Is your Paycheck Worth your Sanity?

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Every time a site visitor clicks on an ad, you get a cut of the fee paid to Google. If you have financial savvy and a gambler’s gut instinct, “day trading” offers the possibility of making Wall Street money from the comfort of Main Street. Warning: You do need a lot of traffic to your site to generate some decent cash. In the late 1990s, when the stock market was riding the Internet bubble, there was an explosion in home-based stock speculation.

Day traders aren’t your average investor. I don’t have a company ID badge. I don’t have a real job. There, I said it. They are looking for short-term gains, to flip shares quickly for a profit and get out before the momentum shifts. For more tips about making money from home, check out the related HowStuffWorks links on the next page. I don’t have a boss. And I definitely don’t have benefits.

I also sideline as an organic vegetable gardener and my wife, a former high school teacher, works part-time as a freelance curriculum developer. Can you make money working from home? And with more organizations like the Freelancer’s Union, we may even be able to afford adequate health insurance – browse around this site – one day. More and more Americans are striking out on their own. I used to think we were an anomaly, but researching this article made me realize that we’re in good company.