Changing Career: Becoming a Home-based Worker

After the procedure of choosing whether or not you might want to remain working at home, you would now be able to concentrate on the best way to begin your career at the solace of your own home.
There are such a large number of sites where we can discover work.  It is ideal that you concentrate on your present aptitudes, your instructive foundation, work involvement and what you are energetic about. For instance, you should need to consider turning into a transcriber or writer on the off chance that you have a wonderful writing ability. On the off chance that you have a foundation as a call center operator, you can consider applying as a virtual assistant, telemarketer or lead generator. In the event that you are enthusiastic about educating, you can go along with me on the web-based instructing profession.
I had considerable experience with the call center industry and had a working understanding as an ESL Coach so I joined the online teaching where I am most agreeable and enthusiastic about.
There are a ton of sites where we can apply for work on the web. Here are some genuine locales you could look at.

LEGIT FREELANCING JOB SITES: 

https://www.upwork.com

https://www.peopleperhour.com/

https://www.fiverr.com/

http://www.guru.com/

https://www.truelancer.com/

https://freeeup.com

https://www.freelancer.com/

https://golance.com/

https://www.onlinejobs.ph/

https://www.myoutdesk.com/

https://www.mturk.com/mturk/

https://zeerk.com/

https://199jobs.com/

https://www.outsourcely.com/

https://hubstaff.com/

http://raket.ph

DESIGN PLATFORM

https://99designs.com/

https://www.toptal.com/

https://themeforest.net/become-an-author

https://envato.com/careers/

https://themeforest.net/affiliate_program

TUTORIAL PLATFORM

www.51talk.com/ph/

http://acadsoc.ph

http://www.bizmates.ph/apply-now/index.html

https://www.rarejob.com.ph/

https://www.cambly.com/english

https://www.limlessons.com/

https://bibo.com.ph

http://www.nicetalk.com (Smartfone Tutorial)

www.ipalfish.com/ (Smartfone Tutorial Download by Appstore/

Playstore)

https://viptalk.weebly.com/apply.html

http://eigoru.com/

http://jp-network-e.com/en/

TRANSCRIPTION PLATFORM

https://gotranscript.com/transcription-jobs/r/69165

http://transcribeme.com/transcription-jobs

https://scribie.com/freelance-transcription#intro

https://www.verbit.ai/ 

https://www.rev.com

https://www.speechpad.com/worker

https://appenonline.appen.com.au/login

http://www.civimom.com/

https://waywithwordsjobs.com/

http://www.accutranglobal.com/

http://crowdsurfwork.com

https://verbalink.com/jobs

https://workshop.castingwords.com/worker/login

http://www.civimom.com

WEBSITE/URL TESTING & REVIEW PLATFORMS

http://www.analysia.com/ (Click BECOME A TESTER link button)

http://www.enrollapp.com

http://startuplift.com/get-paid-to-provide-feedback/

https://www.testingtime.com/en/become-a-paid-testuser

https://www.trymyui.com/worker/signup

https://www.userfeel.com

https://www.userlytics.com

https://usertest.io/Tester/Signup

https://www.usertesting.com

https://www.utest.com

https://app.whatusersdo.com/login

VOICE NARATION PLATFORM

https://voicebunny.com

https://www.voices.com

DATA ENTRY (NOT CAPTCHA TYPING)

http://www.capitaltyping.com/employment/

https://www.clickworker.com/clickworker-job/

https://ttv.microworkers.com

For moms like me, you might want to consider your working place in the house. Since I teach, it is required that I have a noise-free place in the house so I set a small office-room where I can conduct my class.

If you have any questions, just feel free to drop a message.

 

 

 

 

 

Weighing the Options

I can vividly remember the time when I decided to fully work at home, that was the time I had my first pregnancy. There were crucial points that I’ve considered before jumping into the bandwagon of home based online teaching.

Benefits

I was an expectant mother so first thing I’ve considered were the benefits of working in a company, I don’t have to worry about health insurance, social security and of course if I get sick I could still be paid. Not to mention the 13^th month pay. On the other hand, working at home means “no work, no pay” and I have to shoulder the payment of health insurance and social security system. Though I’ve experienced working as a part-time online tutor before, I have never really thought of doing it as a full-time because of the perks in the workplace.

Working Time

The thing about working at home is you can set the time that you wanted to work. It’s very flexible.  I teach from early morning and evening so I had the whole mid-morning and afternoon to myself. It’s really great because if I go grocery shopping, there’s not so many people lining up in the counter or getting stuck in the traffic jam. Also, I was able to take care of my baby while working.

Salary

I could earn the same amount of salary that I earned when I was working in a call center or even slightly higher depending on the number of hours I input. I work an average of 160-200 hours a month. Other tutors could work 15-18 hours a day!

Travel Time

I worked in a call center at that time and I got out from the office at 7 in the morning. You can just imagine the rush hour. Travelling to and fro from the workplace, getting stuck in the traffic jam jarred me and thinking about working at home is a kind of dream job. I could save 2-3 hours of my time in a day.

You are your own boss

One of the great things about working at home is that you don’t have the pressure from your bosses. If you plan to have a vacation you can do so. No need to file a leave of absence. Of course, that would be without pay. It’s like having your own business.

If you are also surmising about working at home, you might want to consider these things.

Check out my next blog on how to prepare yourself in working at home.

 

Two Simple and Easy Tips to Enhance your English

I notice that my readers usually come from Japan so I decided to publish this blog. These are some easy tips I would like to share to my students.

Improve your vocabulary 

Reading would greatly boost your vocabulary. Ask yourself what kind of reading materials you would like to read. If you are a person who loves to check out the current events, then I suggest that you read the English news after reading your favorite Japanese newspaper.  If you love reading manga, you could check out some comics sites. When I was young I loved reading Archie and one of my favorite character there was Jughead. You can check out this comic book if it suits your taste.

Immerse yourself in an English environment

 This is difficult especially if English is not commonly spoken in your area, so how to do that. If you are into music, you can listen to English song. Try to hear out the words. You can begin with simple slow songs. Try to imitate how they pronounce it. Mind you some songs don’t have perfect grammar. However, listening to them can make you more familiar on some words that you don’t know of.

If you have time to watch then maybe you can indulge yourself to watching an English drama series or movies. You could turn on the subtitle at first and second time around you can try to watch it without the subtitle. Test yourself if you could still hear out the words they’re saying. Some expressions are not that easy to understand. Take note of that expression and you can ask your English tutor to explain more about it.

If you are not into music or movies, you could also check out some podcasts or documentaries. What’s important is that you are enjoying your free time and at the same time you improving your English.

With these two tips, you can improve your vocabulary, grammar, listening and pronunciation. Of course, for you to check your development you need your English Teacher to guide you. You can use the words you’ve read and heard and the teacher can evaluate if you were able to use them properly in the class.

How I ventured into Teaching English

As a teenager, I really wanted to become a teacher. However, I ended up graduating with a business major. My parents didn’t want me to go to teaching profession because according to them it is very difficult to get employed. That was actually true, it’s hard to get a permanent job as a teacher so I acquiesced to their decision. Well, now I don’t really regret it because I could still use my background to have a business lesson at present. So how come from a business major, I became an English Tutor?

I was at that time unemployed, I just came back from Taiwan after working there for a year. Economy in Taiwan was so bad in 2008 that a lot of Filipino overseas, I including, were forced to go home and as to be expected an increase of unemployment. I lived in the outskirt of a small city so it’s much harder to find a job. I then check out the newspaper publication for job openings and lo and behold I saw a job advertisement of teaching English to foreign nationalities. As I had dreamed of becoming  a teacher, I thought that this would be perfect opportunity for me instead of working in a bank or call center.

I passed the interviews and trainings for ESL Teaching and that helped me a lot how to teach students effectively. I taught Korean students in that offline school and I’ve enjoyed it immensely. It’s not the usual classroom setting wherein a student would mostly listen but more of an interactive one. I’ve gained insights to their culture and find it exciting. There were of course some challenges along the way but these obstacles made me what I am today. So that’s how I ended up becoming an ESL teacher.