When it rains it pours!

[Janet]

Hopefully Tink they'll call and offer you the job after the weekend...I will keep you in my prayers for this.

I'm sorry you're having trouble with the IRS. I hope you can get it worked out to your satisfaction. Working with government agencies can be soooo frustrating.

You're right though...seems like when it rains...it pours. Try not to let it get you down Tink...the sun will shine again.

[Marilyn]

Both of you, Tink and Janet are sooo talented. I really think you could both be successful virtual assistants. If you google "Virtual Assistant" there is all kinds of information out there. There are probably some scam organizations associated with it, so be careful. I did look into it a bit before by company changed my compensation plan. There are forum's for VA's with lots of information. People are working from their home to help professionals like real estate brokers, lawyers, contractors, people who need office help, but cannot afford, or choose not, to lease a building and hire people. Some VA's work part time for one or two clients. Others do a specific function for several people. Some publish online newsletters, others are bookeepers, some type legal documents. Medical billing is one I've heard has some scams associated with it, so you may want to avoid that.

This is just a thought, but it may be something that will work for you since you can work from your home office.

[DianaB]

Sorry that everything is happening at once. Things will look better in a day or two. Dealing with the IRS is always difficult. Do you have anyone (a cpa?) to help you. Take care of yourself everything will work out.

[pope1982]

[Tink]

Marilyn, I'd love to find another job I could do from home, but it's so hard to pick through the scams to find a legitimate one! I put in 8 yrs between 2 different web sites so have that experience in telecommuting and I STILL have trouble finding anything. It seems that working from home is enough of a dream for many that the scammers have found it to be a perfect feeding area.

What we need and would be HIGHLY successful is a clearinghouse of legitimate work from home jobs... the problem again would be sifting through the chaf to find the grain.

[Marilyn]

There was a legitimate forum that I joined and it had lots of great information for free, no strings. The forum part was similiar to 4wt only all about VA business, what works, what doesn't, how to get started, etc. Problem is, I changed internet providers and lost my e-mail that had all the information in it. I have an idea about how to get to the e-mail. If I figure it out, I'll post about it again in this thread.

[Tink]

Thanks Marilyn, I'd love to see it. I KNOW they exist... but hard to tell the good from the bad.