 If you want to work from home, do this. Now this is part two of two. Hey guys, welcome back. If you haven't watched part one of the series, I'm gonna put a link below. You can go down there and click that link. Make sure you watch that video too because that goes along with this. Now, working at home, well, you know, that's really grown. A lot of people are doing that now. And with the COVID-19 thing, a lot more people did it. There are dangers and pitfalls of working at home. And in the second part, I want to talk about some of those things and some of those bad things that can happen. Hey, if you're new to my channel, I'm JR Fisher. Nice to meet you. Why don't you join the family? Hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget to turn on notifications. Ring that bell down there. Turn on all notifications. And that way, when I do a video, you will actually be notified. You'll be part of the VIP Fisher family. We want to have you part of that. So make sure you do that. Now, have you worked from home or are you curious about working from home? Have you had some problems working from home? I know we all do. Put that in the comments below. And if you have any questions about any of this, please put it in the comments below. I'd love to get your comments. Okay, let's face it. Working from home, well, that's pretty cool. I mean, being able to work when you want, where you want, how you want, that's all really good. But I got to tell you, as soon as you Google work from home or make money at home, there's a lot of scams out there, guys. There are a lot of scams. Now, I've been working online since 2009. And I've literally generated millions of dollars in both digital and physical products. And I got to tell you, I hear a lot of horror stories. I hear a lot of people who invest money to make money online and they never get any return. They get ripped off. They don't really learn anything. So the first thing I would tell you is research who you're talking to. Now, I do sell courses and I do training. But I also sell products online. So you can look me up online. You can type in JR Fisher, Survival Cave Food or one of my courses. And you're going to see results from that. So make sure whoever you're getting advice from, whatever job you're going for, you know, there are a lot of job scams out there, too, guys. Probably for every legitimate work-at-home job, there's probably 100 that are illegitimate, okay? They're illegal or they're not going to make you any money. So you've got to be really careful in doing that. What I want to do in this video is kind of look through all these things that we can do online in some of the pitfalls and the pitfalls, basically, of working online because there are certainly some of those, too. Now, first off, if you're going to work for a company, you've got to figure out if you're going to be a contractor or if you're going to be an actual employee. You also want to make sure that that company has a presence. In other words, they've got social media. They've got a webpage. They've got phone numbers. They've got a physical address because without any of those things, you don't really know how to check them out. So I would tell you to be really cautious if they don't have any of those things. Now, if they're calling it a job and they're saying, yeah, you can work for a company. You can work remotely at your house. Look for little red flags. Like, if they're not requiring you to fill out an application and go through an interview process, that's a red flag right there because if you're not doing that, that means that they're pretty much going to take anybody. And if they're going to take anybody, there's got to be a catch to that. So you've got to make sure, if they're saying it's a real job and you're really going to work for them and they're really going to give you money, that they're doing the things that a real job at their place of business would do. So if I'm hiring you to work in a building every day and coming to this building, I'm going to interview you. I'm going to ask you to fill an application. I'm going to know something about you. And if they're not asking you to do things like that, well, that's a red flag and you've got to watch out. Also, if you're going to work for somebody, find out who's going to incur the cost of working at home. Some of you may say, well, it won't cost me anything to work from home. Well, it does. It costs you internet connection. It costs you electricity. It may cost you a laptop or a desktop computer. And are they going to want you to use your own equipment or are you going to get equipment from them? So those are big things too to look at. So even though you aren't commuting to a job, there are going to be pitfalls. There's pitfalls of having four walls around you all day too. You wake up and you go to work in the same place that you sleep and you eat. And that can wear you down after a while. I don't like doing that. I like getting away. I like going to a Starbucks or going to the oceanfront or going to a park. I like to get away from my home. I don't want to be in my home 24 hours a day. Now during the pandemic, I was forced to do that. And I can do that. And it's not horrible. It's just not what I prefer to do. And there were a lot of people who during the pandemic had to go to work. They were delivery drivers. They were working in restaurant, fast food that was still making food get delivered. They were working in health care. They were delivering things. So all of those jobs were actually forced to go. And I'm sure a lot of those people, if you asked them, would you have liked to stay at home? They probably would have said, yeah, we didn't want to go to work, but we had to do it because we had to earn a living. So working at home can have its downfalls. And it's going to affect people differently depending on what your personality is like. The first thing I'm going to tell you is stick to a work schedule. That is so very important. Have certain hours that you're going to work. I know sometimes I have interruptions, sometimes at lunch, I'll turn on the TV, you know, when I'm working at home and I'll see a show or something like that. And I've got to shut that show off. I've got to say, hey, this is a work day. I got to get back to work. I can't sit here and do this. That show is going to be there. And, you know, so much more nowadays than ever before. Whatever show you're watching, it's going to be recorded, okay? It's going to be on demand. It's going to be something you can always watch later. So don't get sidetracked. Because you're at home, it's very easy to do that. There's a lot of distractions that you wouldn't have if you were in an office. In addition to that, whatever your work hours are, make sure that the kids and the rest of your family, you know, anybody, your friends, know that that's your work hours. They think that, well, the person's home so I can go see them. I can talk to them. I can call them. And you got to let them know that you're devoting this time to your actual job, okay? Tell your husband, your wife, your kids, you know, that you have to work during this period of time. You can't do other things when you're supposed to be working because if you do that, you're going to get off track and you're not going to be productive. Now, there's also upsides to it. There's upsides to the fact that you'll get to see your kids during the day. You'll get to see your loved ones during the day. And that's kind of cool and you can interact. You know, so many people will go to work on a job and they may, you know, have an eight or nine hour day but it takes them an hour there, an hour back and they're gone 12 hours a day and they have to do this for 30 or 40 years and they kind of lose touch with that person that's at home. When they finally do retire or whatever and they come home, they don't know how to interact anymore because they've lived basically two separate lives for so long. So you do have that advantage of, you know, everybody grows, everybody changes over the years. You have that advantage of actually growing together and changing together. Even though it's not always in the same direction, you're gonna have different interests, of course, but the advantage is that you can spend time with that person you care about. Now, the flip side to this of working at home and not working enough is what? Working too much. Working too much can get you right? If you've set up an office in your bedroom and you roll out a bed and you go over to that desk and you just start working, and then you work and work and work and then all of a sudden it's nighttime and you just get up from your desk and go back to the bed, you can turn it into a workaholic very easily. So if you can separate your work area from your sleep and relaxation area, it's a pretty good thing to do. Now, some people can separate that in their head and they don't have a problem with that. Others don't. So since everybody's different, I'm telling you, you could do one or two things. You could either become a workaholic or you could not get much done because of the home environment. So you gotta be real careful and see which camp you fall in and make adjustments accordingly. It is true that a lot of people that work at home will tend to have more of a five or six hour day instead of an eight hour day. I don't, I work more than that. However, some people do and it makes sense because if you're working in a building somewhere or in an office setting, there's a lot of interruptions that take pieces out of your day and you have to spend more time at that location to actually get the work done. Now, I know we all think, well, I'm gonna save so much money by being home. I don't have to worry about so much. But if you've got a business or you're working for somebody else, you've got to have certain equipment. You're gonna have an increased cost on the internet. I can tell you that right now, not just the fact that you're gonna be using it more, but you really need a higher speed internet. You may have the cost of furniture. You may have to have a desk, a chair like what I have here. That's gonna cost you money. You may have to have a laptop or a desktop, something along those lines. All those things can cost you extra money. Now, keep in mind, even if you work at home and yes, you can write off working at home, but you can only write off a certain amount of space in your home. So it's not like you can write off your entire mortgage or your rent payment just because you're working at home. You'll want to check with your accountant on the percentages, but keep in mind it's really only the work area that you use. Now the IRS is gonna tell you that even if you use a particular utility, such as internet access, such as electricity, you can't write off 100% of that particular utility. You can only write off the percent that is used for business. And you got to get an accountant. I had somebody contact me the other day and they sent me a message online and they said, I see so many people working online. Do I really need a business license to work online? Or is that really not a thing that I need? Yeah, if you've got a business and it's a business online, you're gonna need a business license. You're probably gonna need a federal tax ID number. You're probably gonna need a local business license. You may even need some state credentials. So there's a lot of fees that you're gonna have to pay that you wouldn't have to pay if you were driving to some job somewhere. If you have your own business at home, there's a lot of local fees that you're gonna end up paying. Now, I'll tell you, working from home is great. We have a couple warehouses where we manufacture things and ship them out, but they're not in the same state I'm at. So I technically work from home, but I do have an office down the street. Occasionally I'll go there. The bottom line is it's great to work from home, but understand there's some pitfalls. You know, if you go into this with your eyes open and you realize that there can be issues, you realize there can be problems, you realize there can be expenses, then you're gonna be much more prepared to deal with those things when you're first going into it. 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