that would use your kitchen for quality bakery goods?

Might have to have your kitchen certified by the local food safety folks.....but that could give you all sort of bidness

P.S. I work from home as a bookkeeper.

Was hoping to look for a career change. I also like the fact where I can pick my own hours. I think I would work more hours from home (few hours, few hours there) more so than I would in an office. I keep hearing how they are becoming more and more popular.Just trying to find one that would be right for me.

and my Paychecks come from Japan.. At first in Yen, but I managed to talk the bank into giving me dollars. Yen are hard to spend here.

Takes a thousand to buy two cups of coffee and a pastry

The yen has been dropping in value against the dollar, big time. For example, just since December, when the new government took over, the yen has gone from about 80 per dollar to 94 and change today-- a drop of about 15%. I'm curious as to how that would affect your pay from Japan, since your employers are having to spend more yen to buy the same amount of dollars.

it was a little more, not much. I guess after being there 5 years, they were still happy to have me on their payroll.

Watashi mo kotoshi kyuuryou ga takaku naru you ni

what kind of work do you do?

... there are entire teams here (gigantic student loan co) that work from home/remotely full time.

Pro's: pretty obvious - you don't have to commute, no meal expenses, dress code is optional.
The ability to take the dogs for a walk at lunch hour, take quick breaks to do laundry, can jam tunes or whatever tv as loud as you want while you work, etc - work blends in with the rest of life pretty seamlessly.

Cons: they kind of expect you to be online ALL THE TIME, even if you have 'set hours', so, work blends in with the rest of your life pretty seamlessly (double edged sword). This particular company doesn't pay for internet access (some do) so you have the expense of having the highest possible bandwidth in order to meet work requirements. Conference calls (I don't have a landline) burn up personal plan minutes. Also, if you don't have an active social life, you tend to feel isolated eventually.

Good luck!!

JetBlue uses CSR who work from home. Etsy and eBay are both work from home situations if you can make enough out of them.

Baking is high margin business (a little less since wheat spiked). I am pitching an idea to a local home for learning disabled adults for them to make pizza dough and fresh mozzarella once a week. They would a sell a make-your-own super fresh pizza -- fresh dough(s), fresh cheese and sauces or pesto. Baking is a big profit center for grocery stores and in urban areas, small bakeries have done very well recently -- Le Pain Quotidian, Sette Mani, Amy's, etc. I realize that none of those are work from home but perhaps there is at least an opportunity for you set some decent hours and make some money in baking if you can't get the WAH thing going.

I also wanted to make this a WAH situation -- restaurant on first floor, 3 bedroom apt on 2nd floor, $75K:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/99-Main-St-Cohoes-NY-12047/2128304435_zpid/

I do the work and get paid, and the monster company I work for worries about the rest (dealing with the clients, etc.). I was self-employed for years before that, and strongly prefer subcontracting. When I started in the industry, the work was done on a Selectric typewriter with carbon paper and the dictation was on reel-to-reel tapes. Old school. The computer completely revolutionized the industry. Voice files are accessed via Express Scribe software. There has been and continues to be a lot of outsourcing overseas, but I suspect the dawn of Obamacare will bring new opportunities.

Try W A H M .com lots of work at home jobs

Thanks for the replies!

Of course, to do that, you have to have an adult reading knowledge of Japanese, a few non-language subjects that you can write bout intelligently in English, and good English writing skills in general.

We've been doing AirBnB and supplementing our income with that.

It's paying for vacations for us.

We downscaled our regular business by getting rid of our office and studio and now work out of the house except when we need to rent a studio.

Plus doing AirBnB.

Yes. I have an empty bedroom I'm making into a office. Since I have a Mac and most WAH jobs prefer PC's I plan on going down to Staples and buying a laptop. Hopefully I can find one that will be good enough for around $400. I have also been told I may need to add a separate land line,so I am prepared to do that as well.

I've been told to look into transcription.I have no experience so I know the pay will not be great at first.I do need to make a certain amount each week but I think I am being realistic with my goals here.

Work as in working for a wage. I think I see where you are coming from.

Mostly I maintain websites. I also do videography, video editing and graphics when I can get it. You can make a lot better money doing actual web design- for which you need advanced HTML and Javscripting skills.

Another common non-scam work from home job is inside sales. That's what friend of mine does- his job is supporting the outside sales team; in a nutshell, they give him a set of specifications for a computer network that a given client wants to set up, and he does the research and tells them what it's going to cost.

I make phone calls and write letters for the DCCC. Try it!