I have been working from home for about six years now for different companies doing a variety of different things. I got my start taking inbound calls for West Telemarketing, then moved to doing document coding for Onsite E-Discovery (which has now merged with another company and elimiated their remote coding department). Then I worked for Sterling Testing Systems for 3 years doing background checks for various companies’ job applicants. After that, work became considerably harder to find. Since then, I have worked for Westat as a data collector and as a team leader - that’s the position I got laid off from most recently. So right now I am just “biding my time” - have a job interview with a company tomorrow with an outbound and inbound calling company. In between all these jobs, I have done work in Mechanical Turk to make extra money for the things I mostly consider “non-essential”. My MTurk have been spent on Amazon.com on things like books, a few headsets (I bought the type of headset I’m going to need for the job I’m interviewing for tomorrow with MTurk earnings!) - I’ve even bought MP3 downloads with my MTurk earnings. I have also been doing transcription HITS that are posted on MTurk by companies such as CastingWords have to get some general transcription experience, so that I can get some exposure to different types of voices and accents that will be valuable once I finish my medical transcription program. I love MTurk!