Working From Home: The New Age
January 15, 2010 by admin
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As governments around the western world are making more and more noises about the end of a retirement age, it is becoming more imperative by the day that middle-aged people who do not have enough money saved to sustain them through their later years look at ways to generate an extra income.
The recession is hitting us all, and middle-aged people who have been laid off will find it difficult to get back into the jobs market. The days when a wise head counted for something are over. Companies today have the option to use the internet to contract out most of their work.
No job is safe from being contracted out. I was reading about a company in India, which specialized In western law. This company employs hundreds of Indian lawyers who specialize in the laws of western countries, mainly English speaking ones, and they offer their services for a fraction of the cost of employing a western-based lawyer. So out sourcing has even caught up with the lawyers now. No one is safe.
Using the internet for outsourcing work is a growing trend. It makes rational sense. There are websites devoted totally to outsourcing, where people put pages up about themselves and their skills. Most of these people are highly skilled and educated. You can, for example, hire someone with a PHD in physics, for a few hundred dollars a month from the Far East. These people prefer to outsource their skills and earn five times more money than they can earn in their domestic market and who can blame them.
They have created a good lifestyle for themselves. Working from home for western companies. Or even for people in the west running their own home business from home.
It’s from the internet that the threat to many traditionally safe jobs is coming. But every threat carries within itself a cure. It’s through the internet that middle-aged people in the west can fight back. If you’re approaching middle-age and you’re not familiar with computers and the internet start learning now. It’s the safety rope that may stop you falling into the depths of poverty in your old age.
The internet is threatening many traditional jobs in the west but it is also offering fantastic opportunities for middle-aged people to start their own businesses and earn their income without leaving their homes. There are literally hundreds of ways to make an income online. With the right mind-set and application anyone can do it. I’m not talking about making thirty of forty thousand a month, but you could, I’m talking about spending a few hours every day on an internet business that will return you an income.
Lots of people are already making their living online. They switch on their computers and plug into the global market. If you’re middle-aged it’s something you need to start looking at. You’re never too old to learn.
