Work at home jobs are essentially becoming more popular, these days it’s not very difficult to come across jobs that can safely and easily be done from home and that also pay well. The following are three top working from home jobs that give awesome opportunities.

Customer Service

Thanks to the internet and software programs that allow people to log in to a company’s system from home, it is easy for employers to hire remote customer service agents. Imagine sitting in your home office, answering telephone calls from people all over the world. That is a reality for many thousands of home-workers today! The duties that come along with customer service positions vary from company to company, but most often you would be answering customer phone calls, providing general customer service, addressing complaints, entering orders into the company computer system online, and so on.

The Requirements: Most companies would require you to have an updated home office environment with a computer, telephone, headset, and fax machine, though this will vary depending on the job duties.

Telemarketing

Telemarketing is another job that can easily be done from home. Most often this involves making cold calls to sales leads and either selling merchandise or a service directly, or sometimes you would be simply setting appointments for sales people to close a sale.

The Requirements: Most of these jobs would require an unlimited phone plan so you could make long distance calls without extra charges, but some companies do have a program where you could log into their system online and make the calls over a broadband connection. Some of these jobs do require sales or either telemarketing experience, but some are willing to train.

Writing

Writing is a great option for working at home too. You could either work for one company exclusively or either freelance for many clients. This job also offers great flexibility with the types of writing and publications you can choose from. You could write for print markets like magazines, or focus on online publications by writing for e-newsletters and others. Writers are needed for many different types of materials, such as sales brochures, technical manuals, parenting publications, health websites – one can also be a “ghostwriter” for the people who need to publish mostly their own magazine or books but they don’t have a good writing skills. Writers can also create their own income by writing and selling e-books online, creating content websites funded by advertising, affiliate products and more. Basically, if you have a strong writing skills, there are endless ways to turn them into a paying venture.

The Requirements: Even better, the only requirements for working at home as a writer would be having the skills and motivation to do it. It may be helpful to have at least the basic software programs that most clients would use, such as Microsoft Word.

There are many other types of jobs that can be done from home, but these are probably the most common. However, as technology continues to advance we will likely see more and more opportunities to do even more jobs from home in the future.