know how to separate the legitimate from the snake-oil salesmen. The best way to find this information is on a site which has nothing to gain by disseminating informative resources about this particular topic.
Working from home in Oklahoma is actually a bit more lucrative than in some other places. Most work at home jobs pay the same whether you live in New York City, where the cost of living is high or in Anytown, Oklahoma where the cost of living is quite low in comparison.
At this time, the most popular jobs from home are customer support and technology support jobs from home. There is one company in Oklahoma which only hires Oklahomans to do this job. MicahTek is located in Broken Arrow and they hire customer service agents to take incoming calls from the comfort of their own home.
To obtain a list of over 100 companies who hire agents from Oklahoma and other places, please visit this comparison spreadsheet on Rat Race Rebellion. If you want to talk to "real" people who have worked for the companies you might consider, please read and ask questions at the forums on WAHM.
Although working the phones is a popular option, it is by no means the only one. LocalHoma will be posting a wide range of articles about working from home in the future.
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