Enemy of Entropy

Online Job Hunt — Heard of this place?

4 April 2009, 4:58 am. 3 Comments. Filed under General.

Yes, yes – I promise this is the last post for now. Prob­a­bly for the week­end, but at least for a few hours!

I con­tinue to hope to find some kind of work that I can do from home despite my unco­op­er­a­tive body. Of course, most list­ings for “work at home” and “telecom­mute” jobs are com­plete rip-​​offs. I don’t really have the energy to go the full self-​​employment route, which involves doing all the mar­ket­ing and billing and col­lec­tions and such (if you do, check out Noël Figart’s very cool series of ongo­ing posts, How to Make a Liv­ing From Home: A Free Course). More pre­cisely, if I do all that stuff, I worry that I won’t have any energy left to do the actual income-​​generating tasks.

I don’t remem­ber how, pre­cisely, but I ran across Vir­tual Voca­tions a while back, and have looked around the site a few times. I’ve yet to actu­ally pony up the fee to get access to the con­tact infor­ma­tion for the job list­ings, but the fact that they allow any­body to see the rest of the list­ings with­out pay­ing is pretty nice.

The only genuinely-​​negative thing I’ve come across about them any­where is a per­son who claimed that they con­tact Craigslist posters who have stated that they do NOT want to be con­tacted by third par­ties. I don’t like that at all, but it isn’t quite a killing blow. The only “it’s a ripoff” com­plaints I’ve seen are anony­mous com­ments left on any blog that posts a VV review. I give those all the seri­ous­ness of the commenter’s will­ing­ness to back up his words – mean­ing none.

BUT – peo­ple I actu­ally know are more cred­i­ble. So have any of you used the site, or do you know some­one who has? What do you think of them?

3 Comments »

  1. avatar starrchilde. 4 April 2009, 11:13 am

    I’m not famil­iar with Vir­tual Vaca­tions, how­ever I get notices from FlexJobs​.com and would not hes­i­tate to rec­om­mend them to any­one. While there are only some jobs which they show the infor­ma­tion to every­one, on those jobs you can sub­mit your resume whether or not you’ve actu­ally paid for the FJ mem­ber­ship. Other jobs you do have to join to see the full details and infor­ma­tion, how­ever it’s extremely rea­son­able ($14.95/mo or $49.95/yr).

  2. avatar TechnoMom. 4 April 2009, 12:55 pm

    That looks promis­ing. Thank you!

  3. avatar sondaj. 10 April 2009, 5:31 am

    I love this song — I have the album which it was released on and it’s amaz­ing the depth that she has

 

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