When looking for employment, searching the internet is pure drudgery. I can think of no greater feeling of defeat than spending some of your hard earned time filling out what on the surface seems to be an opportunity for employment, only to find out after you hit the submit button, that you will be able to have that new exciting job after you pay the company offering it 39.95 or some other elusive figure. I guess spending your hard earned time is easier to swallow than some of your hard earned money, but imagine the sinking feeling, if after paying that money, you still found yourself unemployed and 40 dollars lighter. Money doesn't come
easy in this world, and there is no shortage of
people seeking to rid you of yours under the guise of helping you make more.
Everyone loves the thought of being able to work from home, and make a living while doing it. I myself struggle daily to make ends meet working at a career that very seldom requires I leave the house. Seeing as how my business is that of an analyst and producer, I find more and more of these
opportunities popping up all over the place. They all have the same skeletal structure, though many of them introduce themselves wearing many different types of skin. You need to be aware of them, if you are going to stay clear and preserve you valuable time.
It appears the hot, new, work from home opportunity is online surveys. Maybe you have seen them, or been hit with their spam recently. The
offers claim of remarkable, but not overly remarkable earnings that can be made by filling in online questionnaires and participating in focus groups. As you read further into most of these offers, they tell you how easy it is to do, how little time it will take, how many
companies are offering these types of employment. When you reach the end of the document or well crafted marketing piece in most instances, you will find out that in order to precede any further, you will have to pay a small one time application fee of some amount. Sometimes these fees aren’t so small, surpassing $100 dollars. Right there, hang up, hit the back button, and close the browser. You have wasted your time. If you are lucky enough at this point to have not given out your email address or any other information, you can simply do any of the above, and your walk down deception lane will have ended. But if you did proceed with this offer, my question to you would be why? And my statement to you would be I am sorry.
These opportunities are nothing more than methods by which you and your money part ways. They prey upon our instincts; our natural curiosity that wants to know what is on the other side of the fence. They prey upon our natural desire to do things the easy way. It is here that many people don’t turn back, because they are afraid they will miss out on this Big Opportunity if they don’t take action.
The offers are always clad with 100% money back if you are not satisfied and similar promises. Promises that may or may not be kept. It is a numbers game. Many people won’t even bother trying to get their money back and just consider it a loss. Other’s who try, might not have read the fine print, because the fine print is on the other side of the fence and can only be read after submitting your credit card information. One best beware these opportunities and leave you card in your wallet. If the offers were legitimate, everyone would be doing it, everyone would be talking about it and companies would have a backlog of applicants banging at their doors. It is not to say that companies don’t hold focus groups or conduct surveys because they do. What is highly suspect though is that certain internet based companies have been handed this secret
information with instructions to distribute it to the public for a fee. Caveat Emptor!!
Michael Minetree is the owner of MineWurx Studio, a voice over training studio in Washington D.C.
He has been training new voice talent for 10 years and works in the industry on a daiy basis.
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