Types of remote work. Remote Work Exchange

What feelings can the word “work” evoke in people? Not surprisingly, many immediately spoil the mood. At the same time, unpleasant thoughts arise in my head about getting up at 6 in the morning, about standing in traffic jams or traveling in a crowded public transport cabin. And the daily routine, dissatisfaction with the salary and the memories of the boss, who is constantly loading new tasks? Such people would not mind quitting, but they did not dare to change their flea.

But there is another category of employees. At the word “work” they recall the joint drinking of coffee with colleagues, discussing with them the latest news and a new interesting project. Or maybe they are thinking about an upcoming business trip abroad? Yes, these are happy people who, without a doubt, love their job. But how many are there? Units!

How to find a job that would bring pleasure, allow you to travel, and also make it possible to devote as much attention and time to it as possible during pregnancy, raising young children, in college or retiring?

Many people have already found this option for themselves. This is a remote work on the Internet at home. What are the advantages and disadvantages of such earnings, and what professions can be offered in this case?

The concept of remote work

Today, in addition to the usual office service for everyone, you can earn money remotely. A similar opportunity appeared in people along with the development of the Internet.

In modern business, it is believed that a company that does not have a website simply does not exist. That is why companies seek to transfer part of their activities to the Internet. In this regard, they need workers who execute orders remotely. At the same time, there are many types of remote work for beginners. After all, very often people who undertake the task do not even need special skills and knowledge.

Remote work today is considered a full-fledged alternative to the previously traditional office employment. It allows an employee to perform a full range of professional tasks without leaving home.

There are various types of remote work. Get it can not only those people who have a creative imagination. It is suitable for technically savvy workers.

What does remote work mean? Let's try to figure this out.

Advantages of making money on the Internet

Remote work is understood as a form of employment with the customer and the contractor at a certain (sometimes quite significant) distance from each other. For example, one of them can live in Moscow, and the other in New York.

Remote work is also considered freelance. There is no regular customer with this type of receiving money. This work, as a rule, is connected with the Internet. Using the electronic form, the customer submits his task. The finished report is sent in the same form by the employee.

Such earnings have the following advantages:

1. Time saving. When using various types of remote work, there is no need to travel to the office. In large cities, this sometimes takes up to four hours, which could be spent more reasonably. And if we take into account the fees for work, as well as the rest that a person needs after a trip, then he will get in at all six hours. Is our life so long as to spend it daily on such things?
2. Lack of mode and schedule. Remote activity is tempting by the fact that a person does not need to get up early and go to bed so as to have time to get enough sleep and arrive at the office by the appointed time. This is especially convenient for members of those families where there are children. Indeed, in the absence of a strict child schedule, you can always bring to a doctor or spend a day off with your husband without any problems. The lack of a specific mode of operation, without a doubt, will appeal to owls. After all, evening and night hours are considered the most productive for their work.
3. Lack of control. It is difficult for many people to work in such conditions when their activities are under the scrutiny of their boss. The main thing is the result. But many leaders do not understand this.
4. The lack of age restrictions. Appearance and gender also become unimportant. Unofficially remote activities can begin to be engaged even at the age of 14. Such work is convenient for people of the older generation. Indeed, in ordinary posts, there is always an age framework.
5. Possibility to change boss. You can even change the customer for those who are engaged in freelancing every day. This, as a rule, is done by people in cases when something does not suit them (low pay, voluminous tasks, etc.). In traditional office work, a person does not have such privileges.
6. The possibility of self-selection of tasks. If an employee needs to do something in a traditional office, then he must do it unquestioningly. The remote employee has the ability to "manage the ball." He can select those orders in which he is able to show himself from the best side. However, their implementation will not be a burden to him.
7. The lack of boundaries of earnings. Various types of remote work are especially good for those who consider themselves to be a workaholic and who approach the task with all responsibility. He will always receive payment for the finished volume of work. If in a traditional office both the employee who "spits on the ceiling" almost the whole day, and the one who sits without raising their heads, are paid the same, then the distance is different. Here you can work immediately with two orders at the same time, which will allow you to correctly distribute your time. Having completed a larger volume, a person, accordingly, can count on good money.
8. The opportunity to work in any country and anywhere. This is another plus of various types of remote work. A person can live in that city or in a country where he is comfortable without moving to where the office is located. There are no special problems for those who decide to change their place of residence. The main thing is to have a laptop or computer connected to the Internet.
9. Possibility of dilution. One who has the desire and the proper experience is able to build an excellent passive income for himself. To do this, it will be enough to hire people, handing them the received orders. Payment to employees should be less than the payment of the customer. You can put the difference in your pocket. Such a move allows you to take a large number of orders. To make a profit, you only need to control their execution.

Disadvantages of making money online

However, in this case, not everything is as rosy as it might seem at first glance. There are some factors that can cause a person to abandon the intention to receive this type of earnings. Among them:

1. Receiving money depending on the amount of work performed. This item is both a advantage and a disadvantage of udalenka. Anyone who cannot force himself to sit down at a computer will receive a penny, while having problems with customers due to violation of the deadlines. They will not pay money here if the order is executed poorly. That is why far from everyone is good udalenka.
2. Lack of formal employment. Most remote employees do not have corresponding entries in the workbook. On the one hand, it is very beneficial for the customer and the contractor. Indeed, in this case, you do not need to pay taxes. However, it should be borne in mind that a remote employee for society will be considered unemployed. Of course, you can arrange an enterprise. However, in the case of small incomes, such an option would be disadvantageous for the family budget.
3. Self discipline. The remote employee must have this character trait. After all, a free schedule does not mean that a person may not work. It only allows you to set aside for the task those hours when it will be completed much faster and better.
4. Health problems. The one who works at the computer, in an effort to get more money, over time there are failures in the digestive tract, vision deteriorates and the back begins to hurt. At the same time, psychological health suffers. Indeed, throughout the day a person has to be in suspense. It is also sometimes difficult to separate work from home.
5. The lack of society. This factor can also affect the human psyche. Remote employees often become introverted and boring people. They are losing such qualities as openness and sociability. After such work, getting into a regular office will be very difficult for them.
6. Relative instability. In freelance, and indeed in the remote as a whole, an employee is needed only to perform a specific task. This leads to the fact that a person working on the Internet has to constantly be in search of orders. However, this only happens for the time being. With the advent of experience, customers themselves line up for such an artist.

What are the types of remote work on the Internet? Let's consider them in more detail.

Programming

It’s not even worth undertaking such a remote work without experience. It will require a person of high professionalism. This specialty is quite in demand. This fact is explained by the growing interest in the high-tech industry. If you have the proper experience and knowledge for such work, you can get very decent money. Particularly attractive to programmers is cooperation with European and American customers.

They are appreciated by Russian specialists highly enough for their non-trivial approaches to the tasks. In turn, such customers are attractive to our performers. After all, they set clear goals and pay substantial fees for the amount fulfilled.

Web design

Today, almost all companies strive to promote their own sites on the Internet. And the success of this event is greatly influenced by behavioral factors. To attract the attention of Internet visitors, it is necessary to work with the appearance of the website. A specialist with certain skills will be able to make it, including knowledge of the basics of programming and photoshop. In addition, it is desirable for a remote employee to have creativity and a good imagination. This will be needed in order to perform tasks that are sometimes not specific. Here, the web designer will need to show their own vision of the project and an idea about it.

The convenience of the Internet resource itself plays an extremely important role. To date, the site, in order to be able to promote, must have a user-friendly structure and a convenient menu. And this is possible with a competent and functional arrangement of all elements of the resource. It should be convenient to enter such a site not only from a laptop and from a computer, but also from a smartphone or tablet. It is the web designer that allows you to realize all these points.

Judging by the reviews, remote work of this kind can be chosen not only by those people who have an art education. A web designer is also capable of becoming a person with a taste and knowledge of web technologies.

Social network administrator

What can I do with remote work without experience? Today, social networks are gaining more and more popularity. According to the latest data, they are referred to the most visited Internet resources that are available in Russia. Only within one day on their pages is up to 34% of the population.

The growing demand of the population for social networks (especially for those resources where various services and goods are promoted) has led to an increase in demand for remote employees who would support the operation of online services. One of such sought-after professions is the administrator of social networks. Such work is suitable even for students. Maintaining content per month can bring them up to 3 thousand rubles. At the same time, it will not be difficult to simultaneously accompany several groups.

Enough work for everyone. After all, public pages on social networks, communities and groups are opened by many commercial companies, bloggers and information businessmen. The task of the administrator in this case will be the creation and design, filling with content (content), as well as the support and promotion of such sites.

In addition to students, such remote work on the Internet at home will be attractive to senior citizens, mothers with children, and homemakers.

Journalism

What types of remote work still exist? Often for filling sites requires the completion of tasks for writing articles. Similar orders come from magazines, news blogs, etc.

To perform such work, a person must master the profession of a journalist. It will be useful to him for fulfilling tasks of news channels that collect information about cities in which there are no representatives. Remote journalist employees are filming videos, as well as providing comments for news channels, going live with their story. In this case, all parties benefit.

Translator

Translators often look for remote work. Such activities attract people of this profession with the freedom of choice of tasks, as well as the place and time of their execution.

Remotely choose to work as a translator by those people who prefer a free lifestyle and do not want to spend time on the way to the office and back. Moreover, such an employee must have a certain level of professionalism.

Working remotely as a translator for many becomes an opportunity to receive not only additional, but also basic earnings. But to take such a position is possible only on condition of an internship, which finally confirms the level of qualification. Only after that it will be possible to count on constant cooperation with companies in need of translations.

Judging by the reviews, remote work in this area is most in demand if a person has a high level of knowledge and hard work. And in order to receive large fees, the translator will also need specialized skills in the field of journalism, management, medicine, technology, etc. Only a professional can make reliable translations of texts relating to these and other areas, accurately conveying the meaning of special expressions.

Copywriter

Every person who visits any page on the Internet sees the results of the work of employees in this area. Without copywriters, creating resources would be an impossible task. The fact is that all the texts that underlie most sites are written by specialists in this profession.

Remote work as a copywriter combines three professions. Among them:

1. Rewriter. This is a specialist who rewrites texts already existing in books or on the Internet. And he does it in his own words, which allows you to create unique content for filling blogs and sites.
2. Copywriter. This specialist, as a rule, creates a new, unique text on a given topic.
3. Internet writer. A specialist in this profession creates custom-made e-books.

Not a single industry of the Internet can do without copywriters. Even bloggers with their own online projects are willing to hire such specialists.

To start making money on the Internet without experience is recommended with rewrite. In this case, you do not need to have special skills to start. You can learn this profession. The course of mastering such a specialty does not last long, and less than 1,500 rubles will be required to pay for it.

PC operator

This type of remote work is very specific. It is perfect for those who want to work without leaving home. Work as an operator remotely requires a person to perform the following tasks:

• entering the information necessary for the company into the database located on the computer;
• receiving, as well as sorting and sending emails;
• maintaining company documentation.

As additional duties, the employer may offer the PC operator to draw up documents, distribute the necessary information for advertising purposes. Such work can be both the main and additional type of earnings.

Typesetter

For such an activity, no special skills will be required from a person. When performing remote typewriter work, a person must know Word, be able to work with tables, write formulas and graphs. If necessary, such information can be found on the Internet.

It is advisable for a typesetter to be able to type quickly without making mistakes. Performing such work will require attention and perseverance.

Freelance exchanges

Where to take first orders for those who are just starting to work on the Internet as a copywriter, web designer, programmer, etc.? There are special resources for this, which are called the "remote work exchange". These are sites where employers post jobs. At the same time, the performers offer their services to make this work possible. The customer chooses the one he liked the most, and after completion pays him the finished volume.

Everyone can register on the remote work exchange by creating their own page. It will indicate the qualifications, experience and any other information that could interest a potential customer.