With the swine flu scare going on right now and the swine flu vaccine months away, people who are lucky and have home jobs  have to be feeling just a little bit safer than the rest of us. It is times like these that it is great to be able to be a little more self sufficient and not have to worry about going outside the house.

Of course this swine flu pandemic is a long way from becoming full blown and reaching panic status but you never know what is going to happen. If things get worse, businesses are going to be faced with some tough decisions that have cascading effects all over the economy.

This Situation Has Happened Before

We have all seen what happens when a terrorist attack occurs: things just shut down and come to a standstill. On 9/11, the airplanes were grounded for days and food shipments to stores were delayed and so on. When something big like this happens, the effects trickle down to affect all of us one way or another.

Likewise, with the horrible economy, we have all seen that it effects everyone of us no matter what our jobs are or how much money we have. You can be the richest person in the world but when things are closing down around you, your life changes a bit whether you want it to or not. We are all connected in one way or another and we have to learn to cope.

Is The Swine Flu The Next Disaster?

It will probably not happen but this new swine flu has the potential to paralyze the United States and the world if it gets out of hand. If this swine flu pandemic keeps going and becomes more serious, will any of us want to leave our houses? Will we want to trudge in to work everyday and be around others who could have it and not know about it? Will we want to be out in public and put ourselves at risk?

Businesses and schools may have to face the question of what to do to keep their employees and students safe. Does business go on as usual? Is it worth the risk? These could be some tough decisions expecially in the face of this horrible economy. If businesses and schools are forced to shut down or cut back hours, it will further contribute to the bad economy and just make things worse. We all have to get back to work, start earning money, start saving some of it, and get on with our lives. The last thing we need right now is some swine flu pandemic shutting things down.

Work From Home NOW!

As I mentioned at the top, now is the PERFECT time to have work from home jobs and make your money online. If you do have the luxury of a home job, you won’t have to worry about getting in to work and whether to even try to go in to work. You can shut your doors right now and stay home and still have your income pretty much unchanged.

Making money on the Internet is of course not bullet proof and a lot of things can influence your earnings. For instance, now that summer is around the bend, more and more people will be outside and not surfing on the Internet. This means lower earnings for those who have jobs from home that involve Internet marketing. But, it is great not to have to drive in to work everyday with the masses and be able to be your own boss. Unfortunately, I am not there yet but maybe someday!

Are home assembly jobs real and can you really make money doing them? Along with stuffing envelopes from home and data  entry jobs from home, you might have run across ads looking for people to work from home assembling products. This is another one of the work from home jobs that sound great on the surface but when you dig deeper into what is really going on, you realize there is usually a scam involved. Now there is a new scam going around and I call it the Google jobs scam where people are convinced to buy a home business “kit” that they have virtually no chance of making money with.

Assembling products has been around for a very long time as have home assembly jobs so most people have some familiarity with it. Any company that manufactures and sell a real physical product probably has some form of an assembly line to put it together. The most famous of these companies are probably the auto manufacturers in Detroit and companies such as Boeing that make airplanes. Everyone has seen pictures of those assembly lines.

The real question is however, whether you can make a living or part time living with work at home assembling products jobs. Are any of these jobs legitimate? Unfortunately the answer is NO and these types of job scams continue to work year after year because there are always people hoping to make a quick and easy buck.

Here is how the scam works: with any of the home assembly jobs you see advertised on the Internet or in the classifieds, a depost will always be required. The reason for this fee, the ad will say, is to cover the cost of the materials they are sending you. They don’t want to just send you something without you first putting down some sort of deposit which is usually somewhere between $20 and $50. Another excuse that might be used for this fee is that they want to make sure you are really “interested” and “serious” about the job. They don’t want people “wasting” their time and the fee is necessary to weed out the people who are not really serious.  

In return for you sending them your hard earned money, they will send you an information packet complete with instructions and the materials you need to start assembling. These materials can be almost anything but one thing will be for sure: they will be cheap. While reading the information packet you might notice a blurb about how the products you assemble must meet certain company quality standards. It is this statement that is crucial to the scam.

Once you have worked to assemble the products that were shipped to you, you will then need to send off a few of them to be tested and assessed for their quality. These products you have worked hard at home to assemble must meet those company standards you read about in the info pack. It only seems fair that someone will check your work, right? Well, unfortunately that will probably be the last you ever hear from that company. You see, no matter how well you assemble your products, it will never be good enough. 

They made their money the minute you sent them in your fee. You sent them, say $49.99 and they sent you a packet which probably cost under $5.00 to make and ship. Their profit from you is over $40.00 and that is all they wanted from you. For them it is off to scam the next gullible sucker. That is how most of these work from home assembling products jobs scam work.

If you are looking for ways to make money from home that are safe and require no upfront payment, you might try reading how I got started here at my list of top ways to make money risk free.  You might also try work from home jobs that includes some sources for real home jobs.