As the world continues to evolve more opportunities to work from home become available. I’m sure we would all enjoy a short commute to the kitchen for a day of work or on a nice day a few extra steps to the patio. Well, there are real legitimate opportunities to do just that!

Just be careful to avoid those work from home scams that promise you’ll make tons of money and those that want you to pay them first for information. My motto is that you should approach the search for a work from home job the same way that you would approach the job search for a typical work in the office job. Would you pay to get information about or apply to positions in a business office or a retail store or anywhere else? Well, probably not. So, I would follow that same approach for any type of position…that’s just me. I’m not paying for a guide with lists of work at home opportunities, I’m not paying for a membership to a website that says they work with companies that have work at home opportunities…basically I’m just not paying!

Below are some opportunities for you to check out. No get rich schemes or make $5000 a week guaranteed! Just real jobs you can work from the comfort of your home.

Alpine Access – They are the premier provider of customer service solutions using home-based employees.

LiveOps – provides companies with a virtual call center and hires virtual agents.

Quicktate – a service that transcribes your voicemail/personal notes and delivers them via email, text message or their iPhone-compatible web widget. Click here to apply to become a transcriber. A typing test is required.

VIPDesk – provides companies with personal customer care solutions, hiring virtual concierges and customer service representatives.

Team Double Click – they match virtual workers with companies looking to hire them.

Working Solutions – matches home based workers with their clients in primarily call center work and some data entry projects. The call center projects may include order processing, reservations, enrollments, customer service, sales, market research, technical support, etc.

West Corporation – providing telemarketing opportunities for home based workers.

Tutor – providing online tutoring service 24/7 but you have to really be knowledgeable in a specific subject.

Looking for something more creative? Well create and sell your own line of t-shirts, hats, mugs and more.

Cafepress – you just create your pictures, text or whatever you want to print on your products, upload them to your shop after creating an account and cafepress takes care of all of the printing and shipping for you.

Lulu – always wanted to publish your own book(s)? well Lulu lets you self-publish your own books, calendars, cookbooks, photo books and more.

Become an online guide. These opporunities will provide you will a little cash in your pocket to possibly supplement your income.
chacha.com – provides answers to questions about anything on the go.
kgbkgb.com – provides a range of information services and “Ask Us Anything” service via mobile and landline phones, SMS and the Internet.
about.com – provides experts on pretty much everything to answer your questions.
justanswer.com – provides experts online to answer your questions.

Work at home jobs that will require a bit of training.

Medquist and Precyse Solutions – providing companies with medical transcribers and medical coders, you can visit AAMT website for information about schools offering the necessary training.